Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

[plate of chips]

Wonderful Freedom JmJ displays in Equinfinity compositions, his playing, his subtle experimentations all throughout Equinfinity.

I am overjoyed JmJ rediscovered who he is as an artist.

Adore album closing 39min21 : Movement10 Infinity 7min01 hopeful future.

[plate of chips]

Jarre’s next album will see him experiment more with VR ... "make visual how the music travels through space.
That is something very interesting, particularly for electronic music.”


Source: https://musically.com/2018/11/28/jean-m ... -music-ai/

Wonderful JmJ.

GO FOR IT.

JmJ you rediscovered who you are as a creative artist.

Create like crazy cause the fountain is flowing.

Fountain will become droplets thus you must swim in the flow.

[Dr_Jones]

I saw Laurie Anderson's VR presentation "The Chalk Room" earlier this year. Maybe she and JMJ should team up again
(on the other hand: if calculations are correct, the next JMJ/Anderson collaboration will be in 2030)

[Kanta]

Album promotion.



28/11/2018
Via FAZ.NET

How does the internet sound?

They both do electronic music. The one slightly longer than the other. Jean-Michel Jarre and Flavien Berger talking about machines and artificial intelligence, Fellini and Electropop and how the world rushes

Source: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/j ... 06249.html

[Kanta]

Album promotion.



28/11/2018
Via 20minutes.fr

"It's a real luxury to have been able to open the door to a virgin territory": Jean-Michel Jarre tells us about the GRM, the cradle of electro

Source: https://www.20minutes.fr/arts-stars/cul ... au-electro

[Kanta]

29/11/2018
Via Grenzwellen

Wednesday 5 December 2018. 21 - 0 o'clock. Radio Hannover. Terrestrial and Stream.
http://radio-hannover.divicon-stream.co ... enzwellen/
In the show: The great Jean-Michel Jarre portrait, including interview on his new album "Equinoxe Infintiy" and the "Oxygene" trilogy #jeanmicheljarre #equinoxeinfinity #limit #eckistieg #radiohannover

Source:

[Robi]

Album enters official Hungarian chart at 25th place.

[Kanta]

30/11/2018
Via Sud Radio‏

Guest Jean-Michel Jarre who releases his new album Equinoxe Infinity

Source:

Jean-Michel Jarre: "I am against any form of boycott"

Source: https://www.sudradio.fr/culture/jean-mi ... de-boycott

[Kanta]

Album promotion.



30/11/2018
Via Daily Mail

My haven, Jean-Michel Jarre: The performer and pioneer of electronic music, 70, in his apartment in central Paris

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... Paris.html

[Finaero]

Interesting study of the image editing differences of the Equinoxe LP album covers.
From the bottom; the LP cover in the box set, in the middle MFSL LP cover and at the top a 1980's LP cover. These are all shot in the same frame so no montage going on here.
The new one is not by far as sharp as the oldest cover. The "watchers" has grown bigger and bigger with time.

Image
IMG_2504-1 by P-O Andersson, on Flickr

Those still look pretty good compared to this one

https://www.ebay.de/itm/Jean-Michel-Jar ... :rk:4:pf:0

[Kanta]

03/12/2018
Via Jean-Michel Jarre

TheWaveVR
I am thrilled to announce my partnership with TheWaveVR today. TheWaveVR is the world’s first social VR platform and community that provides new ways to experience, create, and share music and visual arts. The team has partnered with incredibly talented comic book illustrator and digital artist Sutu who has created bespoke 3D artwork inspired by ‘Equinoxe Infinity’ for the partnership. Users will be able to incorporate these images, featuring the ‘Watchers’, into their live shows in order to create reality bending, audio reactive environments. Mark December 12th in your calender, where I will be hosting a one-off Q&A in TheWave. Check www.thewavevr.com for more info.

Source:

[Dr_Jones]

Preview of the VR experience:


With music of Movement 7: Machines are Learning.

[Analog-Umph]

With this album (and the last 3), I can see how much truly Jarre has become irrelevant to electronic music. Which I don't say with any joy.

This album, like the last 3 is nothing but pure noise, neither very intelligent nor emotional. Unfortunately.

"Equinoxe Infinity" has nothing to do with Equinoxe, it's no sequel to be sure, just as "Oxygene 3" has nothing to do with the first 2 albums, but is itself mostly vapid noise.

Like O3, EI has its moments which pass all-too soon, as if Jarre is afraid to really let loose and allow the listener into the music, allowing the necessary connection and fellowship. Perhaps he doesn't really have all that much music to show, which is certainly my conclusion about both albums.

I fancy 1, 2 and 6 on "Infinity", but even they could have been A LOT better. For all of the tech Jarre has, if I were to take the average of this album.... this is absolute junk "music"! And he wants to incorporate even more non-human aspects with the artificial intelligence nonsense? - which is its own evil - for those who have been following the development of it. Where is the humanity anymore, where is the spirit?

For all of the sophistication of modern synths, hardware or software, ways of recording, treating and delivering music, the music ITSELF is almost completely absent from all of these recordings. It's just sensationalized noise - when comparing it to the subtle works of art of his earliest releases. It's not even mixed to please the ear. There is nothing pioneering or original anymore - one can see this by simply going to anyone of the thousands of places online, where you can hear amateur musicians with their own synth demos, where good sound choice and actual music are beautifully present, (showcasing both synthesizer or sampler presets in a more creative way and combining them with the music of the piece, that is quite inspiring), much more so than you will find either of those elements in a Jarre album nowadays.

Oxygene and Equinoxe .... that was/is futuristic music, of a high-concept caliber, as if made by someone 900 years old, who understood more than just their immediate craft. I think the albums might be within the pinnacle of electronic music, so that even the artist who created them cannot re-create the same level of excellence. Ask complete newbies who never heard Jarre before to listen to Oxygene, Equinoxe, CiC, Zoolook, and they'll say it's very different music and quite innovative. But let them hear the new albums, and they'll say "nothing exceptional", because it sounds like everything else.... vagueness in high definition.

O3 and EI sound like a teen experimenting with his new synths, learning how to make something sound "cool". Succeeding at no more than good practice, perhaps showing future promise...???
It's as if the 2018 Jarre is a 19 year old Jarre and the 1976 Jarre was the fully mature musician creating more than just noise, even though he named his first big album after a sound created by creatively processing none other than white noise.

Btw, what's up with Mov5 at 1:11, the wind suddenly cuts out. That's just thoroughly sloppy mixing in an age where complete control is possible over every minutiae of a mix, in comparison to the 70s.

The best way to sum up EI is: too much meaningless/disjointed experimentation. Anyone one can do this kind of thing, and it always yields an infinite number of hours of sounds of every kind, in various configurations. It doesn't mean that it means something or anything. It's just meaningless noise, too vague and unrefined.

The way electronic music has opened up today, it allows EVERYONE to do this and even better on their own, without even knowing music theory. Every person can do an "Equinoxe Infinity" and an "Oxygene 3" on their tablet, let alone what one can do on their computer. So why should anyone heed or even pay for an inferior work which seems almost cobbled together and called "music", by a supposedly professional musician?

[Kanta]

[Kanta]

JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Throws Next Concert Dec 8 To Global VR Community w TheWaveVR

***NOTE: Jean-Michel Jarre will be available in New York City this Wednesday, December 5 and Thursday, December 6 for in-person press opportunities and phoners with U.S. media. If you are interested in time with him to discuss his partnership with TheWavePR or his new studio album Equinoxe Infinity, please reach out.

JEAN-MICHEL JARRE
THROWS NEXT CONCERT OVER TO GLOBAL VR COMMUNITY
WATCHING THE WATCHERS
INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH TheWaveVR ENABLES FANS TO HOST VIRTUAL REALITY CONCERTS SHOWCASING NEW ALBUM ‘EQUINOXE INFINITY’ OUT NOW ON ASTRALWERKS

VR artist SUTU to host live show on
TheWaveVR followed by Q&A with Jean-Michel Jarre December 12
SUTU’s debut show to premiere on December 8

In the latest in a run of ambitious technological projects, acclaimed electronic music pioneer JEAN-MICHEL JARRE has partnered with leading social VR platform TheWaveVR to allow fans to host concerts for his new album in immersive virtual reality.

Long famed for his spectacular live shows, JARRE‘s latest move throws down the gauntlet to fans, giving them the ability to recreate the magic in their own living rooms. The partnership will give TheWaveVR‘s global community access to his new album EQUINOXE INFINITY. Users will have the unique opportunity to remix tracks using the in-app virtual decks and host listening parties for other users to attend.

Additionally, famed comic book illustrator and digital artist Sutu has created bespoke 3D artwork inspired by EQUINOXE INFINITY for the partnership. Users will be able to incorporate these images, featuring the iconic ‘Watchers’ into their live shows in order to create reality bending, audio reactive environments.

Jarre will be hosting a one-off Q&A in TheWave on December 12 at 3pm GMT/4pm CET/7am PT. This will be preceded by a special live show hosted by Sutu at 2pm GMT/3pm CET/6am PT to showcase the spectacular Equinoxe Infinity visuals – Sutu’s first ever live VR show in collaboration with an artist. Sutu’s live show will premiere on December 9 at 3am GMT/4am CET/December 8 at 7pm PT.

“Virtual reality is part of the next frontier of music” JEAN-MICHEL JARRE commented, “the ‘Equinoxe Infinity’ album considers where we are going as a society, including the ways artificial intelligence and machine learning may impact us. I’ve always been passionate about the potential of music to merge with future technologies. When I experienced TheWaveVR, I loved that spatial art – one of the specialities of my live shows – isn’t limited to scale or real-life constraints. Creators can host the concert of their imagination. This is where Equinoxe Infinity belongs.“

Commenting on the partnership, TheWaveVR CEO Adam Arrigo said: “Visit TheWaveVR offices and you’ll see the book ‘Push Turn Move: Interface Design in Electronic Music’ proudly on display. Jean-Michel wrote the foreword to that book, and we feel like we’re kindred spirits with his music interests and passions. When we met with Jean-Michel we realized he had an instant understanding of the important role that immersive, visual experiences like ours have to play in the future of music. It’s a huge honour to bring his music to TheWaveVR community.”

The ‘Equinoxe Infinity’ VR shows will be available to any HTC Vive or Oculus Rift VR headset owner through TheWaveVR‘s free app, on Steam and Oculus Home. Featured concerts may also be broadcast on JEAN MICHEL JARRE‘s social channels.

Source: http://www.msopr.com/press-releases/jea ... ltX-mhYiqg