Nothing new in this interview.
Here's a rough Google translation:
Interviewer: Jean-Michel Jarre is our guest this weekend. The songwriter
of Oxygène, Equinox, Chants Magnétiques and many other albums.
He was at Midem Plus in Cannes as honorary sponsor for a
series of interventions. He gave us an exclusive interview
where he precisely evokes the new way of composing with
immersive concerts.
Jean-Michel Jarre: Last year, for the first edition I
agreed to be the sponsor of this Midem Plus. The idea was
precisely to present a completely disruptive work which was
Oxymore, the album that I released almost a year ago now, which
is in fact linked to the exploration of spatialized sound, 360 sound, here
in this room of Ambassadors. a lot of things have
changed in the way of conceiving music, of listening to it, of
receive with ever sharper tools, I would say.
Interviewer: Jean-Michel Jarre, there was the Place de la Concorde, there were the
pyramids of Egypt for you, there was also Versailles on the 25th
last December. Tell us a little bit about the feeling you
have had with this fabulous immersive concert.
Jean-Michel Jarre: So, this concert on the 25th
Christmas December was a very special time for me, a
first time, to the extent that it was really the first concert, I
would say, hybrid, both in the Galerie des Glaces, this place
absolutely extraordinary of the Palace of Versailles, to celebrate the
400th anniversary of the Palace of Versailles and at the same time live
in a virtual gallery reconstituted a little at the Throne where my
avatar also played in front of a virtual audience.
And so it was this meeting between the two universes that we realize
counts well in the film we are currently finishing. There was the
live on television but we are in the process of putting the finishing touches
to the concert film which I think captures this well
very exciting and very new fluidity between the real world and the
virtual world. There is a Cocteau side at the same time, the gallery of
mirrors and the room of mirrors, so the idea was also a bit
to go through the mirrors, if I dare say so.
