03/12/2024 - Artists and cultural personalities: their view on the "renaissance" of Notre-Dame
Jean-Michel Jarre: "Notre-Dame has a revolutionary side"
Musician and composer of electronic music, gave a concert in Notre-Dame virtuelle on December 31, 2020
"I was very impressed, like each of us, by what happened at Notre-Dame, also because there was a kind of rather strange synchronism with Covid. It's as if we were all weakened at the same time as the cathedral.
There was a symbolism that seemed really interesting to me and a message of hope for the new year 2021, the hope that we will finally be able to curb Covid and that we can be reborn like the cathedral.
To reproduce it digitally, we started from a modeling that the French video game company Ubisoft had made for one of their games and that was very faithful.
In the end, we had more than 75 million people who followed us and it shows the convergence that there was between the concert itself, the innovative side of the virtual reality project and Notre-Dame.
What is often forgotten is that the people who were at the origin of the design of Notre-Dame were absolute visionaries who absolutely revolutionized the technologies of the time in terms of construction, masonry, in artistic terms as well, the creation of stained glass windows. Notre-Dame therefore has, in itself, a revolutionary side.
On a personal level, it interested me a lot and I thought that the best way to pay tribute to a futuristic building like Notre-Dame was to do it with the means and tools of our time, trying to be as innovative and visionary as the people who built it."
Sources:
https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/jean-mi ... e-20241203
https://www.lunion.fr/id667264/article/ ... e-de-notre
