Jean Michel Jarre - President of CISAC - Authors & Co 2015, La Scam - 12 March 2015

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I am always amazed and humbled to hear about some of the far flung corners of the globe where my music is being listened to. It shows the power of music to transcend borders. (Jean Michel Jarre)

Charlotte Rampling Makes Strange Music with Electronic Composer Jean-Michel Jarre

All the appropriate titles—Three's Company, One Day at a Time, What's Happening—have been preempted. So suffice it to say that this is about actress Charlotte Rampling, 31, and recall that when last heard from (PEOPLE, Feb. 3, 1975) she was fresh from choosing press agent Brian Southcombe over male model Randall Lawrence, thus breaking up their London ménage à trois. Charlotte was also saying she had had Brian's baby "to keep us together."

Since then the green-eyed British colonel's daughter has replaced hapless Southcombe with a new man: Jean-Michel Jarre, 29, a celebrated French composer of electronic music.

They met in May 1976 at dinner in a friend's restaurant, Chez Nano, in St.-Tropez. Rampling and Southcombe were living nearby in apparent bliss with their son, Barnaby. Sampling the fondue Chez Nano that balmy evening, Southcombe, a New Zealander public relations consultant who helped guide Charlotte's career, could hardly have dreamed that in less than a week he would be saying goodbye to his partner of 11 years and wife of four.

"After that meal," says Jarre, from a sofa in Charlotte's rambling apartment in the fashionable Eighth Arrondissement, "the next time we were together was two days later here in Paris. After that there was no need for further discussion. We have been together since that time."

They went public early in their affair, appearing together at the Cannes film festival where Charlotte was a judge. Jarre slept in her room, and whenever they went out an avalanche of photographers pursued them. Rampling was under heavy career pressure at the time. With an uncertain record (Georgy Girl was her best-remembered credit), she had starred in the sadomasochistic Night Porter, then rejected "a variety of extraordinary women's roles—perverse, degenerate, frightening." Three roles she did play added little to her professional stature. One was Jackpot, with Richard Burton as co-star, which ran out of money after 70 minutes of film were in the can. The second was Farewell, My Lovely, a humdrum private-eye film with Robert Mitchum. This year she appeared with Richard Harris in a whale epic, Orca, which bellied up.

And yet today, eight months after bearing Jarre's child, David—a half brother for Barnaby, now 4, and Jarre's 3-year-old daughter Emilie by his estranged wife—Charlotte seems undisturbed by her flagging career. Though she is pale, the chain-smoking and nervous foot twitching that once characterized her are gone.

Is this new demeanor the result of the change in partners? (Her divorce is final. Jarre's from a Paris public relations woman is not.) "I can't begin to explain," she says. "I could write a whole book about it if you want, but it concerns so many different elements, all mixed together..." Her voice trails off as she gropes for a summarizing phrase. "It comes out with certain results that I can't begin to tell you, really. Perhaps it's something that even I haven't absorbed yet." (For his part, Southcombe says, "I still love Charlotte and I'd have her back tomorrow if she'd come. But it seems to be over.")

One notable difference about this new partnership is the status of the man. When she was with Southcombe, Charlotte was the star. He was Mr. Rampling. At the time of Chez Nano, Jarre too was relatively unknown, but he was a musical innovator whose time was coming. It has arrived.

He is the hottest performer on Europe's pop music scene right now. An alumnus of the Conservatoire de Paris and the son of movie score composer Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago), Jean-Michel released an electronic music album, Oxygene, a year ago. It consists of synthesizer tracks that he composed, performed and produced. The album and a single have sold more than three million copies around the world. (The LP hit the U.S. in September and has climbed to number 78 on Billboard's charts.)

Composers, especially electronic ones, are something new to Rampling. "I'll never know where the music comes from," she marvels. "I often wonder why he doesn't suddenly sit up in bed and start singing or whistling something. He never does. The music just goes through his head all the time. When he is working he shuts himself in the studio for weeks on end. I don't hear anything till the job is finished."

Jarre nods: "I know what I am aiming for but I prefer to compose in private. There I can spend eight hours at a time working out the musical statement." He has a convert's passion about the role of electronic music. While reading for a degree in French literature at the University of Paris, he enrolled with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales of Pierre Schaeffer, the French guru of synthesizers. Jarre left after three years, charging that avant-garde sectarianism was just as lifeless as that of the Conservatoire. That same year, at 22, he wrote a stunning electronic ballet score, Aor, which created a minor sensation at the Paris Opera.

Now he creates new kinds of sound and helps create new instruments as well. On Oxygene he plays four synthesizers and a battery of new devices, one of which, the Rhythmin' Computer, was built to his order. For this reason Jarre likes to compare himself to the 17th-and 18th-century founders of classical music. "When one of those pioneers heard a sound in his head, he popped around the corner to an instrument maker and asked him to invent the clarinet," he says. More seriously, he observes, "Beethoven becomes an electronic composer when his music is played on the radio or through amplifiers. I'm just using the instruments of my time."

Jarre and Rampling's thinking comes together in the "New Philosophy" of Jean-Michel's friend, essayist Bernard-Henri Lévy. Lévy has outraged the French Left with his criticism of static ideologies and especially of Marxist theory.

The need, according to the New Philosophy, is for individuality, compassion and experience. To Charlotte and Jean-Michel that means marriage. "We have been busy, but next year we plan to get married," he says. They are already looking for a house—in the country, for the children's sake. "There are those who say that marriage is a restrictive formalism," Jarre adds. "In fact, marriage predates religion and law. It is a celebration of love between two people which is at the very base of our Western civilization."

Charlotte agrees, and says she is looking forward to "being fulfilled and developing as a woman and a wife and a mother." Could their life together be La Petite Maison dans la Prairie?


December 05, 1977
By Kevin Dowling

 http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20069697,00.html

Charlotte Rampling whit David Jarre

 

Photo by JeanLoup Sieff France

Jean Michel Jarre - Interview Stockholm 2008

Jean Michel Jarre played his Oxygene-concert at The Circus-venue in Stockholm in april 2008.

          


Source: Lars-Åke Petersson

CISAC 2015 Global Collections Report: Royalties Remain Stable At $8.8 Billion

February 10, 2015

Royalties collected by the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) on behalf of songwriters, composers and creators worldwide totalled €7.8 billion ($8.8 billion) in 2013, according to the organization's 2015 Global Collections Report, published today (Feb. 10).

The report analyses worldwide revenues, 87% of which are music-related, collected over 2013 by over 230 societies across 120 territories and representing more than 3 million creators across music, drama, literature and visual arts.

Standout figures include 2.4% growth in performing rights royalties, which crossed the €6 billion ($6.8 billion) barrier for the first time and accounted for 78% of total revenues. A 25% rise in digital royalties also contributed to the €7.8 billion total, which was marginally lower (down 0.8%) than the previous year's figure.

Jean Michel Jarre Talks New Music, Presidency of CISAC

However, CISAC points out that when 2012 revenues are measured at the current Euro rate, excluding the impact of foreign exchange fluctuations, overall royalty collections increased 4.6% year-on-year.

In addition to a spike in digital royalties, contributing factors include a 30% rise in revenues from the BRICS economies, which totalled €365 million ($413 million). Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa now generate €1 million ($1.1 million) per day, the report states, although it adds that collections per head of population (€0.12/$0.14 per head) is much lower in the BRICS territories than the world average (€1.30/$1.50).

Latin America and the Caribbean region also reported 17% growth to total €514 million ($582 million), while worldwide audio visual royalties were up 8% on the previous year. However, that growth was offset by a 13% fall in reproduction (mechanical) rights, which totalled €1.4 billion ($1.6 billion), down from €1.6 billion ($1.8 billion) the previous year, and accounted for 18% of all collections.

In line with previous years, Europe remains the largest geographic region for collections, accounting for just over 60% of total royalties with year-on-year growth of 2.3%. The second largest region was Canada-U.S. (16.3%, unchanged from 2012), followed by Asia-Pacific (15.8%), Latin America & Caribbean (6.6%) and Africa (0.7%).

"Overall, the report's findings are very encouraging," Gadi Oron, director general of CISAC tells Billboard. "If you ignore the fluctuation with the exchange rates, we are reporting 4.6% growth, which is quite impressive, especially in light of the economic situation in different markets across the world."

Oron cites the 25% climb in digital royalties as a positive indication of future growth, although concedes the relatively minor year-on-year jump from digital representing 4% of total collections in 2012 to 5% in 2013 means "that there is a lot that can be still be done."

CISAC Launches LINK, a Multi-Repertoire Creators Forum 

"5% of overall worldwide collections coming from the digital market is good, but it's not good enough," he says.  "We want to make sure that our societies generate more from this market and help them with different initiatives in term of lobbying, in terms of support and training and improving their capacities around the world."

Oron's views were echoed by composer and CISAC president Jean Michel Jarre.

"Creators are the singular force behind the works – films, paintings, songs, books, poems, pictures – that millions around the world enjoy. Yet we are often at the mercy of groups that control the channels of distribution of our works," said Jarre in a foreword to the Global Collections Report 2015.

He continued: "This is acutely felt in today's digital ecosystem where creators are the most fragile element. For this reason, we rely heavily on our authors' societies and CISAC to take care of our interests. Alone, we are vulnerable, but when we combine our strengths, via the societies that represent us and protect our works, we have a voice."

Source: billboard.com 

Le meilleur des 30 ans des Victoires de la musique

Publié le 12 Février 2015 

The best of 30 years of Victoires de la Musique:

Jean-Michel Jarre, Johnny Hallyday, Alain Souchon (Artist of the Year) and Alain Chamfort (best music video) during the 1994 Victoires de la Musique.

Source: 20minutes.fr

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January 1, 2015

Welcome to 2015...

January 4, 2015

The musical Kama Sutra. 

 
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Zoning out ...

January 8, 2015
 
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January 10, 2015

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January 16, 2015

January 19, 2015

One of my favourite quotes to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
I await his new biopic Selma Movie with great anticipation.

January 21, 2015
 
I love the idea that my fans are also part of these Guinness World Records acheived through record breaking concert attendances around the world.

January 23, 2015

Musical conception.

January 27, 2015

Today electronic music is orphaned of one of its most important father figures, Edgar Froese, the soul of Tangerine Dream - Band.

Edgar and I always followed each others work. We started electronic music at the same time. We spent some time together recently and we became instant old friends. I remember his vision of Life, his humor, his mysterious smile.

Edgar, wherever you are in the weightlessness of space and time, be sure that you will always remain with me and with all of us through the timeless and unique sound of Tangerine Dream.

 

January 29, 2015

Music for a rainy day.

February 1, 2015

This album was all about the idea of producing a unique piece of art that could accommodate be bought, like a painting. Not even I own a copy and the current owner of the record is not known.

February 2, 2015

That great news Moog Music Inc. are recommencing a limited manufacturing run of three of Their 5U Synthesizers large modular format, originally created in 1973.

They have also made a fascinating documentary about how the instruments have contributed to the evolution of electronic music and how they can be part of the future too.

Watch it here:  

       


February 8, 2015

A slight problem with the vinyl revolution...

February 10, 2015

Can you spot me in this photograph?

February 12, 2015

Through the years...

  

February 14, 2015 

February 17, 2015 
  
Very much enjoying Director John Carpenter's new album.  

His work across music and film has always been a great inspiration for me:  

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Happy New Year! 2015!

 

 

To all fans of Jean Michel Jarre…for all visitors my blog…
2015 is at the door remember
Life is short. Forgive quickly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile.

           

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