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Jean Michel Jarre - Interview 27 Oct 2009
27 Oct 2009
Jean Michel Jarre’s new album Aero is unlike anything
you’ve heard. Recorded and fully constructed in 5.1 Surround Sound, it
is a submersive experience. Jarre has tirelessly pioneered new
technology for the past 20 years, selling 60million albums and playing
record-breaking concerts with electronica, video and pyrotechnics from
Paris to China to the banks of the Thames.
Source: metro.co.uk
You sound swamped.
I’ve had quite a hectic day. I work very hard. When I go to bed, I dream about getting some sleep.Is it the music that drives you?
Music has always been what I have been excited by, and also frustrated by. But it is the feeling there are so many unfinished works out there waiting to be improved upon that haunts me. I have done many mock-ups in my life – things that I have always thought I might improve upon one day. That is the main engine that drives me.You sound like a perfectionist.
I don’t like the word. It’s got a negative tone. I am a perfectionist in the way that if you build a plane, you just know you have to get it right. You have to be a bloody perfectionist. If you don’t, you kill a lot of people. I’m not suggesting that my music will kill, but…But it does trigger physical reactions in people…
I have always thought music should be elemental – that it should be something you immerse yourself within. It’s organic, sensual – almost sexual. I like music that talks to my body, my tummy, my skin. Music is first physical. Before it is emotional or intellectual, it is physical. In Oxygene, I tried to bathe listeners in sound but the technology wasn’t up to speed yet. It was static stereo and wasn’t ready yet to do what I wanted it to. Surround Sound provided me with the medium I always wanted. It lets me revisit the music and make the version I always wanted to make.So with Aero, did you improve on your original hits?
More than. When I had finished, I thought this is the original. This is the true first version. Before that, I knew they weren’t finished the way they were meant to be.It’s a dangerous thing re-upholstering history…
I know and I trapped myself a little in this project. I wanted to make entirely new music but I ended up reconforming some of my existing tracks. I was so into the process of listening to my music for the first time, with all those fresh feelings.The medium (5.1 stereo) is definitely exciting, but isn’t it elitist?
No, no it’s not elitist. More than 25million families now have home cinemas with Surround Sound, and the number’s growing. I parallel it with the move from mono to stereo and then stereo to CDs. I always believed that with CDs we lost something at an emotional level. CDs weren’t as generous or warm or sexy as vinyl. But with Surround Sound, it has all that warmth and high definition. DVDs aren’t just for watching films, there’s a wealth of musical possibility we can tap into.Are we ready for the next generation?
Yes, our senses are ever-evolving. In the 21st century, we have higher expectations than our grandparents. If we saw the next Ridley Scott movie and it was a silent movie shot in grainy black and white, I think he would have trouble finding a distributor. Likewise, after you have listened to Surround Sound, it’s hard to go back to stereo.You’ve always put on big, free music extravaganzas. Is it important to be democratic with your music?
I blame it all on a socialist mother.Why all the fireworks?
Basically, when it’s just a guy behind a laptop twiddling knobs for two hours, you need something more, non? My parents used to say they were going to ‘hear’ some music and there would be a quartet up on a stage and that was enough. Today, people say they are going to ‘see’ some music. There are visual expectations inspired by the opening up of it as an artform and I always strove to put electronic music on the stage and make it exciting. If you have some visual stimulus, it makes for a better listening experience. It invites people to share more fully.Do you get a buzz from performing?
I love that there’s no second chance in performance art. There’s a complicity with the audience and a magic to the whole thing. When I used to go with my grandparents to the village square, we would watch the circus. They would come, pitch their tent, set up shop, perform and then be gone the next morning. It was cloaked in mystique and I love that.Which has been your best concert?
There have been so many. But I’d have to say the best was in Lyon, my home town, a few years ago. I put on an event at exactly the same place where the circus used to perform in the market place. Exactly where they pitched their tent. It was a strange feeling. Very special for me.What is your greatest fear?
Being ill and losing my health. I don’t have many fears actually. I have doubts and anguish but not real fear. I have dissatisfaction too with much I have done, and I look forward to being satisfied with something. Does that qualify?More than. What advice would you give your younger self?
That being an artist is wonderful but it may not be the easiest way to be happy. Your life will be full of passion but full of frustrations, too. It’s not always great for your private life. You may end up double-booking children and relationships with work. Perhaps, if being happy in life is really your priority, you shouldn’t go the artist route.What should you be?
I’m not sure. Perhaps a carpenter? Yes, a carpenter would be good.Source: metro.co.uk
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Jean Michel Jarre in Berlin
02-12-2009
Er hat schon ziemlich viel gemacht den Himmel über vielen Welt-Städten in Farbe getaucht, Musik für ein Konzert mit dem Papst oder der NASA geschrieben oder Filmmusiken produziert. Er hat Hunderttausende begeistert mit der magischen Mischung aus Musik, Lichteffekten und Feuerwerk. Die Rede ist von Jean Michel Jarre, dem Pionier der Elektronik-Musik. Im kommenden Jahr ist er in Europa wieder auf großer Tour und hat heute in Berlin seine Pläne vorgestellt.
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21/02/2013
UNESCO - No 8 1st April 2009
Programme of UNESCO Celebrity Advocates. UNESCO Director-General Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, surrounded by the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors, during the Annual Meeting on 20 May 2008 at the Organization’s Headquarters. Lower row from left to right: Mrs Basma Irsheid, Chief of Programme of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors, Mrs Susanna Rinaldi, Mrs Ute-Henriette Ohoven, Mrs Marianna Vardinoyannis, Mr Jean Michel Jarre, H.R.H. Princess Firyal of Jordan, Mrs Mehriban Aliyeva, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General, H.R.H. Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco, H. Exc Mrs Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Mrs Christine Hakim, Mr Pierre Bergé, Lady Cristina Owen-Jones, Mr Cheick Modibo Diarra, and Mrs Kim Phuc Phan Thi. Upper row: Mr Miguel Angel Estrella, Mr Patrick Baudry, Mr Ivry Gitlis, Mr Madanjeet Singh, Prof Jean Malaurie, and Mr Zurab Tsereteli.
20/02/2013
ADB ALC4 LED Cyclorama lights backdrop Jean Michel Jarre tour
48 LED CYCLORAMA LIGHTS FOR TOUR’S GIANT VISUAL BACKDROP
Jean Michel Jarre’s current European tour, designed for a minimalistic look with Jarre and his three accompanying musicians performing in front of a giant 30 x 9 metre cyclorama, features ADB Lighting’s new ALC4 LED cyclorama light as its principal visual element, along with a relatively small number of moving lights and, of course, a spectacular laser show.
The Frenchman’s outdoor spectaculars are legendary for their unique scale and ambition in combining music and light. So when it came to designing an international arena tour, powerful visual ingredients were called for.
The 2 1/4 hour show, which has recently played the UK before moving on to northern Europe, was created by lighting designer Ignace D’Haese of Arf&Yes in close collaboration with Jean Michel Jarre himself. D’Haese comments: “Jean Michel wanted to achieve the most complete and total way of thinking with these shows. The idea has always been doing outdoor spectacles, always huge one-offs, so there wasn’t really a history of doing this kind of thing on tour.”
D’Haese continues: “We started with a really minimalist idea, keeping the stage as simple as possible and using all the instruments, all the keyboards, as the scenery, with Jean Michel and his three accompanying musicians as the key elements of the show, which is completely performed live.
“Of the main elements, the cyclorama is a very important issue, and it had to be as big as possible in each venue. So we mostly set it up at 30 x 9m, and it’s great to have the contrast between the cyc horizon and the few band members – that pure rectangle to silhouette the band – and I especially like the ADB ALC4; it was fabulous, there were things with it that we just couldn’t do before.
” The cyclorama is both backlit by an array of 48 ADB ALC4 units – 24 at the top, 24 at ground level – and back-projected with video.
”He explains: “I was looking for a cyclo light for quite a while which was better than a normal cyclo light. I’d used ADB’s regular cycloramas before, which were really brilliant, good quality, a great reflector, one of the best. But on tour, especially when they have to form an important piece of the set, we needed a large quantity of cyclo lights and of course that means a lot of power and it’s tricky to choose the right filters to achieve the colours we wanted.
It worked really, really well. ”The ALC4, launched in late 2009, is an energy-efficient dimmerless fixture that delivers the equivalent of 1250W of halogen power for 160W, featuring a 1 million-color palette via DMX, including seven white presets.
An internal colour-feedback system ensures precise and consistent colour output from the Lexel LED module, with colours combined in a mixing chamber to eliminate coloured shadows or separately visible colours.
The cyclorama is complemented by a rig of moving lights, stage-front LED
moving heads and lasers which drop in and out of sight on motorised
hoists. All lighting is supplied by EML Productions, whose crew was
headed by lighting crew chief Vincent Ex and lighting operator Olivier
Demoustier.
Jean Michel Jarre 27 Oct 2009
Jean Michel Jarre’snew album Aero is unlike anything you’ve heard. Recorded and fully constructed in 5.1 Surround Sound, it is a submersive experience. Jarre has tirelessly pioneered new technology for the past 20 years, selling 60million albums and playing record-breaking concerts with electronica, video and pyrotechnics from Paris to China to the banks of the Thames.
You sound swamped.
I’ve had quite a hectic day. I work very hard. When I go to bed, I dream about getting some sleep.Is it the music that drives you?
Music has always been what I have been excited by, and also frustrated by. But it is the feeling there are so many unfinished works out there waiting to be improved upon that haunts me. I have done many mock-ups in my life – things that I have always thought I might improve upon one day. That is the main engine that drives me.You sound like a perfectionist.
I don’t like the word. It’s got a negative tone. I am a perfectionist in the way that if you build a plane, you just know you have to get it right. You have to be a bloody perfectionist. If you don’t, you kill a lot of people. I’m not suggesting that my music will kill, but…But it does trigger physical reactions in people…
I have always thought music should be elemental – that it should be something you immerse yourself within. It’s organic, sensual – almost sexual. I like music that talks to my body, my tummy, my skin. Music is first physical. Before it is emotional or intellectual, it is physical. In Oxygene, I tried to bathe listeners in sound but the technology wasn’t up to speed yet. It was static stereo and wasn’t ready yet to do what I wanted it to. Surround Sound provided me with the medium I always wanted. It lets me revisit the music and make the version I always wanted to make.So with Aero, did you improve on your original hits?
More than. When I had finished, I thought this is the original. This is the true first version. Before that, I knew they weren’t finished the way they were meant to be.It’s a dangerous thing re-upholstering history…
I know and I trapped myself a little in this project. I wanted to make entirely new music but I ended up reconforming some of my existing tracks. I was so into the process of listening to my music for the first time, with all those fresh feelings.The medium (5.1 stereo) is definitely exciting, but isn’t it elitist?
No, no it’s not elitist. More than 25million families now have home cinemas with Surround Sound, and the number’s growing. I parallel it with the move from mono to stereo and then stereo to CDs. I always believed that with CDs we lost something at an emotional level. CDs weren’t as generous or warm or sexy as vinyl. But with Surround Sound, it has all that warmth and high definition. DVDs aren’t just for watching films, there’s a wealth of musical possibility we can tap into.Are we ready for the next generation?
Yes, our senses are ever-evolving. In the 21st century, we have higher expectations than our grandparents. If we saw the next Ridley Scott movie and it was a silent movie shot in grainy black and white, I think he would have trouble finding a distributor. Likewise, after you have listened to Surround Sound, it’s hard to go back to stereo.You’ve always put on big, free music extravaganzas. Is it important to be democratic with your music?
I blame it all on a socialist mother.Why all the fireworks?
Basically, when it’s just a guy behind a laptop twiddling knobs for two hours, you need something more, non? My parents used to say they were going to ‘hear’ some music and there would be a quartet up on a stage and that was enough. Today, people say they are going to ‘see’ some music. There are visual expectations inspired by the opening up of it as an artform and I always strove to put electronic music on the stage and make it exciting. If you have some visual stimulus, it makes for a better listening experience. It invites people to share more fully.Do you get a buzz from performing?
I love that there’s no second chance in performance art. There’s a complicity with the audience and a magic to the whole thing. When I used to go with my grandparents to the village square, we would watch the circus. They would come, pitch their tent, set up shop, perform and then be gone the next morning. It was cloaked in mystique and I love that.Which has been your best concert?
There have been so many. But I’d have to say the best was in Lyon, my home town, a few years ago. I put on an event at exactly the same place where the circus used to perform in the market place. Exactly where they pitched their tent. It was a strange feeling. Very special for me.What is your greatest fear?
Being ill and losing my health. I don’t have many fears actually. I have doubts and anguish but not real fear. I have dissatisfaction too with much I have done, and I look forward to being satisfied with something. Does that qualify?More than. What advice would you give your younger self?
That being an artist is wonderful but it may not be the easiest way to be happy. Your life will be full of passion but full of frustrations, too. It’s not always great for your private life. You may end up double-booking children and relationships with work. Perhaps, if being happy in life is really your priority, you shouldn’t go the artist route.What should you be?
I’m not sure. Perhaps a carpenter? Yes, a carpenter would be good.Source: metro.co.uk
DiGiCo SD7 on tour with Alain Coreaux with Jean Michel Jarre and Arpege
Said Courieux: "The SD7 is one of the only digital boards that sounds and feels like an analogue one. Also, the quality of every built-in effect is very good. I am using a lot of compressors and noise gates and it's great not to have lots of racks of equipment surrounding me. For me, this show requires only a 15 minute set-up which is fantastic."
A year after the successful tour that celebrated the 30th anniversary of his classic Oxygene album, Jean Michel Jarre brought his new In>Doors show to London for the latest leg of his first-ever world tour. Paul Watson took a backstage tour at Wembley Arena for his début with TPi...
July 2009
Jean Michel Jarre
Aiming to create a new
level of intimacy between the artist and his audience, In>Doors moves
away from the much acclaimed outdoor spectaculars that have earned Jean
Michel Jarre worldwide acclaim. Considering the sheer size of a typical
JMJ gig, I was intrigued from the offset as to how they intended to
make it work in an arena environment.
I asked tour manager Chris Rowley whose decision it was to condense the big show into a smaller package. “This project was driven by Jean Michel entirely. After the 30th anniversary of Oxygene he was surprised by just how popular the shows were,” said Rowley.
“Then, suddenly, there was a huge demand for something that could work in a more intimate venue. That’s why we chose an arena tour.
“There isn’t much of a depth of tour management in France, in terms of moving a show overnight quickly. This is an area where James Monkman [production manager] and I were able to add our expertise. The crew totals 32 people and we use four trucks [from Stagetruck]. The reaction has been fantastic and we’re playing to 6,500-7,000 people per night, which is great.”
Heading up lighting and set design, Ignace D’Haese explained that there is a huge contrast between Jarre’s indoor and outdoor shows.
He said: “I worked on a couple of the big outdoor shows and the Oxygene tour last year. With locations like the Sahara Desert, the set is the desert itself, and in Beijing’s Forbidden City, the architecture is the set. On the Oxygene tour we didn’t use any beams or smoke to create a spectacle; the keyboards were the set and everything was just ambiently lit.”
“Here, we use a lot of beams to create the desired effect, yet we’ve managed to keep the set-up fairly minimalistic.”
Belgian company EML Productions is providing the lighting fixtures. Twenty-five Vari*Lite VL3500Q spots and eight VL3500 washes are dedicated to the musicians and the myriad of keyboards and synths on stage, plus 15 5kW SXB-5/2 Synrcolites — nine on top and six on the floor.
Five stands on stage accommodate High End Showpix fixtures and the impressive lasers, provided by Dutch-headquartered supplier, Laser Image.
There is also a row of i-Pix BB4 LEDs which reinforce and emphasise Jarre’s rhythmic sounds while 144 vintage ACPs beam flutes of colour on to the white curtains at the back of the stage throughout the show. Additional (black) curtains are moved at the rear of the stage by Kinesys hoists.
A bank of ADB ACP 1.2kW cyc fixtures are used to generate “pure conventional light”, an important contrast according to D’Haese, whose rig is controlled by Glenn Mollemans using a Chamsys Magic QF console.
Joost Machiels, EML’s account manager, explained that the decision to host five production rehearsal days at a Belgian venue was made simply because his company’s stock was within easy reach.
“This made it very straightforward for us to make any technical changes, of which there were many,” said Machiels.
“Jean Michel always wants new things in the show, and sometimes at short notice, so it’s important for us to be flexible. We had to make some of the equipment from scratch, such as the DMX-controlled Manfrotto ‘Black Magic’ stands, specifically for this production.”
I asked tour manager Chris Rowley whose decision it was to condense the big show into a smaller package. “This project was driven by Jean Michel entirely. After the 30th anniversary of Oxygene he was surprised by just how popular the shows were,” said Rowley.
“Then, suddenly, there was a huge demand for something that could work in a more intimate venue. That’s why we chose an arena tour.
“There isn’t much of a depth of tour management in France, in terms of moving a show overnight quickly. This is an area where James Monkman [production manager] and I were able to add our expertise. The crew totals 32 people and we use four trucks [from Stagetruck]. The reaction has been fantastic and we’re playing to 6,500-7,000 people per night, which is great.”
Heading up lighting and set design, Ignace D’Haese explained that there is a huge contrast between Jarre’s indoor and outdoor shows.
He said: “I worked on a couple of the big outdoor shows and the Oxygene tour last year. With locations like the Sahara Desert, the set is the desert itself, and in Beijing’s Forbidden City, the architecture is the set. On the Oxygene tour we didn’t use any beams or smoke to create a spectacle; the keyboards were the set and everything was just ambiently lit.”
“Here, we use a lot of beams to create the desired effect, yet we’ve managed to keep the set-up fairly minimalistic.”
Belgian company EML Productions is providing the lighting fixtures. Twenty-five Vari*Lite VL3500Q spots and eight VL3500 washes are dedicated to the musicians and the myriad of keyboards and synths on stage, plus 15 5kW SXB-5/2 Synrcolites — nine on top and six on the floor.
Five stands on stage accommodate High End Showpix fixtures and the impressive lasers, provided by Dutch-headquartered supplier, Laser Image.
There is also a row of i-Pix BB4 LEDs which reinforce and emphasise Jarre’s rhythmic sounds while 144 vintage ACPs beam flutes of colour on to the white curtains at the back of the stage throughout the show. Additional (black) curtains are moved at the rear of the stage by Kinesys hoists.
A bank of ADB ACP 1.2kW cyc fixtures are used to generate “pure conventional light”, an important contrast according to D’Haese, whose rig is controlled by Glenn Mollemans using a Chamsys Magic QF console.
Joost Machiels, EML’s account manager, explained that the decision to host five production rehearsal days at a Belgian venue was made simply because his company’s stock was within easy reach.
“This made it very straightforward for us to make any technical changes, of which there were many,” said Machiels.
“Jean Michel always wants new things in the show, and sometimes at short notice, so it’s important for us to be flexible. We had to make some of the equipment from scratch, such as the DMX-controlled Manfrotto ‘Black Magic’ stands, specifically for this production.”
AUDIO
French rental company Arpège Son et Lumiere is the source of the tour’s PA equipment. At Wembley Arena, the system — the new K1 array from L-Acoustics — was set up rather unconventionally at the rear of the stage, hidden behind the two black curtains.
FOH engineer Alain Courieux explained the reasoning behind this decision: “There are three big advantages in setting up the PA in this way. Firstly, it’s completely hidden, so everything on stage is visible from everywhere. Secondly, wherever you are in the audience, the sound is actually coming from the artist.
“Thirdly, the band are on in-ears on stage. Usually with in-ears, they are constantly asking for more low end, but they don’t need that because they are already getting it from the system due to its position.”
The K1 system was configured just left and right — without a central cluster — in hangs of 12 per side with eight SB28 subs between them.
I was impressed by the clarity and the sheer power generated by just eight subs considering the venue size, so I spoke to Courieux’s son, Cedric, who helped design the SB28 at L-Acoustics, to find out a little more about them.
He said: “The port of the sub is slightly curved and there is no perturbation with the air at the exit of the port, which is why it provides so much power. The driver is a long-excursion driver, so the membrane is also much better than the old one. It’s also cost-effective, as normally in a venue like this you would need 12 subs; we only need to use eight.”
Courieux is using 160 channels on his favoured FOH console — the DiGiCo SD7. His only outboard devices are a Lexicon 960 reverb and a Yamaha DME64 digital mix engine.
Said Courieux: “The SD7 is one of the only digital boards that sounds and feels like an analogue one. Also, the quality of every built-in effect is very good. I am using a lot of compressors and noise gates and it’s great not to have lots of racks of equipment surrounding me. For me, this show requires only a 15 minute set-up which is fantastic.”
When asked how many mics on stage, Courieux smiled and said: “Jean Michel only needs one...to say hello!” Four Shure SM58s are spaced across the stage to catch the occasion.
The monitor desk is also an SD7 manned by Vincent Mantz who uses 130 channels. He also has a Yamaha DME64 for three delays, two mono and one stereo, plus an Aphex Dominator multi-band peak limiter to safeguard the levels to the musicians’ Future Sonics ear moulds — run with Shure PSM600 IEM systems.
Other crew worthy of credit include stage manager Rahel Feidler, backline techs Patrick Pelamourgues and Alexandre Lebovici, sound techs Arno Voortman and Alex Capponi, lighting crew Erwin Van Lokeren, Joeri Pluym, Carla Sala, Kris Huderland and Thijs Siebens (crew chief Vincent Ex), laser tech Ensar Turan, and rigger Filip Vandenbruwane.
DEDICATION
Jarre’s dedication to his craft was evident throughout the time I spent observing his interaction with musicians Claude Samard, Francis Rimbert and Dominique Perrier, and the sound and lighting teams.
He arrived at Wembley 90 minutes before the scheduled soundcheck, adjusted FOH settings and hopped in and out of various seats, making sure he was happy with the way the show looked from different audience positions.
Having been kindly refuelled by Gemma Daly and her Eat Your Hearts Out catering team, I seized the opportunity to get a little closer to the action as soundcheck began.
No less than a two-hour production rehearsal , this was the most thorough soundcheck I have ever experienced. I was privileged to be allowed stage access and inspect JMJ’s ‘keyboard fortress’, comprising 35 instruments in total, most of which wouldn’t look out of place in a museum!
It included a fantastic Mellotron, surrounded by various ’80s Roland keyboards such as the D50 and the JP4. I spotted various Moogs, Mini-Moogs, Roland V-drums, a Continuum Fingerboard, the Synthex synth that he uses for his impressive laser harp show, plus two of the very first synths ever made — the VCS3 Putney and Synthi which sit proudly together, centre stage, directly behind Jean Michel.
I was reliably informed by Hugo Bunk of Laser Image that these were the first synths Jarre ever owned. There were also, inevitably, dozens of BSS Audio DI boxes scattered across the stage, to accommodate all of these weird and wonderful instruments.
BACKSTAGE WITH JARRE
The final word goes to Jean Michel himself. Just before the show, he revealed to me a little of his vision for the future of electronic music and the fusion of old and new technologies.
He said: “In my opinion, the next step for electronic music is to mix analogue synths with digital equipment. We tried a number of experiments such as comparing new virtual Mellotron sounds against the original and the difference was amazing.
“It’s like playing a Stradivarius and having the sound of a violin on a virtual synth; two different worlds.
“I think what’s been unfair to these instruments is that they have never had the time to become idolised like Gibsons and Fenders because they disappeared at the beginning of the ’80s just when they were about to become popular. These instruments are still an integral part in many of today’s young electronic bands.
“I see In>Doors as ‘something in the allotment’. We have a studio album going on the road next, followed probably by a greatest hits album and we’ll be doing some more outdoor productions at the same time.
“This whole tour is a work in progress. It’s like an experiment for me, for the crew and I hope for the audience, a good one.”
Source: tpimagazine
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Un méga-concert - Le Danemark accueille Jean-Michel Jarre
26 septembre 2009
Copenhague - Quelque 35 000 personnes venues de 25 pays assisteront samedi soir à un mégaconcert du musicien-compositeur français Jean-Michel Jarre sur fond d'éoliennes, à Gammel Vraa Enge, près d'Aalborg, dans le nord du Danemark, ont annoncé hier les organisateurs.
Jean-Michel Jarre, qui se produit pour la première fois en Scandinavie, présentera à guichets fermés ce spectacle baptisé Aero, autour de l'énergie renouvelable et de l'environnement. Ce concert avait failli ne pas voir le jour, en raison de problèmes financiers, le gouvernement libéral-conservateur ayant refusé d'y apporter le moindre soutien, selon les organisateurs.
Ceux-ci, en compagnie de Jean-Michel Jarre, ont finalement réussi à recueillir auprès de parrains les 20 millions de couronnes (environ trois millions de dollars) nécessaires à sa tenue.
Après des mégaconcerts à Pékin, à Paris, à Londres, au Caire et à Athènes, le musicien français a choisi cette fois-ci un lieu perdu de la province danoise, porté, a-t-il dit, par sa fascination du vent.
«Le vent y jouera un rôle principal, non seulement en tant qu'énergie, mais aussi pour porter les sons, les images, les messages et les rêves.»
«Le vent porte les oiseaux, le pollen, mais aussi la fumée et la pollution. Il peut aussi bien transporter le bien que le mal», souligne-t-il sur son site Internet (www.jarre.net), où le concert sera retransmis en direct.
Jean-Michel Jarre y présentera des compositions inédites, inspirées du chant du vent, ainsi que ses grands tubes, notamment Oxygène, entièrement réorchestrés. Il sera accompagné sur scène par le groupe de percussionnistes danois Safri, l'orchestre symphonique d'Aalborg, les Choeurs Coro Misto et Klarup Girls.
Le spectacle sera précédé par un spectacle aérien avec des planeurs, des ULM et des avions ultra-légers, ainsi que par des démonstrations de saut en parachute en groupe. L'énergie électrique nécessaire à la réalisation du concert sera entièrement fournie par les 15 éoliennes, situées à 20 km d'Aalborg.
Source: ledevoir.com
Copenhague - Quelque 35 000 personnes venues de 25 pays assisteront samedi soir à un mégaconcert du musicien-compositeur français Jean-Michel Jarre sur fond d'éoliennes, à Gammel Vraa Enge, près d'Aalborg, dans le nord du Danemark, ont annoncé hier les organisateurs.
Jean-Michel Jarre, qui se produit pour la première fois en Scandinavie, présentera à guichets fermés ce spectacle baptisé Aero, autour de l'énergie renouvelable et de l'environnement. Ce concert avait failli ne pas voir le jour, en raison de problèmes financiers, le gouvernement libéral-conservateur ayant refusé d'y apporter le moindre soutien, selon les organisateurs.
Ceux-ci, en compagnie de Jean-Michel Jarre, ont finalement réussi à recueillir auprès de parrains les 20 millions de couronnes (environ trois millions de dollars) nécessaires à sa tenue.
Après des mégaconcerts à Pékin, à Paris, à Londres, au Caire et à Athènes, le musicien français a choisi cette fois-ci un lieu perdu de la province danoise, porté, a-t-il dit, par sa fascination du vent.
«Le vent y jouera un rôle principal, non seulement en tant qu'énergie, mais aussi pour porter les sons, les images, les messages et les rêves.»
«Le vent porte les oiseaux, le pollen, mais aussi la fumée et la pollution. Il peut aussi bien transporter le bien que le mal», souligne-t-il sur son site Internet (www.jarre.net), où le concert sera retransmis en direct.
Jean-Michel Jarre y présentera des compositions inédites, inspirées du chant du vent, ainsi que ses grands tubes, notamment Oxygène, entièrement réorchestrés. Il sera accompagné sur scène par le groupe de percussionnistes danois Safri, l'orchestre symphonique d'Aalborg, les Choeurs Coro Misto et Klarup Girls.
Le spectacle sera précédé par un spectacle aérien avec des planeurs, des ULM et des avions ultra-légers, ainsi que par des démonstrations de saut en parachute en groupe. L'énergie électrique nécessaire à la réalisation du concert sera entièrement fournie par les 15 éoliennes, situées à 20 km d'Aalborg.
Source: ledevoir.com
08/01/2013
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