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SOUNDHUNTERS / THE DOCU FILM
ON AIR: September 19, 2015 – arte – 11:10PM
Directed by Beryl Koltz
52’ HD - CULTURE / MUSIC
They hunt urban and natural landscapes searching for sounds. The world itself is their musical instrument. By using everyday objects and recording the familiar sounds that surround us, they transform our everyday environment into an original musical creation. The name they chose for themselves: soundhunters.
Pierre Schaeffer, the father of musique concrète, whose greatest legacy is electronic music, invited us to consider music in terms of sounds rather than notes. This vision opened the way to exploring our natural or urban surroundings, recording all languages and manipulating everyday objects : a leaf in the wind, an effervescent aspirin, a Finnish phoneme or coffee being poured into a cup. Today, every sound can be recorded, hijacked, manipulated and reinvented into an original musical creation.
SOUNDHUNTERS – a musical expedition – traces the adventure of KIZ, two new coming musicians, into the world of Soundhunters. From Paris to Malmö, from London to Baltimore, the film follows their encounters with exceptional musicians from very different backgrounds and genres. Integrating the sounds from their journey into exciting musical scenes, KIZ playfully show us how the world can be turned into a limitless music instrument.
Thanks to an original staging, SOUNDHUNTERS offers spectators an encounter with multiple renowned artists from various generations and musical backgrounds, such as Matthew Herbert, Matmos, Chassol, Jean-Michel Jarre, Blixa Bargeld or Cosmo Sheldrake.
MORE;
soundhunters.arte.tv
08/07/2015
News from the official website of Jean Michel Jarre with Facebook
Take a look at these podcast videos on iTunes which take you behind the scenes of my new album project, collaborating with artists spanning 4 decades of Electronic music: itunes.apple.com
June 24, 2015
Julian Assange a Modern Hero. Today France should grant Julian Assange political asylum.
Aujourd'hui la France devrait accorder l'asile politique à Julian Assange.
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“Only France is now able to offer me the necessary protection against the political persecution,” Assange said, adding that welcoming him would not only be humanitarian, “but also probably a symbolic gesture, sending an encouragement to all journalists and whistleblowers in the world, who risk their lives every day to allow their citizens to take another step closer to the truth.”
This week, a number of French cultural figures, including director Jacques Audiard, actor Vincent Cassel and composer Jean Michel Jarre, signed a petition asking the French president to “act firmly” and grant political asylum to Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, who have been paying “the price of exile for their courage” for several years.
Saying that the whistleblowers have been “subjected to constant harassment... for revealing violation of the rights of millions of human beings and sovereignty of many states, including France,” the country has a duty to accommodate those “who are persecuted because of their fight for freedom,” the letter published on Mediapart, a French online journal, stated.
June 23, 2015
Ready for the Q&A on Billboard's Facebook page with Steve Angello.
That's a wrap! Thanks for joining us and submitting questions -- and a special thanks to Steve Angello and Jean-Michel Jarre for joining us today!
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Source: www.facebook.comCheck out this special message from Jean-Michel Jarre + be part of the "ZOOLOOK REVISITED" album!
Get your track selected by Jean-Michel Jarre and published in the "ZOOLOOK REVISITED" ALBUM!
The SOUNDHUNTERS project celebrates the use of sounds from our daily life to make creative music. This is also a tribute to the «Zoolook» album released in 1984 by Jean-Michel Jarre. More than 30 years later, you get the chance to participate in the «Zoolook Revisited» album alongside 4 famous electronic musicians: Daedelus, Luke Vibert, Simonne Jones and Mikael Seifu. Be among the 6 lucky chosen ones by Jean-Michel Jarre and get a publishing contract in due form!
How to participate?
soundhunters.tv
Music: Simonne Jones "The Silver Chord" extract from the SOUNDHUNTERS project
Motion design: nöbl.tv extract from the SOUNDHUNTERS trailer
Images "JM Jarre interview": Mario Raulin
Source: soundhunters.arte.tv/
Jean-Michel Jarre "Glory" (ft. M83) (video)
Electronic music great Jean-Michel Jarre recently let Swedish House Mafia don Steve Angello take the reins on a remix of his M83 (a.k.a. Anthony Gonzalez) collaboration "Glory." Revisiting the source material once again, the song's been treated to a music video.
The clip was directed by Lisa Paclet, who used sports as her central theme. She offered up the following statement about the release:
When I listened to "Glory", I was struck by the lyrics "we could never have it all" that, to me, crystalized a very contemporary feeling of impotence. Jean-Michel Jarre told me he wanted the video to be "dark and sunny," so I opted for a slightly sardonic take on the concept of "glory." I wanted to glorify useless action though a series of absurd sports, preformed by athletes that run after unreachable, constantly shifting goals. Their performances are scrutinized by a uniform, stoic, public whose reaction to their efforts is synchronized and coordinated like a well-oiled machine.
As the clip progresses, the athletes subtly rebel against their pointless task though deliberate action of failure, breaking the repetitive cycle to which they are constrained. Their failures reveal a breach of humanity, which ricochets within the public, who in turn reacts in a progressively entropic fashion.
Watch the video for "Glory" below.
"Glory" is out now as a 12-inch and will also appear on Jarre's upcoming studio album, which has yet to firm up a release date.
By Josiah Hughes
Creators Defend Rights in Works of Art Located in Public Places
01 July 2015
CISAC President and Vice-Presidents have written to the President of the European Parliament, to express their views on discussions concerning the use of works of art located in public places.
Jean Michel Jarre, Angélique Kidjo, Javed Akhtar, Marcelo Piñeyro, and Ousmane Sow expressed concerns with respect to the proposal of Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda to allow the use of photographs, video footage and other images of works which are permanently located in public places, without the prior authorisation of the creator and irrespective of the commercial nature of such uses. The proposal, which was originally included in MEP Reda’s report to the Legal Affairs Committee from January this year, was later revised to exclude commercial uses of such works without prior authorisation. This revision triggered an aggressive campaign against the amendment and against the interests of creators of public art.
In the letter, the creators called the European Parliament to safeguard the rights of authors against the erosion of the value of their works in favour of a limited number of big commercial stakeholders, who are building global businesses and amassing significant profit on the back of the authors’ community. They encouraged the European MEPs to adopt a decision that would take into consideration all interests involved, at its upcoming plenary session on 9 July.
Source: cisac.org
MedPi 2015 : nouveau distributeur pour Jarre Technologies
Depuis janvier 2015, Jarre Technologies a un nouveau distributeur en France et en Europe. Et le MedPi est évidemment l’endroit pour expliquer à la distribution ce qu’il est. Eric de Cussy, Responsable Grands Comptes , nous explique la stratégie de la marque, et revient sur les produits, tel l’AeroBull, une enceinte qui a la forme d’un chien.
Source: neomag.fr
“When Exceptions Become the Rule, It Isn’t Fair Anymore”
CISAC President Jean-Michel Jarre Shares His Perspective on Creators Rights
President Jean-Michel Jarre’s keynote speech from CISAC’s recent General Assembly in Brussels has been reproduced as an editorial in this week’s edition of Music Week. Jarre takes a strong stance in favour of the creators’ position on fair remuneration.
Beginning with a recollection of his pioneering 1981 concerts in China, Jarre observes just how far the country has travelled in copyright protection as the two biggest players in the domestic on-line market call for stronger IP protection.
They understand that in order to develop a competitive online environment and an online market that continues to develop for the benefit of everyone, you first need to protect creators. They really get it.As there is still a long way to go to deliver the same message in the US, Europe and in other regions around the world where copyright/authors’ rights are being challenged, Jarre calls upon all creators to make their voices heard and invites digital services to get onboard to agree “fair-trade” conditions for the creators that fuel their value streams.
“This is the fight for our future and for the future of the next generations of creators,” said Jarre
The full article is available and is reproduced with the kind permission
of Music Week Magazine.
Source: cisac.org/Newsroom
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