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[Dr_Jones]

Does anybody have a (good) audio (or video) recording of Oxygene 8 from the Saturdaynight rehearsals? It was sadly enought not played during the concert although it is mention in the trackinglist in the credits...

It was nice making new friends and talk to you all!

Here's a video I made of the rehearsals:


Really nice to see some new and familiair faces here in Bratislava!

[Dr_Jones]

High Quality Concert Artwork?

Does anybody have a decent digital image file of the concert artwork they could share? The best I have is from the Vivien website, but it's still only 608px by 700px and 177kb. I'm looking for a file with enough resolution to make a decent print copy. Portrait or landscape format, preferably in Slovakian not English.

https://www.vivien.sk/event/starmus.html

I have a 1080x1920 version:

starmus-portrait-en.jpg

[rinogurr]

1000x1476

[Rompipompi]

Does anybody have a (good) audio (or video) recording of Oxygene 8 from the Saturdaynight rehearsals? It was sadly enought not played during the concert although it is mention in the trackinglist in the credits...

It was nice making new friends and talk to you all!

Here's a video I made of the rehearsals:


Really nice to see some new and familiair faces here in Bratislava!

Ah, perfect! Thank you Dr.Jones!!!

[Dr_Jones]

Here's a photo of the drones resting before the concert

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[plate of chips]

Adiescar was amazing. Adiescar lit up the show as much as the lasers and fireworks. Multi instrumentalist just superb for JMJ's concert.
She was so totally into it playing her Digiredoo Violin Guitar Bass Keyboards. Could see when she was singing she was moved by it.
Her dancing and smiling was wonderful.
So glad she was on the big screens.
Such a dream for her to be there with JMJ and Brian.
As Adiescar wrote she is very emotional extremely inspired by JMJ. A life time of inspiration for Adiescar.

[Rompipompi]

High Quality Concert Artwork?

Does anybody have a decent digital image file of the concert artwork they could share? The best I have is from the Vivien website, but it's still only 608px by 700px and 177kb. I'm looking for a file with enough resolution to make a decent print copy. Portrait or landscape format, preferably in Slovakian not English.

https://www.vivien.sk/event/starmus.html

I have the seperate layers (.png) as it was on the JMJ.com site.

https://we.tl/t-311kTuG6Dw (exp. May 23rd 2024)

[Richard-Eastham]

Link below to:

- Live Audience Recording (1.57.06)
- Pre-Concert Build-Up (18.49)
- Cover art JPG in square format

https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/hiHs1tOuQ0

Both in WAV format. Link expires on Wed 29 May 2024.

For info, these recordings in WAV 44.1kHz/16bit format are from a Sony ICD-UX543 audio recorder I had in my pocket throughout the show.

[Kanta]

[Richard-Eastham]

Using Audacity software for Windows, I have extracted a WAV format audio file from the YouTube live stream. The sound drops out slightly during the countdown on numbers 10 and 7, otherwise it all sounds great. Link below:

https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/WqpKHo7q8j

[Kanta]

[Dr_Jones]

A post from Adiascar's uncle:



Stuart Mark James

For those that don't know me well, I do a fair amount of traveling each year! (Over 75K last year) Taking great people all around the UK

So unusually last weekend I drove and flew over 1200 mile with my Sister, Brother-in-law and Nephew to see my childhood musical hero #JeanMichelJarre play live in Bratislava, Slovakia for the opening of the Starmus conference

This was made more special as I had been invited by my Niece #adiescar to the event as she had been asked by JMJ to accompany him on stage for this event

As you can imagine this was a super proud moment for us all as we were given AAA passes allowing back stage access during the event and were introduced to fellow performer #claudesamard and the wonderful Fiona

If you didn't get to see it live the link below is for the YouTube channel (only available this week)
https://www.youtube.com/live/GzjG95rB96 ... mMliVgD1vd

After the show we met and chatted with british legend #brianmay who was amazingly complimentary about the skills Adiescar had shown during the event.
https://www.queenonline.com/.../starmus-it-was-a-blast...

And just when I didn't think the weekend could get any better my Niece arrived at our accommodation on the morning of our departure home with a JMJ personally signed Oxygene album cover (thanks family Chase ).

I'll have to make sure my passport is always in date as I feel this could become a regular occurrence

[plate of chips]

Using Audacity software for Windows, I have extracted a WAV format audio file from the YouTube live stream. The sound drops out slightly during the countdown on numbers 10 and 7, otherwise it all sounds great. Link below:

https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/WqpKHo7q8j

Appreciated.

How does this broadcast audio mix sound compared to what you heard as audience.
Even in this broadcast mix the beats are too loud.
On your audience recording the beats are way too loud especially kick drum is so loud on your audience recording just takes over tracks to the detriment.
If this over loud beats kick drum is what the audience heard then JMJ really needs to alter his edm heavy approach.

[Richard-Eastham]

Using Audacity software for Windows, I have extracted a WAV format audio file from the YouTube live stream. The sound drops out slightly during the countdown on numbers 10 and 7, otherwise it all sounds great. Link below:

https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/WqpKHo7q8j

Appreciated.

How does this broadcast audio mix sound compared to what you heard as audience.
Even in this broadcast mix the beats are too loud.
On your audience recording the beats are way too loud especially kick drum is so loud on your audience recording just takes over tracks to the detriment.
If this over loud beats kick drum is what the audience heard then JMJ really needs to alter his edm heavy approach.

The audio recording I made is pretty distorted. It isn't an accurate representation of the sound I heard. It was from a small Sony pocket digital recorder designed for voice memos so I wouldn't read too much into that. The You Tube audio is much more accurate but from where I was standing, the sound was strong and clear. There was a decent bass and the drum sounds were loud but not in anyway a distraction from the music and the melodies.

Oxygene Pt 4 and Oxygene Pt 2 sounded crystal clear, with perfect balance. A really pure sound. The EDM tracks (e.g. Herbalizer, Exit, Azimuth, Web Spinner etc) had real power but other tracks didnt have the same mix. I think the sound mix across the whole set list was the right balance, to be fair.

Listening in the open air makes such a difference, the way the sound carries into the night sky. Headphones and phone speakers can never recreate that. It was very special being there in person.

[Jote]

What I like about your recording is that the moment that fireworks go off (sometimes sligtly out of sync) are clearly audible. Esp. in the opening track. And you can clearly hear audience losing their minds after seeing the first explosion. Many people (myself included) assumed this will be a "drones instead of fireworks" show.