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but I saw there was something wrong. If you find a better translation please let me know. I `ll cange it. My comments are in brackets
20.09.2004, 13:30
Interview by Alexander Gorkow
He attended the Sorbonne and the Paris Conservatory and graduated with honors from. Since "Oxygène" in the year 1975 Jarre is one of the most influential electronic musicians - his new CD "Aero" in 5.1. Surround Sound Playback, released in early October.
SZ weekend: Jean Michel, why you look so young? Madness, you are 56 years old.
Jean Michel Jarre: You are kind.
SZW: Excuse me, but with plastic surgery, it has nothing to do, right?
JMJ: You're not kind! The answer is a dedicated: Non, monsieur! I have good genes. My father is 80 years old - and looks even younger than me. (It’s a joke !?)
SZW: You are probably glad not to be in France. Isabelle Adjani, from which you parted just makes life difficult for you there at present.
JMJ: Well, something happens. Huuh, yes ...
SZW: We do not talk about it.
JMJ: She run around in the rooms of these magazines and tell things about me. I have no peace. People come together, people split up again, people are losing their nerve. The old comedy.
SZW: She is applied. So are the women, when they are applied.
JMJ:Don`t tell me something about the women! These are newspapers and leaflets, which Isabelle has been sued every time they reported on it! Now she march in there and sings the “ C” !
SZW: I want to talk with you about the message behind your music.
JMJ: Ah, a philosophical conversation. It's always good to be back in Germany.
SZW: Why?
JMJ: because Germany, like France, a country of philosophers. German ask more serious and philosophical questions. German culture journalists tend to have studied philosophy.
SZW: What is the message behind your music?
JMJ: Well, I've hardly lyrics in music. But there is, of course, yes … sex !
SZW: Oh.
JMJ: Why, oh '?
SZW: I had sex as a message not on the agenda. Why not? How stupid of me ...
JMJ: Well, then we change the agenda, please come! My music is like sex for me. An expression of sexuality and love and desire. I've been looking for a creative expression as a student, I've painted for example. I was fascinated by literature and philosophy. Fascinated by the architecture. I ended up with the music. And the connection (he means the music) to architecture, into rooms, into bodies. I make physical and spatial music. Also located in the (my) family. (he means his family , his talent which was innate ) In the genes. As my wonderful appearance. (I`m sure he meant it ironic )
SZW: Painting is often sexually motivated.
JMJ: Of course, Pollock, and so on. But the music soon had me by the collar. Music is cooking, and cooking is sex.
SZW: Cooking is sex?
JMJ: Of course! Music and cooking and the food are absolutely not least quasi sexual acts! All one!
SZW: Ah, oral ...
JMJ: Well, you can mix colors, spices, and keys to mix lead with his hands to his mouth, all 'is the oral and sensual and, well, wet, and at best very, very hot. Is not it?
SZW: Do you enjoy Cooking?
JMJ: Yes.
SZW: The painting is ...
JMJ: When painting is missing the rhythm.
SZW: Many images have a rhythm.
JMJ: Yes, but an abstracted, the picture they have a visual rhythm, no audible rhythm. The rhythm is audible but the further emotional, sexual, the mysterious rhythm. Are we agreed?
SZW: Some of your pieces, like "Diva" for example, seem very sexually motivated, in "Souvenir de Chine" sounds even the clicking of camera sex ...
JMJ: You like it?
SZW: Oh, with 'Souvenir de Chine "come to me almost in tears. You lay as Morricone-like melody over it.
JMJ: You love the song. Wonderful.
SZW: But I'm just thinking about whether the specific message of your music is only just sex.
JMJ: To speak of a specific and unique message that is certainly difficult. What do you associate with my music?
SZW: When I was ten years old, they gave me your album "Oxygène". I thought when listening to - and I still suffering so with your music: As an astronaut floats so, the rope was cut to the spacecraft through space at a loss. The melodies played on a small organ, because he's doing what needs to up there. Your compatriots from "Air" have taken over the acting as a single eulogy to Jean Michel Jarre ...
JMJ: The Astronaut. How nice. Well, what would therefore be the message?
SZW: lift (“Stand out” is maybe better ?) To ask no questions. No replies to search. One form of yearning , clueless and sometimes ironic romance. Critics will assume escapism.
JMJ: All art is escapism. Once an artist dips a brush in color, when a musician takes an instrument in the hand, begins escapism. I write editorials? No. My music is apolitical? I think again: no. Even Bob Dylan is escapist in its own way. He is explicitly political than I do. Even Michel Houellebecq is an escapist - the anyway.
SZW: He considers himself a realist.
JMJ: He considers himself a lot. His first two books were good. But "platform" was not a good book. Absolute crap.
SZW: Somewhere up, he wanted his fans to get it right with the book ... (I think the translation is not correct. It means: The Interviewer had read somewhere, that the writer Michel H. will write a novel, which shall sexually aroused the reader)
JMJ: Of course. Sucking , fu...ng , and in the end everything will explode. It is written in for effect. Sad.
SZW: What is its message?
JMJ: I do not know. Sexual realism? Realistically sexism? No idea. There is much fucked.
SZW: You're in France so.. ...
JMJ: Yeah, all right. But yes I would also love the language first and history, and not the message. My God, we are the land of Camus and Sartre, by Philippe Sollers! This is a pure, captivating language. Such writers, we have barely . You still have the writer Grass? (Günter Grass)
SZW: Grass writes today about sex in old age , Walser (also a german writer) writes about sex in old age…....
JMJ: They are just old. What should they do? There you have it again: a comedy.
SZW: Okay, you do not like bold colors in the literature.
JMJ: One of my closest friends was Anthony Burgess! He used bold colors. But he also had stories to tell, dark, serious and yet extremely funny stories. He could just write. I miss him dearly.
SZW: Could one say that Dylan is literature - and Jean Michel Jarre is cinema?
JMJ: Yes. I design images rather than messages. But do not devalue Dylan. He creates his images with wrong crazy language.
SZW: Let's say this: your music is liable to the one hand drifting through the rhythm. On the other hand, you designed and constructed so dreamy images.
JMJ: We only talk about sex, you know that? The sex is power. Read Burgess! Read Sartre! Sex, sex, sex! The sexual dream is the most forlorn of human beings are capable, or not? (This is not the right translation, because he don`t talk about sexual dreams, he talked in a philosophic way about the human sexuality as a power or property which made human lost in dreams, distracted, unfocused and dreamy). And I am anyway - and this time not only in sex, so in a positive sense - lost in dreams. Since my father left us, I was five years old, I'm lost in a dream.
SZW: Might say: That you are fled? ( or “be on the run ?”)
JMJ: If you look at pictures of my childhood, you always see and steady a serious child. On the run in a very hermetic inner world: le petit Kafka.
SZW: Today you are a merry man
JMJ: I've been comfortable with me (had arranged with myself) , the music keeps me in limbo between Earth and Space. I know there is my place. I can not change it, and unlike in the past I also try not exist anymore. Since a continuous boundary between dream and reality in my life, a thick fog hangs over this limit. I walk through. You can hear that in my music, also sure that you already heard it in "Oxygène", which is okay. In this respect it is interesting that you had as a child, a lonely astronaut in mind.
SZW: You playing live with the involvement of any metropolis in architecture and up to three million people in one evening. Your concerts are events, entire cities are illuminated. But you were never the type who would take the girl from the 1st row after the concert with you overnight. You were never the “rock star” in the true sense.
JMJ: Well, at my shows there are no first rows. ( Not then, but today
) and Rock Star attitudes I have always rejected. I think the “boom-boom” of rock music not erotic, at least not in the (lost) dreamy sense. The boom-boom is indeed the act itself (he means the sexuell act) rather than the way to act. Is not that right?SZW: In your case, it rarely makes boom-boom. Your rhythms are delicate, nervous, more like “Didipp-zirrp-didapper-sidirrr. . “.
JMJ: Alors! And you know why? Think of the cells! The cells are excited! Didipp-zirrp! The Eros fidgets!
SZW: Sure.
JMJ: Look, the fascinating thing about sexuality is not the eventual act. of course, it is great. But he's not mysterious, right? Say!
SZW: Well, sometimes it is ...
JMJ: Non! The really fascinating thing is everything before: If the cells in your body go haywire when the hormonal messengers of the body shoot back and forth. But that's not a “boom-boom” ! This is “Didipp-zirrp-didapper sidirr-“! The boom-boom is the last way to orgasm, the “Didipp-zirrp-didapper-sidirr” , this is the great track befor : The look, the touch, the idea of what's to come, read Nabokov, aaah ...
SZW: You love this Didipp-zirrp-didapper-sidirr, your music is full of them.
JMJ: Of course I love it. It's the rhythm of seduction, the rhythm must seduce. The sounds are rather similar to the surfaces of the painter. Incidentally, I have never talked to anyone about the sexuality of the cells. They push me to the Shimmering!
I hope that your readers not just assume, here there are two misleading in psychoanalysis supermarket. What do you mean?
SZW: Let's talk about politics!
JMJ: I am UNESCO ambassador. I `m also engaged , just for example, for persecuted people in China. Now I am afraid to bore you. Let's talk more about sex again!
SZW: You play on 10 October at the “Tian Anmen Square” in Beijing.
JMJ: I know what you are asking now.
SZW: Some of your intellectual “friends” in Paris, you will resent that.
JMJ: I do not totally care. "Oxygène" 1976 was the first pop LP of the West, which was published in China.
SZW: Logical. There were indeed no text on it.
JMJ: That's right. The early 80s I was the first Western pop musician, who has performed in China. I travel a lot since then often go there. I love this country. Out there among the young, among the students there is an atmosphere, that reminds me of Paris '68. The Chinese, who beg me, to give the concert now, are artists and intellectuals. There my “friends” (ironic) in Paris are of little interest to me. The intellectuals there are a gloomy bunch, you have to look at the times, as they sit there around and make speeches.
SZW: Oh, that really annoys you !
JMJ: Yes, because you know: Some of those who move around in their tenth coffee at the “ Café de Paris”, to give concerns , I would very decidedly in Beijing to address human rights, what they were in 1968? Hmm?
SZW: Maoists!
JMJ: Sure! At a time when Mao sent millions of people disappear in the camps! Take these intellectuals now to China to the country to look at times? No. They are sitting with 15 daily newspapers at the “Café de Paris” and talking nonsense. Smug idiots !
SZW: What has your mother gave you along the way? She was under Nazi rule in France resistance. She had go Ravensbrück concentration camp.
JMJ: She said: “Jean Michel, the Germans are not bad. Many of them have committed terrible crimes, many of them have also suffered under the terrible crimes as we do. " I don`t tell you this , because you're German. But this time you have very in control, right?
SZW: We just always look so sad.
JMJ: Yes. Too bad. On the other hand, logical. It's been 60 years: a lot of time for a life - little time for history.
SZW: We are looking with a certain fascination for the French and their careless handling of size ...
JMJ: Please be more specific !
SZW: You can, for example in Paris, places and buildings of the finest designers dive into light. In Germany, one would think: Huuu, equivalent to certain of “The leader” (Hitler) is sure to come right back around the corner.
JMJ: I wanted to produce something in front of the Reichstag. With plenty of light.
SZW: Why has not it worked?
JMJ: The authorities. It was, I think everything more complicated than in China.
SZW: Sure, they had a kind of fear in the dome light Speer's sense. (Speer = Hitlers favourite Architect)
JMJ: I wanted to illuminate the buildings and construction sites. Did not work. Then came “Christo”. You have it today with the packaging, not the Illuminate.
SZW: We once had the Love Parade, as people were running around with pacifiers, and vacuum cleaners on the back!
JMJ: I understand. You need but rather beautiful, meaningful, detraumatizing experiences. It's a psychological thing. One must not forget anything. But you have to learn to laugh again.
SZW: Did you have sex with Françoise Hardy?
JMJ: Please? ( Or Sorry!) (As an indignant, astonished exclamation) As you come out now?
SZW: We are over time. I want to know. I've just thought about that when we talked about sex. Did you have sex with her? In the '60s, maybe?
JMJ: You worship Françoise! Oh, can I understand. I am good friends with her. If you know her, but also note: She is crazy.
SZW: Why?
JMJ: She will work everything out for the stars. She is a “horoscope on legs”.
SZW: Seriously?
JMJ: Imagine: She have sent away the girlfriend of her son, because she has not fallen the star-constellation of the girl. , “There's the door, young lady! "
What do you say now?
SZW: The poor boy.
JMJ: Yes, and: the poor girl! On the other hand, Françoise is absolutely wonderful. And no, I did not have sex with her. I was, I think, sometimes close to it.
SZW: Okay, so Sex, Hitler, China, the intellectuals, the Germans, I was prepared not, of course ...
JMJ: I'll greet you Françoise!
There you go !