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Jarre presents its next concert at the Zenith
CONVERSATION Jean Michel Jarre, Montpellier yesterday, presenting his concert on December 10 at the Zenith.
While you're known for your outdoor concerts, this world tour "2010" stands for the first time in theaters. Why? I wanted to adapt the magic of outdoor concerts in arenas that are controllable. At a time when the concerts are becoming more standardized, I also developed a system totally live. It is four on stage, with seventy instruments, many of which are part of the legend of electronic music. Without computers, we keep the spontaneity and the ability to improvise. In terms of scenery, there has also
architectures lights and lasers that would not work out. I'm not the most to least, I'm different.
You have been a pupil of Pierre Schaeffer (the father of musique concrete) before producing and writing songs for Christopher and Donna Summer. What is the logic in this big gap?
One finds that often the logic later. When I started with Schaeffer, I had both rock bands and classical. It was my way. Pierre Schaeffer is the most important musician of the twentieth century. It was the first planned the music as being made of sounds, not just of notes, chords and harmonies. His experiments have foreshadowed all the music of today. Schaeffer When I left, I wanted to throw a bridge between the experimental and pop music. And that's how I did my practical work with and Christophe Juvet.
Finally, your obsession has it always been to integrate the forefront in the field of popular music?
Yes, always. There is nothing new in the path of an artist. If it has anything to say, we are obsessed by the fact of improving his life. Take the Stones, Dali, Magritte, Godard, Kubrick, they have a world they never cease to decline. That is why this tour puts me in a state between dream and frustration. The dream of achieving something on my mind, the frustration of not being there yet. So we have this rage, which is both the innocence and desire, that pushes us forward.
What was your idea when you have imagined "Oxygene"?
I left the album containing Juvet Where are the women and Paris By Night that the English consider to be the first title of house. But it was not my world. I recorded Oxygen, in full time punk and disco. Nobody wanted him out. I've never been in the air. He must do what it has in it, stay away from patterns, even if not belonging to any movement, it takes more shots.
The environmental message was also a precursor ...
It has always been part of my life. Now, it's good, we know that we must sort the garbage. Let's move on and try to have a relationship with technology more affectionate, more poetic, less anxiety and guilt. It is even a theme of the tour in 2010, which is also a tribute to Arthur C. 2001 Clarke: the people of his generation have given us an appetite for the future that has just lost its way. We begin the new century, we must reinvent a future.
Current artists, Sebastien Tellier and Vitalic example, recall your influence. Is this a form of rehabilitation?
Not really, but I found my family with these people you mention and came gradually: Vitalic Tellier Koudlam, Turzi, Yuksek and other more established like Daft Punk, Air or Justice. Links have been created and I am delighted.