Is that an early Synclavier in the back past the keyboards? With the 8" floppy drives?
Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
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Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#12Jean Michel Jarre is a genius.
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#13Jean Michel Jarre was an early musical love of mine, which says a lot since I'm only 26. I could not believe that, when I first heard it, Oxygene II was recorded in the 70s. With a simple, small multitrack recorder. It honestly is a great example of using simple and minimal components to create something that ultimately sounds far more wonderful and complex as a whole. It's not to say that complex is good, it's more…
Same for me. I just learned that INTJs listen way too much to trance music :-). No wonder, when I first came across Jarre as a kid I was hooked for life. Many of his soundscapes seem to reside deep inside my brain.
I usually come up as INFP and, more rarely, INTP so I think it may have something to do with the IN part :) I dislike dance clubs but I love trance and Jarre.
Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#14what is this circlejerk? are we on reddit?
Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#15This was the first western pop music concert in China. Wham claims their 1985 concert was the first, that is not correct as this predated it by 4 years. Also, Jarre was invited by the Chinese government to play, unlike Wham he did not have his publicists petitioning for it. He had gone over to a university there to meet students and show them synthesizer technology. He even left some schematics so they could build th…
>This was the first western pop music concert in China. Wham claims their 1985 concert was the first, that is not correct as this predated it by 4 years.
Well, Jarre is not exactly pop music though. Not compared to Wham!
Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#16For the electronic music geeks, JMJ presents the gear he used to make this album: https://youtu.be/ctOhwRGdVvo About the "matrisequencer" and "digisequencer": the matrisequencer was conceived and built by Michel Geiss, an engineer who worked with Jarre for more than 20 years, from discreet components. It was horribly complex and expensive. In the early 90s, Geiss rebuilt it anew as the "digisequencer", with a tactile…
And today all of this fits inside a computer. Amazing
Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#17Not sure what this is doing here, presumably because of the electronic devices on his stage? Sure, he was an early adopter of sampling technology, but he probably also invented the "turning knobs on the DJ equipment just for show" malpractice and most certainly built up huge fake device installations on stage.
>but he probably also invented the "turning knobs on the DJ equipment just for show" malpractice and most certainly built up huge fake device installations on stage.
Those are modular synths. And there's nothing "for show" about them, this is not DJing. He tweaks filters, and other such things.
Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#18Jean Michel Jarre was an early musical love of mine, which says a lot since I'm only 26. I could not believe that, when I first heard it, Oxygene II was recorded in the 70s. With a simple, small multitrack recorder. It honestly is a great example of using simple and minimal components to create something that ultimately sounds far more wonderful and complex as a whole. It's not to say that complex is good, it's more…
Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#19Not sure what this is doing here, presumably because of the electronic devices on his stage? Sure, he was an early adopter of sampling technology, but he probably also invented the "turning knobs on the DJ equipment just for show" malpractice and most certainly built up huge fake device installations on stage.
Not sure either but greatly appreciated. So please don't flag.
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Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#20Jean Michel Jarre was an early musical love of mine, which says a lot since I'm only 26. I could not believe that, when I first heard it, Oxygene II was recorded in the 70s. With a simple, small multitrack recorder. It honestly is a great example of using simple and minimal components to create something that ultimately sounds far more wonderful and complex as a whole. It's not to say that complex is good, it's more…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q00HQwO2Sg
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