Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
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Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#2This kind of music represents such a huge chunk of the spirit of that era. A post space age leaning toward mainstream tech culture.
Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#3Jean 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 that the simplicity coming across as complex is awesome.
For me, II captures that but, despite how great they are, the others in Oxygene don't quite hit it like II does.
Check it out!
Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#4That's a lot of knobs. Knobs are the ultimate general purpose machine. They can make music, or macaroni. Knobs can also make knobs, which accelerates our ability to make knobs. Artificial dexterity running on cheap knobs will one day force us to deal with a world without work.
Sounds great too.
Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#5Not 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.
Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#6For 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 interface driving an Atari ST and using MIDI instead of CV/gate.
The matrisequencer was only hand-built once; IIRC however the digisequencer software and design may have been publicly available at some point and several may have been built.
Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#7Not 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.
Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#8Jean 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.
Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#9This 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 their own.
It was also said to be the most widely listened to live broadcast in history, with over 1 billion listeners, though this is tricky to confirm.
Re: Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV (1981) [video]
#10For 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…
Thanks for that video - that was amazing. Makes you appreciate his music even more.