Jene Michel Jarre

[Bee_Jay]

Good god - just found Revolutions in my collection - I am a teenager once again!!!

[Parrot of Doom]

A8VIP said:

rhinochopig said:

A8VIP said:

rhinochopig said:

Loved his laser harp.

You DO know if was just a prop, right?

Nooooooooooooo. For years I wanted one. Couldn't have been that hard to make work - after all theremins have been around for years

Can't remember if it was during Destination Docklands, or the Paris/Lyon concert, but it has a close up of the 'laser harp' solo in Rendezvous, and you see his hand slip of the light beams more than once without affecting the note.

Similarly the 'camera shutter' button he has on the side of one of his keyboards used in "Souvenir de Chine" doesn't choreograph at all with the actual sounds during the rendition.

Edited by A8VIP on Friday 26th September 16:28

He mimes at all his concerts (bar the latest). Its no secret, however it is very easy to make a laser harp - its basically just a midi controller.

[anonymous-user]

I was at Docklands, in a side road watching it.

I am going to try and dig out a few photos, A couple of mine are on Wikipedia.

Docklands was 20 years ago in a couple of weeks time!!

Revolutions is one of my favourite Jarre albums.

So much so, I have over the last few months bought a Roland D50 synth (most of the album was recorded using one).
I've downloaded about a dozen patches. Which include:

Machine Run - Backing for Industrial Revolutions Overture.
Gritaar2 - Which is the lead for Industrial Revolutions Overture.
Kukobo Strings - String Section for Industiral Revolutions 1
Motor Orchestra - Used on the Emigrant.
Ach Superbass - Bass on Revolutions.
Ocean Scenario - Lead on Computer Weekend.
Various sound effects for Computer Weekend and Industrial Revolutions.
Analog 1 - Lead for September.
Gurgel Strings - Lead for The Emigrant.

The sounds are exactly the ones Jarre used in 1988!!

One of my mates was so impressed with my D50, he has gone and bought one aswell.
I spent the other evening uploading a load of Jarre sounds to his D50.

I was going to bid on a (rack mounted) D550 the other night but ran out of time.

So if you are Jarre fan and like Revolutions (and play keyboards) go and get a D50!!

[Meeja]

Parrot of Doom said:

I went to docklands, I was 16 at the time:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/soundman/sets/7215760...

Yes he still tours, right now he's doing an Oxygene live tour.

Docklands was a real experience...... and the Oxygene tour was outstanding (I went to the Albert Hall gig)

[Meeja]

anonymous said:

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I genuinely didn't realise that - and I was a real geek when it came to the kit used by electronic musicians!

My fave Jarre album was Zoolook - a work of genius.

[tribbles]

Ooh this thread has got me thinking I'll need to create a playlist of my favourite tracks. Must be:

- Oxygene 4, 6 & 8
- Equinox 3 to 8
- Magnetic Fields 1
- Ethnicolor
- Overture, Industrial Revolutions 1-3
- Revolutions (Concert for Tolerance version)
- Chronologie 1 & 2
- Fishing Junks at Sunset
- Souvenir of China (Hong Kong version)
- Digi Sequencer
- C'est la Vie
- Eldorado

I'll probably think of others if I listen to them all again

[MitchT]

anonymous said:

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I am, a do (I do) and I did!!!!

I agree - great synth!

[anonymous-user]

Classic synth isn't it

Sounds good playing September or The Emigrant through it.

Can't find sheet music for Industrial Revolutions 1,2,or 3 at the moment though.

Going to have a bash at Calypso 3 some time.

Just got together some pics of Destination Docklands, will post those over the next few days

[tribbles]

anonymous said:

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Industrial Revolutions was available on the Jean Michel Jarre songbook volume 1 (blue book)

Unfortunately, I can only find my volume 2 - and I can't find a source for volume 1 on the 'net, so I can't be 100% sure about it.

However, I can play it on a keyboard, so I must've got it from somewhere! (I could've transcribed it, but it's before I got the knack of transcription).

[andy400]

Personally, I think his biggest achievement was Charlotte Rampling.

But what do I know?

[lady topaz]

Please tell me Docklands wasnt 20 years ago!! I was there and still have the video somewhere. Absolutely bucketed with rain as I recall. Made the concert even better. Twas brlliant.

[anonymous-user]

Yep was twenty years ago!!

It Peed down on the Sunday night.

Unfortunately only been able to find some pics scanned about 10 years ago, been unable to find the original prints

Here's one for starters.

Will post more on a separate thread later

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 2nd October 22:26

[Parrot of Doom]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/soundman/sets/7215760...

Those were my pics. Well, I was only 16 I like to think I've improved since...

[Zad]

Spooky, I was only talking about this a couple of days ago. I had been listening to Magnetic Fields, and a friend said he was at the Docklands concert. There must be a zeitgeist around or something. I'm not so fond of his stuff after Zoolook, but his earlier stuff brings back many memories of school in the early 80s, hot summers and my German penpal's girlfriend (no I didn't). His influence is still very clear in so many new artists such as Air, Zero-7, FSOL, M83 etc.

Does anyone else remember the BBC program around that time which had Chantal Cuer telling us about French culture etc? I think it used Magnetic Fields part 2 as the intro music. She looks like this now, so you can imagine what she looked like in 1983! http://www.speakers.co.uk/csaWeb/media/pix/h250/CH...

I have her and Jean-Michel Jarre to thank for improving my French O level by 2 notches.

[GrahaM3]

Hey guys,

I just ordered myself a Korg M3 synth after much inspiration from watching a few YouTube videos where fans have re-created some Jarre classics. Years ago I had a cheap Yammy arranger, and I remembered that I'd bought some Jarre song books, but simply assumed they were long-gone, either lost or simply thrown away. I looked online for them, and like already mentioned, I could only find sources for volume 2, and even those were stupid costs or out of stock. Anyway, I just happened to mention them to my wife tonight and she said we have a pile of Jean-Jarre (her words, not mine!) stuff in the spare room. Anyway, a few minutes later she came down with a big pile of said stuff, including loads of concert programmes, the Jarre book by Jean-Louis Remilleux, and surely enough, three of the song books published by I.D. Music

These were:

- Song Book (Houston/Lyon cover)
- Song Book Volume 1 (blue cover)
- Song Book Volume 2 (red cover)

[clived]

A8VIP said:

rhinochopig said:

Loved his laser harp.

You DO know if was just a prop, right?

I thought, certainly in the earlier days, it was "real" - as in it really was being used as a MIDI trigger. IIRC there have been one or two more recent concerts where he was basically "hand syncing", but that doesn't make it "just a prop" all-together

[anonymous-user]

clived said:

A8VIP said:

rhinochopig said:

Loved his laser harp.

You DO know if was just a prop, right?

I thought, certainly in the earlier days, it was "real" - as in it really was being used as a MIDI trigger. IIRC there have been one or two more recent concerts where he was basically "hand syncing", but that doesn't make it "just a prop" all-together

Some of his older concerts were playback.

The Laser Harp is just a controller, midi linked to an Elka Synthex Synth, which are now sought after and rather expensive.

There are instructions on the web of how to build your own laser harp, but beware it can be a bit dangerous

[Evotim]

Elka Synthex, one of my dream synths, I was looking to buy one but went with a Jupiter 8 instead.Dont have the space for both :-(
I'd get the Synthex just for the laser harp sound alone :-) Geoff Donwnes (he of Buggles, Yes, and Asia fame) used one extensively, more so than his Fairlight and got some great pads out of it. Its funny but when I first heard JMJ's laser harp etc I assumed (wrongly) being minted like he is that the sounds were all from his Fairlight.
I was never a fan of the D50 when it first came out, prefered the JX10 Super Jupiter or the M1, I recently redicovered it though when I began playing the updated D50 engine in my V-Synth XT, so in some ways Im a new convert to such a great bit of kit. For some real late 80'S retro, definately get shopping on ebay and pick up a D550, and a Yamaha TX816, a great pairing!

[onomatopoeia]

thegavster said:

Just bought tickets to see him next year

Where? When? And is he going to bring out all the proper kit again?

[minimoog]

anonymous said:

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I didn't think it was even that, just a visual prop as previously mentioned.

Edited by minimoog on Tuesday 23 December 12:08