Jean - Michel jarre 2010

Hurry up, hurry up, we are late, come on Lets go!! Hello Space Invaders Today, World DJ tour brings you backstage at Jean-Michel Jarre's show The world tour 2010 You will discover the most amazing collection of synths in the world Jean Michel Jarre will present his machines All in perfect working order And all this despite shows in all 4 ends of the globe A private visit just for you Jean-Michel Jarre will tell you the secrets of the laser harp And talk to you about the legendary Moog, AKS and Theremine This is a unique piece which I have enjoyed filming for you Last night in Stuttgart To go see Jean-Michel Jarre in France, You can choose between 8 cities: The 17th in Bordeaux, the 18th in Nantes The 20th in Marseille the 21st in Nice The 23rd in Toulouse the 24th in Lyon The 25th in Paris and the 26th in Strasbourg Lets go backstage now at Jean-Michel Jarre's show Get ready to go on stage This is an exclusive So Mister Joachim? Good to see you Jean-Michel, how are you? Good and you, are you well? I'm well, it is always great to see you. Tell me, you are well surrounded here. Not bad yes, it could be worse! The problem is that you have to make all this work Its great to see all this Well yes especially since these are machines which we do not see often The Memory Moog, the AKS These are the first european synths which date back to the 60's Which one is the oldest in your setup? It would be this one, same brand, EMS And this is the first synth with which I worked even during the GRM period I got it in 1967/68 And it works still I use it on stage But I also look after them well I am someone who takes care of them But at the same time, they hold up well on travels Even though it has had rain in it, it is rusty all over It has aged well The problem is that since there is no memory There is a family of sounds between instruments, thats why I have several So really you make one sound per synth Because you don't have time to reprogram another sound Between 2 songs to reprogram the entirety of the settings Exactly! So this is one is stuck on one sound This one does everything which is a noise, wind, This one is more lined to FX which are more tonal This is the ARP which is dedicated to all the sounds of brass Thats cool, what is this manual filter? The ARP with the faders, you can't manage to arrange the sound very precisely And so it allows me actually to manipulate all the sounds like you will see later In quite an agile way We called this in Belgium the dikke knoppe In Flemish, big button is dikke knoppe This is my first Flemish lesson And it works well, thats great And here the version of the digisequencer Personally, I knew the wood version, the version with the furniture You knew the one in wood Then after there was the version in wood and black plastic And now it is the tactile version, the matrix version Where you can program the sequences... So this is custom built, developped by you It was developped by someone at the IRCAM This is the sound of the laser harp It is dedicated to it In fact we have 4 Synthex on stage which are among those which have the best sound in the world in the polyphonic analogues and this one is only dedicated to the harp which we will see now This is the RMI which is also a unique instrument There has to be about 4 of these in Europe It is a great instrument It is the first synth with an additive synthese All the synths works on the basis of the substractive synthese as you know by taking away from the spectrum certain frequencies here you can add them back in a little like the Hammond organ with the harmonics so that makes sounds which I've used alot in Oxygene and in many other things It is a sound with an incredible thump and above all very clear sounds sounds of bells it is very good for that it has an arpegiater and a great filter really very very good his is the Arlette which you know well Yes yes, all those nights spent with Arlette Only good memories In fact the first sequences of Oxygene I made them with this That means that we play live, You press record then play, And it adds on more or less what you have done Oh yea, exactly We'll hear it much louder later Why did you chose this master keyboard? It is the master keyboard of the AKS because in fact, It is the only keyboard which they made at that time, It is quite a particular thing Nothing to do with MIDI It works with one third per octave And its a great thing very english So anyway, talk to me a little about France! Because today we are in Stuttgart Its great we took the train over here We took the train, talked about lots of different things So you're coming to France, starting with Bordeaux You need to do a little bit of promo Tell the Space Invaders of France to come over Well in fact its a tour which is worldwide And the most important leg for me Is the French leg It has been a while since i've played in France I start with 8 concerts which are really exceptional to me I hope it will be exceptional for the crowd too And i'm doing the 17th in Bordeaux, the 18th in Nantes The 19th is a day off The 20th in Nice, the 21st in Marseille, The 23rd in Toulouse, the 24th in Lyon, A big week, the 25th in Paris and the 26th in Strasbourg This is a big challenge which is starting for you This home indoors You who prefers being outside In a time when more people are doing farewell tours For me this is more of a welcome tour Jean-Michel doesn't want to do like all the others There is also another piece of the museum I like alot Which is the Moog Liberation Which is the first keytard This I must admit I am very jealous, I don't know how you do it because its very heavy You need to do excercise to do this or you twist your back We'll hear it later, it has great sound The only place i've seen one of these was the well known shop In Japan, you know, I had sent you the address They had one like this And I had to hold back from buying it, I told myself: I'm not going to bring this back in the plane Its heave but magnificent! And it also has a very unique sound So this is your brand of harp Yes this is a really exciting instrument So we have to see if we put the sound in front It will come Has it evolved since? It has evolved meaning that now it works really well It has different programs, There is the start, stop, and the next which allows you to go from one program to another Like in many pieces there is of course.... You can't have this many notes as on a keyboard Because otherwise you don't have enough power with the rays You mean you are limited to a number of notes? 9? And so I am obliged to program each time, for each piece of the track I have a program change which allows me to go get... This is the first Then you have the verse one, verse two, bridge And you are obliged to change at each piece So now you better put some gloves otherwise You can light up a cigarette Ah not bad! Wow thats amazing! Sounds great doesn't it! So you see, first verse... That's great! So this works and then there is another magical instrument Which is the Theremine Yes the Theremine Which is a magical thing I've done alot on the Theremine! With regards to the sound, I don't know how you do it Its really hard Well done, its great!! Its really poetic Which year is this from? 1929 This was invented in the 30's And it is the story of a guy called Leon Theremine who made a demonstration to Stalin who was really impressed that he sent the Theremine and its inventor to the USA To show at what point the soviet technologies were powerful But of course when he went to the USA he didn't want to come back So he got caught by the KGB, kidnapped and brought home to Russia And for 15 years he worked for the scientists Developping all kinds of future synths Someone like Moog was inspired by the work of Theremine Who was working in secret So there are many interesting synths So we will do a little sound check now Ok so i'll leave you, have a good show Thank you for coming, And I am waiting for you all I think you know what you have to do We will put the dates up That way you will know where to spend a great evening And come to see Jean-Michel I must admit that I am baffled by everything I have seen And I can't wait to be sitting down and watch the show Have a good sound check and see you soon See you Jean-Michel There it is Space Invaders The trip is done for today Always be ready With your passport and suitcase near the door The next World DJ Tour by Joachim Garraud is coming very soon See you