Awesome Synthopia reader Anya Graham translated a recent Jean-Michel Jarre interview for us, and I thought it would be great to share. Thanks Anya!
The intervew has a strong Apple focus, but is still interesting for its insight into how this synth music pioneer uses current technolog:
You’ve used Apple products for a long time, which models [...]

Apple France has a look at Jean-Michel Jarre and his use of Macs and Logic Pro.
Here’s a short excerpt, through Google automatic translation:
Jean-Michel Jarre says his passion for the Mac
You are using Apple products for a long time. De quels matériels disposez-vous ? What materials do you have?
I am a big fan of Apple [...]

Clash Music has an interesting interview with synth music pioneer Jean Michel Jarre.
It touches on some very timely subjects, including the role of the Internet in music:
The Internet isn’t the only answer
I think that the Internet might become the ultimate marketing machine, but I also think that in maybe five years’ time, what will be [...]

Jean Michel Jarre, who’s on tour with truckloads of rare vintage keyboards performing his classic Oxygène, says that the old gear posed some unique challenges at his most recent concert:
The MemoryMoog went out of tune, the same for the ARP; we had very little time to set up everything. I tried quickly the Moog Liberation [...]

Image: p_c_w
p_c_w has posted a great collection of images of Jean Michel Jarre performing Oxygène at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

I had to laugh when I saw this post at Jean Michel Jarre’s blog:
After the concert in Berlin, I met a lot of people from the electronic music world:
Jon from Elektron, who brought me a drum machine I ordered in Copenhagen last week, the director of Neumann, the people from Memotron, who have built an [...]

Jean Michel Jarre has personally authorized the publication of fair-use fan videos from his current Oxygene concert tour:
I, Jean Michel Jarre, hereby authorise anyone to broadcast on Youtube any videos filmed during my concerts on ” Oxygene in concert” tour, as long as it is a fair excerpt with the right credits which has been [...]

In this video, Jean Michel Jarre encourages fans to make “fair” creative use of his music.
He doesn’t go into details of what “fair” is, which is unfortunate. I’d like to see more artists, like Jarre, encouraging fans to make videos, remixes and covers using Creative Commons licenses. For new artists, this is easy, but [...]

Jean Michel Jarre on vintage synths:
“When I got them out of storage and played them again, I realised something that even I had forgotten - that these analogue instruments are unique,” Jarre says. “Choosing to use these old synths instead of their modern equivalents is not a retro thing, it is not nostalgia, it is [...]

I picked up a copy of Jean Michele Jarre’s Oxygene: Live In Your Living Room DVD recently and it’s a must-have for fans of classic synth music.
The package captures a 30th-anniversary live multimedia performance of Oxygene, and features a 5.1 DVD of the performance, a 3D video version of the performance, the new version of [...]

Jean Michel Jarre and 3 musicians will be touring, playing his classic Oxygene live on original vintage instruments for the 30th anniversary of the legendary album.
Sounds like it could be a great opportunity to take a trip back in time to the early days of electronica.
Tour Dates
16th March - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
18th [...]

UK’s The Mail on Sunday is giving away Oxygène, Jean Michel Jarre’s seventies synth music classic, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the work.
To celebrate, Jarre revealed some of the history of Oxygène:
Oxygène was turned down by all the record companies. It was like a UFO – it was made in the middle of the [...]

Jean-Michel Jarre was one of the early pioneers of popular electronic music. Along with artists like Tangerine Dream and Vangelis, Jarre brought electronic music and popular music together, making music that was artistic but fairly accessible. Les Chants Magnetiques, Magnetic Fields, is a set of 5 synth tracks that capture Jarre at his peak.
For many [...]

Jean Michel Jarre was one of the first generation of synthesists to break through to broad public appeal. His pioneering work on Oxygene captures the style that he would refine on future albums. It also has a unique place for many fans, because it was one of the earliest albums of synth music to capture [...]