In this file image taken on April 24, 2018 French composer Jean-Michel Jarre postures during the opening night of the 2018 COLCOA (City of Lights, City of Angels) French Film Festival, at the Directors Guild of America Theater in Los Angeles, California. (AFP/Valerie Macon).
French electronic music legend Jean-Michel Jarre informed AFP Wednesday that he is going to perform the world’s first “avatar” show– “like in the Matrix”.
The veteran star will play live on Sunday in a virtual universe created for the French midsummer Celebration of Music where he will be joined by “the audience as avatars who will be totally immersed” in his musical world.
Jarre said the show will be one action beyond the lockdown concert performed by the United States rapper Travis Scott inside the shooter game Fortnite in April, which was seen by more than 12 million players.
” Whatever will be done live,” Jarre told AFP, whereas with “Fortnite it was pre-recorded in a universe that currently existed.
” Here it will be total immersion in an area that we will be developing live, like in ‘The Matrix’,” he stated, describing the cult 1999 sci-fi film.
The 71- year-old stated the concert will last 45 minutes and assured that there would “be interaction with the public. It is up to us as artists to develop,” stated the electronic pioneer whose 1976 album “Oxygene” ended up being an international hit, offering over 1.75 million copies in France alone.
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The concert called “Alone Together” will be streamed free in increased truth at 9: 00 pm Paris time Sunday on all major platforms thanks to assist from the French ministry of culture.
It will likewise be available on Jarre’s site and that of the French start-up that assisted produce it, VRrOOm.
Jarre, who is also head of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers, stated artists were suffering throughout the world and “we need to stop thinking that music is free like the air we breathe.”
He stated streaming platforms “are the only individuals to have made money during the lockdowns on the back of the infection” while performers have been suffering.
While the artist has actually prided himself as being a tech prophet, he argued that “increased truth will never change a live show, but it can match it.”
” You can compare it to theater with the arrival of cinema,” Jarre said.
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