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Jean-Michel Jarre's BIG MESS

First of all, Merry Christmas to you all and hopefully a Happy New Year.

It feels a little weird composing this post when the last blog I did ages ago was almost the exact opposite, but here we are.

A few weeks ago, Jarre announced that he was going to perform in The Hall of Mirrors at The Palace of Versailles. A Christmas Day special event where only a small audience could attend, but, more importantly, it was going to be a mixed live/VR event.

Unlike his previous three VR events (more info in the last blog if you're interested) which were recorded and then played back on demand when you joined, this was meant to be happening at the same time as the real thing. Jarre would be performing in the palace, wearing some AR headset that no one had heard of, hence enabling him to allegedly both see the real audience and what was going on in VR.

The VR aspect was to go live at the same time as the concert, using VRRoom's beta app. It is important to note here that VRRoom have been his VR partners since the beginning, but they didn't have their own app, they were piggybacking the performances on the well-established VRChat platform, something they managed to do extremely well by the third (Oxymore) VR event.

Obviously, none of this came to happen.

Just hours before the event, there was an announcement on Twitter (I'm not calling it X and that's a hill I will die on!) that the public access VR event was being delayed for 3 hours after the live show. The official excuse was to allow them to "ensure the highest quality production." The official TV broadcast and YouTube stream were scheduled for the same time also.

This immediately rang alarm bells. Wasn't this meant to be a hybrid live/VR event we could experience together? Maybe they delayed it because they wanted to record the VR part, tidy it up, and release a good version of it? Or was it that they just weren't ready for the whole thing?

It turned out to be the latter.

Come VR performance time, no one could actually join. If you were lucky enough to manage to login to the VRRoom servers, you were faced with a black message with a sand timer on it, telling you to click here to join. Join what? The void? If you were patient enough, you may have seen that black screen turn into a concert poster! Wow, progress! You clicked to download the "shared assets" to your headset, and once that happened you might have seen the same click here to join message.

You clicked and the screen faded to black and finally you were going somewhere. Back to where you started that is. No matter how many times you tried, you just ended up where you started. Nothing. If you made the mistake of quitting the app and trying again, you couldn't even login anymore.

Now, this wasn't just me, or some people, this was everyone who tried VR. I have searched multiple fan groups and pages to see if anyone, anyone, got in, and no one did. So much for "highest quality production."

30 minutes of this frustration was enough for me and the group of people I was chatting to. We quit the app, and decided to watch what was left of the TV stream from the live concert earlier in the day. The YouTube stream never materialised and hopefully never will.

We found ourselves watching what had to be some Black Mirror version of a Jarre concert.

There he was, in the middle of this hall with audiences in front and behind him. The footage was mainly a camera going round and round in circles, sometimes showing the (dimly lit) crowd, who didn't quite know whether to clap or dance or not, and then mixing into this awful VR version (rehearsal?) of the performance with a VR audience that was made up of black silhouettes of people. Not animated, not moving, nothing. Just black mannequins. It gave this very dystopian image of some mad man playing music to a bunch of dolls. This was obviously just a mix that someone quickly threw together to try and make the TV contractual obligation and hope no one notices.

Your fans are tech-savvy Mr Jarre, by definition we kinda are because you came along at a time when tech was blowing up and we grew up with it and your music hand in hand. We noticed.

Perhaps the most embarrassing of all however was his "live" performance. It's no secret that 99% of his concerts are playback, but then most electronic acts are. But most electronic acts have the dignity to acknowledge this and even play to its strength: Kraftwerk just stand behind desks pressing a button now and then, heck occasionally even replacing themselves with robots that just stand there while the music plays; The Chemical Brothers just go from twiddling one knob to another that may or may not make any changes to the track that's playing at the time. And that's OK, we're there for the music, not the craftsmanship.

Jarre seems to think that jumping around pretending to play notes is what people want to see, and maybe that might've worked if he was playing on the rooftops of Houston for example. But in such a small space, with cameras everywhere, what we got was an old man who was trying to act half his age, forgetting what he was meant to be doing and just jumping around from one keyboard to another. A tune would play and his fingers would be just hovering over some keys and not even moving, he would suddenly stop "playing" the main tune and start clapping or interacting with the crowd, or he'd spin around to face the crowd behind him, abandoning whatever keyboard he was pretending to play and the music somehow magically carried on. I was reminded of The Weeknd's excellent "Save Your Tears" music video that parodies artists younger than Jarre by fifty years. Click the scissors below to see what I mean:

The final insult to this injury was that he was doing all this while wearing that headset. To see what? I don't know. Definitely not the VR version of this big mess. Maybe he was watching The Weeknd's video on repeat and wondering how it all came down to this.

While I will forever be in awe and respectful of Jarre as a musician and artist, it is still very sad seeing him fall to such low ground after a career that literally took his music to outer space. I could not shake the feeling that Jarre's seventy five years have finally caught up with him, and no matter how eternally youthful he looks or wishes to be, time will always win in the end.

I Iove you monsieur Jean-Michel but perhaps it's now time to put your feet up and relax. Leave the miming to your grandchildren.

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JEAN-MICHEL JARRE regresa con "Oxymore" El pionero de la música electrónica Jean-Michel Jarre lanza su álbum de estudio número 22 y uno de sus proyectos más ambiciosos hasta la fecha, 'OXYMORE', hoy mismo a través de Sony Music. Este nuevo trabajo se esfuerza por ser el más inmersivo hasta el momento. El disco ha sido concebido como una obra inmersiva en versión multicanal y 3D binaural.  El sonido binaural multicanal revolucionará la forma en que se compone, mezcla y produce la música, colocando sonidos y texturas en el espacio en 360 grados, y puede ser experimentado fácilmente por cualquier oyente con auriculares.  'OXYMORE' es el primer lanzamiento comercial de esta talla que impulsa el futuro del audio y el sonido musical a este nuevo nivel. Como parte del proyecto inmersivo, Jarre también lanzará 'OXYVILLE', un mundo de realidad virtual que acompaña al lanzamiento del álbum. Según el propio Jarre: “OXYVILLE será una ciudad musical virtual, y en el futuro invitaré a otros artistas a ser parte de ella, así como a realizar clases magistrales y otros eventos. Quiero que se convierta en un cajón de arena para nuevas experiencias musicales”.  Jarre no es ajeno a la disrupción innovadora en lo que respecta a la realidad virtual y el metaverso, ya que recientemente realizó 'Welcome to the Other Side', una transmisión en vivo innovadora transmitida en todo el mundo desde una Notre Dame virtual en París en la víspera de Año Nuevo de 2021 y en vivo en EE. UU.  La publicación Pollstar declaró que "la transmisión en vivo atrajo audiencias récord de más de 75 millones de espectadores en todo el mundo en varias plataformas, televisión y realidad virtual". Durante el proceso creativo de OXYMORE, Jarre interpretó una primera versión de la composición en audio espacial físico de 360 ​​grados en vivo como un adelanto mundial exclusivo, dentro de los muros de la Maison de la Radio en París, hogar del Groupe de Recherche Musicale de Jarre años antes de que 'Oxygène '.  A los felices y puristas de la música que pudieron asistir se les pidió que cerraran los ojos ... [...] Continúa en www.nosvemosenprimerafila.com #Jarre #jeanmicheljarre #electrónica #Francia (en Oxymore) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj_CePajCHY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=