New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre has composed and recorded a 52-minute musical score for Amaz�nia, a new project by award winning photographer and filmmaker Sebasti�o Salgado, for the Philharmonic Paris. As well as a regular stereo version, Jarre has also recorded a special binaural version, available digitally and alongside the 5.1. Surround Sound Version available via a download code in the CD & Vinyl. All versions are available on Friday, April 9.
Experience Jean-Michel Jarre�s Amaz�nia here: https://jean-michel-jarre.lnk.to/Amazonia
The binaural version provides the listener with a truly spectacular and immersive sound experience. Whereas stereo sound delivers a directive left-ear/right-ear sound, binaural audio, when listened to on regular headphones, creates a 3D surround sound experience, closest to our natural human auditory sense. Amaz�nia binaural was specially mixed in such a way that the listener feels right in the heart of the forest.
�Amaz�nia� is an immersive exhibition focusing on the Brazilian Amazon, featuring more than 200 photographs and other media by Salgado. He travelled the region for six years, capturing the forest, the rivers, the mountains and the people who live there, and most of the work will be seen publicly for the first time. At the heart of the exhibit is an invitation to see, hear and think about the future of biodiversity and the place of humans in the living world.
Jean-Michel Jarre�s accompanying sound-creation is a symphonic world which will engulf visitors to the exhibit in the sounds of the forest. Using a blend of electronic and orchestral instruments with other real-life natural sounds.
�I wanted to avoid the ethnomusicological approach or creating background music. In the Amazonian forest, there is the dimension of nomadism; moving from one place to another, from darkness to light, from a gentle quietude to a latent threat, moving forward leaving reality behind to sink into the power of rites and dreams,� says Jean-Michel Jarre. �I built this music like a toolbox, made up of different sound objects, like a wandering through organic, natural, ethnic, orchestral and electronic elements, which would only pass by like in a forest that we would cross and leave behind us, temporary vestiges of a time and a space without end.�
Appointed ambassador to UNESCO in 1993, Jean-Michel Jarre is involved in many remarkable projects for tolerance and cultural pluralism, as well as for the defence of nature and the environment. For the �Amaz�nia� project, he actively collaborated with the scientific team of the Museum of Ethnography of Geneva (MEG) to restore as closely as possible the sound identity of the forest and the people who inhabit it.
Jarre explains, �To represent the eternal human presence in this great green ocean, I selected incomparable sound material from the precious archives of the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva, unparalleled for their timbre and their dreamlike power. I composed �Amazonia� in one go, day and night, in front of these photos scrolling in a loop in front of me, immersing myself in this immensity, familiar and mysterious, serene and disturbing, powerful and vulnerable... This addictive and fatal drug. Sebasti�o Salgado's forest.�
The Amaz�nia exhibition opens at the Philharmonie de Paris on May 20 and will then tour several cities around the world from Paris to S�o Paulo, via Rio de Janeiro, Rome and London. It features over 200 photographs, as well as films including testimonials from indigenous personalities on the need to save their culture and environment.
Tour dates:
TBA Paris Philharmonie de Paris
TBA Rome Maxxi
TBA S�o Paulo SESC Pompeia
TBA Rio de Janeiro Museu Do Amanha
TBA London Science Museum
The French composer, performer, producer, visionary, innovator, cultural ambassador Jean-Michel Jarre is recognised worldwide as one of the pioneers of electronic music. His innovative approach to the visual and highly technological staging of electronic music has paved the way for this culture to flourish worldwide.
His current catalogue, which includes 21 studio albums, has generated sales of more than 85 million albums worldwide and earned him countless awards and nominations. Jarre has also set records in the Guinness Book of Records for audience size at concerts in several emblematic sites around the world: 1m Place de la Concorde (1979), 1.3m Houston,
Texas (1986), 2.5m Paris-La D�fense (1990), 3.5m Moscow (1997). Throughout his career Jarre played some of the most exciting landmarks around the globe: He was the first western musician ever to be invited to perform in post-Mao China, and has also played the likes of the Great Pyramids in Egypt, The
Sahara Desert, The Eiffel Tower and the Dead Sea. In 2021, he rang in the new year with a groundbreaking livestream broadcast worldwide from a virtual Notre Dame in Paris - the stream attracted over 75 million viewers worldwide.
Jarre has long been UNESCO's ambassador for education, science and culture, an unconditional defender of the environment and winner of the Stephen Hawking Medal for scientific communication.
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE is synonymous with the legendary as he continues to break new ground with each piece of music and live performance. With technology on the forefront of everything we do, Jarre quotes today as �the most exciting time to make music�.
