A Conversation with Jean-Michel Jarre

A Conversation with Jean-Michel Jarre

A public lecture with the French electronic icon.

Retour sur la carrière de Jean Michel Jarre, le pionnier français des musiques électroniques.

A public lecture with French electronic icon Jean-Michel Jarre

If you’re going to talk about the influence of French electronic music, Jean-Michel Jarre would have to be among the top names in the list. The producer has been performing his groundbreaking electronic compositions for decades, and he sets and breaks his own record achievements with impeccable style. When you look at the current landscape of live electronic music performance, everyone from EDM superstars to underground techno DJs owe a huge debt to how Jarre visualized and performed classic albums such as Oxygène and Équinoxe ​to millions of people. Jarre continues to innovate new ways of composing and performing electronic music with rapidly-developing visual technologies. In this special conversation with Jarre, we discuss his fascinating career, the sounds he created, and the future he is still helping to envision.