le 11/10/2002 18:51, Jan R. a écrit :
Yes, you're right, Pierre Schaeffer knew JMJ, and as he once said, he saw "a connection between new sounds and the public" in JMJ. If you read this statement carefully, you will notice that there's a lot of ambivalence in it. ;-)
ambivalence in your own interpretation, indeed ;-)
I'm *relatively* familiar to the oeuvre of Pierre Schaeffer, and I'm far away from overrating him, but it seems to me that there are at best superficial relations between his works and the recordings of JMJ.
ok, but we are talking here about 'influences' ( not 'copying'! ;-)
Schaeffer always tried to find out the *meaning* of a sound (as Holger Czukay said: You have to listen very deeply into the sound to find out what he's saying). JMJ in my humble opinion did never and does not. He's not interested in deeply listening.
*rotflol* (you're not kidding here???) ):-)) (that means OBVIOUSLY you don't KNOW "Oxygene" & "Equinoxe" (??) ;-)) I'm afraid your opinion is ABSOLUTELY wrong!! Sorry! Just basing the appreciation on these 2 (WELL known to me) albums I may AFFIRM: the truth is ALL the CONTRARY to what you assert!! (...at least over the late70's-early80's period... now however, Jarre doesn't seem to be anymore so concerned in "deep sound meaning"...) ;-) "Open WIDE your ears and (try to) LISTEN... (again)" ):-))
And it's strange you can't find the early JMJ works he didi at the time ;)
Maybe it's better this way ...
Maybe, maybe not, early JMJ works may sound close to "GRM"! ( not fitted for the 'pop market', anyway... ) ...maybe, perhaps, _ /o o\ Filtre4Pole \ ~ / I I - -