Music Talk : Music Industry Interviews, Advice and tips for DJs & Producers · Grahame Farmer

Music Talk 053 - Interviewing Jean-Michel Jarre

·1 hr 25 min·5 clips

Jean-Michel Jarre says stereo does not exist in nature and calls 360 audio a more natural way to listen.

1. Music Talk : Music Industry Interviews, Advice and tips for DJs & Producers features Graham Farmer talking with Jean-Michel Jarre about the album Oxymore. 2. Graham Farmer is the host, and Jean-Michel Jarre is the guest because he is presenting a new project built around spatial audio. 3. The episode asks what happens when an album is composed from scratch in 360 rather than adapted from stereo. 4. Jarre says his interest in space and music goes back to Oxygen and his early attempts to widen stereo with primitive tools. 5. He contrasts frontal orchestral and speaker-based listening with the way people hear birds and conversation in mono. 6. He says Oxymore places sounds like audio objects around the head and makes the listener feel “inside the music.” 7. Jarre explains that he composed first in 360, then created binaural and stereo versions afterward. 8. He describes a home studio setup with seven speakers, then a multi-channel studio with 27 speakers for precise placement. 9. He names Ableton Live, Nuendo, Pro Tools, and Dolby Atmos tools as part of the workflow. 10. He says the album also reflects the current competition between Dolby Atmos, Google, Samsung, Fraunhofer, and Sony 360. 11. Jarre calls immersive audio a “dark age” because several formats may coexist before one becomes standard. 12. He says producers now have to prepare music for vinyl, CD, streaming, mono, stereo, binaural, and 360. 13. He argues that new music should be created for new formats instead of recycling old mono recordings like Frank Sinatra or The Beatles. 14. He says binaural mastering was difficult because binaural files often sound less powerful than stereo. 15. He says he found a trick that made the binaural version of Oxymore much more convincing. 16. He links the project to Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre-Henri, magnetic tape experiments, and early electroacoustic music in the late 1940s. 17. He describes the tone as experimental and technical, but also playful, with moments where he calls the process a “cool toy.” 18. He says the live plan includes almost-dark concerts, very little visual material, and VR stage design in a world called Oxiville. 19. Listeners interested in spatial audio, electronic production, and Jean-Michel Jarre will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting celebrity gossip or a light casual chat will probably skip this one.

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