He was the darling of epic ambient electro in the 70s and 80s. Then in 2022 Jean-Michel Jarre continued to push boundaries with Oxymore, his 22nd album. That year he told Prog about the immersive project that pays homage to musique concrète pioneer Pierre Henry, and the VR world that accompanies it.
Back in the technologically primitive days of the mid-20th century, the musique concrète movement was truly revolutionary. It was instigated by engineer and musicologist Pierre Schaeffer and his colleagues at Club D’Essai, a studio based within Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (aka RTF), France’s national broadcasting agency, in the 40s.
