[sdiy] OT: Why you guys dont talk about Jarre?

[jbv]

Jay Schwichtenberg a *crit :

>
> BTW: IMHO only good album that Jarre has done is Oxygene and his father
> (Maurice) is a much more interesting composer.

I'm not sure about this opinion on Maurice Jarre, but one thing
I can tell you is that when I visited Jarre's studio in 1989, there was
an english guy in there, whose job seemed to test new gear and also
find sounds, patterns and (perhaps also) melodies that Jarre would
then use in his next albums... Geiss' explanation about that guy's job
wasn't too clear, but that's the way I understood it. And the crap that
Jarre released in the 90's made me think that perhaps I wasn't too wrong
about it...

> Again, IMHO there are a lot
> more artists that have done better and more significant works.

One thing I regret is that nowadays, "electronic music" is associated by
young generations ONLY to synth music... So many times in mailing
lists I found JMJ or TD or Kraftwerk described as "the godfathers of
EM"... That's a pity coz there's such a wide (and much much more
interesting) set of works & composers of electro-acoustical music,
"musique concrete", etc. that developped between the early 50's to the 80's,
associated with strong musical theories (Schaeffer, Stockhausen...) that
make the above mentioned synth artists look rather pale & boring...

just my opinion...
JB