Jean Michel-Jarre will certainly have a tres merry Christmas and likewise use some pleasure to the globe, with the French digital leader readied to do from Versailles on Dec. 25.
Presented by UNESCO and the French Ministry of Culture, the efficiency will certainly take place from the Château de Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors, a UNESCO globe heritage website, to commemorate the place’s 400th wedding anniversary.
Called VERSAILLES 400, the program will certainly take place before a real-time efficiency in the Hall of Mirrors, and likewise in digital truth. Jarre will certainly play while putting on a blended truth headset, with the metaverse variation of the program occurring in an electronic Hall of Mirrors. The digital target market can link via virtual reality or on tablet computers and smart devices.
The program is developed as a homage to French advancement that combines present artforms and the art of the 17th century. Tickets for the real-time efficiency at Versailles begin at 60€, or $65.
The reveal will certainly be recorded at the Château de Versailles and program on French and international tv networks, in addition to Jarre’s YouTube network and in virtual reality on the French VRROOM system, all on Dec. 25, Christmas Day.
“Versailles 400 is a hybrid concert and visual creation broadcast live from one of the world’s most beautiful locations, as well as in virtual reality in the metaverse,” Jarre claimed in a news release. “I hope the event will help promote our creative savoir faire and bring the world of French immersive creation to the forefront of collective culture.”
The 75-year-old style tale is not a complete stranger to playing in unique areas. In 1981, he was the initial Western artist to do in China, spots reveals recorded for the dual cd The Concerts In China. He was welcomed once again, which he approved in 2004, whereupon he played the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, shows which beamed survive nationwide tv. Other programs have actually integrated high-rises and city sites.
In 2020, President Emmanuel Macron awarded him the Commander of the Légion d’Honneur, France’s greatest order of benefit. Earlier, he launched the cd Amazonia, a music homage to the Amazon jungle, its citizens and the dangers they encounter, and the friend to an exhibit by epic professional photographer Sebastião Salgado. Jarre’s newest cd, Oxymore, was released in 2022.