Under the headline SPACE ODDITIES, The Sunday Times, culture section, reports on a new show for 2001, created by Jean Michel Jarre and Arthur C. Clarke. The multi media, multi cultural £3 million project was performed for the first time on 01/01/01 for 20,000 revellers on Japan’s Okinawa beach.
Jarre filmed Arthur C Clarke at his home in Sri Lanka, answering questions about social life in space, relationships with aliens, the effects of zero gravity and others, and beamed the responses onto his trademark giant projection screens to provide the links between the songs.
Jarre joined forces with TK, a superstar Japanese musician, and Britain’s Mark Fisher, the set designer of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, establishing an “inchoate creative partnership” called The ViZitors.
Fisher said “This is a creative endeavour by four separate cultures to present one popular artistic event. I think that’s a pretty good symbol for the way things should be moving in the world.”
It seems that the production of the show has set Jarre thinking about the possibilities of music in space. “A gig on the moon? That could be a good plan for the future” he said, delighted at the suggestion.
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