Blog: DEEPGOA's Electronic Sessions

Germany had Kraftwerk, and France had Jean Michel Jarre, the enigmatic electronic music composer who experimented with synthesizers, machines, and ambient sounds all the way back in the late '60s and early 1970s. As a former pupil of musique concrète's founding father Pierre Schaeffer , and as an understudy at Karlheinz Stockhausen 's Cologne studio, Jarre's bold musical works lit up France in the late 1970s - quite literally - with spectacular outdoor laser, light, and firework shows to enormous crowds (which helped popularise the use of lasers at electronic [...]