A world first. The French musician Jean-Michel Jarre, via his Avatar, will perform live in a specially designed virtual world, accessible to all.
“Alone together” created by Jarre is a live performance in virtual reality, broadcast simultaneously in real time on digital platforms, in 3D and in 2D. To date, all virtual musical performances are pre-produced and are hosted in pre-existing digital worlds. Here, Jarre presents his event in his own personalized virtual world and anyone can share the experience online via PC, tablets, smartphones or in full immersion on interactive VR headsets.
Important for Jarre, this project also aims to send a message to the public and to the entire music industry: whether in the real or virtual world, music and live performances have a value whose recognition and sustainability. are vital for millions of creators.
In addition to the digital broadcast, a "silent" broadcast of the virtual concert will be offered in downtown Paris, in the courtyard of the Palais Royal, to a selection of students from performing arts, sound and music training schools. 'image, who will only have to bring their cell phone and headphones to share the performance live on the big screen.
At the end of this simultaneous performance, the participants gathered in the courtyard of the Royal Palace will be able to chat live with the avatar of Jean-Michel Jarre, further erasing the boundaries between the physical and virtual worlds. To conclude, the avatar will open a virtual door behind the scenes to which Jarre will welcome the group of students in person in his workshop to share the backstage of the evening.
Jean-Michel Jarre intends to demonstrate that VR, augmented reality and AI are new vectors that can help create a new mode of artistic expression, production and distribution, while maintaining the unprecedented emotion of real-time meeting between artists and the public. The period of health crisis we are going through has highlighted the opportunity and the need for a paradigm shift to keep up with the times.
"Having played in extraordinary places, virtual reality will now allow me to play in unimaginable spaces while remaining on a physical stage", explains Jean-Michel Jarre.
The internationally renowned French musician believes that World Music Day is the perfect opportunity to promote these new uses and a better understanding of one of the possible future business models of the musical entertainment industry.
"Virtual or augmented realities can be for the performing arts what the advent of cinema was for the theater, an additional mode of expression made possible by new technologies at a given time," predicts Jarre.
Breaking the barriers of isolation, “Alone Together”, the virtual experience imagined and composed by Jean-Michel Jarre, is produced in collaboration with the social virtual reality world VRrOOm created by Louis Cacciuttolo, who brought together for the occasion a team of innovators, artists like Pierre Friquet and Vincent Masson, and technicians who are experts in immersive technologies like SoWhen?, Seekat, Antony Vitillo or Lapo Germasi.