Jean-Michel Jarre

At the end of 1976, in a modest flat in Paris, amid tangles of cables and analogue synthesisers that the music industry still viewed with bewilderment, Jean-Michel Jarre gave shape to a sound that…

Jean-Michel Jarre is a French composer of ambient and electronic music, born in Lyon in 1948. His album Oxygène, recorded at the end of 1976 in a Paris flat with analogue synthesisers, was built without guitars or vocals, from hypnotic textures and a rhythmic pulse with a space-age character.

The Oxygene & Beyond tour combines the commemoration of half a century since that album with the live presentation of his new record. The artist himself describes it as a celebration of the origins and, at the same time, as an invitation to imagine what comes next, in an approach that engages across generations rather than being a simple retrospective.

At the Palau Sant Jordi, the production creates a visual and sonic environment in which light, visual architecture and three-dimensional sound envelop the audience from start to finish. Palau Sant Jordi hosts concerts and shows in Barcelona, and this stop of the project in the city is presented as a date with Jarre's foundational work.