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Posted: Sep. 22 2007, 09:46 |
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Last week Jean Michel Jarre recorded a performance as a "late" 30th anniversary of the album Oxygene and he was draging his old vintage analogue gear out of the closet again to play Oxygene 1-6 Live with his "partners-in-crime" crew members. There has been some talking going on about unreleased stuff too from that era but unfortunately I can't confirm that.
A DVD will be released before the end of this year. 
From www.hdtvspace.blogspot.com :
"Thursday, September 20, 2007
Headin’ Out: Alfacam does 3D HDTV
Yes, you read that right.
Last night, Alfacam held a great event to celebrate a couple of things. First of all the company celebrated its 20th birthday a few weeks ago. Secondly, the culture channel EXQI will celebrate its first birthday on the first of October. It was also announced that EXQI will become available via Telenet Digital TV on that day (in standard definition, of course). And lastly, Alfacam had another first. The very first commercial recording of 3D HDTV images. But what to film?
Electronic music God, Jean-Michel Jarre, played a special gig for the occasion, although the music itself is not quite my taste, the concert was truly something special. Everything was played live on electronic instruments that were over thirty years old. Today all that would be squeezed out of a little laptop, but it just wouldn’t be the same. The sound was spectacular.
The set was recorded by the Alfacam crew and will be released on DVD in 3D. You can watch the show on your “regular” HDTV at home with some funky glasses on your nose. Or you can watch it on the new 3D television sets Philips had on display yesterday.
The concert took place in the very new, very big studios of the Alfacam complex. They already had four big studios in the main building (where the offices are), but now they have transformed their former warehouse into four more studios, a sports hall, a day care center and some classrooms.
After the concert, we headed back to the main building where dinner would take place. I was unable to attend because of time constraint, but thanks to Annemie, one of my former colleagues, I was able to sneek in and take some pictures. More importantly, I was able to check out the 3D technology from Philips up close.
They also showed images of the concert on a big screen, but you needed the geeky glasses for this. The problem with that is that it was innovative and exciting, maybe twenty years ago. We’ve been there, we’ve seen that. They were even unashamed to pull some classic 3D trickery. There were three cool lamps set up on each side of the stage (see picture) with only one purpose: standing in the way as the camera swoops behind them, so you get an emphasis on the 3D aspects of it all. Added value = zero.
I know this was the first time and all that, but why would you want to see a concert in three dimensions? I want to see explosions and junk flying at me, cars and rocket ships, laser beams and gigantic spiders from space… or something. Maybe I’m being a boy here, but you catch my drift.
I don’t want to be a Negative Nancy here, Alfacam hosted a great dinner event, I saw a excellent concert, 3D is always cool and the Alfacam crew can add another first to their resumé."
Some pictures of the performance @ : http://www.jeanmicheljarre.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?p=18696#18696
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"...I've never seen a connection between music and politics.
It's like trying to connect football with croquet." -M.O.
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Joking aside, it's really very good to hear all those old, old, old, old machines still working - none of the modern digital pieces of equipment, as advanced as they may be, can sound exactly like those Eminents and those Moogs. I know it may sound paradoxical, but I think this DVD release really shows that electronic instruments do sometimes have a soul. 
