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[Dr_Jones]

I just noticed that at 23 january a new title was submitted called "PERIAKTOS", which is 360 seconds. The opening track of the IRCAM concerts is 6 minutes. That seems to match.
Looking at the definition of periaktosS: "A periaktos (plural form periaktoi, from a Greek word meaning revolving) is a device used for displaying and rapidly changing theatre scenes." which perfectly fits the location it was played at.

[Pat Gleeson]

Mmmm, maybe a film score? Like you say, could be a documentary?

Despite the track titles, it may well be some ambient sounds for the Renault EV project - background for the car environment. Pure speculation on my part though.

[Dr_Jones]

That makes a lot of sense! Tracks like "on the road" seem to support that idea. Also the track times are very short, as if they were soundbites.

[Richard-Eastham]

In one of the Renault videos, a member of the design team says something about taking JMJ sounds that appear on Oxymore, and using these as the basis for the electric vehicles. Sort of suggests no new 'music' as it were, but instead using stems and sound files that already exist.

[Pat Gleeson]

Sort of suggests no new 'music' as it were, but instead using stems and sound files that already exist.

That supports a post on one of the FB pages from someone who emailed Renault about a possible release of the music. Renault stated that it wasn't music per se, but sounds and ambience designed for their EV's.

[Dr_Jones]

yeah, I got something similar when I mailed Renault:
viewtopic.php?p=209888#p209888

[shadow]

What the... This is going to be interesting.

[Pat Gleeson]

From 22 minutes onwards: Renault Senic E-Tech Launch A mix of Epica and Oxygene 4 at the beginning. The car sounds are heard during the video - possibly those tracks registered at SACEM.

[Jote]

Yeah, that sound to signal the vehicle presence at low speeds to pedestrians (around 27:25) is absurd. Imagine a couple of different cars on the street with different "musical" sounds making cacophony. I guess the humanity is still not overstimulated enough. I guess car manufacturers REALLY BELIEVE no other cars exist (which is very much evident in their TV commercials, usually their car is the only one in an otherwise empty city).

As for Oxygene 4 x Epica - nothing extraordinary, it would sound better IMO without those Epica vocal sounds.

[Dr_Jones]

New addition to SACEM: a 27 minute track called Amazonia AI...

[shadow]

AI?

[Dr_Jones]

I guess these have to do with the coming release of Versailles 400:

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FANTOMS OF VERSAILLES FANTOMES DE VERSAILLES (364)

(they were on the official tracklist which was published a few weeks ago)

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[Richard-Eastham]

LA CITE RADIEUSE (52:40)

A very interesting title, arguably the birth of modernist architecture, in Marseille:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%C3%A9_d%27habitation

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