Blah Blah Cafe, the Jean-Michel Jarre forum

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I've used WfC when I worked as a supply teacher. I have had a second grade class (8-9 years old pupils) in a physical education class. I used it as background music when they should have a few minutes where the pupils just lay on the floor and relaxed. It was very popular!

Oh that´s sweet!

[GeeJee]

Oh yeah... I love every bit of this track.
Perhaps he should play it live one day. Something like Waiting In Your Living Room or sth...

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Is there someone having this track in MP3 ?

Especially since Cousteau on The Beach and Waiting For Cousteau are the EXACT same length of track!

That's right, but there are three different versions of the track.

1. The 60 min + version recorded in 1989, and used as background for the superb
'Concert D'Images' exhibition at the Forum Les Halles Paris.
This exhibition was organised with the Mayor of Paris for the 200th anniversary of Bastille Day celebratons, presumably because no agreement could be made for a full scale JMJ concert.

2. The CD version we all know - 46 min 56 sec.

3. The edited version used for the LP and cassette release - 22 min. This was not just a fade out of the track on 22 mins. but an edit of the CD version.

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Oh yeah... I love every bit of this track.
Perhaps he should play it live one day. Something like Waiting In Your Living Room or sth...

Yeah...instead of 3-D glasses, this one would come with shock paddles!

[Rubberlips]

I love this track!

Three bits of trivia about it... I don't know how true they are...

1) Jarre played the piano notes into a computer and the computer fired them back at random, making the track we know and love.

2) At the CPT concert in 1995 Jarre actually forgot to bring the track with him for the introduction. A fan at the front had to loan the crew a CD of the track to play.

3) Jarre recorded the main melody of the track in a underwater observatory submarine off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago. He was watching the underwater life and playing notes as they came to him, a bit like making notes in a notebook. He then built the track around these rough bits...

[GeeJee]

1) Jarre played the piano notes into a computer and the computer fired them back at random, making the track we know and love.

The music was actually entirely generated by a piece of algorithmic software called Candenza.

2) At the CPT concert in 1995 Jarre actually forgot to bring the track with him for the introduction. A fan at the front had to loan the crew a CD of the track to play.

Yup, that's true... can you believe it?

3) Jarre recorded the main melody of the track in a underwater observatory submarine off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago. He was watching the underwater life and playing notes as they came to him, a bit like making notes in a notebook. He then built the track around these rough bits...

Not exactly... (see 1)

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1) Jarre played the piano notes into a computer and the computer fired them back at random, making the track we know and love.

The music was actually entirely generated by a piece of algorithmic software called Candenza.

Randomly?

That would make it pretty impossible to replay this piece live in the same way as it was recorded, wouldn't it?

[GeeJee]

Me agrees. All those drops, farts and other dirty wet noises are probably randomly generated by the computer, although then again I wonder what the heck kind of Algorhythm that would be

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1) Jarre played the piano notes into a computer and the computer fired them back at random, making the track we know and love.

The music was actually entirely generated by a piece of algorithmic software called Candenza.

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That's correct. I think it was left to 'play' for about six hours. The trick was for JMJ to pick out the best bits.

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The music was actually entirely generated by a piece of algorithmic software called Candenza.

I thought he used a copy of Koan on an Atari ST - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koan_%28program%29

It generated fractals but instead of drawing pictures it generated MIDI notes. So it wasn't random but would be unique each time it ran through. Brian Eno was a big fan of the software IIRC too.

Love the track, one of my favourites, I played it in its entirety at my wedding as the guests arrived, mixed 'Walk Home' onto the end by Thomas Newman from the American Beauty OST, which then segued into 'Love on a Real Train' by Tangerine Dream as she walked down the aisle. I thought it worked quite well, but possibly I was the only one that noticed