Joachim Garraud about 12DOTS concert


Post Posted Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:21 pm
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Hi,

You can find that on his forum :

jmj fait un show, il ne joue pas sur scène en live c'est vrai. Pourquoi ? Le stress je pense !
Mon travaille au Caire à été de produire tous les titres, pour 5 heures de spectacle. Soit 23 titres. Pour chaque, je déterminais, ce qui est pris en live par le batteur ou le bassiste ou francis. Je décide quels instruments ethniques va jouer sur tel titre, j'enregistre tel instrument, celui ci sera en live. Un travail de titan car il m'a fallu enregistrer un orchestre philarmonique, tout recaler car , à l'opéra du Caire ou j'ai enregistré tout ce monde, il y avait un casque pour 60 musiciens. Autant te dire que personne ne jouait sur le click !!!!!
J'ai travaillé 4 mois à fond avant le concert pour que tout sois prêt !!

Et le soir du concert, j'ai géré une soixante de pistes sur scène et sur mon protools. En sachant que je gérais le time code, il fallait absolument que le Zéro du spectacle, donc de ma session protools tombe à minuit pile , car changement de millénaire !!! un enfer, j'avais prévu des jingles de différentes durées qui me permettaient de me recaler pour être calé sur l'heure de minuit !!
Je vous laisse imaginer la panique lorsque le vent s'est levé et que les hommes poussant les écrans vidéo dans le sable avaient besoin de 80 secondes pour parcourer la largeur de la scène ( au lieu de 40 pour les répétitions !!! ) Il y a eu comme cela une vingtaine de détails qui ont tout décalé.....
Un vrai cauchemard ce concert pour que le zéro tombe pile, j'ai eu une chance incroyable, car mon mac n'a pas planté au passage du 1er janvier 2000 et ceci malgré des conditions horribles : le désert = 40 degrés la journées pour -2 la nuit... Du sable tellement fin qu'il s'incruste partout , dans les disques durs !!!!!!!

Bref, il m'est impossible de tout raconter tellement cela à été gigantesque !!!




JMJ makes a show, he doesn't play live on stage. Why ? Stress I think !
My work at Le Caire was to produce all the tracks, for 5 hours of show. 23 tracks. For each, I was determining was it taken live by the drummer or the bassist or Francis. I decide which ethnical instruments will play on which title, I record an instrument, the other will be live. A huge work because I had to record a philarmonic orchestra, to synchro all because at Le Caire opera where I recorded everybody, there was a head-phone for 60 musicians, so nobody was playing on the kick !!!!!
I worked 4 months fully before the concert for all to be ready !!

And the night of the show, I was managing 60 tracks on stage and on ProTools. I was managing the time code, the Zero of the show (of my ProTools session, so) had to be exactly at midnight, because of the millenium change !!! that was the hell, I had made some jingles of random lenght which were allowing me to fit perfectly to midnight !!
I let you imagine the panic when the wind was rising and when persons were pushing the video screens in the sand needed 80 seconds to walk on stage (instead of 40 for the rehearsals !!!) There had around 20 details which bring forward all.....
A real nightmare this show for the Zero to be at midnight, I had a unbelievable chance, because my mac didn't crash for January, 1st 2000 and that, despite horrible conditions : the desert = 40° the day, -2° the night... Sand so little that it comes everywhere, in hard disks !!!!!!!

So, it's impossible for me to tell you all because that was gigantic !!!





Here you go ;)
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Post Posted Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:26 pm
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Neat! Thanks a lot Nico for the translation also :wink: So now we know what he actually did behind those computer monitors.
Post Posted Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:31 pm
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You're welcome ;)

Yes, we know he did all while they were sleeping on stage :P
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Théâtre Marigny, Paris [France] - 15/12/2007
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Monaco - 01/07/2011
Arènes de Nîmes – 14/07/2016
Post Posted Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:52 pm
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Nice one ~ but no new info... :smoke:
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Post Posted Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:32 pm
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Yes, but you know all, so... :punch:
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Théâtre Marigny, Paris [France] - 15/12/2007
<2010> Marseille [France] - 20/03/2010
Monaco - 01/07/2011
Arènes de Nîmes – 14/07/2016
Post Posted Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:21 pm
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Thanks Nico for the (old) news and translation. Still a really interesting read! :D :P
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Post Posted Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:29 pm
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You knew he had to cut a few bars off Hey Gagarin to make it fit, right....?
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Post Posted Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:42 pm
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GeeJee wrote:You knew he had to cut a few bars off Hey Gagarin to make it fit, right....?
No, but now you told it, we know :punch:
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Théâtre Marigny, Paris [France] - 15/12/2007
<2010> Marseille [France] - 20/03/2010
Monaco - 01/07/2011
Arènes de Nîmes – 14/07/2016
Post Posted Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:19 pm
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Great interview! Thanks! :D
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Post Posted Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:23 am
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Thanks Nico - some details are new for me :-)
Post Posted Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:53 pm
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GeeJee wrote:You knew he had to cut a few bars off Hey Gagarin to make it fit, right....?
Yeah, knew about that, but I thought it was them playing... :(
Post Posted Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:49 pm
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No ~ that was live Pro-Tooling :nod:
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Post Posted Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:01 pm
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Yes, very nice this information! (merci nico d'avoir laissé ça en français :wink: )

The more I learn about Garraud, the more I think he is very talentive ; he is not only a dj!
For example, I recently learned that it was him who made all the scenes between each tracks in Aero...
Post Posted Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:07 pm
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You're welcome (de rien :P) my dear friend :P


If I'm right, the soundscape made by SquareProd for the countdown of 12DOTS before midnight was made by him aswell ?
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Teo&Tea showcase in Cannes [France] - 20/05/2007
Théâtre Marigny, Paris [France] - 15/12/2007
<2010> Marseille [France] - 20/03/2010
Monaco - 01/07/2011
Arènes de Nîmes – 14/07/2016
Post Posted Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:13 pm
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Muh Nods wrote:Yes, very nice this information! (merci nico d'avoir laissé ça en français :wink: )

The more I learn about Garraud, the more I think he is very talentive ; he is not only a dj!
For example, I recently learned that it was him who made all the scenes between each tracks in Aero...
Wow, those are the sounds I love the best about Aero! Yes he is very talented. Jarre, bring him back! Also the 12DOTS was great too!







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