Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre has written and recorded a 52-minute musical accompaniment for the famous photographer and filmmaker Sebastião Salgado’s exhibition “Amazônia”, which will open at the Paris Philharmonic on May 20.
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According to publishers from Sony Music, in addition to the standard stereo version, Jean has recorded these compositions in a special binaural version, available digitally with the 5.1 Surround Sound version.
The Amazônia is a comprehensive exhibition on the Amazon River and includes more than 200 photographs and films of Salgado, including feedback from key residents on the need to preserve their culture and environment. In six years, Selgado toured the Amazon region, capturing forests, rivers, mountains, locals and most of the works will be on public display for the first time. The exhibition invites you to watch, listen and think about the future of biodiversity and the place of people in the world.
“The musical accompaniment of Jean Michel Jean is a symphonic world that will introduce the visitors of the exhibition to the sounds of the forest, using a mixture of electronic and orchestral instruments with other real sounds of nature,” the publishers write.
Jean-Michel Jard comments: “I wanted to avoid an ethnomusicological approach or background music. The Amazon forest has a strong dimension of nomadism; moving from one place to another, from darkness to light, from gentle silence to hidden threats, moving forward leaving reality to I build this music as an accessory box made up of different sound objects, like wandering through organic, natural, ethnic, orchestral and electronic elements that would pass us only like a forest we would go through and leave it’s behind you, temporary remnants of time and space without end. “
In 1993, Jean-Michel Garr became Ambassador to UNESCO and has been involved in many notable projects promoting tolerance and cultural pluralism, as well as nature and environmental protection. For the Amazônia project, he actively worked with a scientific team from the Geneva Ethnographic Museum to reproduce as accurately as possible the identity of the forest and the people who live in it.
The Amazônia exhibition will open at the Paris Philharmonic on May 20 and will tour several cities around the world – Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Rome and London.
