Deprived of the traditional fireworks display for the transition to the New Year, Paris is innovating in 2021. The capital will digitally open the doors of Notre-Dame to Jean-Michel Jarre, for an unprecedented virtual reality concert, which already promises to be grandiose .
The performance will be followed in particular on Youtube and Facebook.
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Jean-Michel Jarre's concert for the Fête de la Musique, will be completely virtual
From 11:25 pm to 12:15 am, Jean-Michel Jarre will perform live and will appear in the form of an avatar in the cathedral which had been entirely digitized before the fire of April 2019. The event being completely virtual, it will not happen nothing on site.
"
With Anne Hidalgo, we wondered how to celebrate December 31 in another way, in an innovative way, confinement required
", explains the owner of electronic music.
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Sponsored by UNESCO, this concert of a new genre is called
Welcome to the other side
, (
Welcome to the other side
in french).
“
It will be both a message of hope for 2021 in the difficult times we are going through, but also the opportunity to pay tribute to Notre-Dame, weakened like all of us
,” adds the musician.
"
We are honored, along with the dozens of creators and technicians who have been working on this immersive concert for several weeks, to contribute despite these difficult times, to making Paris resonate at midnight on December 31, and thus to launch an invitation to the whole world to virtually return to the heart of the City of Light,
”he adds.
For the occasion, Jean-Michel Jarre has re-orchestrated his entire Electronica album.
According to Anne Hidalgo, who welcomes "
this first in the history of Paris
", "
this concert in a digital format will allow everyone to follow the event live and experience the transition to the year 2021
" .
Completely free and accessible anywhere in the world, this virtual concert produced with the French start-up VRrOOm, will be broadcast live on the VRchat, Youtube, Facebook platforms, on France Inter, BFMTV Paris and the city site Paris.fr.
