Jean-Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields, Part 2 video free download


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Duration: 04:42
Uploaded: 2010/11/16

This is part two from JMJ's 1981 electronic music epic, "Magnetic Fields." The album is notable for being the artist's first attempt at using digital (rather than analog) synthesizers, in particular his trademark Fairlight CMI.

The original title of the album is "Les Chants Magnetiques" ("Magnetic Songs") - a pun on the homonymous French word for magnetic fields, which is "champs magnetiques." Since the pun would be lost to English-speakers, the international version of the album is given a different title that can be easily understood by those not fluent in French.

The video itself consists of images and videos (mostly taken by an educational video produced by the Maryland Department of Education) depicting the various instruments used by astronomers to gather data on the universe in which we inhabit. These range from optical and radio telescopes to observational satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. (And just for the sake of variation, I have used a different image of the HST from the one I used in the video featuring Vangelis's theme music from "Missing.") The ultimate theme of the video, however, is the search for extraterrestrial life, as the last images are intended to suggest a message being recieved from space (which resembles mechanical noises.)

I would also like to give apologies (and thanks) to T0y0Tac0roll4, for providing me with the music.

Comments

5 years ago

Giovanni Malagrinó

L:Artista che anticipò il futuro the future! Jean Michel Jarre

5 years ago

EDUARDO ALDANA

me encanta

5 years ago

KrautGoesWild

Okay, where did the last 35 years of my live go since I first heard this the first time???

6 years ago

vapor synth

Who else cane here because of Windir?

6 years ago

Hungary Matee

This one is my favourite one from Magnetic Fields

6 years ago

Галина Дмитрук

Класс

6 years ago

pylo glausser

Buenísimo

6 years ago

radu eugen

superba piesa chiar si dupa 36 de ani

6 years ago

antonio ruiz

esta si que es musica

6 years ago

CSSML NDSMD

Magnifiquement superbe

6 years ago

tomsacadden

You put yourself in a venue with him and he WILL blow you away !!

6 years ago

Darek Demecki

fine clip, great music, famous composer...

6 years ago

Regian Re

OMG..... I was looking for it for years..... this brings back so many memories from the eighties.... I can't describe what I'm feeling right now... AMAZING

6 years ago

Jose Saga

Telever ajhahahahaahahahahaEloisa masberg y raul peimbert

6 years ago

Biljana Mavrak

Veliki kompozitor iz buducnosti

6 years ago

Mr. K

1985's "Rage in the Badlands" skateboard contest video brought me here (Lester Kasai run).

6 years ago

radu eugen

Cea mai tare piesa a lui JMJ

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