Jean Michel Jarre

Jean-Michel Jarre is a French electronic composer whose catalogue has helped define how synthesiser music can work on a grand scale. Oxygene remains the obvious entry point, but it is only one part of a body of work that moves from the sleek pulse of Equinoxe and Chronologie to the cut-up, voice-led experiments of Zoolook.

Born in Lyon, Jarre has spent decades treating electronic music as both studio craft and public spectacle, a thread that runs through The Concerts in China and more recent projects such as Amazonia, Oxymore and Welcome to the Other Side - Live in Notre-Dame VR. Across those records, his approach stays recognisable: melodic, architectural and deeply interested in what new technology can do to sound and performance.