Jean-Michel Jarre is set to open and close the Paris Closing Ceremony for the 2024 Paralympic Games on Sunday, September 8. A pioneer in electronic music, Jarre is a native of France.
The final on September 8 will celebrate 4,400 athletes from 168 Paralympic missions. After the parade of athletes and the handover of the flag from Paris 2024 to Los Angeles 2028, the stadium will host an outdoor party for the public at the Stade de France.
The highly anticipated music festival highlights the French electro scene, with Jarre and many other French artists on the line-up including Agoria, Alan Braxe, Anetha, Boston Bun, Breakbot & Irfane, Busy P, Cassis, Chloe, Chloé Caillet, DJ Falcon, Étienne de Crecy, GЯEG, Irène Drésel, Kavinsky, Kiddy Smile, Kittin Kungs, Martin Solveig, Nathalie Duchene, Ofenbach, Polo & Pan, Tatyana Jane and The Avener.
A press statement notes that “the concert promises to be a festive spectacle visually and musically, closing the Paris 2024 Games in style.”
Thomas Jolly is the artistic director, Victor le Masne is the musical director and Romain Pissenem is the festival director/designer.
Speaking to the news outlet Le ParisienJarre said he considers Pissenem one of the world's greatest show creators.
In a 2022 interview with Bulletin board Zar spoke about his French roots, saying his album Oxymore “it's a tribute to this French way of approaching the roots of electronic music — really dealing with sounds rather than notes and bringing the sound design approach to music composition, people have no idea how much they contributed to the way with whom we are making music today.”
Mentor Pierre Schaeffer of the Groupe de Recherches Musicale, whom Jarre called “the father of concrete music,” taught him “two very important things: Don't hesitate to go for the unexpected, mix the sound of a bird with a clarinet, mix the sound of a washing machine with a trombone… And he said, don't waste your time experimenting, because your path is to create a bridge between the experimentation we do here in this group and pop music and the public.”
