Feeling confused? Don’t be because French electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre has collaborated with NSA whisteblower Edward Snowden on a track for real. The unusual yet highly surprising collaboration came about after Jarre was interviewed for the Guardian last year. He asked for Snowden, whose revelations had been about US Government surveillance were reportedly published in the highly acclaimed paper.
Their joint effort consists of Snowden speaking and as Jean suggests is a “hectic, obsessive techno track, trying to illustrate the idea of this crazy quest for big data on one side and the manhunt for this one young guy by the CIA, NSA and FBI on the other”.
Slated to be a part of Jean‘s upcoming Electronica Volume II: The Heart Of Noise project, he dished out on the significance of his effort and the collaboration in itself.
“The whole Electronica project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side we have the world in our pocket, on on the other, we are spied on constantly. There are tracks about the erotic relationship we have with technology, the way we touch our smartphones more than our partners, about CCTV surveillance, about love in the age of Tinder. It seemed quite appropriate to collaborate not with a musician but someone who literally symbolises this crazy relationship we have with technology.”
Also, an important bit of information came out from the whole project where it was revealed that Snowden is a fan of electronic music and even chiptune. Let’s just say this combination fits.
“The melodies I remember with the most fondness are from video games.”
You can check out a brief video of the whole project below. ‘Exit‘ is slated to release this weekend before Electronica Volume II drops on May 6.
Source: The Guardian
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