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Magnetic Fields (Sunday, 24 March 2024)
20/03/1981 – 43 years ago Michel Geiss gets fined by the police for recording sounds in the Paris underground for the Les Chants Magnétiques album (English title: Magnetic Fields). An excellent album! Magnetic Fields is the fifth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on 20 May 1981. Michel Geiss is a French sound engineer, instrument designer and musician who was a long-time collaborator of Jean Michel Jarre.
Handwritten text in orange says he was circulating without permission of the train company. I suppose he was not fined because he was taping, but because he’s been caught on a spot forbidden for public (probably along the railway). He was standing ON the viaduct, most likely right next to the railway track, which was most probably forbidden and, let’s face it, dangerous. The fine has nothing to do with the fact that he was recording sounds.
The viaduct, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Michel Geiss
Listen to Magnetic Fields
I never owned a copy of Magnetic Fields but had a few of his other albums: Oxygene (1976), Equinoxe (1978), The Concerts in China (1981), Rendez-Vous (2015), and Zoolook (2015). But some of my favorites are Zoolookologie, Last Rendez Vous, Arpegiator, and Souvenir of China.
