Jean Michel Jarre is about to stage the world's biggest ever concert in the London Docklands. David Bradwell finds out about the technological dark age and the art of showmanship.

An exclusive interview with this most popular French electronic music composer that traces his background history from his early influences to his latest epic performances in China.

Take one of the most influential electronic composers of the current generation, a Fairlight, an entire library of vocal recordings from all over the world, and a few more-than-talented guest musicians, and you have the recipe for Zoolook, Jean-Michel Jarre's latest album. Here he talks about its creation.

Jean Michel Jarre explains his current views on music, synthesisers and synthesis in an in-depth interview.

Since heralding in a new musical era in 1976 with the release of his innovative synthesizer-based opus, 'Oxygene', Jean-Michel Jarre has gone on to sell almost 34 million records worldwide. Currently embarking on a new album project, as well as planning a series of concerts to welcome in the new decade, Richard Buskin visited Jarre in his home studio to talk about the technology behind his music.

The maestro himself on rave, analogue classics, lasers, mice and Fellini

Tony Mills discusses sounds and concepts with the Frenchman who made instrumental synthesizer music respectable

Cities in Concert Paris, La Defense

Jean-Michel Jarre recently trod the boards in magnificent style in Paris to mark the occasion of Bastille Day - report in full from Mark Jenkins.

An analysis of The Concerts in China double album on Polydor PODV3

An Electro-Music Transcription by Mike Beecher

A fully-detailed transcript of Magnetic Fields Part II including instructions on how to perform the piece.

Jean-Michel Jarre In Concert

We go backstage at Jarre's recent Wembley extravaganza to see how the show sound was put together.