Jean-Michel Jarre Signed Machines: A History of Electronic Music Hardback – 9780500031506
Jean-Michel Jarre Signed Machines: A History of Electronic Music Hardback – 9780500031506
Jean-Michel Jarre – Machines: A History of Electronic Music
Signed Hardback Edition
A superb opportunity to own a signed edition of Jean-Michel Jarre's Machines: A History of Electronic Music — a richly illustrated exploration of the instruments, technology and ideas that shaped electronic music.
Written and presented by one of the genre's defining pioneers, Machines traces the evolution of electronic sound from its earliest experimental beginnings through to the digital age and the emerging possibilities of artificial intelligence.
For collectors of Jean-Michel Jarre, electronic music and music history, this is an especially compelling publication: part visual history, part technical exploration and part personal journey through the machines that have shaped an entire musical culture.
Signed by Jean-Michel Jarre
Personally signed by Jean-Michel Jarre.
Jarre is one of the most influential pioneers of electronic music, whose groundbreaking work helped bring synthesizers, electronic instrumentation and immersive audiovisual performance to a worldwide audience.
A signed copy of Machines therefore represents more than a signed music book. It brings together Jarre's own signature with a subject intrinsically connected to his career, knowledge and lifelong fascination with electronic sound.
About the Book
Machines: A History of Electronic Music explores the development of electronic music through the instruments and technologies that made it possible.
Beginning with Luigi Russolo's 1913 Futurist manifesto The Art of Noises, Jarre follows the development of electronic sound through movements including Surrealism and the Bauhaus, the pioneering work of radio laboratories and the emergence of analogue synthesis.
The book then follows the evolution of electronic music through the digital revolution and into the technological possibilities of the present and future.
Drawing on Jean-Michel Jarre's extraordinary personal collection of electronic and electroacoustic instruments, Machines features detailed examinations of more than eighty instruments, ranging from iconic synthesizers such as the ARP 2500 to rare bespoke and one-off creations.
Throughout the book, Jarre combines technical knowledge with personal anecdotes and his own perspective on the development of electronic music.
For collectors, musicians and enthusiasts, it offers an unusually personal perspective on the machines behind the music.
A Remarkable Journey Through Electronic Music
Jean-Michel Jarre has spent more than five decades at the forefront of electronic music.
From Oxygène and Équinoxe to his pioneering large-scale audiovisual performances, his work has consistently explored the relationship between music, technology and visual experience.
Machines brings that lifelong fascination with technology into focus, documenting the instruments and innovations that helped create the electronic soundscape we know today.
For a Jarre collector, it is an especially fitting publication to own in signed form.
Book Details
Artist: Jean-Michel Jarre
Title: Machines: A History of Electronic Music
Format: Hardback – Signed Edition
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication Date: 29 October 2026
ISBN: 9780500031506
Language: English
Signed by: Jean-Michel Jarre
Condition
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