Zermatt - 1992

In less than ten years the Swiss watchmaker, Swatch, sold 100 million watches, and began a collaboration with Jean Michel Jarre in 1992 in order to celebrate this success; Jarre designed the first ever Swatch with a musical alarm.

Jean Michel Jarre also designed two multimedia shows which took place on 25 and 26 September, 1992, at Zermatt in Southern Switzerland, ten kilometres from the Italian border, painting in music and light the Matter Horn and the surrounding snow-capped mountains.

In less than ten years Swiss watch company Swatch sold 100 million watches and began a collaboration with Jean Michel Jarre in 1992 in order to celebrate this success. Jarre designed a Swatch watch and also composed the melody for the alarm in it. Later other famous artists such as Philip Glass, Peter Gabriel, and Nam June Paik also composed Swatch melodies.

But the crowning glory were two shows which took place September 25 and 26, 1992, at Zermatt in southern Switzerland, ten kilometres from the Italian border. They were not actual concerts, however - there was no stage on which Jean Michel Jarre would appear. The event focused very much on the magnificent lightshow illuminating the mountains as well as fireworks shooting off into the sky.

1. Swatch Countdown

2. Une Alarme Qui Swingue - Overture

3. Equinoxe IV (Mix)

4. Revolution (Mix)

5. Zoolookologie (Mix)

6. Oxygene IV

7. Magnetic Fields 2 (Mix)

8. Second Rendez-Vous

9. Une Alarme Qui Swingue – Rappel