Brian May and Jean-Michel Jarre in concert in Bratislava

The Queen guitarist and the French electronic music pioneer headlined the Starmus festival in the Slovak capital.

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00:00 Jean-Michel Jarre illuminated the sky of Bratislava during his concert "Bridge from the Future".

00:10 The French pioneer of electronic music was headlining the Starmus Festival in the Slovak

00:15 capital. The event attracted over 100,000 people.

00:29 By his side, Queen guitarist and co-founder of the festival, Brian May.

00:40 Jean-Michel Jarre, who describes the fears surrounding artificial intelligence as unfounded,

00:46 used AI to design the show's pyrotechnics and laser games of his performance. The lasers

00:51 were also visible from neighboring Austria and Hungary.

00:57 Co-founded by astrophysicist Garak Israelyan and Queen guitarist Brian May, the Starmus

01:02 Festival was designed to bring art and science together. Also on the agenda, conferences

01:08 with astronauts and scientists talking about climate change, AI and cyber security. All

01:13 until the 17th of May.

01:26 [CHEERING]

01:29 (whooshing)