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Jean-Jacques Birgé

Jean-Jacques Birgé / Un Drame Musical Instantané

About Me


Jean-Jacques Birgé is born in Paris in 1952.
Website (English version) : www.drame.org ===================================================
Daily Blog (French, but instant English Google translation !) : www.drame.org/blog ===================================================
Interactive modules
www.somnambules.net , www.flyingpuppet.com and www.lecielestbleu.com ===================================================
Actual live shows
Nabaz'mob , opera for 100 smart rabbits, with Antoine SCHMITT
Duo with Nicolas CLAUSS
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At once music composer (Un Drame Musical Instantané which with he records about 30 albums, as well as for movies, theater, dance, radio), film director (La Nuit du Phoque, Sarajevo a Street Under Siege, The Sniper), multimedia author (Carton, Machiavel, Alphabet), sound designer (exhibitions, CD-Roms, websites, smart objects, etc.), founder of record label GRRR (1975 !), Birgé conceives a passion for images and sounds, and particularly for their potential to produce sense and create emotions. ===================================================
New CD in February 2007 : Michel Houellebecq & Jean-Jacques Birgé "Etablissement d'un ciel d'alternance" (GRRR 2026, dist. Orkhêstra Int. / Les Allumés du Jazz) ===================================================
His recent researches deal with generativity and interactivity which offer the player to discover each time a new interpretation. His soundscapes for exhibitions-shows (Grande Halle de La Villette, Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, Osaka and Omuta in Japan...) also present spaces in perpetual movement.
Moviemaker by training, inveterate improviser, composer through the force of circumstances, apostle of collective work, specialist of synthesis music instruments, initiator of the return of live music on silent movies, he considers sound as a counterpoint to pictures and dialogue, an extraordinary off-stage landscape and a wide opened window to imagination.
Birgé is famous smart rabbit Nabaztag's sound designer. ===================================================
Grand Prix Möbius International, twice Prix SACD Interactive Creation, Prix SCAM Best Internet Site, Prix Centre Pompidou Flash Festival, Prix de la Creation New Medias in Videoformes, Seoul Net Festival Special Jury Award, Prix Ars Electronica Net Vision / Net Excellence Honorary Mention, British Academy Award of Film & TV Arts, Locarno Jury Award, Victoires de la Musique Nomination, etc.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/30/2006
Band Website: drame.org
Band Members: Recently Ève RISSER, Yuko OSHIMA (Donkey Monkey), Etienne BRUNET, Eric ÉCHAMPARD, Didier PETIT, Pascale LABBÉ, Nicolas CLAUSS played live with Birgé (Somnambules) and Franck VIGROUX has been recording with him. ======================================
Un Drame Musical Instantané were Jean-Jacques BIRGÉ (synthesizers and all kind of instruments), Francis GORGÉ (guitar and machines ; left the band in 1992) and Bernard VITET (trumpet, violin, etc.)
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+ depending on the period : Hélène SAGE, Gérard SIRACUSA, DJ NEM, Philippe DESCHEPPER, Didier PETIT, Pascale LABBÉ, Eric ÉCHAMPARD, Frank ROYON LE MÉE, Michèle BUIRETTE, Dominique FONFRÈDE, Jean QUERLIER, Youenn LE BERRE, Magali VIALLEFOND, Patrice PETITDIDIER, Philippe LEGRIS, Jacques MARUGG, Jouk MINOR, Bruno GIRARD, Bruno BARRÉ, Nathalie BAUDOIN, Kent CARTER, Geneviève CABANNES, Denis COLIN, LÉ QUAN Ninh, Yves ROBERT, Hervé LEGEAY, etc.
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+ guests : Brigitte FONTAINE, Henri TEXIER, Valentin CLASTRIER, Joëlle LÉANDRE, Michel MUSSEAU, Stéphane BONNET, Jean-Louis CHAUTEMPS, György KURTAG, Luc FERRARI, Carlos ZINGARO, René LUSSIER, Colette MAGNY, Raymond BONI, Didier MALHERBE, Pablo CUECO, Michael RIESSLER, Laura SEATON, Mary WOOTEN, François TUSQUES, Michel GODARD, Louis SCLAVIS, Vinko GLOBOKAR, Dee Dee BRIDGEWATER, Richard BOHRINGER, Michael LONSDALE, Daniel LALOUX, Claude PIÉPLU, Michel HOUELLEBECQ, Alain MONVOISIN, BALANESCU String Quartet, Steve ARGÜELLES, Benoît DELBECQ, etc.
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Recently
François CORNELOUP, Jean-Louis POMMIER, Hervé LEGEAY, David VENITUCCI, Ronan LE BARS, Eric ECHAMPARD, Régis HUBY, Guillaume ROY, Irène LECOQ, Alain GRANGE have recorded with Birgé and Vitet.
Influences: Any.
Sounds Like:

Record Label: GRRR
Type of Label: Indie