BIRGÉ
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GRRR 3030 online, 1965/2019

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Also on Radio Gâtine "Les fans de radis" through
(June 2017, also on Radio Pulsar in May 2020)

tracklist / infos / donwloads
n°1 / Les travailleurs du disque dans le miroir des allumettes - 2019 / 4'07

Jean-Jacques Birgé – keyboard
Amandine Casadamont– field recording
Sacha Gattino - whistling
Sylvain Lemêtre – percussion
Sylvain Rifflet – tenor sax
Conceived, recorded, edited and mixed by JJB
at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, December 2018
for the collective LP of Les Allumés du Jazz
"Aux Ronds-Points"
with the help of all his comrades who have all participated to the composition
Field recording recorded in Transylvania

n°2 / Driving Through Darkness Lights Off - 2017 / 5'56

Jean-Jacques Birgé plays all instruments
except bass and drums he has transformed.
Remix of a piece by Contolled Bleeding
Double-CD Carving Songs
Blog

n°3 / Improvisation with Birgitte Lyregaard 1 - 2010 / 2'36
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizers, effects
Birgitte Lyregaard - vocals
This short piece features the soundtrack of Formule, a text by JJB in magazine d'ici là n°10 (December 2013), publie.net
Recorded at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, December 10 2010
n°4 / Improvisation with Birgitte Lyregaard 2 - 2010 / 6'24
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizers, effects
Birgitte Lyregaard - vocals
Recorded at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, December 10 2010
n°5 / Improvisation with Birgitte Lyregaard 3 - 2010 / 9'40
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n°6 / Portrait of Jean-Jacques Birgé - 2008 / 7'00
Portrait of Jean-Jacques Birgé by Émilie Mousset
Article on Blog
2008
n°7 / The Beginning of an End - 2004 / 4'06

Sarajevo Suite et Fin, Part 1
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, computer (samples composed by J-J Birgé et Bernard Vitet for Balanescu String Quartet)
Pascale Labbé - vocals
Sarajevo, the beginning of an end. Ten years later, the world has to bear the worst remix one can imagine. The string quartet "Sniper Allée" is a pretext to an anti-mondialist blues, comosed with images of ever and sounds from nowhere.
Libretto, music, archives images : Jean-Jacques Birgé
Images, interactive programmation : Nicolas Clauss
Created at 15th Jubilee of Festival 38e Rugissants, Grenoble
Thanks : Bernard Vitet, le Balanescu String Quartet, Richard Hayon, Patrice Barrat, Corinne Léonet, Benoît Thibergien
Recorded at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, March 6 2004

n°8 / Lucifer - 2004 / 4'16
Sarajevo Suite et Fin, Part 2
Pascale Labbé - vocals
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthsizer, computer (samples from Richard Hayon)
Recorded at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, March 6 2004
n°9 / Worst World Remix - 2004 / 4'37
Sarajevo Suite et Fin, Part 3
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizers
Recorded at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, March 6 2004
n°10 / Loya - 2000 / 2'30
Trailer of a film by Thomas Cheysson who did not do it
n°11 / P-Toy - 2007 / 3'36
Jean-Jacques Birgé - machines
Frank Vigroux - machines
Recorded by Jean-Jacques Birgé at Studio GRRR, July 2007
Mixed by Frank Vigroux at D'autres Cordes, February 2008
n°12 / PPG - 2007 / 4'53
Jean-Jacques Birgé - machines
Frank Vigroux - machines
Recorded by Jean-Jacques Birgé at Studio GRRR, July 2007
Mixed by Frank Vigroux at D'autres Cordes, February 2008
n°13 / Plomberie - 2005 / 2'40
Composed with La pâte à son, application conceived with Frédéric Durieu for La Cité de La Musique
Nouveaux Dossiers de l'Audiovisuel n°3, INA, 2005
n°14 / Hantée - 2005 / 2'46
Composed with the sound of interactive pictures of Somnambules conceived with painter Nicolas Clauss
Nouveaux Dossiers de l'Audiovisuel n°3, INA, 2005
n°15 / Roll Over Composer - 2005 / 2'02
Composed with interactive module PixelByPixel conceived with Frédéric Durieu (LeCielEstBleu.org)
Nouveaux Dossiers de l'Audiovisuel n°3, INA, 2005
n°16 / Unidentified : toi - 1975 / 16'09
Jean-Jacques Birgé - Michelsonne piano, ARP 2600 synthesizer, tape
One might recognize the beginning on Le réveil from LP Défense de.
Recorded on February 22 1975, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°17 / Inanga Klung - 1998 / 1'46
Jean-Jacques Birgé - inanga
1998
n°18 / First Date (A) - 1983 / 11'44

Michèle Buirette - accordion
Jean-Jacques Birgé
- synthesizers, trumpet, flute, vocals
Recorded by JJB, 7 rue de l'Espérance, Paris

n°19 / First Date (B) - 1983 / 8'13
Michèle Buirette - accordion
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizers, trombone, trumpet
Recorded by JJB, 7 rue de l'Espérance, Paris
n°20 / Insectes - 1972 / 2'05
Jean-Jacques Birgé - electronics
with Philippe Danton, Thierry Dehesdin, Antoine Guerreiro, Luc Barnier, Michaëla Watteaux, playing insects and jungle
December 1972
n°21 / Tendresse - 1998 / 1'06
A small montage for Cacharel in 1998 around It's all so quiet with my daughter Elsa
n°22 / Les chemins de la perfection - 1987 / 16'21
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ambiences, synthesizer, sampler, percussion
Music for Sainte Thérèse d'Avila's text read by Ludmila Mikaël (cassette Ed. Ducaté)
Enregistré au Studio GRRR, 8 septembre 1987
n°23 / M ? -1985 / 4'25
Rehearsal recording by Jean-Jacques Birgé on M (Atari) in the 80's
n°24 / Brûlees - 1968/1972 / 4'26
Jean-Jacques Birgé electronics
- Part 1 with Francis Gorgé, beginning 1971
- Part 2 with Alexandre Martin, Jean-Jacques Imerglik, Michel Poilzzi, Jean-Pierre Laplanche, Agnés Birgé, end 1968
Mixed in December 1972
n°25 / M.I.H. - 1975 / 4'37
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer and editing for an audiovisual about newpaper L'Humanité directed by Michel Séméniako
Production Unicité, September 2 1975
n°26 / Jusqu'à l'effacement - 1975 / 2'02
Jean-Jacques Birgé - saxophone alto et synthétiseur
Recorded 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt, September 6 1975
n°27 / Le feu aux vagues - 1972 / 10'19
Jean-Jacques Birgé - tape recorder, koto
Antoine Guerreiro - zither, percussion
Eric Longuet - guitar
Philippe Danton - percussion
Thierry Dehesdin - percussion
Michaëla Watteaux - percussion
Luc Barnier - percussion
December 1972
n°28 / Casual - 2010 / 1'05
Article sur French Blog
2010
n°29 / Young Dynamite - 2004 / 2'46
Composed, recorded and produced by Jean-Jacques Birgé at Studio GRRR, July 2004, with La Pâte à Son, interactive musical toy conceived by Jean-Jacques Birgé, Frédéric Durieu, Thierry Laval, Kristine Malden for La Cité de la Musique, Paris.
The illustration of the booklet is the score, which might be considered paradoxical for this tribute to Louis T. Hardin who lost sight after an accidental explosion when he was 16…
Enregistré initialement sur la compilation CD A Tribute to Moondog (Trace 022, France)
n°30 / La part des choses - 1983 / 35'47
Carte Blanche to Un Drame Musical Instantané pendant 4 jours
Day 3 - Jean-Jacques Birgé invites friends to play for his birthday!
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, radiophonie, trombone, pocket trumpet
Michèle Buirette - accordion
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
Bernard Vitet - narration, trompette, flugel horn
Hélène Sage - stool, double-bass
Françoise Degeorges - narration, Bach on piano
Magali Viallefond - vocals, oboe, English horn
Youenn Le Berre - flute, bassoon, bagpipes
Jean Querlier - oboe, English horn
Jouk Minor - flamenco guitar
Christine Buri-Herscher - paper costumes
Live at 28 rue Dunois, November 5 1983
n°31 / Il fit abus - 1976 / 6'38
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer, vocals
Sylka Sauvion - vocals, bidet, bells
March 30 1976 at 88
n°32 / Neighbours - 1973 / 18'04
Soundtrack for Buster Keaton's film
Sound exercise, Idhec, 2nd grade
supervised by Geneviève Louveau
with
Jean-Jacques Birgé - zither, organ, kena, jaw harp, piano, percussion, electronics, sampling, vocals, music and editing
Bernard Mollerat - vocals and editing
Philippe Labat - acoustic guitar
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
Eric Longuet - electric guitar
Antoine Guerreiro - violin, darboukas, choir
Marc Lichtig - drums
Luc Barnier - choir
Philippe Danton - choir
Recorded by Bernard Mollerat on Nagra IV February 24 and 26 1973
at L'Œuf Hyaloïde and Théâtre du Ranelagh
n°33 / Intervention au milieu d'une prière en miettes - 1972 / 1'51
Jean-Jacques Birgé - koto, percussion
Antoine Guerreiro - zither, percussion
Eric Longuet - guitar, percussion
Philippe Danton - percussion
Luc Barnier - percussion
Michaëla Watteaux - percussion
Thierry Dehesdin - percussion
December 1972
n°34 / Envoi à Bernard Vitet, Sud-Ouest #1 - 1977 / 29'28
A few months after the foundation of Un Drame Musical Instantané, and next day after the radio show Un musicien dans la nuit, Jean-Jacques Birgé who is 24 ans drives away for a month to work as audiovisiual technician. From May 22 to 25 1977 he records his thoughts, cuts radiophonies, plays flute and alto sax in the forest... He sends the cassette to Bernard Vitet from Albi.
n°35 / Envoi à Bernard Vitet, Sud-Ouest #2 - 1977 / 52'49

Pentecost week-end. Jean-Jacques Birgé records a second cassette near Lacapelle-Biron in Lot-et-Garonne one week after first one. He sends pieces by Braxton, Puccini's Tosca and Brückner. Before his commentaries on May 21 France Musique redio show one can listen to a radiophone with Radio Moscow. In the woods he practices flute and alto sax.

n°36 / Les trois petits cochons - 1975 / 26'05
Jean-Jacques Birgé - alto sax, ARP 2600 synthesizer, flute, bells, stylophone
with Philippe Labat, vocals, bells
Recorded on May 26 mai 1975 in Reux, remixed on May 28 on ARP at 88
n°37 / The Lost Object - 1971 / 5'26
Soundtrack of Jean-Jacques Birgé's film
Exercise Idhec 1st grade
End of 1971
n°38 / First Step, First Tape - 1968 / 12'17
Jean-Jacques Birgé - electronics, tapes, percussion, flutes, vocals
Michel Polizzi - percussion, vocals
Pierre Bensard - percussion, bongos
Alexandre Martin - percussion, flutes, vocals
Jean-Jacques Imerglik - harmonica, vocals
Jean-Pierre Laplanche - vocals
Agnès Birgé - vocals
1968, Boulogne-Billancourt
n°39 / 1965 / 2'41
Jean-Jacques Birgé - piano
"It's the oldest recording I've ever made playing. I was 12 and had never done any music. The piano was in my little sister's bedroom. She taught me a few things so I could help her when she was singing parts of 'My Fair Lady'. However I recognize my style in this short improvisation!"
n°40 / TROD - 2017 / 7'36

in Carving Songs by Controlled Bleeding
(Paul Lemos et Mike Bazini)
with Jean-Jacques Birgé - H3000, vocals, Tibetan bowl, bull roarers, bestiary (grizzli, alligator, cobra, lions)

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