UN DRAME MUSICAL INSTANTANÉ
Live Shows
GRRR 3034 online, 1978/1998

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n°1 / Un théâtre de dernier ordre - 1978 / 48'54
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, vocals, piano, flutes, jaw-harp, melodica, violin, hou-kin, mandoline, Pakistanese banjo, tapes, percussion...
Bernard Vitet - trumpet, flugel horn, multiphonic French horn, reeds, vocals, violin, piano, percussion...
Francis Gorgé - guitars, bass, violin, percussion...
Françoise Achard - vocals, flute, samovar, percussion...
Based on a text by Josef von Sternberg
Recorded live at Nouveau Carré Sylvia Montfort on April 29 1978
n°2 / Dernier blues avant de mourir - 1987 / 8'20
Jean-Jacques Birgé - sampler, piano express, jaw harp
Bernard Vitet - piano, trumpet
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
Bis after Dr. Caligari
Live at FIMAV (Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville), Radio Canada, Québec, October 1 1987
n°3 / Trou - 1982 / 44'13
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, jaw harps, birdcalls, tapes, percussion, piano, harmonica, vocals...
Bernard Vitet - trumpet, flugel horn, vocals, piano...
Francis Gorgé - acoustic & electric guitar
Hélène Sage - flutes, vocals, double bass, toys, woodwinds, percussion...
Trou, inspired by Edgar A. Poe, has been composed for XIIe Biennale de Paris, section Voice & Sound, November 1982
n°4 / Paris est un maelström où tout se perd - 1982 / 11'00
Jean-Jacques Birgé - piano, water
Bernard Vitet - trumpet, reed trumpet
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
Recorded at Bar Bleu, Théâtre de Chaillot, Paris, 1982
n°5 / Changement de programme 1 - 1979 / 28'30
Jean-Jacques Birgé - flute, alto sax, jazzoflute, synthesizer, jaw harps, pocket trumpet, tapes, piano, mouth organ, lion's roar, violin...
Bernard Vitet - reed trumpet, piano, trumpet, multiphonic French horn, flugel horn, vocals, violin, alto sax...
Francis Gorgé - acoustic & electric guitar, melophone, electric bass, violin...
Musical theater show at ARC de Clichy, Festival of Improvised Music, December 1 1979
with a film edited by JJB, a huge TV screen, Wood light, white shirts, three solos, trapeze, BV's mask...
n°6 / Changement de programme 2 - 1979 / 18'08
Idem
n°7 / Bloyd's Advertising - 1988 / 0'49

Animated showcase #4 of the Museum during 20 000 lieues sous les mers on the first barge of La Péniche-Opéra
Bernard Vitet - vocals, trumpet
Jean-Jacques Birgé - vocals, submarine
Francis Gorgé - submarine
Paris, October 1988

n°8 / Machiavel Meeting - 1998 / 11'49

Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, Theremin
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn
Yves Robert - trombone
Philippe Deschepper - guitar
Hervé Legeay - guitar
Didier Petit - cello
Olivier Koechlin - double bass
Étienne Auger - groovebox
DJ Nem - decks
Edited by Agnès Desnos and mixed by JJB
Recorded live, Paris, November 18 1998 live at Glaz'Art

n°9 / Le tissage du byssus - 1988 / 2'49
Animated showcase #5
Mecanic music for synthesizers and samplers
Paris, October 1988
n°10 / Giant Octopus - 1988 / 7'11
Animated showcase #6
Bernard Vitet - trumpets
Jean-Jacques Birgé - effects
Paris, October 1988
n°11 / Fish Mania - 1988 / 9'40
Animated showcase #9
Francis Gorgé - vocals
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthétiseur
Paris, October 1988
n°12 / 20 000 feet under the sea - 1988 / 9'39
Animated showcase #11 of the Museum during 20 000 lieues sous les mers on the first barge of La Péniche-Opéra
Bernard Vitet - brake
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer
Francis Gorgé - guitar, sampler
Paris, October 1988
n°13 / Démographie galopante - 1988 / 1'06
Animated showcase #14
Jean-Jacques Birgé - vocals
Bernard Vitet
- vocals
Francis Gorgé - rhythm machine, synthesizer
Paris, October 1988
n°14 / Blood of the Whales - 1988 / 1'28
Animated showcases #12/13
Jean-Jacques Birgé - ambience
Bernard Vitet - animal cry
Francis Gorgé - fish mouth
Paris, October 1988
n°15 / Reproduction interdite - 1988 / 3'18
Animated showcase #10
Jean-Jacques Birgé - plumberphonics
Paris, October 1988
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