Comrades and Pals
This version 1 of drame.org has been replaced by version 2 on December 5 2010.
Ciné-Romand is a new site by Françoise ROMAND.
A new page about double-album CD+DVD Défense de (Birgé Gorgé Shiroc) on Francis Gorgé's site, assez vu.
Françoise Romand is preparing her third DVD, Ciné-Romand, from her installation mixing theater, new technologies and cinema with her own films and participation of actors and neighbours in appartments in Paris. A first version had been shown at Centre Pompidou (Cinéma Numérique, Cahiers du Cinéma, Festival d'Automne). |
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Narrative essay, Françoise Romand's new film, Thème Je (The Camera I), is considered by Rosenbaum as one of the best films of 2004 (Village Voice). The film has been shown at New York Video Festival (Lincoln Center), Toronto Film Festival (Canada), Jeonju Film Festival (Korea)... Next on DVD ! On the Web, 2 minutes every day on themeje.org ! |
Young acrobat Elsa Birgé will come back with The True-Fake Wedding and La Caravane Passe on July 2 2010 at Cabaret Sauvage, Paris.
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In 2009, the new live show of Somnambules is played by Jean-Jacques BIRGÉ, Sacha GATTINO and Nicolas CLAUSS. |
Other activities by Antoine Schmitt are on his site, Gratin.org |
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Paris Connection : essays, interviews, and links to six Parisian web.artists: Jean-Jacques Birgé, Nicolas Clauss, Frédéric Durieu, Jean-Luc Lamarque, Antoine Schmitt, and servolvalve. Produced by Jim Andrews and Nancy Paterson (Coriolisweb, Canada), Helen Thorington (Turbulence, USA), Regina Célia Pinto (Museo do Essencial e do Além Disso, Brazil) and Roberto Simanowski (Dichtung-digital.org, Berlin). Presented in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese with the help of fifteen people from seven countries.
| 2 000 000 visits on lecielestbleu.org ! Discover the interactive animals from the Zoo : Flying Giraffes, Lucanus Cervus, Mosquito, Equus and Pinguins ! Site of the Week on CNet, LeCielEstBleu is Frédéric Durieu (picture), Kristine Malden and Jean-Jacques Birgé . Try Puppet Tool to animate your own puppets ! Now 3 new musical modules, Big Bang, Forever and PixelbyPixel, which all belong to Time (Veronica Holguin did the graphics of Forever, Kristine Malden participated to the conception of PixelbyPixel). Now on LeCielEstBleu and on site of the Cité de la Musique, La Pâte à Son, an amazing machine to compose music. Recently exhibited in Seoul (Korea). Birgé and Durieu are actually building a new machine, FluxTune. |
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Accordion Michèle Buirette (ex Trio Pied de Poule) plays actually solo or duo with Lors Jouin. After Le Canapé de Caméla, where she's also singing and playing on texts by Queneau, Prévert, Desnos, Michaux, she issued her new CD Île et elle... |
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| Hélène SAGE has composed the music of a ballet by Heddy Maalem, "Un champ de forces", video by Samuel Dravet, actually in Italy and France, so is the duet "Le monde à l'envers", with Anne-Marie Charles on texts by judge Eva Joly (the Elf affair!) and Louisa Paulin. Another show by Hélène Sage, "Humons la conditienne" (video-clip), on texts by Raymond Queneau... Assez Vu is a new site by Francis Gorgé and Dominique Meens with extracts of their shows and a few rare documents on the Drame ! Francis seems also to have worked on Macloma Clowns' site ;-) Buzz : some musicians have been remixing Un D.M.I. : Nem, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Le Tone, Aki Onda, Yoshihiro Hanno (Multiphonic Ensemble) and a few others... When will it come out ?... Les Allumés du Jazz (actually 36 independent French record labels) are now 128 rue du Bourg Belé, 72000 Le Mans, France (tel : 33 2 43 28 31 30 - fax : 33 2 43 28 38 55). Ask for the free Journal every season and order by mail more than 1000 CDs at a cheap price... |
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Ève Risser et Antonin Tri Hoang ont intégré le nouvel Orchestre national de Jazz sous la direction artistique de Daniel Yvinec.
Etienne Mineur (incandescence) is graphic designer of the CD-Rom Sigmund Freud, Archaeology of the Unconscious for Nofrontiere (EuroPrix 99, EMMA 99, Milia d'Or 2000...) and the CD-Rom Marcel Proust for Hyptique and Gallimard. He has been designing the site of Issey Miyake for years (Flash Festival Award 2005) and works now with Chanel. He is actually designing Françoise Romand's Call me Madame DVD cover.
Etienne Auger has designed Machiavel and the reissue of the first album of Un Drame Musical Instantané, Trop d'adrénaline nuit.
Birgé, Fred Durieu and Antoine Schmitt have joined him to work on various projects among which the site of Adidas and CD-Roms.
We often write about Hyptique without thanking its captain, Pierre Lavoie . In 1995, Pierre was the first one to invite us to multimedia landscape, and today he remains a close friend whom with we are still inventing and creating new projects, CD-Roms, web sites and interactive exhibitions. Actually : the site of the National Natural History Museum, interactive computers for Juno Beach - a Canadian museum, a big exhibition on money at the PASS in Belgium, the reissue of the collection of CD-Rom Passeport, a film by Valéry Faidherbe for Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers...
You must order the fantastic CD-Rom ALPHABET
(Grand Prix Möbius International, Prix Multimédia SACD,
Best adaptation in Bologna, 
First Prize Package MMCA in Japan, GigaMaus
in Germany, First
Prize CineKid in Holland... and in the USA : Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum
Award, Parents’ Choice Silver Honor, Discovery.com Award of Excellence,
Software Magic Award - Parenting Magazine, Children’s Software Review
All Star Award, Choosing Children’s Software – Best Pick, Best
Software Pick- Edutaining Kids.com !!!) created by Jean-Jacques Birgé ,
Frédéric Durieu and Murielle Lefèvre
from the book by Kveta Pacovska, produced by NHK Educational. You can
find it from the States on Amazon.com.
Entirely generative and interactive, you can play either with the
mouse, the keyboard or a microphone.
Comrades and friends, write to us : info(at)drame.org
