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PRESS

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ARCHIVES

About JJB :
34 pages on Jean-Jacques Birgé in Sextant #3 (June 2007) with an unissued CD...
4 pages in SVM Mac (Nov. 2003 : 1 2 3 4) and a long interview about sound design in Inrockuptibles (Dec.2000)... One page on Paris Connection in Libération (02/23/2003)... One page in Télérama about Machiavel (12/23/1998)... A page in Nouvel Observateur about Sarajevo (11/10/1994)...

About Nabaz'mob :
Press (papers, TV, radio...)

About the Drame :
a blindfold test with Stéphane Ollivier in Jazz Magazine (Jan. 1999 : 1 2), another one on Vacarme (summer 1997), one page by Fara C on Le K in L'Humanité (02/07/1991), 4 pages on Un d.m.i. by Francis Marmande in Jazz Magazine (Jan. 1990: 1 2 3 4), one page by Francis Marmande in Le Monde (04/27/1989), a self-portrait of Un d.m.i. in Jazz Magazine (Jan. 1978 : 1 2).
Video, but French speaking: an interview at Numer02 on Télérama.fr (April 2002) and a 1h30 lecture at Kawenga in Montpellier (Feb. 2003)
More to come, sorry, these are in French... There are hundreds of articles in the archives of the Drame ;-) It takes a long time to look for them, choose the most significant and scan them...
But there are also a few English articles on each record in GRRR catalogue...

SEVERAL ARTICLES

Every day, a new article on Birgé's blog (this time, only in French)

Magazine Sextant publishes a 34 pages file on J-J.Birgé, surrounded by N.Clauss, A.Schmitt et B.Vitet (June 2007).

On CD by J-J Birgé and writer Michel Houellebecq, an article by Guy Darol in Jazz Mag (mai 2007) reproduced here with others in Classica and Improjazz.

Articles on reissue of double-album (CD+DVD) Défense de Jazz Mag, Jazz Man, Octopus (March 2004), Coda, Classica Répertoire (June 2004), and in English on Internet (Prof. ~.A.~'S Sounds from Another World, AllMusic, Paris Transatlantic, Shedivine, Brainwashed, Dusted Magazine, Aquarius, Progressive Ears) or in Italian (Movimentiprog)...

Article on La Pâte à Son in Intra Muros, international magazine of design.

Articles written by Birgé

Many articles on Muziq and still more on Allumés du Jazz from #1 until #23 (available on site as pdf).

In Jazz magazine, another long article on how French jazz musicians do earn their living, L'envers du décor (April 2004), and a testimony on Frank Zappa, Les M.O.I., l'émoi et moi (Dec. 2003) and Pascale Labbé, à la folie (Oct. 2004). 5 episodes on ONJ (Oct. 2008 to Feb. 2009).

In Les Nouveaux Dossiers de l'Audiovisuel (INA, Feb.-March 2005), 3 pages called Musique interactive, ou l'art du partage.

LECTURES (in French) :
A 1h40' video of a lecture by Birgé on sound design, at Kawenga in Montpellier, is on line on Sufco site.
A nice presentation of a lecture at Master2mmi - Paris Sorbonne (February 2008)

Contact : info(at)drame.org