Jean-Jacques Birgé
Music composer, film director, multimedia author, improviser, specialist of realtime synthesis instruments, artistic director...

Website (English version): www.drame.org
Blog (French only): www.drame.org/blog
Interactive modules:www.machiavel.net, www.somnambules.net,
www.flyingpuppet.com and www.lecielestbleu.org
Opera for 100 rabbits: www.nabazmob.com

BIOGRAPHY

Birth and rebirth
1952 Rue des Martyrs, Paris
1968 May in the streets of Paris / Initiatic trip through the USA
1985 Birth of Elsa
1993 Siege of Sarajevo
2003 Meets Françoise Romand

Studies and Teaching
1971-1974 I.D.H.E.C. Diplomas (Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques)
1974-1977 Assistant of Jean Rollin, René Clément, Jean-André Fieschi
1975-1978 Teaching sound score ( I.D.H.E.C.)
1978-1979 Direction of Studies ( I.D.H.E.C.)
2000-2008 Teaching sound design (Ecole des Gobelins, INA, Paris 1, Paris VIII,Autograf, Arts Décos d'Amiens and Strasbourg, Beaux-Arts de Quimper, IRCAM, CNAM, ENJMIN, ENSCI, Pôle Atlantique, Sufco, ECM, Céci, MediaLab/Finland, IESAV/Liban, SMCQ/Canada, Femis/Germany, Pilots/Spain, Nabi/Korea...)

Important dates
1965 Electroacoustic music in real time and screening pictures
1969 Foundation of light-show H Lights.
1973 Synthesizer ARP 2600
1974 La nuit du phoque (film)
1976 First Radiophonie (plunderphonics)
1975 Foundation of record label GRRR with Défense de
1976 Foundation of trio Un Drame Musical Instantané
1976 Live music with silent movies
1981 Foundation of Un Drame Musical Instantané's orchestra
1985 Live texts with music on stage
1986 Use of the first popular samplers
1987 First new music cd published in France
1987 Llive zapping on a huge screen
1993 The Sniper (film)
1995 Il était une fois la fête foraine (exhibition-show)
1997 Carton, first creative cd-rom published in France
1997 Internet site
1998 Machiavel (cd-rom)
1999 International success of cd-rom Alphabet
2001 Interactive modules on flyingpuppet
2002 Interactive modules on lecielestbleu
2003 Somnambules (site)
2005 Sound design for rabbit Nabaztag
2005 Creation of a French daily Blog 7 days a week
2006 Opera Nabaz'mob for 100 smart rabbits
2008 End of Un Drame Musical Instantané
2009 Prix Ars Eletronica Award of Distinction Digital Musics

Un Drame Musical Instantané
Un D.M.I. is well known for live performances on silent movies (26 films since 1976, among which “The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari”, “La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc”, “Man with a camera”, “L'argent”, “La glace à trois faces”, “Fall of House Usher”, the 5 episodes of “Fantômas”, “Vampires”, “The strike”, “Waxfiguren Kabinett”, “Häxan”, “A propos de Nice”...), lectures in music (Edgar A. Poe, Michel Tournier and Jules Verne with Frank Royon Le Mée, “Le K” by Dino Buzzati with Richard Bohringer, Michael Lonsdale and Daniel Laloux, “J'accuse” by Emile Zola with R.Bohringer...), hörspiel on radio and on stage (an opera-bouffe on a libretto by Régis Franc, a féérie at the Péniche-Opéra...), and many shows where improvisation and composition mix, where electro-acoustic treatments are incorporated with traditional instruments to build evocative musical fictions. Their recorded musical theater features more than twenty albums (distribution Orkhêstra International & Les Allumés du Jazz).

Multimedia
Author of CD-Roms “Carton” (1997), “Machiavel” (with Antoine Schmitt, 1998), “Alphabet” (with Frédéric Durieu, Murielle Lefèvre, from Kvèta Pacovská, 1999), and many interactive artworks on the Web on lecielestbleu.com, flyingpuppet.com and somnambules.net...
Sound designer and music composer for CD-Roms in cultural and industrial areas.


MAIN REALISATIONS

CD-ROM & DVD
• “Au Cirque Avec Seurat”, music and sound design (Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Gallimard - Hyptique), 1996
• “Carton”, Enhanced-CD by Birgé-Vitet with photograph Michel Séméniako and Hyptique (GRRR), 1997
• “Fenêtre sur l’Art”, sound design of the whole series (Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Vilo-Hyptique), 1998
• “Machiavel”, CD Audio/Rom of Un d.m.i. featuring an interactive work by Jean-Jacques Birgé and Antoine Schmitt, vision critique et sensible de la planète, zapping of 111 video loops (GRRR),1998
• “AZ”, music and sound design (Lux Modernis, Dauphin d'Or), 1998
• “Firmenich”, music and sound design (Lux Modernis, Dauphin d'Or), 1998
• “EuroPrix 98”, music and sound design for European Multimedia trophees :
CD-Rom, gala evening and TV show with Étienne Mineur (No Frontiere), 1998
• “Mon Atelier De Noël”, music and sound design (Hachette-Hyptique), 1998
• “Cahiers Passeport”, série de 7 CD-Roms, sound design (Hachette-Hyptique), 1998-2003
• “La Tendresse” de Cacharel, sound design (Lux Modernis), 1999
• “Alphabet”, interactive script, sound design and music (Dada Media-NHK Educational), 1999 Grand Prix Möbius International 2000, Prix Multimédia de la SACD 2000, Coup de coeur Trophées SVM Mac, Prix de la meilleure adpatation au Festival de Bologne en Italie, La Mention Spéciale au Salon du Livre de Jeunesse à Montreuil, First Prize CineKid en Hollande, GigaMaus en Allemagne, First Prize Package MMCA au Japon, et aux USA : Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award 2002, Parents’ Choice Silver Honor 2001, Discovery.com Award of Excellence 2001, Software Magic Award Parenting Magazine 2001, Children’s Software Review All Star Award 2001, Choosing Children’s Software Best Pick 2001, Best Software Pick Edutaining Kids.com 2001
• “Le Louvre”, sound interface DVD-Rom (Montparnasse Multimédia), 1999, Fleche d’or
• “Le Grand Jeu”, music and sound design (Hyptique-APCR-Buschet-Chastel), 2000
• “Sethi et la couronne d’Egypte”, music and sound design (Montparnasse Multimédia), 2000
• “Mr Men”, 8 CD-Roms, music and sound design (Hyptique-Emme), 2001-2002
• “Salto & Zelia”, 3 CD-Roms Atout P'tit Clic, sound design (Hyptique-Hachette), 2002-2004 + DVDi, 2005
• “1+1”, music of film & dvd-rom, (INA-Hyptique) 2002, Prix Möbius Sciences 2002, Prix du Jury Möbius International 2002,
Europrix Education 2003
• “Le Bal”, interactive music with B.Vitet, 2002-2004, Prix SACD Interactive Creation 2002
• “Domicile d’Ange Heureux”, music and sound design (dadamedia), Prix Bologne Festival 2003
• “Allonnes”, music and sound design (incandescence/CNRS), 2003
• “Musée Fenaille”, music and sound design (Hyptique), 2004
• “Troubles des apprentissages”, sound design (ARTA), 2004
• “Salto & Zelia” (DVDi Hyptique-Hachette), sound design, 2005
• Songs and games with Michèle Buirette (Prévention routière), 2008
• Logo for DVD collection of Opera Comique and FRA, 2009
• Logo for DVD collection of FRA and Opéra de Paris, 2010

WEBSITES
• LeCielEstBleu : Prix SCAM du Meilleur Site de Création 2001-2002, Coup de Cœur NarrowCast Award 2002
• FlyingPuppet : Prix Spécial Centre Pompidou FlashFestival 2002, Ciberart Bilbao Honorific Award for the Best Multimedia Project 2004
• Somnambules : Senef Special Prize of Jury 2003 (Seoul Net Festival), Prix de la Création Nouveaux Médias Vidéoformes 2004 (Clermont-Ferrand), Prix de la Création Interactive SACD 2004, 1st Prize France Telecom R&D Oone (Art Rock Festival, St Brieuc), Prix Ars Electronica Net Vision / Net Excellence Honorary Mention 2004 (Autriche) and a nomination for the Best of 10 Years of Yahoo! as "The strangest site".
• And also : Rencontres Numer, BDDP-TBWA, Laurent-Perrier, Ville de Lyon, Disques GRRR, Compagnie Générale des Eaux, ZoéTV, Determinism, Du côté des filles, Else Productions, Magado (Gallimard, with Moebius), Virtools, Adidas, Nike, Fête de l’Internet 2001 (Matignon), lesmetiers.net (Caparif), Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Museum of Immigration, Ptits repères (Marque Repère)... 1996-2010
• 2025 ex machina, "serious game" with Nicolas Clauss and Tralalere, 2010

OBJECTS SOUND DESIGN
Nabaztag, smart rabbit, as well as Mir:ror and Dal:dal (Violet), 2005-2009
Design Management Europe Award 2007, Grand Prix Netxplorateur 2008, Étoile de l'Observeur du Design 2009
New objects with same crew, 2010

following on Bio 2nd Part