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• “Défense de” , Birgé-Gorgé-Shiroc (GRRR), 1974
• “Trop d'adrénaline nuit”, Un d.m.i. (GRRR), 1977
• “Rideau !” , Un d.m.i. (GRRR), 1980
• “A travail égal salaire égal”, Un d.m.i. (GRRR), 1982
• Musical direction of Éditions Ducaté, cassettes recoprded by Jane Birkin, Annie Girardot, Annie Ernaux,
Ludmila Mikaël... 1981-82
• “Les bons contes font les bons amis” , Un d.m.i. (GRRR), 1983
• “L'homme à la caméra” , Un d.m.i. (GRRR), 1984
• “Carnage” , Un d.m.i. (GRRR), 1985
• “L'hallali” , Un d.m.i. (GRRR), 1987
• “Sous les mers” , Un d.m.i. (GRRR), 1988
• “Qui vive ?”, Un d.m.i. (GRRR), 1989
• “Le K” , Un d.m.i. (GRRR, reissue Auvidis)1990-93
• “Jeune fille qui tombe... tombe” , Un d.m.i. (In Situ), 1991
• “Kind Lieder”, Un d.m.i. (GRRR), 1991
• “Urgent Meeting” , Un d.m.i. (GRRR/No Man’s land), 1992
• “Opération Blow Up” , Un d.m.i. (GRRR), 1992
• “Crasse-Tignasse” , Un d.m.i. (Auvidis), 1993
• “Sarajevo Suite”, artistic and musical direction at the benefit of the reconstruction of the National Bibliotheque of Sarajevo, compositions by Un D.M.I. played by singer Dee Dee Bridgewater and Balanescu String Quartet (L’empreinte digitale),1994
• “Il était une fois la Fête Foraine”, Un d.m.i. (Auvidis), 1995
• “Haut-Karabagh : Musiques du Front”, artistic direction (Auvidis),1995
• Direction of the record label “Musiques d’ambiance” at Auvidis,
Recording of CDs “Thriller”, “Western”, “Science-Fiction” with Francis Gorgé, 1995
• “Le Sens du combat”, Michel Houellebecq (Radio France), 1996
• “Carton”, Birgé-Vitet (GRRR), 1997
• “Machiavel”, Un d.m.i. (GRRR), 1998
• “Un petit tour”, Aki Onda (All Access, Japan)1999
• “Trop d’adranaline nuit”, Un d.m.i. (reissue + bonus, GRRR), 2001
• “Défense de”, Birgé-Gorgé-Shiroc (reissue CD + DVD 6h30 unissued music + film, MIO), 2003
• Birgé alone: “Inanga” (in CMG#6 Ailleurs, 1999), “Young Dynamite” (in TraceLabel, 2005), “Plomberie”, “Hantée” and “Roll Over Composer” (in Nouveaux Dossiers de l'Audiovisuel n°3, INA, 2005)...
• Audio story and dialogues of "Radio Chronatoscaphe" (in 3cd Box, 25th anniversary of label nato), 2005

• “Les Actualités”, conception and realisation of a double-album + participation of Un d.m.i. with Baco (Les Allumés du Jazz), 2006

• "Etablissement d'un ciel d'alternance", Houellebecq-Birgé (GRRR), 2007
• "C'est le bouquet", Un d.m.i. (unissued CD to be downloaded with magazine Sextant #3, GRRR), 2007
• "L'étincelle", pdf with links to many unissued tracks from 1965 to 2000 (Poptronics), 2008
• Many other recordings in England , Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Japan, USA... Nomination 9th Victoires de la Musique for “Le K” with Richard Bohringer...
 

FILMS
DIRECTING

• “La Nuit du Phoque”, Award at Belfort Festival, 1974 (DVD)
• “Remember My Forgotten Man”, video-paluche, 1976
• “Idir-Johnny Clegg a capella” (Vis à Vis, Point du Jour), 1993
• Collective realisation of “Sarajevo: A Street Under Siege” (Point du Jour-Saga), 1993 British Academy Award of Film & TV Arts, Locarno Festival Jury Award
• “Le Sniper”, text by Ademir Kenovic, first fiction filmed in Sarajevo during the siege, shown in more than 1000 cinémas in France and abroad , 1994
• Participation to Françoise Romand's DVD “Call Me Madame” with “22 ans plus tard...” and “Onboard”, 2008
• Artistic collaboration on “Ciné-Romand”, 2009
• Artistic direction for Samsung with Pierre-Oscar Lévy, 2010
MUSIC FOR FILMS
• by Patrick Barbéris, Luc Barnier, Igor Barrère and Etienne Lalou, Dominique Belloir, Christophe Bidot et Richard Hamon, Dominique Cabréra, Pierre Desgraupes, Tom Drahos, Serge Duval, Valéry Faidherbe, Stéphane Frattini, Philippe Kotlarsky, Michèle Larue et Noël Burch, Pierre-Oscar Lévy, Bernard Mallaterre, Pierre Morize, Natacha Nisic, François Reichenbach, Françoise Romand, Jacques Rouxel, Raoul Sangla, Miroslav Sebestik, Richard Ugolini, Daniel Verdier, Michaëla Watteaux, Cité des Sciences de La Villette, Cinémathèque Albert Kahn, TV clip for CNIL... 1973-2010
ON HIS WORK
• Many films on YouTube, DailyMotion or Vimeo

EXHIBITIONS
• Music for Andy Warhol Exhibition Opening. Paris Modern Art Museum, 1971
• Music for Michel Potage Exhibition Opening. Paris 1978
• “La rue, la musique et nous”. Arcueil, 1979
• Sound design of the Parc della Rimembranza. Napoli, Italy, 1981
• “Economia : La Saga des Millar”, sound design and music. Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie,1986-1987
• “Femmes en vue ”, music. Le Mois de la Photo (Palais de Tokyo),1988
• “Il était une fois la Fête Foraine”, sound design. Music with Bernard Vitet. Grande Halle de La Villette, 1995
• “Puppets”, sound design. Fine Arts Institute of San Francisco, USA, 1996
• “Electra” , music and sound design “Théâtre d’objets”. Cité des Enfants (Cité des Sciences), 1996
• “The Extraordinary Museum” (Kumamoto, Japan) and “Euro Fantasia” (Nagoya Dome, Japan), sound design. Music with Bernard Vitet, 1997
• “Au Fil du Temps”, music with Bernard Vitet, CD in catalogue. 1998
• Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, sound design (Hyptique). 1998
• “Le Siècle Métro”, sound design, and music with Denis Colin. Maison de la RATP, 2000
• “Pass”, symphony for 26 iMacs, with A. Denize, E.Mineur, F.Durieu. Mons (Belgium), 2000
• “The Laying of the hands”, sound design and interactive music, with Mark Madel. Amsterdam Hospital, 2001
• “Festival de la Ville”, urban forum. Créteil, 2001
• “Circus Days ”, music with Bernard Vitet. Monaco, 2002
• “Juno Beach”, music and sound design. Musée du Débarquement, Omaha Beach, 2003
• “L’argent”, music and sound design. Pass, Belgium, 2003
• Music for 5 sculptures of the Museum (St Phalle, Calder, Oldenburg, Martin, Scurti). D.A.E.P., Centre Pompidou, 2003
• “Zoo”, interactive installation with LeCielEstBleu (House of Tomorrow, Melbourne, Australia / Museum of the Future, Ars Electronica, Austria) 2003-2004
• “Time”, interactive installation with LeCielEstBleu (Interactive Design, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France / Somewhere Totally Else + History of the Modern Design, London, England / Game Time, Melbourne, Australia), 2003-2004
• “Alphabet”, interactive installation (My Name is Game, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea), 2004
• “La Pâte à Son”, interactive installation with LeCielEstBleu (Centre Pompidou - Atelier des Enfants / Museum of the Future, Ars Electronica, Austria) / IFCA (Slovenia) / OFFF Festival (Barcelona, Spain) / Festival du Film d'Animation d'Annecy (France) / and 4 exhibitions in Korea : Uijeongbu Digital Arts Festival, SeNef, Ten Years After 3 (Daejeon), Digital! (Samsung Tesco Gallery, Ten Years After 3, Seoul), Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), Mauguio, Mérignac, 2004-2010
• “Anémone”, moving octophonic music, Dassault Systemes (Aïchi World Fair, Japan), 2005
• “Le Sniper”, video installation (Soft Target, Utrecht, Nederland), 2005
• Musée du Quai Branly, sound design (Multimedi'Art Interactif d'or Fiamp.2006), 2005
• Musée de la Vendée, sound design, 2006
• Introduction to “Dancing with the Robots”, quadriphonic music (Futuroscope), 2006
• “Somnambules”, interactive installation with Nicolas Clauss (Museum of the Future, Ars Electronica, Austria / Stuttgart Film, Germany / La Villette Numérique, Forum des Images-Nemo / Rur@rt & Ars Numerica, France / Microwave, Hong Kong / Japan Media Arts, Tokyo / Mad'O3, MAEM & Confluencias, Spain / Sao Paulo, Brazil / Dual Reality, Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Korea), 2004-2006
• “Les Portes”, interactive video installation with Nicolas Clauss (Festival Nemo, Espace Paul Ricard), 2006
• “Nabaz'mob”, opera for 100 smart rabbits, installation with Antoine Schmitt, Wired NextFest (New York, USA), Des souris/des hommes (St Médard-en-Jalles), Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), Ososphère (Strasbourg), Accès(s)+PCI (Pau), Luminato (Toronto, Canada), L'Escaladieu (Tarbes), EuraTechnologies (Lille), 2006-2010
Prix Ars Eletronica Award of Distinction Digital Musics
• Peugeot RCZ, music for water curtain (IAA, Frankfurt, Germany), 2009
• Espace StGobain, furniture music (Paris), 2009
• “G10” by Sun Sun Yip, music for the film version, 2010
• Concert-visit of “Vinyl”, Maison Rouge, with Vincent Segal, 2010
• "Révélations, une odyssée numérique dans la peinture" (Petit Palais, Paris), 2010

LIVE SHOWS (with Un d.m.i.)
• Long series of "Poisons", 1976-1979
• Ciné-concerts (with 24 silent movies), 1977-99
• "Rideau!", 1980
• Pieces for a 15 piece orchestra, 1981-1986
• "Le trou", based on Edgar Poe's, 1982
• Music for fire organ and orchestra (instruments built by Vitet), 1983
• Live with Los Angeles Olympic Games (Festival d'Avignon), 1984
• "La Bourse et la vie" (Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, dir.Yves Prin), 1984
• "45 secondes départ arrêté" & "Fééries Jacobines" (fireworks), 1984-85
• Music for ballet by Jean Gaudin ("Écarlate"), Karine Saporta ("Manèges", "Le coeur métamorphosé"), Lulla Card... 1985-1989
• "Jeune fille qui tombe... tombe" de Dino Buzzati (spoken oratorio, Michael Lonsdale / Daniel Laloux), 1985-1990
• "Le K" de Dino Buzzati (spoken oratorio, M.Lonsdale / Richard Bohringer - D.Laloux, scenary R.Sarti), 1985-92
• "La Fosse" (opéra-bouffe, Martine Viard, Louis Hagen-William, Maurice Garrel, Christian Marin, Guy Pannequin, Guy Piérauld, Serge Valetti... Ensemble de l'Itinéraire, dir. Boris de Vinogradov), 1987
• "Le Chateau des Carpathes", based on Jules Verne’s (burning cantata, Frank Royon Le Mée), 1987
• "20 000 lieues sous mers" (show of illusions and imaginery museum on 2 boats), 1988
• "Zappeurs-Pompiers 1 & 2" (live zapping on a huge screen), 1987-89
• "J'accuse" by Emile Zola (R.Bohringer, D.Fonfrède, Ahmed Madani, 70 musicians, dir. Jean-Luc Fillon, scenary Raymond Sarti), 1989
• "Contrefaçons" (for brass orchestra, dir. Jean-Luc Fillon) 1989
• "Kind Lieder" (nine songs which hurt), 1991
• "Let my children hear music" by Charlie Mingus, 1992
• "Crasse-Tignasse" (nine songs for children), 1993-1994
• "Machiavel" (techno dance), 1999-2000

OTHER SHOWS
• Concerts with Epimanondas, Birgé Gorgé Shiroc, Red Noise, Dagon, George Harrison, Lard Free, Cesare Massaranti and Oliver Johnson, Opération Rhino, Compagnie Lubat... 1969-1979
• Opening of the Mois de la Francophonie with A. Dussollier and Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, 1992
• "Sarajevo suite", scenary, with C. Piéplu, P. Charial, B. Vitet, H. Texier Quintet, Lindsay Cooper Sextet, Kate and Mike Westbrook, Chris Biscoe and Balanescu String Quartet,1994
• "Le sens du combat", with M.Viard, Michel Houellebecq, 1996
• "Établissement d’un ciel d’alternance", with Michel Houellebecq, created for 10th Anniversary of Inrockuptibles at Fondation Cartier, 1996
• "Dans la lumière et dans la force", hommage to poet André Velter, with Michael Lonsdale, Denise Gence, Elise Caron, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu,1996
• 10th anniversary of Bar Floréal, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 1996
• "A l’écoute" and "Djoutche", hommage to Colette Magny, with Bernard Vitet, 1997
• "Birgé Hôtel", improvisations on texts by and with Alain Monvoisin, Michel Houellebecq, 1998
• "Touché!", Theremin solo, with projections by Murielle Lefèvre, 2000
• "La kabine electroniq", with Léo and Etienne Brunet, 2001
• "(se) diriger dans l’incertain", Convention de l’APM with Denis Colin and Didier Petit, Pyramide du Louvre, 2002
• Yves Dormoy Quartet with Pablo Cueco and Antoine Berjeaut, 2002
• Live music on experimental films, improvisation solo, Ménagerie de Verre, 2003
• The Biggest Drum & Bass Jam Ever Made, Batofar, 2003
• "Sarajevo Suite et Fin", with Nicolas Clauss and Pascale Labbé, 2003

• Evenings of Rencontres d’Arles de la Photographie (soundtracks + live shows with Elise Caron, Denis Colin, Philippe Deschepper, Eric Échampard, Didier Petit, Bernard Vitet), 2002-2005
• “Somnambules”, with N. Clauss, P. Labbé et D. Petit, 2006
• “Hommage à - Moondog - A Tribute by”, solo images & sounds, Trace Label, Point Ephemere, 2006
• “Nabaz'mob”, opera for 100 smart rabbits, with Antoine Schmitt (Web Flash Festival (Centre Pompidou), Scopitone (Nantes), Recalling RFID (Amsterdam, NL), Le Cube (Issy), Nuit Blanche (Amiens, Paris, Metz), Musiques Libres (Besançon) / Siana (Evry) / Des souris, des hommes (St Médard en Jalles) / Robotix's (Pass, Mons, BE) / Entre chien et loup (Quimper) / Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, AU), FIMAV (Victoriaville, Quebec), Luminato (Toronto, Canada)... 2006-2010

• “Électrofication” with music students (Jazz 93), and "Somnambules" with Nicolas Clauss, Étienne Brunet and Éric Échampard, 2007
• Trio with Donkey Monkey (Eve Risser, Yuko Oshima), 2008
• Duo with Nicolas Clauss, 2008
• “Mascarade” with Antoine Schmitt, 2010
• Duo with Vincent Segal, 2010

VARIOUS
• Foundation of light-shows H Lights & L'Œuf Hyaloïde : Cirque Bonjour, Daevid Allen Gong, Red Noise, Crouille-Marteaux (Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Melmoth), Dagon, Epimanondas, Steamhammer, Kevin Ayers... 1969-1974
• "Light-Book", graphic works, Imprimerie Union, 1973
• Music for audiovisuals and records by Robert and Thierry Dehesdin, Michel Séméniako, Marie-Jésus Diaz, Charles Bitsch, Noël Burch, Claude Thiébaut, Daniel Verdier, Jean-André Fieschi... 1975-1990
• Production of radio shows :
"U.S.A. le complo"t, France Musique, 1983
"La peur du vide", France Musique, 1983
"Improvisation mode d’emploi" (series), France Culture, 1988
"Écarlate", France Culture, 1989

• Press articles written for Les Allumes du Jazz, Muziq, Jazz Magazine, Jazz@round, Jazzosphere, Nouveaux Dossiers de l'Audiovisuel, 1998-2009