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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 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...

RECENT 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 (AllMusic, Paris Transatlantic, Shedivine, Brainwashed, Dusted Magazine, Aquarius, PitchForkMedia, Weekly Dig, Progressive Ears) or in Italian (Movimentiprog)...

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

Articles written by Birgé

In Muziq every 2 months (cd, dvd...) and in all Allumés du Jazz (available on site as pdf) :
In #21 (March 2008) : Dans les filets de la Toile + Les films fleuves + interview with Bernard Stiegler
In #20 : Reset + Par qui le scandale arrive + Service de recherche
In #19 of Les Allumés du Jazz, DVD d'animation...
In #18, Les partitions sonores...
In #17, Les dindons de la farce + Les silences de Vercors + interview with Claude Barthélémy + Home Sweet DVD (December 2006).
In #16, Îles licites + Le Grand Phylactère.
In #15, interview with Guy Le Querrec + Allez, reprenons notre musique et retournons enfer...

In #14, presentation of exclusive double CD Les Actualités.

In #13, long interview with Archie Shepp.

In #12, Impro Soupe...
In n°11, Le Cours du Temps goes on with an interview of Joëlle Léandre, and Birgé writes about The Art of Desynchronization
.
In #10, an interview of Fred Frith. In n°9, a long article on author rights, La propriété et le vol.
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).
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)

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