Jean-Jacques Birgé invites

Sophie Agnel, Uriel Barthélémi, Hélène Breschand, Élise Caron, François Corneloup, Gilles Coronado, Philippe Deschepper, David Fenech, Fidel Fourneyron, Naïssam Jalal, Olivier Lété, Mathias Lévy, Violaine Lochu, Lionel Martin, Fanny Meteier, Basile Naudet, Csaba Palotaï, Tatiana Paris, Gwennaëlle Roulleau, Fabiana Striffler

Instant compositions by all musicians,
recorded and mixed by Jean-Jacques Birgé
at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet (2021-2023).

It is about playing to meet and not the opposite as it is usual. The theme of each is drawn just before pressing the button. Un

Il s'agit de jouer pour se rencontrer et non le contraire comme il est d'usage. La thématique de chacune est tirée au sort juste avant de jouer.

Warm thanks to all the musicians who accepted my invitation and shared in this joyful complicity, to rediscover the innocence of our first steps, to mcgayffier for her book Tout abus sera puni, to Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt for the Oblique Strategies game, to Étienne Mineur for his invaluable help.

On the double CD Pique-nique au labo 1/2 (GRRR 2031-2032) recorded from 2010 to 2019, listen to Samuel Ber, Sophie Bernado, Amandine Casadamont, Nicholas Christenson, Médéric Collignon, Pascal Contet, Élise Dabrowski, Julien Desprez, Linda Edsjö, Jean-Brice Godet, Alexandra Grimal, Wassim Halal, Antonin-Tri Hoang, Karsten Hochapfel, Fanny Lasfargues, Mathias Lévy, Sylvain Lemêtre, Birgitte Lyregaard, Jocelyn Mienniel, Edward Perraud, Jonathan Pontier, Hasse Poulsen, Sylvain Rifflet, Eve Risser, Vincent Segal, Christelle Séry, Ravi Shardja, Jean-François Vrod.

* LP Fictions published on label Ouch ! in 2022 offers other pieces of the duo recorded thesame day with Lionel Martin.

Artwork: mc gayffier

70 minutes

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