LATEST NEWS

- Antoine SCHMITT and Jean-Jacques BIRGÉ have the pleasure to announce that you can now find Machiavel for OS X and PC. The interactive video scratch has been issued as a CD-Rom in 1998. Today you can download it for FREE, but they have added a PayPal Donate button for those who wish to help and contribute !

- Jean-Jacques Birgé and Antoine Schmitt have received the Prix Ars Electronica 2009 - Award of Distinction Digital Musics for NABAZ'MOB, their opera for 100 smart rabbits.
Nabaz'mob next shows: Bucarest (04/25/2010), Victoriaville (05/20), Montpellier, Augsburg, etc.
New film "Rabbit Year 2010" filmed on Dec. 11 2009 at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Paris.
Sharp article by Annick Rivoire on Poptronics reproduced on bilingual magazine Patch (Oct.2009).

- 2025 ex machina, ew collaboration between Birgé and Nicolas Clauss for a "serious game" produced by Tralalere.

- Birgé has composed an electro-acoustic piece for a rain curtain, Peugeot RCZ, IAA in Frankfurt, Germany. And for the new gallery of St Gobain in le Marais, Paris.

- Music score of Françoise Romand's film Ciné-Romand. Birgé has also mixed the film and played the role of artistic adviser. DVD available on cineromand.com

- Sacha Gattino joined the duo formed by Birgé and Nicolas Clauss. Four films of their show as a duet are now on line!

- Jean-Jacques Birgé is actually recording a new album under his name, the first since Machiavel (Un Drame Musical Instantané) in 1999 !

WI-FI
Birgé designed the sound of Nabaztag, the Wi-Fi smart rabbit by Violet.
Antoine Schmitt designed his comportment.

PRESS
- Half of magazine Sextant #3 is about Jean-Jacques Birgé (the other half on Vincent Courtois). See also ImproJazz #155 (May 2009).
- Pop'Lab by Birgé on Poptronics site (7 pages).
- 7 days a week for more than 4 years, Birgé has been written a French blog full of articles and pictures, adding an automatic English Google translator ! Home page link is Medley.
- A nice presentation of a lecture by Jean-Jacques Birgé at Master2 MMI Paris Sorbonne (February 2008).

MUSIC BOX
- Tremendous success for La Pâte à Son (meaning Sound Dough), on the website of La Cité de la Musique - Espace Jeunesse and on lecielestbleu.com !
- Who knows when CoolbyPixel by Durieu and Birgé, but their new music machine, FluxTune, might finally come out...
- 4 pieces by Birgé and Un Drame Musical Instantané can be listened to on MySpace: M'enfin with Francis Gorgé, Prière de Sarajevo with Dee Dee Bridgewater and Balanescu String Quartet, 'Cause I've Got Time Only for Love and Écris-moi une chanson with Elsa (when she was 6 and 9).

INTERNET
- Birgé composes sound design of P'tits Repères, children site of Marque Repère.
- Incandescence has put on line the little Skate game done for Adidas a few years ago, programmation by Antoine Schmitt, sound by JJB.

FILM
- The Sniper, filmed by Birgé on Dec. 17th 1993 during the Siege of Sarajevo, is on line (French version).
- 8 videos from the archives of Un Drame Musical Instantané are online on YouTube and DailyMotion.

RECORDS
- Duet Michel Houellebecq and Jean-Jacques Birgé, recorded ten years ago, is finally out on CD GRRR 2026. Établissement d'un ciel d'alternance features also a bonus track, an instrumental piece composed with Bernard Vitet and a splendid libretto (as usual) by Étienne Auger. Distributed by Orkhêstra, available on our website too !
..........5 articles on Birgé's blog de Birgé : 1 2 3 4 5 + Press 1 2
- Birgé participated to Hommage to Moondog, with 17 other composers among who Mami Chan, Joseph Racaille, Hervé Zénouda...
- He is an angel on Jef Lee Johnson's next album, Thisness, on a reprise of a song by Serge Gainsbourg with Nathalie Richard, Helene Breschand and a string quartet conducted by Tony Hymas (hopestreet/nato)...
- Soon out of print : a double album (CD+DVD) reissueing the cult-record Défense de by Birgé Gorgé Shiroc (1975) plus 4 bonus tracks, and a DVD including 6 hours of unissued music by the trio (1975) and the film La Nuit du Phoque by Jean-Jacques Birgé and Bernard Mollerat (1974). Orders available on our site...
Press in English : AllMusic, Paris Transatlantic, Shedivine, Brainwashed, Aquarius, Weekly Dig, Progressive Ears...
Another page on Défense de on Francis Gorgé's site, assez vu.

DRAME
Other pages about the Drame on the site of Francis Gorgé and Dominique Meens : http://www.assezvu.com/undmi/undmi.html

PARIS CONNECTION... Articles, interviews and links on 6 Parisian web-artists : Jean-Jacques Birgé, Nicolas Clauss, Frédéric Durieu, Jean-Luc Lamarque, Antoine Schmitt and servolvalve. Co-edited by Jim Andrews and Nancy Paterson (Canada), Helen Thorington (USA), Regina Célia Pinto (Brésil) and Roberto Simanowski (Berlin). In English, French, Spanish et Portuguese, with the help of 15 people from 7 countries.
Coriolisweb : http://www.coriolisweb.org/Paris/Connection/index.htm
Museu do Essencial e do Além Disso : http://arteonline.arq.br/Paris/
Turbulence : http://turbulence.org/curators/Paris/index.htm
Dichtung-digital.org : http://www.dichtung-digital.org
Article in Libération.