Bio | Jean-Jacques Birgé

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Short Bio

Music composer, film director, multimedia author, sound designer, writer, Jean-Jacques Birgé considers music essentially in the audio-visual relationship, or at least in its confrontation with other forms of artistic expression.

Founder of GRRR Records, he was one of the first synthesizers in France as early as 1973, and with Un Drame Musical Instantané the precursor of the return to film-concert in 1976. If his first electronic work dates back to 1965, he composes as well for symphony orchestras as he freely improvises with musicians from the most diverse backgrounds. For his "radio" creations and his multimedia shows, improvisation and preliminary writing merge, his own electroacoustic treatments are integrated with traditional instruments to create evocative musical fictions which he calls "music apropos"

From 1995, he became one of the most well-known sound designers in multimedia and the specialist in interactive musical composition, seeking to deepen the effects of meaning and to develop an ever wider range of emotions. His researches often deal with generativity and interactivity which offer the player to discover each time a new interpretation. His soundscapes for exhibitions-shows (Grande Halle de La Villette, Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, Osaka and Omuta in Japan...) also present spaces in perpetual movement. He recently worked at the Louvre Museum, the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, the Grand Palais, the Pantheon, the Palais de Tokyo, the ZKM...

In addition to about forty LPs and CDs, his website drame.org offers 105 unreleaed albums (200 hours!) free to listen and download.
Main artworks
Film La nuit du phoque, 1974
Record Défense de, with Birgé Gorgé Shiroc, 1975
22 albums (LP & CD) with Un Drame Musical Instantané, 1976-2008 & 2022-2025
Film Le sniper, 1993
Exhibition/Show Il était une fois la fête foraine, Grande Halle de La Villette, with Raymond Sarti, 1995
CD Établissement d'un ciel d'alternance with Michel Houellebecq, 1996 (published 2006)
Enhanced-CD Carton, with Bernard Vitet, 1997
Enhanced-CD Machiavel (external link), with Antoine Schmitt, 1998
CD-Rom Alphabet, with Frédéric Durieu et Murielle Lefèvre, 1999
Interactive websites: LeCiestBleu with Frédéric Durieu, Somnambules and www.flyingpuppet.com with Nicolas Clauss, 2000-2008
Musical game La pâte à son, with F.Durieu, 2004
Blog www.drame.org/blog, 5800 articles (on Mediapart since 2010), 2005-2025
Opera for 100 smart rabbits Nabaz'mob (external link), with A.Schmitt, 2006-2014
Radio Drame, 105 exclusively online albums, 194 hours of free music, 2010-2025
La corde à linge (external link), novel (ePub), 2011
Leonardo da Vinci's Dream Machine (external link) for iPad, with N.Clauss, 2012
USA 1968 deux enfants (external link), novel for iPad, 2014
Boum ! (external link) for iPad and Androïd, with Mikaël Cixous, 2015
Exhibition Carambolages (external link) at Grand Palais, with Jean-Hubert Martin, 2016
Web-serie Prévert Exquis (external link), 2017
Long Time No Sea, cd by trio El Strøm, 2017
CD The 100th Anniversary (external link), 2018
CD Perspectives for the 22nd Century, 2020
4 CD Pique-nique au labo (external link) 2020-2025
Film Perspectives For the 22nd Century, 2021
LP Fictions + CD Plumes et poil (external link)s, 2022
Live recordings at Studio GRRR Apéro Labo, 2024
CD Animal Opera, 2024
CD Les déments, 2025

Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction Digital Musics, Grand Prix Möbius International, twice Prix SACD Interactive Creation, Prix SCAM Best Internet Site, Prix Centre Pompidou Flash Festival, Prix de la Creation New Medias in Videoformes, Seoul Net Festival Special Jury Award, Prix Ars Electronica Net Vision / Net Excellence Honorary Mention, twice Bologna Ragazzi Digital Award Special Mention, Grand Prix Stratégies, Award of the Best Francophone Project Cross Video Days TV5 Monde, Special Jury Ehon Award, British Academy Award of Film & TV Arts (BAFTA), Locarno Jury Award, Victoires de la Musique Nomination, Coup de Cœur de l'Académie Charles Cros, etc.

Recent music for Roger Ballen's The Theatre of Apparitions at the South-African pavillion of Venice Biennale (2022)... Live shows with Amandine Casadamont, Mathias Lévy, Antonin-Tri-Hoang, Gwennaëlle Roulleau, Lionel Martin, Élise Dabrowski, Maëlle Desbrosses, Fanny Meteier, Léa Ciechelski, Fabiana Striffler (2023-2025)...

Jean-Jacques Birgé is born in Paris in 1952 where he is still living.

Medium bio

Music composer, film director, writer, multimedia author, improviser, specialist of realtime synthesis instruments, artistic director...

Website (English version): www.drame.org/en/
Blog (French only): blog.drame.org (external link)and on Mediapart
Installations : Nabaz'mob (external link)
(external link)iPad : Leonardo da Vinci's Dream Machine, (external link)USA 1968 deux enfants (external link), Boum !
After his studies at Idhec (Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques), Jean-Jacques Birgé conceives a passion for images and sounds, and particularly for their potential to produce sense and create emotions. Birgé considers sound as a counterpoint to pictures and dialogue, an extraordinary off-stage landscape and a wide opened window to imagination. In 1975 he founded the record label GRRR and in 1976 the group Un Drame Musical Instantané. He composes for movies (I.Barrère, D.Belloir, D.Cabrera, P.Desgraupes, P.Morize, F.Reichenbach, F.Romand, J.Rouxel, R.Sangla, M.Trillat, la Cinémathèque Albert Kahn...), dance (J.Gaudin, K.Saporta...), photography (musical director of the Evenings at Rencontres d'Arles), theater, radio, and records about 40 LPs and CDs, plus 105 online albums (1650 pieces, 200 hours) free to listen or download on drame.org ! On stage, he plays live on silent movies (26 since 1976) as well as improvising and producing multimedia shows. For Le K with Richard Bohringer he was nominated at the 9ièmes Victoires de la Musique. His CD Etablissement d'un ciel d'alternance is a duo with writer Michel Houellebecq.

As a moviemaker, 20 years after La nuit du phoque (issued on DVD with the reissue of the cult-record Défense de), he directed Vis à vis : Idir et Johnny Clegg a capella. He received a BAFTA (British Academy Award) and the Jury Award in Locarno 1994 collectively for Sarajevo: a street under siege, and his short The Sniper was shown in more than 1000 theaters.

He composes his first electronic piece in 1965.
A specialist for realtime synthesis music instruments since 1973, he always lived among new technologies which offer to conceive strange and iconoclast objects.

Simultaneously to his work as a sound designer for exhibitions-shows (Il était une fois la fête foraine, The Extraordinary Museum, The Laying of the Hands, Passerelle, Le Siècle Métro, Jours de Cirque, L'argent, Pavillon Français de l'Expo Universelle d'Aïchi, Monuments to the Dead, GamePlay, Darwin, Carambolages, Rester vivant, Roger Ballen...) and urban spaces (impact survey of Grand Paris Metro), websites (BDDP-TBWA, Laurent-Perrier, Ville de Lyon, Compagnie Générale des Eaux, Rencontres Numer, Determinism, Else, Virtools, Adidas, Les Ptits Repères, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Musée de l'Immigration...), and CD-Roms (At the Circus with Seurat, Fenêtre sur l'Art, Europrix 98, AZ and Firmenich both Dauphin d'or at Communica, Le DVD-Rom du Louvre, Le Grand Jeu, Sethi et la couronne d'Egypte, Mr Men series, 9 Cahiers Passeport, 4 Salto & Zelia, Domicile d'Ange Heureux...), he asserts himself as a multimedia author with Carton (Enhanced-CD where an original game refers to each song), Machiavel (interactive video scratch of 111 loops, with Antoine Schmitt), and Alphabet (external link), created with Frédéric Durieu and Murielle Lefèvre from Kveta Pacovska's book for children (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).

With this CD-Rom he inaugurates a new direction of work based generativity and interactivity which let the player to discover each time a new interpretation (on-line et off-line). He regularly collaborates to creation sites lecielestbleu.org (with F.Durieu) and flyingpuppet.com (with N.Clauss).
For LeCielEstBleu he gets the Prix SCAM 2002 of the Best Internet Site meilleur site and the NarrowCast Content Award 2002 ... For Ulchiro on Flyingpuppet.com he gets the Prix du Centre Pompidou FlashFestival 2002...
Somnambules, together with Nicolas Clauss and Didier Silhol, got the Special Prize of Jury Senef 2003 (Seoul Net Festival), Prix de la Création Nouveaux Médias 2004 (Vidéoformes), 1st Prix France Telecom R&D Oone (Art Rock Festival), Prix SACD de la Création Interactive 2004, Prix ARS Electronica Net Vision / Net Excellence Honorary Mention 2004 (Austria) and is nominated among the 5 strangest sites at Yahoo! Best of 10 Years.
He designed the sound of Nabaztag, the smart rabbit, as well as Mir:ror and Dal:dal (Violet).
In 2010 the exhibition Révélations, une odyssée numérique dans la peinture at Petit Palais, Paris, receives the Grand Prix Stratégies 2010, Prix des Étudiants, Prix Produit Grand Public. Showed in 2013 at Hangaram Museum, Seoul Art Center.
The iPad and Android feature a fantastic new territory to explore (Leonardo da Vinci's Dream Machine, DigDeep, Boum !, Zephyr Collection, World of Yo-Ho, etc.).

Besides his daily blog (more than 5800 articles), Birgé wites in many magazines and teaches the relation between sound and pictures. His novels La corde à linge and USA 1968 deux enfants (external link) include images & sounds plus movies & interactivity for the second one!

In 2016 he works at Le Louvre, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Panthéon, Palais de Tokyo, and he composes the sound and musical score of the exhibition Carambolages (external link) at Grand Palais, Paris.
In 2017 TV5Monde publishes the web-serie Prévert Exquis (Award of the Best Francophone Project Cross Video Days TV5 Monde, Prix spécial du Jury Digital Ehon Awards) and GRRR publishes CD Long Time No Sea by trio El Strøm...
In 2018 the 100th Anniversary album is quite a surprise, followed by another one in 2020, Perspectives for the 22nd Century! From 2020 to 2024 : 68 musicians participate to the 4 volumes of Pique-nique au labo (external link).
Mre recently: the reformation of Un Drame Musical Instantané with the CD Plumes et poils (2022), the LP Fictions of the duo Birgé and Lionel Martin (2022), several previously unreleased archives of Birgé (1972!), of the duo with Gorgé (1974) and of the Drame (1976 to 2000), new albums online with Gwennaëlle Roulleau, Fabiana Striffler, Csaba Palotaï, Sophie Agnel, David Fenech (2022), Fanny Meteier, Olivier Lété, Violaine Lochu, Tatiana Paris, Emmanuelle Legros, Matthieu Donarier, Hélène Duret, Rafaelle Rinaudo, Maëlle Desbrosses, Isabel Sörling, Olivia Scemama, Bruno Ducret (2023)...
In 2024, Apéro Labo are live recordings at Studio GRRR with Antonin-Tri Hoang, Mathias Lévy, Maëlle Desbrosses, Fanny Meteier, Léa Ciechelski, Fabiana Striffler, Hélène Duret, Alexandre Saada, Catherine Delaunay, Roberto Negro... Animal Opera is a very different CD, without any human musician!
In 2025, Denis Lavant joins Birgé and Lionel Martin for double CD Les déments (Coup de Cœur de l'Académie Charles Cros).

Complete bio

Etudes et enseignement

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.)

2000-2024

Teaching sound design (École des Gobelins, Arts Décos de Paris, Amiens et Strasbourg, Beaux-Arts de Quimper, Paris 1, Paris VIII, INA, Autograf, e-artsup, Créapôle, Strate Collège, Fonderie de l'Image, Céci, IRCAM, CNAM, ENJMIN, ENSCI, Pôle Atlantique, Sufco, ECM, MediaLab/Finlande, IESAV/Liban, SMCQ/Québec, Femis/Allemagne, Pilots/Espagne, Nabi/Corée...)

Dates majeures

1952
Birth
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)
1975
Foundation of record label GRRR with Défense de
1976
First Radiophonie (plunderphonics)
Foundation of trio Un Drame Musical Instantané / Live music with silent movies
1977
Inventor of "musique à propos"
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 / Live zapping on a huge screen
1993
Le Sniper (film)
1995
Il était une fois la fête foraine (exhibition-show in La Villette)
1997
Carton, first creative cd-rom published in France / drame.org 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 / 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 Electronica Award of Distinction Digital Musics
2010
New site, actually 194 hours (1479 pieces) of free downlable unissued music
2011
La corde à linge, novel (ePub with images and sounds)
2012
Leonardo da Vinci's Dream Machine (iPad)
2014
USA 1968, deux enfants, novel (with images, sounds, video, interactive artwork for iPad)
2015
Boum! (iPad & Androïd)
2016
Carambolages (exposition au Grand Palais)
2017
Prévert Exquis (web-serie TV5Monde) / Long Time No Sea (cd by trio El Strøm)
2018
The 100th Anniversary (cd)
2020
Perspectives for the 22nd Century (cd)
2021
Perspectives for the 22nd Century (cd)
2022
Plumes et poils (cd) + Fictions (lp)
2023
Pique-nique au labo 3 (cd)
2024
Apéro Labo (live at Studio GRRR) / Animal Opera (cd)
2025
Les déments (cd)

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 LPs and CDs (distribution Les Allumés du Jazz) and even more online digital albums (drame.org).

Multimédia

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, Flyingpuppet, Somnambules and lesinediteurs.com...
Sound designer and music composer for CD-Roms in cultural and industrial areas.

Records

• "Avant toute", Birgé-Gorgé (Le souffle continu) 1974-75 published in 2016
• "Défense de", Birgé-Gorgé-Shiroc (GRRR) 1975 / reissue CD+DVD (Mio) 2003 / reissue LP (Wah-Wah) 2013
• "Très toxique" , Un d.m.i. (GRRR) 1976 published in 2023
• "Trop d'adrénaline nuit", Un d.m.i. (GRRR) 1977 / Reissue CD (GRRR) 2001
• "Rideau !" , Un d.m.i. (GRRR) 1980 / reissue CD (Klang Galerie) 2017
• "A travail égal salaire égal", Un d.m.i. (GRRR) 1982 / reissue CD (Klang Galerie) 2018
• "Les bons contes font les bons amis" , Un d.m.i. (GRRR) 1983 / reissue CD (Klang Galerie) 2022
• "L'homme à la caméra" , Un d.m.i. (GRRR) 1984 / plus LP Remix (DDD) 2017 / reissue CD (Klang Galerie) 2020
• "Carnage" , Un d.m.i. (GRRR) 1985 / reissue CD (Klang Galerie) 2021
• "L'hallali" , Un d.m.i. (GRRR) 1987
• Musical direction of Éditions Ducaté, cassettes recoprded by Jane Birkin, Annie Girardot, Annie Ernaux, Ludmila Mikaël... 1987-88
• "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 collection "Musiques d'ambiance", recording of CDs "Thriller", "Western", "Science-Fiction" with Francis Gorgé (Auvidis) 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
• 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, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Japan, USA... Nomination 9th Victoires de la Musique for "Le K" with Richard Bohringer...
• Participation to "Thisness" by Jef Lee Johnson (nato, 2005), Toukouleur Orchestra's album (Wopela, 2013), remix of Controlled Bleeding (2017), "Aux Ronds-Points des Allumés du Jazz" (2019)
• 105 unissued albums on drame.org - free listening and download (Un Drame Musical Instantané, El Strøm, Birgé avec Bernard Vitet, Vincent Segal, Antonin-Tri Hoang, Edward Perraud, Birgitte Lyregaard, Sacha Gattino, Sylvain Kassap, Linda Edsjö, Alexandra Grimal, Fanny Lasfargues, Ravi Shardja, Yuko Oshima, Ève Risser, Joce Mienniel, Nicolas Clauss, Pascale Labbé, Didier Petit, Étienne Brunet, Éric Échampard, Dominique Meens, Hélène Sage, Brigitte Vée, Le Tone, Thurston Moore, Aki Onda, Yoshihiro Hanno, Julien Desprez, Médéric Collignon, Sophie Bernado, Pascal Contet, Bumcello, Amandine Casadamont, Samuel Ber, Sylvain Lemêtre, Sylvain Rifflet, Mathias Lévy, Élise Dabrowski, Hasse Poulsen, Wassim Halal, Christelle Séry, Jonathan Pontier, Jean-François Vrod, Karsten Hochapfel, Nicholas Christenson, Jean-Brice Godet, Naïssam Jalal, Élise Caron, Fidel Fourneyron, Lionel Martin, Basile Naudet, Gilles Coronado, Philippe Deschepper, François Corneloup, Uri Barthélémi, Hélène Breschand, Gwennaëlle Roulleau, Fabiana Striffler, Csaba Palotaï, Sophie Agnel, David Fenech, Fanny Meteier, Olivier Lété, Violaine Lochu, Tatiana Paris, Emmanuelle Legros, Matthieu Donarier, Hélène Duret, Rafaelle Rinaudo, Maëlle Desbrosses, Isabel Sörling, Olivia Scemama, Bruno Ducret, Léa Ciechelski, Alexandre Saada, Catherine Delaunay, Roberto Negro...) 2010-2025
• Participation to "Carving Songs" by Controlled Bleeding (Artoffact Records) 2017
• El Strøm, Long Time No Sea (GRRR) 2017
• Jean-Jacques Birgé & Hélène Sage, Rendez-vous (Klanggalerie) 2018
• Jean-Jacques Birgé, 100th Anniversary, 2018
• Jean-Jacques Birgé, Perspectives for the 22nd Century, 2020
• Jean-Jacques Birgé, Pique-nique au labo, 2020
• Unreleased archives (1972-1984) on diffrent LP, 7-inch and cassettes (Psych.KG), 2022
• Un d.m.i., Plumes et poils (GRRR), 2022
• Jean-Jacques Birgé & Lionel Martin, Fictions (Ouch!), 2022
• Jean-Jacques Birgé, Pique-nique au labo 3 (GRRR), 2023
• Un d.m.i., TCHAK (KlangGalerie), 2024
• Jean-Jacques Birgé, Animal Opera (GRRR), 2024
• Jean-Jacques Birgé, Pique-nique au labo 4 (GRRR), 2025
• Denis Lavant, Jean-Jacques Birgé, Lionel Martin, Les déments (GRRR/Ouch!), 2025
Coup de Cœur de l'Académie Charles Cros

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 WebTV Révélations with Pierre Oscar Lévy, 2010
• "USA 1968, deux enfants", 12 shorts integrated to the digital novel (les inéditeurs), 2014
• "Perspectives For The 22nd Century", collective film with Nicolas Clauss, Sonia Cruchon, Valéry Faidherbe, Jacques Perconte, John Sanborn, Eric Vernhes, 2020

Music for films

• by Anne Amiand, Patrick Barbéris, Luc Barnier, Igor Barrère and Etienne Lalou, Daphna Blancherie and Natacha Nisic, Dominique Belloir, Christophe Bidot et Richard Hamon, Dominique Cabréra, Corine Dardé, Régis Deruelle, Pierre Desgraupes, Tom Drahos, Serge Duval, Valéry Faidherbe, Stéphane Frattini, Christophe Gans, Philippe Kotlarsky, Ivan Kozelka, Hervé Lachize, Michèle Larue and Noël Burch, Nicolas Le Du, Jocelyne Leclercq, Pierre-Oscar Lévy, Bernard Mallaterre, Mathilde Morières, Pierre Morize, Jacques Perconte, François Reichenbach, Françoise Romand, Jacques Rouxel, John Sanborn, Raoul Sangla, Miroslav Sebestik, Richard Ugolini, Daniel Verdier, Michaëla Watteaux, Cité des Sciences de La Villette, Cinémathèque Albert Kahn, Platform, TV clip for CNIL, Les inéditeurs, DRAC IDF... 1973-2025
Sound design for architecture 3D films (Platform Motion: Wilmotte, Renzo Piano, etc.), 2012-2015

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), Abbaye de L'Escaladieu (Tarbes), EuraTechnologies (Lille), Musée Départemental (Beauvais), Parizone@Dream (La Gaîté Lyrique), 2006-2014
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", music for films by Pierre Oscar Lévy, Petit Palais (Paris), Hangaram Museum / Seoul Arts Center (Korea) - Grand Prix Stratégies 2010, Prix des Étudiants, Prix Produit Grand Public, 2010-2013
• "La chambre de Swedenborg" with Birgitte Lyregaard and Linda Edsjö (MAMC Strasbourg), 2012
• "Video Game", sound design with Sacha Gattino (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie), 2013
• "Monuments to the Dead", sound creation for 15 HP, exhibition under the guidance of Raymond Depardon (Rencontres d'Arles de la Photographie, Panthéon), 2014-2016
• "Le regard explorateur", sound creation (Suricog, Le Louvre), 2015
• "Darwin l'original", sound design with Sacha Gattino (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie), 2015-2016
• "Carambolages", sound and music (Grand Palais), 2016
• "Rester vivant", poetic juke-box with Michel Houellebecq (Palais de Tokyo), 2016
• "Special Effects, Steal The Scene!", sound design and music with Sacha Gattino (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie), 2017
• "Melting Rust" with Anne-Sarah Le Meur, Utopian Cities Programmed Societies (Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj, Romania), 2019
• "Omni-Vermille" with Anne-Sarah Le Meur (ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany), 2020
• "L'opéra cassé" with Romina Shama (Musée Transitoire, Genève, Switzerland), 2021
• Roger Ballen, "The Theatre of Apparitions - Into The Light" with Jean-Brice Godet et Nicholas Christenson (Venice Biennale, Italy), 2022

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
• "Resurrection" (sextet), 2014
• "Under The Channel" (trio), 2024

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 Théâtre Présent at La Villette with Arlette Thomas et Pierre Peyrou, 1972
• "Sale quart d'heure pour Cool Sweety et Speedy Panik", théâtre musical avec Annick Mevel, Hermine Karagheuz, Francis Gorgé, 1976
• Opening of the Mois de la Francophonie with André Dussollier, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Sapho, 1992
• "Sarajevo suite", scenary, with Claude Piéplu, Pierre Charial, B. Vitet, Henri Texier Quintet, Lindsay Cooper Sextet, Kate and Mike Westbrook, Chris Biscoe and Balanescu String Quartet,1994
• "Le sens du combat", with Martine 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, Bartabas, Pignon-Ernest, Velickovic, 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, Hélène Labarrière, Agnès Desnos, Jean-François Vrod, Philippe Deschepper, B.Vitet, Gérard Siracusa, Steve Arguëlles, 1998
• "Touché!", Theremin solo, images 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
• Musical direction of Evenings of Rencontres d'Arles de la Photographie (soundtracks + live shows with Élise Caron, D.Colin, P.Deschepper, É.Échampard, D.Petit, B.Vitet, E.Risser, A-T. Hoang, L.Edsjö), 2002-2005 then 2011-2014
• 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
• "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, CN), meta.morf (Trondheim, NO), Lab30 (Augsburg, D), Gateways (Tallinn, Estonia)... 2006-2014
• "Somnambules" with N.Clauss, É.Brunet et É.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, 2010-2011
• Duo with Antonin-Tri Hoang, 2011-2016
• El Strøm, trio with Birgitte Lyregaard and Sacha Gattino, 2011-2012
• "Le grand réinventaire" with Ève Risser and Antonin-Tri Hoang, 2012
• "Dodécadanse" with Claudia Triozzi, Sandrine Maisonneuve and Vincent Segal, 2012
• "Revue de presse" with Jacques Rebotier, 2012
• "Postcards from America, Prix Découverte, Elliott Erwitt" with Ève Risser, Antonin-Tri Hoang, Linda Edsjö, 2012
• Trio with Vincent Segal, Antonin-Tri Hoang, Edward Perraud, 2012-2013
• "Dépaysages", trio with Jacques Perconte, 2012-2013
• Show with Nicolas Clauss and Sylvain Kassap, 2013
• Duo with Jorge Velez (Professor Genius), 2013
• "Rêves et cauchemars" with Alexandra Grimal, Antonin-Tri Hoang, Fanny Lasfargues, Edward Perraud, 2014
• "Hommage à Jacques Thollot" with Fantazio et Antonin-Tri Hoang, 2015
• "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard" with Birgitte Lyregaard, Linda Edsjö, Médéric Collignon, Julien Desprez, Antonin-Tri Hoang, Pascal Contet, 2014-2015
• "Entrechats" with Bumcello (Vincent Segal, Cyril Atef), 2016
• "Avant toute" with Francis Gorgé, 2016
• "Harpon" with Amandine Casadamont, 2016-2018
• "Défauts de prononciation" with Sophie Bernado and Linda Edsjö, 2017
• "Face B" with Daniela Franco, Vincent Segal, Antonin-Tri Hoang, 2018
• "OSO" avec Laurent Stoutzer et David Coignard, 2019
• "Melting Rust" with Anne-Sarah Le Meur, 2019
• "Nonselves" with John Sanborn, 2019
• "Saute-mouton #4" with Élise Dabrowski, Mathias Lévy, Lionel Martin, Gwennaëlle Roulleau, 2023
• "Apéro Labo" with Antonin-Tri Hoang, Mathias Lévy, Maëlle Desbrosses, Fanny Meteier, Lea Ciechelsky, Fabiana Striffler, 2024
• "Radio Phony", 2024
• "After 2152" with Amandine Casadamont, 2024
• Gingembre Electric (guest), 2026
• Spat'sonore with Nicolas Chedmail, 2026

Multimedia (CD-ROM, DVD, iPhone, iPad...)

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
• 2025 ex machina for iPhone with Nicolas Clauss (Tralalere), 2011
• Balloon for iPad with Sacha Gattino (Ed.Volumiques), 2012
• Leonardo da Vinci's Dream Machine for iPad with Nicolas Clauss (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie), 2012
• DigDeep (Les inéditeurs), 2014
• Zephyrs : Le ballon, Le safari en ballon, La fusée, La soucoupe volante, La Maison Fantôme / World of Yo-Ho (Ed. Volumiques), 2015
• Boum! with Mikaël Cixous (Les inéditeurs), 2015
• Carambolages (RMN), 2016
• Woodchuck's Sleep (Numix), 2020-2022

Internet / websites / transmedia

• 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 (Tralalere), 2010
• Clip for Chanel with Sacha Gattino, 2011
• Prévert Exquis by Isabelle Fougere, Sonia Cruchon, Mikaël Cixous (Fatras/Narrative), Prix du meilleur projet francophone Cross Video Days TV5 Monde, Special Jury Prize Digital Ehon Awards, 2016-2017
• Mooc Sciences numériques & Technologie (Inria), 2019
• Podcasts on cybercriminality, 2019
• Mooc Impacts environnementaux du numérique (Inria), 2021

Objects & spaces sound design

• Urbanisme, critical metamorphosis of a city, Arcueil 1979 - Napoli 1981
• Nabaztag, smart rabbit, as well as Mir:ror and Dal:dal (Violet), 2005-2009 / 2020
Design Management Europe Award 2007, Grand Prix Netxplorateur 2008, Étoile de l'Observeur du Design 2009
• Telesound, 2010-2012
• Impact study for Grand Paris Metro (Integral Ruedi Baur), 2014-2015
• Sound facade of La Maison de l'île de la Réunion, Paris, 2015
• Nudge messages for SNCF RER, 2020-2023

Novels

• "La corde à linge" (incl. pictures and sounds), publie.net, 2011
• "USA 1968, deux enfants" (incl. pictures, films and sounds), Les inéditeurs, 2014

Various

• Foundation of light-shows H Lights & L'Œuf Hyaloïde : Cirque Bonjour (Victoria Chaplin, Jean-Baptiste Thierrée), Daevid Allen Gong, Red Noise, Crouille-Marteaux (Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Melmoth), Dagon, Epimanondas, Steamhammer, Kevin Ayers... 1969-1974
• "Light-Book", graphic book, Imprimerie Union, 1973
• Music for audiovisuals or records by Robert et Thierry Dehesdin, Michel Séméniako, Marie-Jésus Diaz, Charles Bitsch, Noël Burch, Claude Thiébaut, Daniel Verdier, Jean-André Fieschi... 1975-1990
• Radio Production (hörspiel):
"U.S.A. le complot" , France Musique, 1983
"La peur du vide", France Musique, 1983
"Improvisation mode d'emploi" (série), France Culture, 1988
"Écarlate", France Culture, 1989
• Co-direction of Le Journal des Allumés du Jazz, 1999-2008
• Articles published by Les Allumés, Muziq, Jazz Magazine, Jazz@round, Jazzosphère, Citizen Jazz, Les Nouveaux Dossiers de l'Audiovisuel (INA), La Revue du Cube, L'Autre Quotidien, La Nuit, Les Cahiers de l'Herne, Le Monde Diplomatique, Tk21, Smaris Elaphus... 1998-2025
• Daily Blog, 5800 articles, since 2010 mirror on Mediapart, 2005-2025