Intimacy BIRGÉ

Jean-Jacques Birgé – keyboard
Amandine Casadamont– field recording
Sacha Gattino - whistling
Sylvain Lemêtre – percussion
Sylvain Rifflet – tenor sax
Conceived, recorded, edited and mixed by JJB
at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, December 2018
for the collective LP of Les Allumés du Jazz
"Aux Ronds-Points"
with the help of all his comrades who have all participated to the composition
Field recording recorded in Transylvania

Jean-Jacques Birgé plays all instruments
except bass and drums he has transformed.
Remix of a piece by Contolled Bleeding (external link)
Double-CD Carving Songs
Blog (external link)

Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizers, effects
Birgitte Lyregaard - vocals
This short piece features the soundtrack of Formule, a text by JJB in magazine d'ici là n°10 (December 2013), publie.net
Recorded at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, December 10 2010

Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizers, effects
Birgitte Lyregaard - vocals
Recorded at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, December 10 2010

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Portrait of Jean-Jacques Birgé by Émilie Mousset
Article on Blog
(external link)2008 (external link)

Sarajevo Suite et Fin, Part 1
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, computer (samples composed by J-J Birgé et Bernard Vitet for Balanescu String Quartet)
Pascale Labbé - vocals
Sarajevo, the beginning of an end. Ten years later, the world has to bear the worst remix one can imagine. The string quartet "Sniper Allée" is a pretext to an anti-mondialist blues, comosed with images of ever and sounds from nowhere.
Libretto, music, archives images : Jean-Jacques Birgé
Images, interactive programmation : Nicolas Clauss
Created at 15th Jubilee of Festival 38e Rugissants, Grenoble
Thanks : Bernard Vitet, le Balanescu String Quartet, Richard Hayon, Patrice Barrat, Corinne Léonet, Benoît Thibergien
Recorded at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, March 6 2004

Sarajevo Suite et Fin, Part 2
Pascale Labbé - vocals
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthsizer, computer (samples from Richard Hayon)
Recorded at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, March 6 2004

Sarajevo Suite et Fin, Part 3
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizers
Recorded at Studio GRRR, Bagnolet, March 6 2004

Trailer of a film by Thomas Cheysson who did not do it

Jean-Jacques Birgé - machines
Frank Vigroux - machines
Recorded by Jean-Jacques Birgé at Studio GRRR, July 2007
Mixed by Frank Vigroux at D'autres Cordes, February 2008

Jean-Jacques Birgé - machines
Frank Vigroux - machines
Recorded by Jean-Jacques Birgé at Studio GRRR, July 2007
Mixed by Frank Vigroux at D'autres Cordes, February 2008

Composed with La pâte à son, application conceived with Frédéric Durieu for La Cité de La Musique
Nouveaux Dossiers de l'Audiovisuel n°3, INA, 2005

Composed with the sound of interactive pictures of Somnambules conceived with painter Nicolas Clauss
Nouveaux Dossiers de l'Audiovisuel n°3, INA, 2005

Composed with interactive module PixelByPixel conceived with Frédéric Durieu (LeCielEstBleu.org)
Nouveaux Dossiers de l'Audiovisuel n°3, INA, 2005

Jean-Jacques Birgé - Michelsonne piano, ARP 2600 synthesizer, tape
One might recognize the beginning on Le réveil from LP Défense de.
Recorded on February 22 1975, 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt

Jean-Jacques Birgé - inanga
1998

Michèle Buirette - accordion
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizers, trumpet, flute, vocals
Recorded by JJB, 7 rue de l'Espérance, Paris

Michèle Buirette - accordion
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizers, trombone, trumpet
Recorded by JJB, 7 rue de l'Espérance, Paris

Jean-Jacques Birgé - electronics
with Philippe Danton, Thierry Dehesdin, Antoine Guerreiro, Luc Barnier, Michaëla Watteaux, playing insects and jungle
December 1972

A small montage for Cacharel in 1998 around It's all so quiet with my daughter Elsa

Jean-Jacques Birgé - ambiences, synthesizer, sampler, percussion
Music for Sainte Thérèse d'Avila's text read by Ludmila Mikaël (cassette Ed. Ducaté)
Enregistré au Studio GRRR, 8 septembre 1987

Rehearsal recording by Jean-Jacques Birgé on M (Atari) in the 80's

Jean-Jacques Birgé electronics
- Part 1 with Francis Gorgé, beginning 1971
- Part 2 with Alexandre Martin, Jean-Jacques Imerglik, Michel Poilzzi, Jean-Pierre Laplanche, Agnés Birgé, end 1968
Mixed in December 1972

Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer and editing for an audiovisual about newpaper L'Humanité directed by Michel Séméniako
Production Unicité, September 2 1975

Jean-Jacques Birgé - saxophone alto et synthétiseur
Recorded 88 rue du Château, Boulogne-Billancourt, September 6 1975

Jean-Jacques Birgé - tape recorder, koto
Antoine Guerreiro - zither, percussion
Eric Longuet - guitar
Philippe Danton - percussion
Thierry Dehesdin - percussion
Michaëla Watteaux - percussion
Luc Barnier - percussion
December 1972

Article sur French Blog
(external link)2010 (external link)

Composed, recorded and produced by Jean-Jacques Birgé at Studio GRRR, July 2004, with La Pâte à Son, interactive musical toy conceived by Jean-Jacques Birgé, Frédéric Durieu, Thierry Laval, Kristine Malden for La Cité de la Musique, Paris.
The illustration of the booklet is the score, which might be considered paradoxical for this tribute to Louis T. Hardin who lost sight after an accidental explosion when he was 16…
Enregistré initialement sur la compilation CD A Tribute to Moondog (Trace 022, France)

Carte Blanche to Un Drame Musical Instantané pendant 4 jours
Day 3 - Jean-Jacques Birgé invites friends to play for his birthday!
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, radiophonie, trombone, pocket trumpet
Michèle Buirette - accordion
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
Bernard Vitet - narration, trompette, flugel horn
Hélène Sage - stool, double-bass
Françoise Degeorges - narration, Bach on piano
Magali Viallefond - vocals, oboe, English horn
Youenn Le Berre - flute, bassoon, bagpipes
Jean Querlier - oboe, English horn
Jouk Minor - flamenco guitar
Christine Buri-Herscher - paper costumes
Live at 28 rue Dunois, November 5 1983

Jean-Jacques Birgé - ARP 2600 synthesizer, vocals
Sylka Sauvion - vocals, bidet, bells
March 30 1976 at 88

Soundtrack for Buster Keaton's film
Sound exercise, Idhec, 2nd grade
supervised by Geneviève Louveau
with
Jean-Jacques Birgé - zither, organ, kena, jaw harp, piano, percussion, electronics, sampling, vocals, music and editing
Bernard Mollerat - vocals and editing
Philippe Labat - acoustic guitar
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar
Eric Longuet - electric guitar
Antoine Guerreiro - violin, darboukas, choir
Marc Lichtig - drums
Luc Barnier - choir
Philippe Danton - choir
Recorded by Bernard Mollerat on Nagra IV February 24 and 26 1973
at L'Œuf Hyaloïde and Théâtre du Ranelagh

Jean-Jacques Birgé - koto, percussion
Antoine Guerreiro - zither, percussion
Eric Longuet - guitar, percussion
Philippe Danton - percussion
Luc Barnier - percussion
Michaëla Watteaux - percussion
Thierry Dehesdin - percussion
December 1972

A few months after the foundation of Un Drame Musical Instantané, and next day after the radio show Un musicien dans la nuit, Jean-Jacques Birgé who is 24 ans drives away for a month to work as audiovisiual technician. From May 22 to 25 1977 he records his thoughts, cuts radiophonies, plays flute and alto sax in the forest... He sends the cassette to Bernard Vitet from Albi.

Pentecost week-end. Jean-Jacques Birgé records a second cassette near Lacapelle-Biron in Lot-et-Garonne one week after first one. He sends pieces by Braxton, Puccini's Tosca and Brückner. Before his commentaries on May 21 France Musique redio show one can listen to a radiophone with Radio Moscow. In the woods he practices flute and alto sax.

Jean-Jacques Birgé - alto sax, ARP 2600 synthesizer, flute, bells, stylophone
with Philippe Labat, vocals, bells
Recorded on May 26 mai 1975 in Reux, remixed on May 28 on ARP at 88

Soundtrack of Jean-Jacques Birgé's film
Exercise Idhec 1st grade
End of 1971

Jean-Jacques Birgé - electronics, tapes, percussion, flutes, vocals
Michel Polizzi - percussion, vocals
Pierre Bensard - percussion, bongos
Alexandre Martin - percussion, flutes, vocals
Jean-Jacques Imerglik - harmonica, vocals
Jean-Pierre Laplanche - vocals
Agnès Birgé - vocals
1968, Boulogne-Billancourt

Jean-Jacques Birgé - piano
"It's the oldest recording I've ever made playing. I was 12 and had never done any music. The piano was in my little sister's bedroom. She taught me a few things so I could help her when she was singing parts of 'My Fair Lady'. However I recognize my style in this short improvisation!"

in Carving Songs by Controlled Bleeding
(Paul Lemos et Mike Bazini)
with Jean-Jacques Birgé - H3000, vocals, Tibetan bowl, bull roarers, bestiary (grizzli, alligator, cobra, lions)

On September 22, 2024, to mark her 30th anniversary of radio, sound artist and producer Amandine Casadamont proposed a special program for radio ΠNODE. Sound artists and radio personalities took part in this program, produced live and in public at La Générale. Performances and sonic UFOs followed one another over the airwaves and between the walls, from 5pm to 10pm.
After a presentation by Thomas Baumgartner, Jean-Jacques Birgé opened the ball with an improvised piece recalling his youth spent in front of his grandfather Gaston Birgé's huge Telefunken.

Jean-Jacques Birgé - radiophonies (plunderphonics), synthesizers, Terra