Radio Shows UN DRAME MUSICAL INSTANTANÉ / BIRGÉ

As a podcast on France Musique, Françoise Degeorges dedicates to Jean-Jacques Birgé her weekly program Couleurs du Monde on March 27, 2021. The publication of the CD Perspectives For the 22nd Century produced by the Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève, is obviously one of the main reasons. The producer came to interview the composer at Studio GRRR with the sound engineer Pierre Willer holding the pole. The list of musical extracts is published on the France Musique website together with the podcast:
Les Années 1950 (CD Le Centenaire de JJB)
Improvisation sur les couleurs du monde (je ne me souvenais plus du tout de ce que j'avais bricolé lors de ma démonstration !)
Les Années 1960 - avec Hervé Legeay, Vincent Segal, Cyril Atef (CD Le Centenaire de JJB)
Les Années 2040 - avec Antonin-Tri Hoang (CD Le Centenaire de JJB)
Acceptez un conseil - avec Linda Edsjö (CD Pique-nique au labo)
Bolet Meuble - avec Francis Gorgé (LP Avant Toute)
Radio Silence - avec Bernard Vitet (CD Carton)
Nabaz'mob - l'opéra pour 100 lapins communicants réalisé avec Antoine Schmitt
Prise de contact - avec Antonin-Tri Hoang, Vincent Segal (CD Pique-nique au labo)
Musette (CD L'homme à la caméra/La glace à trois faces avec le grand orchestre d'Un Drame Musical Instantané, solistes : Patrice Petitdidier, Bruno Girard)
M'enfin - avec Francis Gorgé, Bernard Vitet (LP/CD Rideau !)
Les Jambes - avec 17 voix du monde (CD Perspectives du XXIIe siècle)
Berceuse ionique - avec Jean-François Vrod, Sylvain Lemêtre (CD Perspectives du XXIIe siècle)
Aksak Tripalium - avec Nicolas Chedmail, Antonin-Tri Hoang, Sylvain Lemêtre (CD Perspectives du XXIIe siècle)
Amore 529 - avec Brigitte Fontaine, Bernard Vitet (CD Opération Blow Up)
Tapis volant - avec Alexandra Grimal (CD Pique-nique au labo)

Impressions Jazz n°35, radio show by Denis Desassis on Radio Déclic, February 9th 2024, with Exotica played by Jean-Jacques Birgé, François Corneloup and Philippe Deschepper

Radio show by Denis Desassis on RadioDéclic, November 24 2024, with Gaza by Un Drame Musical Instantané from CD Tchak

Portrait of Jean-Jacques Birgé by Bruno Letort
France Musique, November 3 2017
L'isthme des ismes recorded November 2 with
Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboard...
Antonin-Tri Hoang - alto sax, bass clarinet, piano
Samuel Ber - drums, percussion
Plus some extracts of albums published by GRRR Records
French article on Blog (external link) - Podcast (external link)

1. L'isthme des ismes (2017)
Jean-Jacques Birgé - prepared piano / Antonin-Tri Hoang - alto sax, piano / Samuel Ber - percussion
2. Fascisme (2017)
Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboard, harmonica, nose flute, jaw harp, reed / Antonin-Tri Hoang - alto sax, piano / Samuel Ber - percussion
3. A French Letter (extract of CD by Un D.M.I. Kind Lieder, 1991)
Jean-Jacques Birgé - vocals / Bernard Vitet - trumpet / Francis Gorgé - guitar / Gérard Siracusa - percussion
4. Contretemps (extract of CD by El Strøm Long Time No Sea, 2012)
Birgitte Lyregaard - vocals / Jean-Jacques Birgé - Theremin, (reed) trumpet, Tenori-on / Sacha Gattino - sampler
5. Radio Sandwich (extract of CD by El Strøm Long Time No Sea, 2012)
Jean-Jacques Birgé - Mascarade Machine / Sacha Gattino - sampler / Birgitte Lyregaard - vocals
6. Mémé (extract from CD by Un D.M.I. Kind Lieder, 1991)
Jean-Jacques Birgé - vocals, keyboard / Francis Gorgé - guitar / Bernard Vitet - trumpet / Gérard Siracusa - percussion
7. Établissement d'un ciel d'alternance (extract of CD, 1996)
Michel Houellebecq - slam / Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboard
8. Communisme (2017)
Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboard / Antonin-Tri Hoang - alto sax, bass clarinet, piano / Samuel Ber - percussion
9. Anarchisme (2017)
Jean-Jacques Birgé- keyboard / Antonin-Tri Hoang - piano, alto sax, bass clarinet / Samuel Ber - percussion
10. Capitalisme (2017)
Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboard, voix, varinette / Antonin-Tri Hoang - alto sax, bass clarinet, piano / Samuel Ber - percussion

Interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé by Bruno Letort
about the record The 100th Anniversary (1952-2052)
Radio show by Bruno Riou-Maillard
France Musique, February 1st 2019

Jean-Jacques Birgé – vocals, synthesizers, orchestra, Pâte à son, Theremin, Tenori-on, Mascarade Machine, field recording, trumpet, flute, inanga, jaw harp / Elsa Birgé / Pascale Labbé / Birgitte Lyregaard – vocals / Bernard Vitet – trumpet / Yves Robert – trombone / Nicolas Chedmail – horn / Antonin-Tri Hoang – bass clarinet / Philippe Deschepper / Hervé Legeay – guitar / Didier Petit – cello / Vincent Segal – bass / Cyril Atef / Éric Échampard – drums / Michèle Buirette – accordion / Amandine Casadamont – vinyls / Sacha Gattino – sampler, organ music box, whistling, electronics…

Amandine Casadamont (vinyl decks) et Jean-Jacques Birgé (keyboard) are invited by  Thomas Baumgartner for his radio program Supersonic
The duet introduces the album Harpon and plays live 47 mars
France Culture, April 16 2016 (recorded on the 6th)

Extracts of Jeu de l'ouïe by Martine Cadieu with Jean-Jacques Birgé for the exhibition Il était une fois la fête foraine 1850-1950 at La Grande Halle de la Villette
France Culture, 5 episodes, September 18 to 22 1995 (recorded on the 13th)

Jingle for France Musique

Interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé by Agnès Desnos
Extracts of albums Carton, Buenaventura Durruti with Elsa Birgé, François Corneloup, Hervé Legeay, Michel Godard, Xavier Desandre Navarre, Sarajevo Suite with Dee Dee Bridgewater and Balanescu String Quartet...
March 20 1997

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Jean-Jacques Birgé, Agathe Lechevalier Novak and Julien Gosselin are invited by Sylvain Bourmeau for Le Marathon des Mots about Michel Houellebecq's poetry
Extracts of the CD Birgé-Houellebecq Établissement d'un ciel d'alternance
France Culture, Auditorium Saint Pierre des Cuisines, Toulouse, June 28 2014

Ciné-concert La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
Interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé by Alain Lacombe
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, sampler, ambiances, percussion, violin
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn, piano
Francis Gorgé - guitars
Improvisation live with silent film by Carl T. Dreyer
Festival d'Angers Musique et Cinéma, June 19 1984

Interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé by David Jisse
Extracts from records À travail égal salaire égal, Qui vive ?, Opération Blow Up with Valentin Clastrier and Sarajevo Suite with Dee Dee Bridgewater and the Balanescu String Quartet, Central Park in the Dark by Charles Ives, Franco Donatoni at Musica, John Zorn, Frank Zappa…
France Culture, October 19 1995

Interviews of Jean-Jacques Birgé et Bernard Vitet
Extracts from records by'Un Drame Musical Instantané with Luc Ferrari, Colette Magny, Valentin Clastrier, Jean Querlier, Joseph Racaille...
Translation and production - Karl Lieppegaus
1992

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A radio programme by Philip de La Croix for Musicomania by Françoise Maletra on the show 20 000 Leagues under the Sea at Péniche-Opéra, music by Un Drame Musical Instantané, directed by Mireille Larroche.
Interview of Mireille Larroche, Francis Gorgé, Jean-Jacques Birgé, Bernard Vitet
France Musique, 1988
CD Sous les mers

Interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé and Vincent Segal by Bruno Letort on France Musique (Tapage nocturne) about their live duet on the air

Jean-Jacques Birgé interviewed by Michel Masserey on Radio Télévision Suisse, Vertigo program, about CD Perspectives for the 22nd Century
06/08/2020

Radio program by Patricia Prigent with Jean-Jacques Birgé about Sarajevo Suite
France Culture, December 11 1994

Jean-Jacques Birgé interviewed by Benoît Perrier on Radio Télévision Suisse, L ‘écho des pavanes program, about CD Perspectives for the 22nd Century
Extracts : MEG 2152, Aksak Tripalium, Ensemble Ratatam with Elsa Birgé, Nicolas Chedmail, Sylvain Lemêtre, Jean-François Vrod, Antonin-Tri Hoang
06/25/2020

Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, tapes, piano, alto saxophone, flutes, harmonica, jaw harp, percussions, double reed trumpet, vocals, nose flute
Bernard Vitet - flugel horn, trumpet, reed trumpet, violin, piano, jaw harp, percussions
Francis Gorgé - electric bass and guitare, acoustic guitar, percussions
Overture 9' followed by Jean Vigo's film À propos de Nice (1930)
Recorded by france Musique, with interview of Bernard Vitet by André Francis, live at Ris-Orangis on December 30 1978

Interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé by Agnès Desnos live from Clam'Art Studio
Extracts from CD-Rom Carton, records Au fil du temps, an alternate unissued track from Établissement d'un ciel d'alternance with Michel Houellebecq...
March 10 1998

Following

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Extract of a radio show by Sophie Barrouyer with interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé and Bernard Vitet, music by Un Drame Musical Instantané for Marcel L'Herbier's silent movie, L'argent (1928)
France Culture, 1988

Radio program by Bruno Letort produced by Bruno Riou-Maillard with Jean-Jacques Birgé and Bernard Vitet
France Musique, October 20 2003 (recorded on the 15th)

Interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé by David Jisse about CD-Rom Alphabet
France Culture, July 23 2002 (recorded on the 4th)

Extracts of an ACR (Atelier de création radiophonique) by Jacques Labarrière with Jean-Jacques Birgé
France Culture, March 4 2001

Extract of a radio interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé by Bruno Letort
France Musique, June 26 2001

Radio program of Jacques Taroni produced by Françoise Degeorges with Marie Berthe Servier and Jean-Jacques Birgé about Un Drame Musical Instantané
France Culture, December 28 1989

Radio program by Frank Mallet with Jean-Jacques Birgé about live show 20 000 lieues sous les mers at La Péniche Opéra, Paris
France Musique, November 1 1988

Interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé, Francis Gorgé and Bernard Vitet about Un Drame Musical Instantané and albums recorded between 1977 et 1988, Trop d'adrénaline nuit, L'homme à la caméra, L'hallali and Sous les mers…
Better quality on INA website
France Culture, 11/19/1988

Jean-Jacques Birgé, Bernard Vitet and Francis Gorgé interviewed by Jean-Loup Graton on France Musique radio program, with Chambre noire by Un Drame Musical Instantané's 15 piece orchestra
followed by original score for Dziga Vertov's feature film recorded on October 5 1983 at Le Maillon, Strasbourg

Francis Gorgé - direction, electric guitar, brake
Bernard Vitet - direction, trumpet, vocals, flute
Jean-Jacques Birgé - direction, digital synthesizer, ambiances, flutes, piano, vocals, jaw-harp
Hélène Sage - vocals, flutes, bass clarinet, bazar, home made instruments
Youenn Le Berre - flutes, electric flute électrique, tenor sax, bassoon
Magali Viallefond - oboe, English horn, flute, metal ellipse, cristal organ
Patrice Petitdidier - French horn
Yves Robert - trombone
Jacques Marugg - vibraphone, marimba, percussion
Gérard Siracusa - percussion, marimba
Bruno Barré - violins
Nathalie Baudoin - viola
Marie-Noëlle Sabatelli - cello
Didier Petit - cello, vocals
Geneviève Cabannes - double bass, keyboard, vocals

A radio program by Jean-Loup Graton et Jacques Dupont
Sound - Jean Brechet, assistants - Jean-Claude Grimblat et Caroline Recure
Mix - Michel Beaussy, Cyril Bécure
Technics - Alain Garotin
Assistant - Marie-France Aléon
1h 14mn 37s

Interview with Jean-Jacques Birgé (by Bruno de Chénerilles) and extracts by Un Drame Musical Instantané, trio and big band (unissued live recordings in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, at Haras National de Blois and in Corbeil-Essonnes).
Previously issued on compilation Planeta #7 (France). Also on Alesia Cosmos.

Interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé by Frank Mallet about L'hallali and L'argent
France Musique, January 29 1988

End of the first part of Multipistes by Philip de la Croix
Interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé, Bernard Vitet et Francis Gorgé about 3 albums published in 1991, Urgent Meeting with Youenn Le Berre, Colette Magny, Geneviève Cabannes, Didier Malherbe, Louis Sclavis, Vinko Globokar, Jeune fille qui tombe, tombe… with Daniel Laloux and Kind Lieder...
Extract of Multipistes #186 about Un D.M.I. downloadable on site INA
France Culture, 11/16/1991

Second part of Multipistes by Philip de la Croix
Extract of Multipistes #187 about Un D.M.I. on site INA
France Culture, 11/23/1991

December 1984

Interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé by Philippe Carles
about live music on silent movies by Un Drame Musical Instantané and LP Carnage
France Musique, 1985

with Bernard Vitet and Francis Gorgé interviewed by Philippe Carles and Philippe Caloni
and Mehr Licht ! (GRRR 1003) with Bernard Vitet - reed trumpet
April 24 1979

Interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé, Bernard Vitet and Francis Gorgé by Frank Mallet
about LP Rideau !
France Culture, 1982

Interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé, Bernard Vitet and Francis Gorgé by Jean-Loup Graton
about LP À Travail égal salaire égal
France Culture, 1982

Jean-Jacques Birgé
Bernard Vitet
Francis Gorgé
Hélène Sage
Trou, inspired by E.A.Poe, has been composed for XIIe Biennale de Paris, section voice & sound, November 1982

Recorded live in Orly, Festival Futurs Musiques,February 2 1991
Interview and extracts of the show with
Richard Bohringer, voice
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthesizer, flute, vocals
Bernard Vitet - piano
Francis Gorgé - electric guitar, computer

A long interview with Philippe Drogoz, Marcel Trillat, Hélène Sage, etc.
Jean-Jacques Birgé and Bernard Vitet talk about a lot of musical subjects playing their instruments to illustrate their purpose.
Jean-Jacques Birgé - synthetizers, electronics, piano, tapes, bass clarinet, jaw harp, stylophone, vocals...
Bernard Vitet - trumpet, flugel horn, French horn, reed trumpet, vocals...
Hélène Sage - bass clarinet, flutes,  vocals...
Francis Gorgé plays only on recorded pieces.
Live show at Radio G, Gennevilliers, July 24 1981

Part 2 of Radio G

End of Radio G

Live radio show by Jean-Pierre Gillard
with Tamia and Bernard Vitet at Radio France, Jean-Jacques Birgé and Francis Gorgé on recordings plus Jean-Pierre Gillard
Diffusion of various Poisons
France Musique, May 21 1977

End of the live radio show by Jean-Pierre Gillard
with Tamia and Bernard Vitet

Jingle Radio Nova
with Un drame musical instantané's orchestra
January 1984

Introduction of a series produced by Jean-Jacques Birgé for France Culture

Tamia : vocals, rhaïta
Jean-Jacques Birgé : ambiences, synthesizer, hou-kin, vocals, pocket trumpet, nose flute, jaw harps, alto sax, lion's roar, French horn, percussion, reeds, cows, alto melodica, birdcalls, horn, stylophone, siren, tenor flute, violin
Bernard Vitet : Flugel horn, trumpet, alto sax, percussion, bombarde, ophicléïde, piccolo trumpet, reed trumpet, jaw harp, vocals, violin, morse, French horn, horn, piano
Francis Gorgé : electric guitar and bass, birdcalls, acoustic guitar, percussion, French horn, jazzo-flute
Recorded live on the air at France Musique on May 7 1977 for radio show Les astronautes / Non écrites by Pierre Lattès and Joséphine Markovits

Dialogue by Jean-Jacques Birgé (inanga) and Bernard Vitet (violin) for radio program "Un musicien dans la nuit" on France Musique May 14 1977.
Where Un Drame Musical Instantané's principles are told less than a year after it has been founded.

Italian Radio program by Dino Giannasi with extracts from LPs À travail égal salaire égal et Les bons contes font les bons amis : Pour Quoi La Nuit, L'invitation au voyage, Sacre Matao, Révolutions
Firenze, January 11 1984

Interview of Les inéditeurs (external link) about graphic novel Boum ! (external link) with Mikaël Cixous, Jean-Jacques Birgé, Mathias Franck and Sonia Cruchon on October 14 2015, Radio Aligre

Thomas Baumgartner invites Jean-Jacques Birgé, Pascal Ayerbe and Patrice Elegeot about the toy-piano Michelsonne for his radio program L'atelier du son. Extracts.
They improvise together. Birgé, who unfortunaltely forgot his dongle to open the application UVI with its Michelsonne Cristal, plays iPhone virtual jaw-harp and produces strange noises with his voice.
France Culture, November 11 2011 (recorded on October 28)

Reportage by Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint about the exhibition Carambolages for French radio RFI with Jean-Hubert Martin, March 4 2016

Reportage by Kerstin Gallmeyer about the exhibition Carambolages for German radio ARD with Jean-Hubert Martin and Jean-Jacques Birgé, March 2 2016
(auf Deutsch !)

Reportage by Marie Sýkorová about the exhibition Carambolages for Czech radio Český Rozhlas with Jean-Hubert Martin and Jean-Jacques Birgé, March 16 2016 (in Czech!)

Long interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé with Nico Bogaerts on the radio in Bruxelles.
Including Rangé des voitures (1985), 1965 (1965), La deuxième vie de mon père (2013), Les blancs jouent et gagnent (1987), Un coup de Groutchmeu (1974), Comedia dell'Amore 329 (1991), The Back of The Mind (2019)

The end of the interview of Jean-Jacques Birgé by Nico Bogaerts on the radio in Bruxelles.
Including Les années 50 (2018), Bolet Meuble (1975), L'Indésir (2020), Je pense à ton cul (2014), pourrait être brutal (1975),Tunnel sous la Manche (Under The Channel) (1983), 7/11 (1999)

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

Denis Lavant – reading, horn, flute
Lionel Martin – tenor sax
Jean-Jacques Birgé – synthesizers, harmonica, reed trumpet, percussion
Text by Xavier Grall (ed. Calligrammes)
On air at Radio Déclic on December 12th 2025 in radio show Impressions Jazz by Denis Dessasis

Denis Lavant – reading
Lionel Martin – tenor sax
Jean-Jacques Birgé – shahi baaja, keyboard, percussion, flute, jaw harp, harmonica
Text by André Schlesser (ed. des Cendres)
On air at Radio Libertaire on October 19th 2025 in radio show Le mélange by Michel Polizzi