Jean-Jacques Birgé
| Jean-Jacques Birgé | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 November 1952 |
| Origin | Paris, France |
| Genres | avant-garde music |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, musician, filmmaker, writer |
| Instruments | synthesizer and misc. |
| Years active | 1969-2017 |
| Labels | GRRR, in situ, Auvidis, publie.net, Les inéditeurs |
| Website | http://www.drame.org |
| Notable instruments | |
| ARP 2600, PPG Wave 2.2, Ensoniq VFX-SD, Roland V-Synth, Tenori-on, Theremin, Mascarade Machine, reed trumpets, jaw-harps, flutes... | |
Jean-Jacques Birgé is an independent French musician and filmmaker, at once music composer (co-founder of Un Drame Musical Instantané with which he records about 30 albums, as well as for movies, theater, dance, radio), film director (La nuit du phoque, Sarajevo a Street Under Siege, The Sniper), multimedia author (Carton, Machiavel, Alphabet), sound designer (exhibitions, CD-Roms, websites, Nabaztag, etc.), founder of record label GRRR. Specialist of the relations between sound and pictures, he has been one of the early synthesizer players and home studio creators in France in 1973, and with Un d.m.i. the initiator of the return of silent movies with live orchestra in 1976. Since 1995, he has become a sound designer in all multimedia areas and interactive composition. Hardly classifiable musically, he may be likened to the encyclopedist current, such as Charles Ives, İlhan Mimaroğlu, Frank Zappa, René Lussier, Francois Sarhan or John Zorn.
After his studies at Idhec (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, now La Fémis), Jean-Jacques Birgé is filled with 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 off-stage landscape and a wide opened window to imagination.
In 1975 he founded the record label GRRR (Defense de features on the famous Nurse with Wound list) and in 1976 the group Un Drame Musical Instantané (with Bernard Vitet and Francis Gorgé. He composed for movies (I. Barrère, D. Belloir, D. Cabrera, P. Desgraupes, P. O. Lévy, P. Morize, F. Reichenbach, F. Romand, Jacques Rouxel, R. Sangla, M. Trillat, la Cinémathèque Albert Kahn...), dance (J. Gaudin, Karine Saporta...), photography (Arles), theater, radio, and records about 30 albums. On stage, he plays live to silent movies (26 since 1976) as well as improvising or producing multimedia shows. For "Le K" with Richard Bohringer he was nominated at the 9èmes Victoires de la Musique.
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