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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.),〔 6 pages on sound design with Stephane Ollivier in (Les Inrockuptibles ) (December 2000)〕 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.〔 Francis Marmande on silent movies in (Le Monde ) (04/27/1989)〕 Since 1995, he has become a sound designer in all multimedia areas and interactive composition.〔 Interview by (Designers Interactifs )〕 ==Biography== After his studies at Idhec (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, now La Fémis), Jean-Jacques Birgé〔 (Site Turbulence )〕 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. 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 and the Jury Award in Locarno 1994 collectively for ''Sarajevo: a street under siege'', and his short (Le sniper ) was shown in more than 1000 theatres. A specialist for realtime synthesis music instruments, he has always lived among new technologies which offer the possibility of conceiving 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'', French Pavilion Aïchi World Fair...), websites (BDDP-TBWA, Laurent-Perrier, Ville de Lyon, Compagnie Générale des Eaux, Rencontres Numer, Determinism, Else, Virtools, Adidas, Ptits reperes, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Musée de l'Immigration...), and CD-Roms (''At the Circus with Seurat, Fenêtre sur l'Art, Europrix 98, AZ, Firmenich, 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 asserted 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),〔''Machiavel'', free download on (machiavel.net )〕 and (Alphabet ), 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 inaugurated a new direction of work based generative action and interactivity which lets the player discover a new interpretation each time (on-line et off-line). He regularly collaborates on the creation of sites (lecielestbleu.com ) (with F.Durieu) and (flyingpuppet.com ) (with (Nicolas Clauss )). For lecielestbleu.com he received the Prix SCAM 2002 of the Best Internet Site meilleur site and the NarrowCast Content Award 2002 ... For ''Ulchiro'' on flyingpuppet.com he received the Prix du Centre Pompidou FlashFestival 2002 ... (Somnambules ), together with Nicolas Clauss and Didier Silhol, won 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. Besides his (daily blog ), Birgé writes in many magazines and teaches the relation between sound and pictures. He designed the sound of Nabaztag, the smart rabbit. His last artworks are (Les Portes ) (Doors, interactive video installation with Nicolas Clauss) and (Nabaz'mob ) (opera for 100 smart rabbits with Antoine Schmitt for which they receive Ars Electronica Award of Distinction Digital Musics 2009). After CD ''Etablissement d'un ciel d'alternance'', a duo with writer Michel Houellebecq, he produces dozens of online albums. He currently plays with Vincent Segal (cello), Antonin-Tri Hoang (alto sax, bass clarinet), Alexandra Grimal (soprano & tenor sax), Fanny Lasfargues (bass), Edward Perraud (drums), Birgitte Lyregaard (vocals), Linda Edsjö (vibraphone), Sacha Gattino (misc.) and video artist Jacques Perconte. His last show uses the famous Oblique Strategies game of cards with musicians such as Médéric Collignon, Julien Desprez and others. New site drame.org offers 130 hours of unissued free downlable music. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean-Jacques Birgé」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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