ArtistInfo

Jean-Jacques Birgé

syn, *1952 FR, Paris
Musician / Composer of Jazz and Electronic

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.

Instruments

• Synthesizer
• Flute
• Percussion
• Strings
• Vocals

Genres

• Jazz
• Electronic
• Spoken Word
• Classical
• Rock

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