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Ball of Fire

by Birgé - Hochapfel - Vrod

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What are you really thinking about just now? Incorporate 06:03
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Gardening, not architecture 01:43
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Take a break 03:17
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Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them 03:17
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Be dirty 03:29
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Once the search is in progress, something will be found 03:08
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Do something boring 03:52
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Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list 04:15
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Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture) 06:38
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Use filters 06:59
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Turn it upside down 05:20
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Not building a wall but making a brick 03:41
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In total darkness or in a very large room, very quietly 08:48
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Where’s the edge? Where does the frame start? 05:16
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Simple substraction 04:59
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You don’t have to be ashamed of using your own ideas 02:04
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about

Improvisations recorded on November 22 2019
at GRRR Studio by Jean-Jacques Birgé
in the order which they have been played

Cover © JJB
Photo of the trio © Peter Gabor

73 minutes

As for albums Game Bling with Ève Risser and Joce Mienniel (2014), Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard with Médéric Collignon and Julien Desprez (2014), Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard 2 with Pascal Contet and Antonin-Tri Hoang (2015), Questions with Élise Dabrowski and Mathias Lévy (May 2019), WD-40 avec Christelle Séry and Jonathan Pontier (Oct. 2019), and the live show filmed À l'improviste with Birgitte Lyregaard and Linda Edsjö (2014), cards from the game Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt were randomly chosen as scores for the musicians.

Films of some concerts, where the audience choses the cards, are also online on YouTube (with Collignon, Desprez, Contet, Hoang, Lyregaard, Edsjö)...

Ball of Fire has been partly filmed by Peter Gabor to be used in a project on Jean-Jacques Birgé.

The Lyra-8 and The Pipe are SOMA Russian synthesizers, the JJB64 is a virtual un prototype invented by Eric Vernhes for Jean-Jacques Birgé's 64th birthday. Early in the mroning Karsten broke the high E on Jean-Jacques's guitar and other strings on his zheng, a Chinese koto. The cosmicbow buit by Christopher Vila Monasterio is one with four strings.

The title of the album is a dedication to Barbara Stanwyck in Howard Hawks' film. The ball comes from a building in Vienna designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

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released November 25, 2019

Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboard, field recording, Lyra-8, JJB64, The Pipe, radio, reed trumpet, flute, percussion
Jean-François Vrod - violin, kazoo, birdcall, percussion, vocals
Karsten Hochapfel - cello, guitar, cosmicbow, zheng

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Jean-Jacques BIRGÉ Paris, France

Jean-Jacques Birgé is an independent French musician and filmmaker, at once music composer (co-founder of Un Drame Musical Instantané), sound designer & multimedia artist, writer & blogger. (Mediapart)... Specialist of the relations between sound and pictures, he has been one of the early synthesizer players in France in 1973, the initiator of the return of silent movies with music in 1976. ... more

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