Listen To The Quiet Plattfisk

by Birgé - Desbrosses -Sörling

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1.	Retrace Your Steps 17:11	info	buy track
2.	Listen To The Quiet Voice 13:57	info	buy track
3.	Make A Sudden, Destructive Unpredictable Action ; Incorporate 40:38	info	buy track
4.	Don’t Be Frightened Of Cliches - Part 1 12:29	info	buy track
5.	Don't Be Frightened of Cliches - Part 2 09:39	info	buy track

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35th album of the series "Pique-nique au labo"
It’s about playing to meet and not the other way around as usual. The theme of each piece was randomly chosen just before playing.

Instantaneous compositions recorded on October 8 2023
at GRRR Studio by Jean-Jacques Birgé 
in the order which they have been played
 chosing cards from Oblique Strategies conceived
 by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt

94 minutes

Photos © JJB

  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 with Christelle Séry and Jonathan Pontier (Oct. 2019), Ball of Fire with Jean-François Vrod and Karsten Hochapfel (Nov. 2019), L’air de rien with Élise Caron and Fidel Fourneyron (mars 2021), To Be or Net To Be with Gilles Coronado and Basile Naudet (mai 2021), Chou with Sophie Agnel and David Fenech (October 2022), Raves with Olivier Lété and Fanny Meteier (May 2023), Moite with Violaine Lochu and Tatiana Paris (July 2023), Par terre with Emmanuelle Legros and Matthieu Donarier (July 2023),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)...

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released October 10, 2023

Isabel Sörling - vocals, electronics, electric guitar
Maëlle Desbrosses - viola, double bass, crossbow, vocals
Jean-Jacques Birgé - keyboards, synthesizers, flute, jaw harps, percussion

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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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Codex

Mar 2024
Apéro Labo 1

Jan 2024
La preuve

Nov 2023
Fŭtur

Nov 2023

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