Un Drame Musical Instantané


Un Drame Musical Instantané, since its creation in 1976, featuring Jean-Jacques Birgé, Bernard Vitet and Francis Gorgé, has decided to promote collective musical creation, co-signing their albums, which they consider as artworks in themselves, or their live shows which they try to renew every time they play.
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History

They borrowed their sources from rock ; jazz ; classical modern music; as well as movies or world news; they were the first in France to give a new impetus to live music on silent movies.
Twenty four creations were in their repertoire, among which were Caligari by Robert Wiene, La glace à trois faces and La chute de la Maison Usher by Jean Epstein, The passion of Joan of Arc by Carl Dreyer, Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov, and L'argent by Marcel L'Herbier. After having improvised freely for many years, they led a fifteen-piece orchestra from 1981 to 1986, and since 1989 they have produced multimedia shows, but their most convincing musical theater was mainly audio, which they have called "blind cinema". The Drame used to mix acoustic and electronic instruments in real time as well as original instruments built by Vitet
After Francis Gorgé has left the band in 1992, Birgé and Vitet went on recording and producing with other musicians close to the "family" such as percussionist, Gérard Siracusa, or multi-instrumentalist, Hélène Sage. Un Drame Musical Instantané which has always remain independent stopped its activities in 2008, Birgé remaining the only one on the music scene. And Vitet died on July 3, 2013.
However, Un Drame Musical Instantané has come back on stage in 2014, featuring Birgé, Gorgé, Sage, plus several guests, and Birgé Gorgé got back together with writer Dominique Meens in 2022 and live with Amandine Casadamont on turntables in 2023.

Discography

Très toxique 1976 Trop d'adrénaline nuit, 1977 - CD reissue+bonus+DVD, 2001 - LP reissue+DVD, 2013Rideau !, 1980 - CD reissue+bonus, 2017Pas de cadeau in 18 surprises pour Noël, 1981À travail égal salaire égal, for orchestra, 1982 - CD reissue+bonus, 2018Under The Channel in In Fractured Silence, 1983Les bons contes font les bons amis, for orchestra, 1983 - CD reissue+bonus, 2022L'uniforme in mc Unique, 1984L'homme à la caméra, for orchestra, 1984 - bundle with LP remix by Jorge Velez, Le Tone, Eltron John, Tuff Sherm, 2017 - CD reissue+bonus, 2020Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari in mc Bad Alchemy, 1985Carnage, incl. La Bourse et la vie, N.O.P. dir. Yves Prin, 1985 - CD reissue+bonus, 2021French Resistance in Dry Lungs II, 1986Interview in mc Planeta, 1986Fear of Vacancy in Journey Into Pain, 1986Don't Lock The Cage in Dry Lungs III, 1987L'hallali, avec Frank Royon Le Mée, Dominique Fonfrède, Martine Viard, Louis Hagen-William, L'Itinéraire, dir. Boris de Vinogradov, incl. opera-bouffe La Fosse, 1987Sous les mers, 1988Qui vive ?, 1989Der Falsche Mann in Out of Depression Le futur abyssal in Mouvements, 1990Le K, text by Dino Buzzati with Richard Bohringer, Nomination at 9th Victoires de la Musique, 1990–93Pale Driver Killed By A Swallow On A Country Road in Dry Lungs IV, 1991Le fond de l'âme effraie : Air Cut in Atomic Zen, 1991North Eating South Starving in A Gnomean Haigonaimean, 1991Jeune fille qui tombe... tombe, text by Dino Buzzati with Daniel Laloux, 1991Kind Lieder, nine songs which hurt, 1991Rien ne va plus in Dry Lungs V, 1992Utopie Standard in Passionnément, 1992Urgent Meeting, with Colette Magny, Didier Malherbe, Michel Godard, Louis Sclavis, Raymond Boni, Gérard Siracusa, Vinko Globokar, Yves Robert, François Tusques, Denis Colin..., 1992Opération Blow Up, with Brigitte Fontaine, Henri Texier, Luc Ferrari, Joëlle Léandre, Valentin Clastrier, René Lussier..., 1992Musica Per Dimagrire in Musica Propiziatoria, 1993Zappeurs-Pompiers 2 in Journal de bord, 1993Crasse-Tignasse, songs for children who like to be frightened, 1993
  • 3 pieces with Dee Dee Bridgewater and Balanescu String Quartet in Sarajevo Suite,1994¡Vivan las utopias! in Buenaventura Durruti, 1996L'instable and So Deep in L'étrange, 1998Machiavel, with Benoît Delbecq, Steve Argüelles, DJ Nem, Philippe Deschepper..., 1998Wit in Enhanced Gravity, 1999Ça ira in Les Actualités, with singer Baco, 2006, 2007Poils et plumes with writer Dominique Meens, to be issued in 2022
  • 194 hours of unissued, freely downlable, music on drame.org, 2010-2025Fluxus +/- with Kommissar Hjuler, Mama Baer, 2022

Live shows

Radio

U.S.A. le complot & La peur du vide, France Musique, 1983Écarlate, France Culture, 1989

Video

  • , real. Emmanuelle K, 1983
  • , real. Didier Ranz, 1987Le K, real. Ch. Gomila, 1989