Un Drame Musical Instantané, since its creation in 1976,[1] 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.
They borrowed their sources from rock (synthesizer player Birgé and guitarist Gorgé, both authors of the album, Défense de);[2]jazz (trumpeter Vitet who founded the first free jazz band in France, together with François Tusques, as well as Michel Portal who played with many American and European jazzmen); 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.[3]
Twenty four creations were in their repertoire, among which were CaligaribyRobert Wiene, La glace à trois faces and La chute de la Maison UsherbyJean Epstein, The passion of Joan of ArcbyCarl Dreyer, Man with a Movie CamerabyDziga Vertov, and L'argentbyMarcel 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 (live video remix on a giant screen, fireworks, choreographies), 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 (a reed trumpet, a multiphonic French horn, a variable tension double-bass, a giant balafon with frying pans and flower pots keyboard, a fire organ, plexiglas flutes, etc.)
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 (they have always owned their own recording studio and record label GRRR)[4] 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.
Pas de cadeauin18 surprises pour Noël (DeQualité, France), 1981
À travail égal salaire égal, for orchestra (GRRR), 1982 - CD reissue+bonus (Klang Galerie, Austria), 2018
Under The ChannelinIn Fractured Silence (United Dairies, GB), 1983
Les bons contes font les bons amis, for orchestra (GRRR), 1983 - CD reissue+bonus (Klang Galerie, Austria), 2022
L'uniforme in mc Unique (France), 1984
L'homme à la caméra, for orchestra (GRRR), 1984 - bundle with LP remix by Jorge Velez, Le Tone, Eltron John, Tuff Sherm (DDD, France), 2017 - CD reissue+bonus (Klang Galerie, Austria), 2020
Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari in mc Bad Alchemy (Germany), 1985
Carnage, incl. La Bourse et la vie, N.O.P. dir. Yves Prin (GRRR), 1985 - CD reissue+bonus (Klang Galerie, Austria), 2021
French ResistanceinDry Lungs II (Placebo, USA), 1986
Interview in mc Planeta (France), 1986
Fear of VacancyinJourney Into Pain (mc BST, Japan), 1986
Don't Lock The CageinDry Lungs III (Placebo, USA), 1987
L'hallali, avec Frank Royon Le Mée, Dominique Fonfrède, Martine Viard, Louis Hagen-William, L'Itinéraire, dir. Boris de Vinogradov, incl. opera-bouffe La Fosse (GRRR), 1987
Sous les mers (GRRR), 1988
Qui vive ? (GRRR), 1989
Der Falsche Mann in Out of Depression (Germany)
Le futur abyssalinMouvements (La légende des voix, France), 1990
