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Re: 80's looping?



Wow, I am happy to see this posted. I have seen Ms Hirsch perform at 
Roulette some years ago.
I had no idea what to expect and I was blown away. Too long ago to 
remember if it was the performance mentioned, but the feeling she put 
out was unforgetable. I would definately like to check out anything new 
by her.

Henry

Richard Zvonar wrote:

> At 12:21 AM -0500 11/22/02, Scott Carr wrote:
>
>> I'm guessing that Shelley Hirsch is the likely candidate. I remember
>> that she looked a bit like Kate Bush + she seems to most closely fit
>> that profile. Do you know if whe has an official website - I'm not
>
>> coming up with very musch in English from Google.
>
>
> http://www.creative-capital.org/artists/performance/hirsch/hirsch.html
>
> http://www.somewhere.org/NAR/Work_Excerpts/Hirsch/Main.htm
>
> http://www.tzadik.com/CDSections/RadicalJewishCulture/hirsch.html
>
> http://www.uncool.ch/SPONSOR2001/Hirsch.html
>
> This is from the Harvestworks Creative Contact site:
>
> Composer's bio/personal statement:
> Shelley Hirsch began putting on musical performances in the courtyard 
> of the apartment building where she grew up in Brooklyn, NY. After 
> dropping out of high school, Hirsch relocated to San Francisco and 
> joined an experimental theater company. While working with that group, 
> she read Artaud, practiced Jerzy Grotowski's physical theater 
> exercises, explored extended vocal techniques and began composing 
> pieces for voice. She has been singing, composing and performing ever 
> since. Her staged (mostly solo) musical performances, radio plays, 
> improvisations and music for films, concerts and recordings have been 
> received with critical acclaim internationally.
>
> Other professional information:
> I own dat machines, an Eventide harmonizer and other multi effects 
> units and a sampling keyboard.
> I have recorded and performed on the works of several composers, often 
> creating my own vocal part. These include Jerry Hunt, John Zorn, 
> Richard Teitelbaum, Arnold Dreyblatt, David Weinstein, Elliot Sharp, 
> David Simons, Joel Forrester, Phillip Johnston, Kirk Nurock.
> Current record label/publishing affiliations:
> Record labels include Tellus, Tzadik, FMP, Intakt, No Mans Land/Rec 
> rec, CRI, Nonesuch etc I am affiliated with Gema in Germany
> Other works:
> A partial list of my music composition
> War or Dreams Voice( a.k.a. # 39) : electronic processing, sound 
> effects, keyboards (keyboards, David Weinstein.) Commissioned by New 
> American Radio, Harvestworks
> Now I am yours and Temenos: Music from the film (excerpt included) by 
> film maker Nina Danino
> The Passions of Natasha, Nokiko, Nina, Nanette and Norma: Music 
> performance installation in collaboration with visual artist Barbara 
> Bloom for voice,electronics, acoustic and electric keyboards, 
> percussion, timpani, turntables, harpsichord created with the 
> musicians Anthony Coleman, David Simons, David Shea, Denman Maroney 
> (an hour long performance)Commissioned/ co produced by the Marstall, 
> Hebbel Theater,(Germany) Vienna Festival Week,(Austria)
> Medea: Music for the dance production choreographed by Claudia Feest 
> of the Tanz Fabrik Berlin For voice, sampling keyboards, live 
> electronics performed by myself live
> (an hour long performance)
> For Jerry Part 1: Music performance and installation, a virtual duet 
> with the late composer performance/video artist Jerry Hunt in which,I 
> collaged arranged and sung-spoke with his pre recorded music. 
> Co-produced/ commissioned by The Whitney Museum on 42nd St. 
> performance series,The Marstall and Hebbel Theaters in Germany.
> For Jerry Part 2:, for my father Jerry first permutation performed at 
> Roulette, commissioned by NYSCA for voice and keyboards. Performed by 
> myself, Anthony Coleman and David Shea
> O' Little Town of East New York: my autobiographical, prize winning 
> piece for radio, stage concert and cd, for voice, electronics and 
> sampling keyboards co-composed with keyboardist David Weinstein 
> commissioned for radio by New American Radio. The music was 
> commissioned by Mary Flagler Cary Trust
> Recordings:
> States- My latest cd on Tellus
> O Little Town of East New York co composed with David Weinstein on Tzadik
> Singing-Solo for voice and duets with Samm Bennett and David Simons an 
> Apollo
> Haiku Lingo Co. compositions with David Weinstein on No Mans Land
> Reviews:
> "Tenemos" and "States" - both dating from 1997 - are incredible. 
> "States," the album's centerpiece, is a complex soundscape that mixes 
> polyphonic renditions of American pop songs ("Blue Moon" and "Blue 
> Skies"), cocktail lounge monologues, techno music, exotica, Bulgarian 
> choral singing and the Firebird Suite, all strung together in a stew 
> of electronically treated found sounds. It's not an easy thing melding 
> all this territory into coherence, yet Hirsch manages to keep the 
> thing seamlessly afloat for almost 20 minutes. "Tenemos" is a hypnotic 
> treatment of a Steinian sentence, "Don't touch the rosebush." There 
> are grunts and groans, cut-up words, drony echoes, clicks and pops. 
> It's a marvelous update on the vocal techniques pioneered by Cathy 
> Berberian earlier in the century.
> [Goldsmith, NYPress Music Xtra, Feb. 4-10, 1998]
> Genres that apply to the Composer's work:
> New Music
> Jazz
> Classical
> Popular
> Ambient
> many of my pieces incorporate various styles and genres
> The experiences that have influenced the Composer's entire body of 
> work are:
> Growing up in the melting pot of NYC, remembering every record that 
> spun on my families record player as a child, experiencing the way 
> things sound in different acoustical settings, i.e., houses of 
> worship, stairwells, rooms with no reflection at all; creating vocal 
> sound landscapes while a performer in an experimental theater company 
> in the early seventies, loving to improvise
>
>-- 
>  
>
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