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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 > >-- > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Richard Zvonar, PhD > (818) 788-2202 > http://www.zvonar.com > http://RZCybernetics.com