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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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