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Shaking
Ray Levis featuring SHELLEY HIRSCH
at Caledonia (256
W Clayton St, Athens, Georgia 30601)
Saturday Jan. 10th
Starting at
10pm: The Christ Figures around 10:30pm: The Shaking Ray Levis & Shelley
Hirsch around 11pm: Pocketful of Claptonite around 11:30pm: Diet Rock
Star THIS SHOW IS curated by Leslie Grove.
Shelley
Hirsch
(born 1952 in Brooklyn,
New York)
is a singer, performer, and composer. Central to Hirsch's work are her
versatile vocal abilities, which are often enmeshed in a kaleidoscope
of electronic music and sound effects.
Born and raised in New York City, Hirsch dropped out of high school and
moved to San Francisco, California, where she worked in experimental theater,
explored extended
vocal techniques, and began composing pieces for voice.
In Berlin she had her first experiences in improvised music with Sven-Åke
Johansson, deepent in collaborations with Jon
Rose and - back in New
York City - with Christian
Marclay. She has appeared at festivals throughout Europe and performed
at the Kitchen, Roulette, BAM and other venues in New York.
She appears on the recordings of John
Zorn, Elliott
Sharp, Jim
Staley and many others. Her regular partners are Christian Marclay,
Ikue
Mori, David
Weinstein and Anthony
Coleman.
In 1988 she released the LP "Singing" and a year later another LP/CD "Haiku
Lingo" with Weinstein. Her most recent work "O Little Town of East New
York" can be found on Zorn's label Tzadik in the series "Radical Jewish
Culture". Hirsch also collaborated with DJ
Olive, Mark
Dresser, Greetje
Bijma, Chantal Dumas, David
Moss, Min Xiao Fen, Jerry Hunt, Toshio Kajiwara, Jin
Hi Kim, Marina Rosenfeld and Ned
Rothenberg. She recorded with September Band (Rüdiger
Carl, Hans
Reichel and Paul
Lovens) and with X-Communication (Butch
Morris, Martin Schütz and Hans Koch), too. Hirsch can also be heard
interpreting compositions such as Cathy
Berberian's „Stripsody“ or Alvin
Curran's Philharmonie.
Hirsch has also collaborated with visual artists Barbara Bloom and Jim
Hodges, choreographer Noemie LaFrance, and filmmakers Nina Danino
(Tenemos soundtrack with Sainkho
Namtchylak, 2001), Zoe Beloff, Abigail Childs, and Lee Sachs. |
