Shelley Hirsch

Shelley Hirsch ( born June 9, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York ) is an American singer-songwriter and composer. It is regarded as one of the outstanding singers of improvised music. But your interest is also of electronic music, multimedia and theater performance, installations, and radio plays.

Life and work

After termination of studies they first moved to San Francisco, where she experiences with the experimental theater, developed new vocal techniques and pieces composed for voice. With a DAAD scholarship she came to Berlin. 1983 has led to learn about improvised music acquaintance with Sven -Åke Johansson in Berlin, the deer through experiences with Jon Rose and - could deepen with Christian Marclay - back in New York City. Since the mid- 1980s she worked with the scene around John Zorn, especially with David Weinstein, Elliott Sharp, Anthony Coleman and Marc Ribot, but also with DJ Olive, Mark Dresser, Greetje Bijma, Chantal Dumas, David Moss, Min Xiao Fen, Jerry Hunt, Toshio Kajiwara, Jin Hi Kim, Ikue Mori, Marina Rosenfeld and Ned Rothenberg. In 1988 with their LP "Singing " was released a year later the CD "Haiku Lingo " with Weinstein. In the September tape she recorded with Rüdiger Carl, Hans Reichel and Paul Lovens, in the group X -Communication with Butch Morris, Martin Schütz and Hans Koch. Your " O Little Town of East New York " is published on anger Tzadik label in the series " Radical Jewish Culture ". But Hirsch also interpreted Cathy Berberian compositions like " Stripsody " or Alvin Curran's Philharmonie.

In the field of visual arts Hirsch has worked with Barbara Bloom and Jim Hodges; furthermore, there were collaborations with the choreographer Noemie LaFrance and the filmmakers Nina Danino ( Temenos soundtrack with Sainkho Namtchylak, 2001), Zoe Beloff, Abigail Child and Lee Sachs

With the radio version of O Little Town of East New York Hirsch won the Prix Futura. They are international workshops and master classes and was for longer stays in Berlin and Amsterdam.