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| 0 | LONDON: Cafe Oto |
|---|---|
| P | Friday 19th June, 2009 |
| N | 8:00pm |
Vocalist Shelley Hirsch and turntablist Christian Marclay, two long time collaborators from New York, in their first duo appearance.
Shelley Hirsch is an award winning, critically acclaimed vocalist, composer, and storyteller whose mostly solo compositions, staged multimedia works, improvisations, radio plays, installations and collaborations have been produced and presented in concert halls, clubs, festivals, theaters, museums, galleries on 5 continents as well as on radio, television and film worldwide.
She has recorded over 70 Cds including her solo recordings, duos recordings w/ David Weinstein, Jon Rose and Uchihashi Kasuhisa,, as vocalist with September Band and X- Communication and as vocalist on recordings by Butch Morris, Billy Martin, Jim Staley, John Zorn, Elliot Sharp, Nicolas Collins, Richard Teitelbaum, Alvin Curran, Raz Mesinai, David Watson, David First etc. She has improvised with Christian Marclay, Aki Onda, Anthony Coleman, Joey Baron, Fred Frith, Ikue Mori, Okkyung Lee, Bruce Andrews, Lee Renaldo, Shahzad Ismaily, Roger Turner, Chris Cutler, Arnold Dreyblatt and has collaborated on projects with visual artists Jim Hodges, Barbara Bloom, and Ursula Scherrer and Christian Marclay. Hirsch was recently music director, composer performer for Zoe Beloff’s Psychopathological Musical in 2 parts,” part of Beloffs 3D film installation “The Somnambulists.”
Initially influenced by Fluxus and Punk rock in the 1970s, Christian Marclay began his exploration into sound through performances with phonograph records in 1979. He then moved to New York where he became an active figure in the downtown new music scene in the 1980s. He is considered a pioneer in experimenting, composing, and performing with records and turntables. Over the past 30 years, Marclay has explored the fusion of art and audio cultures, transforming sounds and music into a visible, physical form through performance, collage, sculpture, installation, photography, and video.
Marclay has collaborated with musicians such as John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Zeena Parkins, Shelley Hirsh, Butch Morris, Okkyung Lee, Otomo Yoshihide, Arto Lindsay, and Sonic Youth among many others.
