Radio Eclectus #106: Shelley Hirsch at 70 (Jun. 9, 2022)

Radio Eclectus celebrates the 70th birthday of Shelley Hirsch with an exclusive interview and an extensive survey of her career as a composer, vocalist and icon of the Downtown New York improv movement. Listen to Shelley reflect on key influences and collaborators (including David Weinstein, Jerry Hunt, Cecile Pineda, and a high school English teacher with a penchant for Bartók and Ornette Coleman), and describe how her most formative artistic inputs have often come from outside the music world. Hear how her unique synthesis of improvisational singing and extended vocal techniques evolved, through a carefully curated sampling of solo and collaborative albums, plus archival and unreleased recordings receiving their broadcast premiere.

Annotated playlist and photo credits with Comments.