Vladimír Hirsch
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Composer Vladimír Hirsch
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| Birth name | Vladimír Otakar Hirsch |
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July 3, 1954 Benešov, Czechoslovakia |
| Origin | Czech |
| Genres | dark ambient, contemporary classical, industrial, electronic, electroacoustic |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, instrumentalist, songwriter |
| Instruments | pianist, organist, keyboard player, vocalist |
| Years active | 1973–present |
| Labels | Ars Benevola Mater, Integrated Music Records, E-Klageto, CatchArrow Recordings, Surrism-Phonoethics, LBA Records (LBA Composers & Alkemy Brothers - Black Work), Twilight Records, Epidemie Records, Chromozome/RRRecords, Dagaz Music, Loki Foundation (Power and Steel) |
| Associated acts | Skrol, Aghiatrias, Subpop Squeeze, Luminar Ax, Tiria, Der Marabu |
| Website | www.vladimirhirsch.com |
Vladimír Hirsch (born July 3, 1954) is a Czech composer, instrumentalist (pianist, organist, keyboard player, vocalist), and sound experimenter, integrating industrial and dark ambient music with modern classical composition with a genre overlap conception. His compositional style is characterized by polymodal architectonics, polytonality and the usage of digital technique to enhance sonic means of expression, where modern classical elements fuse within experimental soundscapes. Besides creating solo works, he is the co-founder and main personality of band Skrol, the duo Aghiatrias and various other projects (e.g. Zygote, Subpop Squeeze, Luminar Ax, and Tiria). His music is marked by a dark, tense and tempestuous atmosphere. Between 1986 and 1995 he was member of experimental post-punk group Der Marabu.
Vladimír Hirsch has been composing since he was a teenager, when as a pianist and organ player, he started to write romantic and classicist pieces with elements of rock. However, he abandoned these compositions for some time and delved into experimental jazz and experimental rock music up until 1986, when he joined Prague's post-punk band (Der) Marabu. At the same time, the composer also beginning to focus on new principles in his solo production. He started to apply modern classical forms to electronic and analog music, resulting gradually in a more transgressive industrial style in his solo works. After 10 years of engagement in Der Marabu, he - during its demise - founded in 1995 industrial-neoclassical band Skrol and later also several other parallel projects (Subpop Squeeze, Aghiatrias, Zygote, Luminar Ax, Tiria - see "Bands, projects, and collaborations").
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