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Vladimír Hirsch (born 3 July 1954, Benešov, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech composer and instrumentalist (keyboard instruments). The author of the concept of the so-called "integrated" musical form – combining contemporary classical music with dark-ambient and industrial music, his compositional style is characterized by polymodal architecture and alchemical work with sound, using mainly digital techniques to expand the action potential of the means of expression. Vladimír Hirsch is or was the leader of the avant-garde projects Aghiatrias, Skrol, Zygote, Subpop Squeeze, and more.[1] From 1986 to 1996, he was a member of the experimental post-punk band Der Marabu.[2] Vladimír Hirsch graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague and has been practicing medicine with shorter or longer breaks.[3]

Vladimír Hirsch
Composer Vladimír Hirsch
Background information
Born3 July 1954 (1954-07-03) (age 68)
Benešov, Czechoslovakia
GenresDark ambient, Electronic music, Contemporary music
Occupation(s)composer, doctor
Instrument(s)piano, organ, keyboard
Years active1973–now
LabelsArs Benevola Mater, Old Captain, Integrated Music Records, CatchArrow Recordings, Chromozome, RRRecords, Epidemie Records, Twilight Records, Power & Steel, Dagaz Music
Websitehttps://www.vladimirhirsch.com
Relatives Vladimír Hirscher (son)

Biography and style


Vladimír Hirsch was born in Benešov, lived in Ledeč nad Sázavou until he was 18 and then moved to Prague, where he now lives and works. Composing since 1973, he started with small romantic and classical compositions for piano and organ, but very soon abandoned the experiments and devoted himself only to rock and jazz. A long-time member of the Prague-based post-punk group Der Marabu,[2] after its disintegration, he founded the ensemble Skrol (1995) and several other parallel projects like Aghiatrias, Zygote, Subpop Squeeze, Luminar Ax, etc.[3]

Without ever abandoning his projects and ensembles, in 1987 the composer began working in parallel on solo production, and around 2002 it became his main program. Emphasizing the use of modern means of expression and the search for specific compositional techniques, he bring together serial, atonal, microtonal, polymodal, and spectral music. Partly inspired by the traditions of 20th-century Slavic classical music, Vladimír Hirsch keeps building hybrid working models in tonal principles, composition, and instrumentation. Using digital techniques for classical orchestras together with a wide range of sound sources, he searches to achieve the alchemical transformation of sounds into a homogeneous, indivisible substance. This principle, called "integrated music"[4] by itself, also represents the metaphysical idea of the creative concept, which consists in the collision and reconciliation of two seemingly opposite spiritual worlds within an individual.

Vladimír Hirsch regularly gives concerts both at home and abroad, including tours in the USA, Germany, Great Britain and Italy. In 2010, an eight-disc set of key recordings was released by the Italian publishing house Ars Benevola Mater entitled "The Assent to Paradoxon". He has also collaborated with foreign artists on different projects like Dawn Carlyle aka Dove Hermosa, Nadya Feir, Cecilia Bjärgö, Igor Vaganov, Alessandro Aru, and Kenji Siratori.


Creations


Vladimír Hirsch's music lingers between experimental projects and compositions of a very strict compositional order, but is almost always of a conceptual nature:

"It is the work of a non-conformist individualist, forging a completely original aesthetic form, where the unifying element is a rather dark, emotionally tense, often apocalyptic atmosphere of compositions, characterized by their metaphysical, existential anxiety, and spirituality." (Stephen Ellis)[5]

His most notable works include "Symphony No. 4" with the subtitle "Snímání z kříže" (in English: "Descent from the Cross")[6] and its revised, live version "Graue Passion" (Šedé pašije);[7] the conceptual dark ambient albums "Underlying Scapes", "Exorcisms", "Invocations" and "Scripta Soli";[8] the extensive ingressive composition "Contemplatio per nexus"; the post-industrial mass "Missa Armata"; the composition for piano, percussion and combined electroacoustic techniques "Endoanathymia"; the digital symphony "Axonal Transit"; the microtonal dark ambient album" Epidemic Mind"; the selection of compositions for organ and piano "Selected Organ and Piano Works", and Concerto for Organ No. 2 "Horae".

While the composer's work seems to be permeated by a very elaborate and authentic expression of the internal conflict of values within the individual and one's confrontation with the anthropocentric model of contemporary society, the composer disagrees it was the initial idea in throughout the compositions. For the insiders of the industrial and post-industrial scene, Vladimír Hirsch produces very intense, full of suggestive and stormy atmosphere music.[9]

Vladimír Hirsch was included in Olivier Bernard's Anthology of Ambient Music,[10] and in the encyclopedic publication of composers of contemporary world music.[11]


Selected compositions


Hirsch's work is represented by the activities of his ensembles and also by an extensive collection of solo works. He is the composer of a number of conceptual albums, several symphonies, suites, concert and experimental compositions, stage music, and many smaller compositions.


Selected compositions



Discography



Other activities


Vladimír Hirsch also deals with computer graphics: among other things, he is the author of the design of all his solo albums and the vast majority of albums of his projects. In this regard, he often collaborates with the Czech art photographer Jan Vávra, a representative of the so-called neopictorialism, whose works became a model for the unified design of Hirsch's set of albums "The Assent to Paradoxon". He is also the author[12] of a number of articles and essays.[13] not only on music[14] and art.[15][16][17] He has long been committed to the use of the geographical names Czechia (Česko).[18][19]


References


  1. "VLADIMÍR HIRSCH - projects Aghiatrias, Skrol, Zygote, Luminar Ax, Tiria, Der Marabu". www.vladimirhirsch.com. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  2. "Der Marabu". Discogs (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  3. Hirsch, Vladimír (August 1, 2017). "Official biography". Composer Vladimír Hirsch. Retrieved 11 May 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. Claudia Admiron: Invocatio (rozhovor pro "Heathen Harvest", 2013)
  5. Stephen Ellis: Vladimír Hirsch - Symphony No.4 "Descent from the Cross"
  6. Adam X: Vladimír Hirsch - Symfonie č. 4: Descent From The Cross (Engl.); Heathen Harvest
  7. M.Jarolím: Graue Passion recenze
  8. Full Moon Magazin / Richard Kutěj: Do posledního přísného detailu
  9. Blanický J., Auster M.: Vladimír Hirsch - Biografie
  10. Olivier Bernard: Anthology of Ambient (Anthologie de l'ambient - in French
  11. 21st Century composers /(Life Journey, 2013)
  12. Břetislav Kafka: Za hradbami vědomí
  13. Eseje
  14. Jan Dismas Zelenka opomíjený a znovuobjevený (angl.)
  15. Mikuláš Medek - metyfyzická transformace bolesti (angl.)
  16. "Vladimír Kokolia". 2013-10-23. Archived from the original on 2013-10-23.
  17. Blog
  18. Hirsch: Česko a Czechia? Nadčasový název země si zasloužíme, DVTV, 27. 8. 2015
  19. Lidové noviny: Spor o název Czechia



На других языках

[de] Vladimír Hirsch

Vladimír Hirsch (* 3. Juli 1954 in Benešov, Tschechien) ist ein tschechischer Musiker - Komponist und Instrumentalist (Tasteninstrumente). Er ist der Autor vom Konzept der sog. „integrierten“ Musikform, die moderne Klassik mit Dark-Ambient und Industrialmusik verbindet. Sein Kompositionsstil ist von der polymodalen Architektur und Experimentarbeit mit Ton gekennzeichnet, vor allem im Umfang mit der Digitaltechnik, um das Aktionspotential der Ausdrucksmittel erweitern zu können. Er ist oder war eine führende Persönlichkeit der tschechischen Avantgarde-Projekte Aghiatrias, Skrol, Subpop Squeeze, Zygote usw. Zwischen 1986 und 1995 war er Mitglied der experimentellen Post-Punk-Gruppe Der Marabu.
- [en] Vladimír Hirsch

[es] Vladímir Hirsch

Vladimír Hirsch (Benešov, Chequia, 3 de julio de 1954) es un compositor e instrumentista Checo de instrumentos de teclado. Autor del concepto de la llamada forma musical "integrada", él combina música contemporánea y clásica con dark ambient y música industrial. Su estilo compositivo se caracteriza por la arquitectura politonal y la alquimia de los sonidos puesto que utiliza técnicas digitales para expandir el potencial de acción de los sonidos como medio de expresión. Vladimír Hirsch es o ha sido el líder de proyectos vanguardia tal como Aghiatrias, Skrol, Zygote, Subpop Squeeze y otros. De 1986 a 1996, ha sido miembro de la banda experimental post-punk Der Marabu. [1] Vladimír Hirsch se gradúa como doctor en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Carolina (en checo: Univerzita Karlova v Praze) y practica la medicina a intervalos. [2]

[ru] Хирш, Владимир

Вла́димир Хирш (чеш. Vladimír Hirsch; 3 июля 1954 (1954-07-03), Бенешов, Чехословакия) — чешский композитор и инструменталист, чьи произведения балансируют на стыке традиционной симфонической музыки, электроники и экспериментального подхода к созданию музыкальных произведений. Эмбиентные саундскейпы вкупе с индустриальным звуком и примесью авангарда. Чешский композитор Владимир Хирш помимо творчества под своим именем является лидером проектов Скрол (Skrol), Aгиатриас (Aghiatrias), Субпоп Сквиз (Subpop Squeeze), Луминар Aкс(Luminar Ax), Tириa (Tiria) или Зыготе (Zygote).


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