O světě, který tu je i není - o věcech výjimečných i banálních, podivuhodných i trapných, temných i oslnivých, tristních i směšných, paradoxních i logických, stejně tak však i o věcech temně zářících, tragikomických, podivuhodně banálních, výjimečně trapných či zcela logicky paradoxních. A o sobě, který tu je i není stejně tak.

sobota 11. července 2015

Olivier Bernard: Anthologie de l´ambient

Part III B: Une artist très intéressant dans la mouvance martial/neoclassical ambient est le Tchèque Vladimir Hirsch. Hirsch possède une formation classique, mais s'est  très tôt tourné vers le punk, et tous types de musique expérimentales (du rock au jazz en passant par l'électronique). Il va fonder deux groupes essentiels pour le genre qui nous intéresse : Skrol (composé de Hirsch, Tom Saivon et Martina Sanollová) et Aghiatrias. Au sein de ces formations, Hirsch est le compositeur attitré, réalisant des morceaux néoclassiques, saupoudrés de rythmes martiaux. Le mélange est très avant-gardiste, souvant expérimental. Skrol utilise des instruments à cordes, des cuivres, de l'orgue, avec beaucoup de percussions et des textures électronique dark ambient. Cela est particulièrement audible sur l'album Heretical Antiphony de Skrol, paru en 1999. Des chants masculins et féminins apparaîtront petit à petit, pour laisser place à plus d'émotions dans cette atmosphère bruyante, inspirée par l'emphase de certaines pièces de musique classique moderne. Aghiatrias s'est créé en 1999. C'est un projet de «musique intégrée», mené par Hirsch et Tom Saivon. Aghiatrias se veut moins imposant que Skrol. Ne délaissant pas l'élément martial de leur musique, elle se veut plus calme et méditative, plus proche du dark ambient et de l'ambient industrial que Skrol, avec l'accent mis sur les structures de la musique classique contemporaine. Aghiatrias sortira un album dark ambient en 2004 su le label tchèque Epidemie Records, intitulé Regions Of Limen.


A very interesting artist movement in the martial / neoclassical ambient is the Czech Vladimir Hirsch. Hirsch has a classical training but has turned to the early punk, and all types of experimental music (from rock to jazz to electronics). He founded two essential projects for the genre we are interested in: Skrol (Hirsch, Tom Saivon and Martina Sanollová) and Aghiatrias. Within these trainings, Hirsch is the resident composer, realizing neoclassical pieces, sprinkled with martial rhythms. His works are very avant-garde and experimental. In Skrol, he uses strings, brasses, organ, with lots of percussion and ambient dark electronic textures. This is especially audible on the album Heretical Antiphony Skrol, published in 1999. Male and female vocals appear gradually for giving way for more emotion to this noisy atmosphere, inspired by the emphasis of certain pieces of modern classical. Aghiatrias was established in 1999. It is a project of "integrated music", led by Hirsch and Tom Saivon. Aghiatrias project is less imposing than Skrol. It does not abandon martial elements, but wants to be more quiet and meditative, closer to the dark ambient and ambient industrial than Skrol, with the focus on the structures of contemporary classical music. Among others, Aghiatrias released distinctly dark ambient album in 2004, entitled Regions Of Limen.

neděle 5. července 2015

Soundcloud: Vladimír Hirsch - Integrated Music Records

Demo tracks from Vladimír Hirsch' s solo works and his projects Skrol, Aghiatrias, Luminar Ax, Zygote, Subpop Squeeze, Tiria & cooperations.

Vladimír Hirsch

Vladimír Hirsch is a Czech composer, instrumentalist and sound designer, integrating modern classical, industrial and dark ambient music with a genre overlap concept. Besides creating solo works, he is the leading personality of bands and projects Skrol, Aghiatrias, Zygote (CZ), Luminar Ax, Subpop Squeeze, and Tiria, former member of experimental post-punk group Der Marabu.

His concept of so called "integrated music" of Vladimír Hirsch is a kind of extrapolation of the combination of contemporary classical music on the one side and dark ambient, industrial and noise components on the other side, which, through mutual infiltration by basic theses and antitheses. Compositions are based on grasping both ways in a manner, which would allow them to partake of each other’s principal formal attributes, both on the basis of violent confrontation and of mutual empathy, which should lead to a unification of seemingly irreconcilable worlds. This happens with the help of musical symbolism of their transubstantiation into a single, indivisible essence, a fully homogenous structure. This act represents the metaphorical and philosophical principle of Hirsch’s integrated music conception.

sobota 4. července 2015

Vladimír Hirsch - Lamiadae: Symmetric Variations I-III

Lamiadae: Symmetric Variations, op.88
Varitions for pianos nad integrated technique. 2011-2012. From "Selected Organ & Piano Works" (©2013 Integrated Music Records – Catch 054).

1-Symmetric Variation 1
2-Symmetric Variation 2
3-Symmetric Variation 3



A selection of compositions, created between 1977 and 2012. The collection combines unpublished tracks or adjusted versions of previously released material. All tracks revisited, re-recorded and remixed at CatchArrow Recordings studio, Prague, Czechia, 2012. Musicians:Vladimír Hirsch – organs, pianos, electroacoustic, analogue and digital techniques
© 2013 Integrated Music Records – Catch 054 (2CDR),
suRRism-Phonoethics – sPE_0143 (DIG)

VLADIMÍR HIRSCH – ‘SELECTED ORGAN & PIANO WORKS’