Jennifer Walshe
“Without a doubt, hers is the most original compositional voice to emerge in Ireland in the last 20 years.” -- Michael Dervan, the Irish Times. Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1974. Jennifer’s work has been performed throughout Europe, the U.S. and Canada by ensembles such as Alter Ego, ensemble récherche, Ensemble Resonanz, Apartment House, ensemble Intégrales, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Schlagquartett Köln, Crash Ensemble, Musica Nova Ensemble and many others.
“Without a doubt, hers is the most original compositional voice to emerge in Ireland in the last 20 years.” -- Michael Dervan, the Irish Times. Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1974. Jennifer’s work has been performed throughout Europe, the U.S. and Canada by ensembles such as Alter Ego, ensemble récherche, Ensemble Resonanz, Apartment House, ensemble Intégrales, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Schlagquartett Köln, Crash Ensemble, Musica Nova Ensemble and many others.
In the Merry Month of May
Huge Tip! In the Merry Month of May is the final studio recording of the late, great Tony Conrad, and the first duo release with Jennifer Walshe, one of Conrad’s most important collaborators in the final decade of his life. Befitting these two absurdly gifted hell-raisers, this is a wild, improvisatory flaying of song, with Walshe’s clarion voice at the heart of the enterprise. The sheer sonic force of opener “In the Merry Month of May” recalls the ecstatic charge of Conrad’s Slapping Pythagoras…
Live at WKCR
Improvised performance of Tomomi Adachi and Jennifer Walsche, recorded live at WKCR radio broadcast in New York, April 24, 2010. Tomomi Adachi is a performer/composer, sound poet, instrument builder and installation artist. Jennifer Walshe is a composer of contemporary music and a talented vocalist. Their duo, vivid and extrovert but unexpectedly atmospheric, consists of both artists’ live performing abilities into extended vocal techniques, blending with Adachi’s rough handmade electronics and …
Nature Data
Why is the phoneme the most 'ideal' of signs? Where does this complicity between sound and ideality, or rather, between voice and ideality, come from? When I speak, it belongs to the phenomenological essence of this operation that I hear myself [je m'entende] at the same time that I speak. The signifier, animated by my breath and by the meaning-intention, is in absolute proximity to me. The living act, the life-giving act, the Lebendigkeit, which animates the body of the signifier and tra…