Thematic album for integrated ensemble, choir and solo vocals, op.77, 2007-2008. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch - keyboards, synthesizers, samplers, programming), Dawn Hermosa (solo vocal, lyrics), Czech Integrated Ensemble. Produced by Tom Saivon. Mastered by V.Haňka. An extent work (79 min.) on philosophical-teological theme, coming out of the writing "Teologia spiritualis mystica", conversant the process of transformation of human mind during mystical contemplation. The composition describes relatively exactly all phases of it, beeing divided into two, seemingly thematically antagonistic parts (complementary-affirmatory), which are but indiscerptible compounds of natural contemplative process. Particular periods are represented by subsections, which are continuously merged each into other. The album is an intense musical dialogue between space and detail, a kind of transcription of the relation between human and cosmos, the fight and reconcilliation of intrinsic and extrinsic, real and surreal world. Polymodal architecture of compositions, their sound characteristics, oscillated from perceptional - not voluminal - levels on the border of subconsciousness (Oratio quietis / A Quiet Prayer) over X-ray radiation from obscurity (Obscuritas) to excruciating strenght (Tortio Sensuum / Sense Torture) and cohesion of integrated techniques of instrumentation create from this work one of the author´s masterpieces. Reception of this opus, expressed with very high autenticity and exposed emmotions, needs absolute concetration and submersion of receiving subject, then really the state, similar to mystical contemplation.

Recording :
CD (© 2009 Ars Benevola Mater)

1 Contemplatio per negationem (Vestibulum - Obscuritas - Sitis - Tortio sensuum)
2 Contemplatio per affirmationem (Oratio quietis - Somnus potentiarum - Coniunctio)

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LES SCÈNES ARDENTES

Album of compositions for integrated ensemble, choir and sola, op. 75. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch - keyboards, synthesizers, samplers, drums, vocals, programming; participation of Martina Sanollová and Dominika Karčovská (vocals) and Czech Integrated Ensemble. Mastered by V.Haňka. Produced by Tom Saivon. A collection of scenic works, adapted as fully conceptual album, originally composed or arranged for theatre performances in the period between 1994 and 2003. Rewritten, restructuralized, rearranged and remixed in 2006. The album represents author´s typical consistent, achingly nervous harmonic structures with rich inner life and articulation, corresponding with mighty, monolitic sounds of orchestration in original integrated arrangement, ending in the creation of the order of primarily chaotic particulars.

Recording :
CD (© 2009 Ars Benevola Mater - ABM32)

1 Introduction
2 Adversaire
3 Espaces interdits
4 Antischerzo
5 Cris du feu
6 Transfugue
7 Orea Nexx
8 Arc extatique
9 La dernière défense
10 Sacrifice au irrationel

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EXORCISMS

Thematic album for integrated ensemble (1999) in revised version (2006), op. 61/2. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch - keyboards, synthesizers, vocals, drums, programming); participation of Czech Integrated Ensemble, Tom Saivon (mix), Dominika Karčovská and Martina Sanollová (vocals). Mastered by Jan Seibt. Produced by Tom Saivon. Revocation of the theme of exorcisms (op. 61/1) in integrated musical form.

Recording :
CD (© 2009 Ars Benevola Mater - ABM31)

1 Exorcism 1: Confiteor
2 Exorcism 2: Paligenesis
3 Exorcism 3: Ecce Crux
4 Exorcism 4: Synaestheseum
5 Exorcism 5: Quadrivia
6 Exorcism 6: In hoc signo
7 Exorcism 7: Averte !
8 Exorcism 8: Essentia quinta
9 Exorcism 9: Ufarsin

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TOBRUK

Soundtrack to the movie with the same name. 2008. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch - keyboards, synthesizers, samplers, programming) with participation of Czech Integrated Ensemble. Mastered by V.Haňka. Thematic album, created from the author´s original (not realized - 2nd place in the competition) soundtrack to the movie of director Václav Marhoul "Tobruk" from the milieu of Czech military unit and its role in the well-known battle in North Africa during WWII.

Recording :
CDR (© 2008 CatchArrow Recordings - Catch 052)

1 Agami (Introduction)
2 The Presage
3 First Victory
4 At The Grave
5 Reentry Of Enemies
6 The Escape
7 Though The Desert
8 Inertia Of Space
9 Destiny Command
10 Back To Struggle
11The Final Gleam
12 Catharsis (Ending)

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NONTERRA

Suite for integated ensemble, op. 73. 2004-2005. Musicians: Czech Integrated Ensemble, Vladimír Hirsch: synthesizers, drums, samplers, computers. A suite in the spirit of integrated music focusing on confrontation of spiritual and materialistic world, traditional for the composer. Musical themes of modern classic and ambient clash with periodically repeating elements of fashionable trends of pop music and attack their rhythmic, structures and melodies. They become their inner destructive agent and challenge of tattiness and first-signal degradation of human feeling, governing the conventional taste. It is obvious though that the tout ensemble is skeptical as the end states sadness from status quo, loneliness and weakness of the individual, e.g. disbelief in a practical possibility to overcome the overwhelming panegodeism of contemporary human. The title NONTERRA, thus NONEARTH, is more than explicit in this context.

Recording :
CD (© 2008 Ars Benevola Mater - ABM34B)

1 Ante lucem
2 Synapsis
3 Nonterra
4 Mécaniques d´État
5 Advenit orator
6 Les voix des morts
7 Transformation-Ulterior Act
8 IsoMorphe
9 Chant des marquées
10 Parahymnus
11 Clausula retis
12 Transformation-Violent Act

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TORMENT OF NAISSANCE

Thematic album for integrated ensemble, op. 78, 2007. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch - keyboards, synthesizers, samplers, programming). Participation: Dawn Hermosa (vocal, lyrics). Produced by Tom Saivon. Mastered by V.Haňka. Studio remix and application of concert program as fully conceptual album with the theme of creationist paralells between the nascency of cosmos and human.

Recording :
CDR (© 2007 Integrated Music Records - Catch 054)

1 Phase 1 - Inception
2 Interphase 1
3 Phase 2 - Syllepsis
4 Phase 3 - Formation
5 Phase 4 - Enanthropy
6 Interphase 2
7 Phase 5 - Convolution
8 Phase 6 - Akathisia
9 Phase 7 - Expanse
10 Interphase 3
11 Phase 8 - Energeia

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CONCERT INDUSTRIEL POUR ORGUE

Concerto for organ, sythesizers, percussions and orchestra, op. 49. 1998. Musicians: Czech integrated ensemble, Vladimír Hirsch: organ and other keyboard; conducted by author. This work is initially an extensive composition in quasi-oratorial form, in final version abbreviated and restructuralised. Classical form is here only in contours. Opus is characterised by thematic spurts, erupting in desultory pulses and, exhausted, dying away in a mass of industrial sounds, without consequent ending of idea. The industrial matrix is also a space and energy source for volcanic activity proper. The solo role of the organ is surprisingly not dominant and its parts are often taken over by other instruments. The reworked second version (live and studio) of the project is markedly shorter, placing more emphasis on systematic approach to its theme, without essentially influencing the above said basic qualities of the opus. Last revised version was officially released by Italian label Ars Benevola Mater in October 2006; produced by Tom Saivon.

Recordings :
Concert industriel pour orgue (CDR © 1998 Catch Arrow Recordings-Catch 014d)
Symphony no.2 ”Defensa” . Concert industriel pour orgue (CDR © 1998 Catch Arrow Recordings-Catch 019)
Concert industriel pour orgue / Live 1998 (CDR © 2001 Integrated Music Records - Catch 014b, © 2002 Integrated Music Records - 014c)
Concert industriel pour orgue (CD © 2007 Ars Benevola Mater - ABM029)

1 Part I. Ouverture
2 Part II. Essai
3 Part III. Intermède
4 Part IV. Ensemble

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SENSE GEOMETRY

Album of compositions for synthesizers, drums, percussions and digital technique, op. 54. 1998. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch: synthesizers, samplers, drums, computer. Conceptual album of compositions, based on author´s fictive, geometric symbolism of certain mechanisms of the human psyche. It is an attempt to detect or prove the existence of a certain order in illusory chaos. The author calls this musical form of mathematical theory “fractal musical geometry”, as has already been mentioned. To this purpose he uses signals of intervals, rhythm, structure and instrumentation logic. Sound is an important component, creating a simply structured, yet emotionally tense atmosphere, where the lightly industrialised or noise instrumentation of the compositions plays the role of the chaotic and likewise irritating element, the hypnotic rhythm than the role of order’s go-between, pointing attention’s direction to another levels of seeing things. Original recording on CDR, second, revisited version (2004) officially released by Ars Benevola Mater in September 2006 (produced by Tom Saivon). Complete themes of the project were used as the base of Zygote album "Geometrie nevědomí".

Recordings :
CDR (© 1998 CatchArrow Recordings - Catch 023)
CD (© 2006 Ars Benevola Mater - ABM 25)

1 Tetragons (Figure 1)
2 Triangles (Figure 1) Inside Cylindric Channels
3 Circles (Figure 1)
4 Abscissas System (Figure 1) In Pentagonal Column
5 Ellipsis Segments
6 Triangles (Figure 2)
7 Circles (Figure 2) In Tetragonal Structure
8 Abscissas System (Figure 2)
9 Tetragons (Figure 2)
10 Chain Of Ellipsoid Figures

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FRAGMENTS, THÈMES ET IMAGES SCÉNIQUES

Scenic music. 1990-2005. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch: synthesizers, drums, samplers, computer, Czech Integrated Ensemble. A selection of mainly short-lenght tracks, which frame the global survey of author´s scenic musical works in period between 1990 and 2004. Album content rearranged excerpts, abbreviated or adapted versions of compositions. Special digipack of 2 CDRs with total time 127 minutes.

Recording :
2 CDR (© 2005 Integrated Music Records - Catch 047)

DISC 1:
1 Arrivée des morts
2 Resistentia
3 Exorcisms – Part IV.
4 Reversion (Stratum profundum, version 2)
5 Le Greffe
6 Bread Of Deceit
7 Conversion Symptoms Theme
8 Lex lacerationis (version 2)
9 L´abîme éloigné et approché
10 The Storm/ Variations On Themes 1 & 2
11 Plebeian March (Hereticon)
12 Deux espaces
13 Varations syntactiques – Theme 6
14 Die Metamorphose / Figur X
15 Inert Triad
16 Orea Nexx
17 The Orphan Age
18 Zona arcuata
19 The Tales Of Mabd / Finale

DISC 2:
20 Labyrinth – Image 1: Verticals
21 Apostasy (Theorems)
22 Gyre de la necessité
23 Die Metamorphose / Figur Y
24 Adveniat
25 Death Of Argianne
26 Spiral Aura
27 Traversée d´Elektra
28 Sursum
29 Anathema Deserve
30 Unquiet Night Scenery
31 Oranit
32 Die Metamorphose / Family Fight
33 Missing The Mirror
34 Transfugium
35 Plebeian Dance (Hereticon)
36 Elysium (Transformation / Ulterior Act - version 3)
37 New Orders – Conclusion
38 Postscript

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MISSA PESTILENTIAE INTEGRA

Mass for integrated ensemble and female vocal, op. 59, 1999. Adaptation of Diamanda Galás album "Plague Mass"(1990, Mute Records) in arrangement and concept of Vladimír Hirsch, supplemented by a few original compositions. Musicians: Diamanda Galás: vocal, pianor, Vladimír Hirsch: organ, synthesizers, noises, drums, David Linton: percussions, Blaise Dupuy: keyboards, Ramon Díaz: electronic percussions, Michael McGrath: tapes. It is a nesting in of authentic parts of Diamanda Galás’ „Plague Mass“ into an integrated composition, supplemented by a few shorter compositions and conceived as an authorial partnership. The album is adapted into the formal structure of a classical mass with all liturgical parts.

Recording :
CDR (© 1999 CatchArrow Recordings-Catch 027) - unauthorized yet

1 Introitus /V.Hirsch/
2 Kyrie: There´s No Rest Until The Fighting´s Done / D.Galás, V.Hirsch/
3 Gloria /V.Hirsch/
4 Credo: Deliver Me From Mine Enemies /D.Galás, V.Hirsch/
5 Offertorium /V. Hirsch, D.Galás/
6 Sanctus: Do You Confess? /D. Galás, V.Hirsch/
7 Consecratio /V.Hirsch, D.Galás/
8 Agnus Dei: And I Saw The Heaven Open /D.Galás, V.Hirsch/
9 Benedictus /D.Galás, V.Hirsch/
10 Ite, missa est: Let Us Praise.../V.Hirsch/

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DREAMS OF AWAKENING

Thematic album, op. 58, 1999. Musicians : Vladimír Hirsch - synthesizers, drums, samples, programming. Contrary to the preceding projects of similar orientation, this album one no longer sounds like methodical entertainment, mainly thanks to its unifying, more serious thought conception. It is grounded in a certain specific boundary situation in the author’s life, at first adapted in writing, later adapted musically. The music schame is basically rock, typically combined within with sampled loops. The melodramatic form, the athmospere full of states of anxiety, expressive poetry, together with compact sound of the album makes for a unique statement.

Recording :
Dreams Of Awakening (CDR © 1999 CatchArrow Recordings-Catch 034b)

1 Introduction
2 She Was An Angel
3 Aorted
4 Derision
5 Anathema
6 Under The Ground
7 The Rite Of Love And Death
8 Dawning

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SYMPHONY NO. 3 "BRANDS OF TYRANY"

Symphony for integrated orchestra, organ and percussions with sub-title "Sinfonia integra per orchestra, organo e percussione", op.52. 1998. Musicians: Czech integrated ensemble, conducted by Vladimír Hirsch; soloists: mezzosoprano: Martina Sanollová, organ: Vladimír Hirsch. This symphonic work is a kind of recapitulation of the author’s creative period between 1987-98. It is a highly uncompromising, even aggressive project, thematically concerned with the crisis of values of today’s world. It gives us a pitiless image of its chaos, paradoxically serving itself as an excuse for the soulless stereotypes of life, a cheap apology of the absence of blame for it. The author does not avoid a certain level of cruelty here, yet it fully corresponds to the necessary level of intensity that the cry of warning be heard in a strong emotionally hypo-acoustic (hard of hearing) environment. Even through its univocally signalised scepticism the composition is filled with the effort to undermine the bonds of stereotypes on the one hand and on the other to bind chaos, as a yearning for the spiritual purification of society. The pitiless view is documented by a highly martial character of the individual, mostly short meter movements. Symphony No. 3 is formally once again a relatively classical unit, but conceived already in the spirit of the author’s philosophy of the so-called integrated music. It is an opus, at the end of which we feel utmost exhaustion, but also faith in the giving up of oneself to an idea, notwithstanding the futility, by which it is surrounded. The final movement, which brings us back, in the manner of Sisyphus, to the very beginning of the process, but on a different level, is proof of this. The second revised version (2001) is the component of the album "Symphony No. 2 & 3", released by Inbtegrated Music Records.

Recordings :
Symphony No.3 (CDR © 1999 CatchArrow Recordings - Catch 028)
Symphonies Nos.2 & 3" (CDR © 2003 CatchArrow Recordings / Catch 029)

1 I. Allegro assai. Attacamente
2 II.Presto. Feroce
3 III.Allegro. Ostinato
4 IV.Intermezzo #1. Agitato
5 V.Allegro con brio
6 VI.Allegro. Risoluto.
7 VII.Grave.Eccitante
8 VIII. Presto. Frettoloso.
9 IX. Allegretto.Guerresco con agilita.
10 X. Marcia. Trionfale.
11 XI. Grave. Independemente
12 XII. Andante con moto.
13 XIII. Ondeggiando. Allegretto poco mosso.
14 XIV. Intermezzo #2.
15 XV. Conclusione.
16 XVI. Allegro assai. Attacamente 2

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CASUAL CRIME

Album of compositions for jazz quartet, 1998. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch: piano, Zbygniew Zieliński: alto sax, Jean-Jacques Cerf: contrabass, Ted Hart: drums & percussions. Extensive album with compositions, arising from romantic and ethnic author´s themes is some reminiscence of composer´s period of active interest in jazz music It was developing by standard way in terms of jam session of classic jazz quartet.

Recording :
CDR (© 1998 CatchArrow Recordings - Catch 039)

1 Année de guêpe
2 Quijote
3 Chess Game Trespass
4 Back In Black
5 Red Desert
6 Anilusia
7 Remembrance 77
8 Degressive Interval / Ending

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SYMPHONY NO. 2 "DEFENSA"

Symphony for integrated orchestra, op. 47, 1997. Musicians: Czech integrated ensemble; Vladimír Hirsch: pianos, synthesizers and other keyboards: The second symphony is intended for the so-called ”integrated orchestra” (as is the majority of the author’s works), using both authentic and synthetic instrumentation from the classical symphony orchestra, enhanced by industrial sounds which add colour to the compositions. Developed here are also some of the author’s leading motifs, that have not yet been fully exploited in the past. It is an allegory, where the virtual physical collision of two antagonistic worlds represents a similar kind of interference occurring on the level of elementary ethical values inside an individual. It is a kind of autobiographic apology of a failure in a similar kind of fight. Revised version (2001) will be released in 2003 as first part of CDR "Symphony No. 2 & 3" by IntegratedMusic Records.

Recording :
Symphony No.2 (MC © 1998 CatchArrow Recordings-Catch 012)
Symphony no.2 ”Defensa” . Concert industriel pour orgue (CDR © 1998 Catch Arrow Recordings-Catch 019)
Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3" (CDR © 2003 CatchArrow Recordings / Catch 029)

1 Part I. Incorporatio
2 Part II. Animae milites gravis armaturae
3 Part III. Iudicium et sententia (...pictura pugnae sunt)

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THERE'S NO HUMAN TRIUMPH

Compilative album of compositions for synthesizers, samples, radio recordings; 1995-96. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch - synthesizers, drums, samples, programming. Although by genre it is characterised as subpop, being rather rock than serious, nonetheless it is a certain specific form of applying integrated music concepts involuntarily. Thematically it is opposed to the media politics and principles of directed intoxication of the population. It does so using hyperbole and irony, radio broadcasts instead of vocals, often rhythmically tied with the musical base. The compositions have the form of songs and are all based on loops of simpler keyboard or guitar riffs, inserted into a specific ambient. First version of recording called "Arsenica / Less Than Nothing", after original albums, from wich was compiled.

Recording :
There's No Human Triumph (CDR © 1999 CatchArrow Recordings-Catch 030b)

1 Republica
2 Disaster Experts
3 Here Comes The Monster
4 Entusiastic
5 Holy, Holy, Holy
6 Intriguers
7 Lobotomy Gloria
8 Affection
9 Poisoner
10 Venetian Settlement
11 Imageon
12 All In Hot Pursuit Of All
13 Limits Of God
14 Unsavoury Friend
15 Inerve
16 Less Than Nothing
17 The Scrap
18 Appesaement
19 No One Will Save Me
20 Triumph

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ORGAN PIECES

Album of compositions for organ, op. 23, 25, 26, 28 & 59. 1987-1991. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch: organ. Collection of organ works, composed between 1987 and 1991 in experimental style, combinated traditional classical attitude with modern sound and author´s specific modal and tonal system.

Recordings :
Organ Pieces (MC © 1991 D.M.Recordings - DMR 06)
Organ Pieces (CDR © 2001 CatchArrow Recordings - Catch 00E)

1 Ambits Of Material World - Part I / Marionettes
2 Ambits Of Material World - Part II / Late Views
3 Ambits Of Material World - Part III / Reprints
4 Ambits Of Material World - Part IV / All Is Sealed Off
5 5 Hymn Of Immobility
6 Theme In C-minor

7 Transubstantiation, Part I
8 Transubstantiation, Part II
9 Prelude
10 Introitus (Missa pestilentiae)
11 Ite, missa est (Missa pestilentiae)

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OUT OF YOUR OBJECTS

Album of compositions for piano, synthesizers, drum-machine and vocal, op. 22, 1989; reworked 1991, remixed 1993 and later reanimated and recorded on CDr. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch: piano and other keyboards, drum-machine, vocal. Monothematic collection of songs with inly lyrical polarization. Unified sound is characterized by dominated expressive piano score, monotonous rhytmics and darkened vocal - all in dark and calm athmosphere of synthetic keyboards. Remastered 1993 and recorded again on cassette tape (MC).

Recordings :
CDR and MC (© D.M.Recordings - DMR 12),

1 In The Garden
2 Out Of Your Objects
3 Darkness
4 Plastic Sun
5 Song Of The Stray
6 Rancour´round
7 Behind Her House
8 Out Of Your Objects II

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SYMPHONY NO. 1"

Symphony for synthesizers, op. 20. 1988. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch: synthesizers. The first of the symphonies, composed for synthesisers, is a four-movement composition, which as if it was trying to show the number of ways the author was to take in his development. The basic themes are handled here with an attempt to exhaust various alternatives of harmony, the composition structure is more subject to experiment then the sound itself. It is an introspective project, of a very intense, in parts painful dwelling in the atmosphere of the work, trying to implicate the conflict of the inner world as seen through feelings and rational thought. Reworked, remastered and recorded on CDR in 1997, together with piano cycle "Seven Parts Of Desolation".

Recordings :
Symphony No.1 (MC © 1989 Marabu Recordings)
Symphony No.1 in E . Seven Parts Of Desolation (CDR © 1997 CatchArrow Recordings – Catch 00A)

1 1st Movement
2 2nd Movement
3 3rd Movement
4 4th Movement

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SYNTHETICS - THEMES

Album of compositions for synthesizers, op. 17. 1986-1987. Musicians: Vladimír Hirsch: synthesizers, tapes. Experimental project for synthesizers and tapes, predominantly of space-ambient character. First fully conceptual author's solo work, abandoning the curse of interprets´ routine. Reworked, remastered and recorded on CDR in 1996.

Recordings :
Synthetics - Themes (MC © 1987 D.M.Recordings - DMR 01)
Synthetics - Themes (CDR © 2002 CatchArrow Recordings – Catch 00D)

1 Music Of Inner Sleep
2 Theme I: Old Horses
3 Jericho
4 The Song About Your Guilt
5 There Was No Moving Her
6 Theme II: Neglected
7 The Cairn
8 Electric Sound Tissue
9 Meanless
10 Lackadaisical
11 Rigid And Frigid
12 Dance Of Blue Cells
13 Theme III: Piliformis
14 Afterwards
15 Theme IV: Soulbreaker
16 Invasion 68
17 Stereotyped
18 Music Of Inner Sleep II

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