iMMERSE! with Charlie Morrow

About iMMERSE! with Charlie Morrow

Composer-Techie Charlie Morrow & colleagues explore the immersive world

Publisher

Charlie Morrow

Category

arts · music · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Mar 2022

Latest episode

12 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

45 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Aug 2026

   Shelley Hirsch: Writing While In It

   Shelley Hirsch is a formidable extended vocalist long on the global avant garde scene. She is unique in that she combines a riveting gymnastic orality, a very unique dadaistic meta-language with  warm, deep stories emerging from her life, most impressively remembering her early days growing up in East New York, Brooklyn. In spring 2002, my iMMERSE collaborator, bart plantenga, interviewed her for his book, Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World. For bart, Shelley’s piece “Haiku Lingo” is proof of yodeling in the modern world, that the yodel is useful in the repertoire of avant garde vocalists. In musical terms, she is able to sing and articulate across the break between head and chest voice. She is NOT a yodeler in the folk sense but is among the finest multi-voiced extended vocalist heirs along with clever abstract vocalists like Cathy Berberian, Joan LaBarbara and Yma Sumac. Leon Thomas, the jazz singer who worked with Pharaoh Sanders and John Coltrane, brought his own abstract yodel to free jazz. But what makes Shelley different is her fusing of dynamic coloratura with deep, often witty, storytelling that wends it’s way through her periodic ululations. Her poetic tales are sometimes reminiscent of Laurie Anderson’s stories while bringing much needed humor to the oft self-serious, rarefied world of avant garde music… Shelley and I have often crossed paths over the years. First time was in 2003, when Rhys Chatham and I curated the  New Sounds New York, 3D Morrow Sound Cube artists. Shelley was right there in full musical color with the chilling piece,  Please Stop Scratching that Gash! (2003). Credits & samples interview: Shelley Hirsch & Charlie Morrow excerpts from
"O Little Town of East New York"
• Shelley Hirsch & David Weinstein
\High speed story telling cut-up • Shelley  & Joke Lanz Improvised Writing/Voiced • Shelley & Hans Tammen Pal Swim Sloterparkbad 2008 • bart plantenga Production & montage: bart plantenga S02E02 of iMMERSE 2026 This is iMMERSE! episode 2 of season 2, also see #1 Charlemagne Palestine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtLiXvpEqZg&t=16s Photo of Shelley Hirsch courtesy of KAPUT Magazine Welcome to iMMERSE!

2. 

   31 Mar 2026

   Charlemagne Palestine: Avant Bell Ringer – S01E01

   Composer & host Charlie Morrow in conversation down memory lane with Charlemagne Palestine, Brooklyn-born polymath artist & musician, early champ of NY- minimalist music but also a self-described MAXimalist, stuffed animal aficionado, percussionist, carilloneur, [church] organist – & entertaining storyteller. © photo: Plamen Hubenov. He got his start singing Jewish traditional songs but quickly moved at age 12 to performing for more unorthodox performers such as the Beats, playing back up percussion for the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Anger, Tiny Tim. He also emerged as a sought-after carillonneur @ NY’s St. Thomas Episcopal Church & others. He has collaborated with Tony Conrad, Morton Subotnik, Simone Forti, electronica duo Pansonic, Michael Gira, Janek Schaefer, Rhys Chatham, David Coulter … He is often accompanied by his menagerie of stuffed animals. Palestine has performed all over the globe & has put out LPs on renowned labels such as Staalplaat, Baroni, New World Records, Sub Rosa, Algha Marghen. He moved to Brussels in the late 1990s. Subject matter: “Palestine: My name & the should-be country,” carillons, mutual friends, Moondog, Tony Conrad, Allen Ginsberg, Dutch Schultz, the Jewish Mafia, Queens, Laguardia, Tiny Tim, bongos, weed dealer, Moses Asch, Folkways,  gamelan, Charlemagne – holy Roman emperor, Charlotte Moorman, Morton Subotnik, Jerome Rothenberg, Vito Acconci, Belgium, tramping around, Pansonic, Mike Vainio, CM Hausswolff, Magoos Bar in Tribeca, David Toop, dimensional sound, Johnny Ray [“Little White Cloud That Cried”], Children’s Hour television program, falsetto, CBS documentary studios, NYC record libraries, Warhol, Taylor Mead, Jack Smith, Dick Higgins, Herbert Marcuse & Disney, drone organ works, Sibelius Museum – Finland …

3. 

   13 May 2025

   Santeri Kinnunen: From Finnish Farm to the Stage 38

   Finnish actor Santeri Karl-Henrik Kinnunen, the son of 2 actor-parents, found early immersion spending time on a farm as a Helsinki city child. There he became utterly fascinated by horses, learning to ride & go somewhere else with his thoughts & dreams, immersed in the countryside. Kinnunen is a veteran of the Helsinki City Theatre & has acted in the KOM Theater as well as the Finnish National Theatre. He is also a veteran of many Finnish film & television productions. His second immersion was losing himself to rediscover himself in his acting roles in stage productions such as MacBeth & in films such as A Charming Mass Suicide, Matti: Hell Is for Heroes, & Hellsinki. But his strangest pleasure as a professional actor is as a voice actor for which he supplies the Finnish voice of Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story series & Captain John Smith in Pocahontas. He finds it fascinating that he can find immersion using his voice even if they’re only the disembodied voices of animated 2-dimensional characters…

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

4.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 19 / 100

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YouTube

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Engagement

67