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About Me

PARIS HURLEY ...has been playing the violin in a multitude of orchestras, chamber ensembles, and bands for the last 18 years. Her wide variety of experience extends from her Carnegie Hall debut at the age of fifteen, to her mastery of new music and love of improvisation making her one of the most sought after violinists of the Northwest. She has recorded for many projects, including the latest albums of Degenerate Art Ensemble, Moonpenny Opera, Circus Contraption, Trespassers William, and Aqueduct. Paris recently acquired her Bachelor of Music degree from Cornish College and can be seen performing with Degenerate Art Ensemble, Moonpenny Opera, Johanna Kunin, and Luminaries.DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE: A performance company that through hyper-experimental music and dance transforms traditional genres into multi-dimensional explosive and expressive works. This hard-edged, delicate and complex visual music and dance performance company has earned rave reviews throughout the US and Europe. A performance company that reflects our multi-faceted and multi-dimensional culture today. DAEs work ranges from full theatrical stage productions to intimate concerts, always invading all of the senses and the depths of the imagination. DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE IS:
Joshua Kohl: cello/drums/voice/composition
Haruko Nishimura: voice/dance/performative outbursts
Paris Hurley: violin/voice/composition
Paurl Walsh: electric bass/voice/laptop/composition
Josh Stewart: trumpet/spike/voice/composition
Alex Sprout Guy: viola/voice/composition
Ambrose Nortness: bass clarinet/sax/drums/compositionLUMINARIES: Revisiting and deconstructing the chamber music model. LUMINARIES IS:
Paris Hurley: violin/voice/composition
Beth Fleenor: clarinet/bass clarinet/voice/composition
Paurl Walsh: electric bass/voice/compositionMOONPENNY OPERA: A gypsy-infused circus band. MOONPENNY OPERA IS:
Paris Texas: violin/voice/composition
Haurolde Smaud: voice/accordion/musical saw/composition
Schmootzie the Clod: voice/banjo/uke/composition
Meshugonna Joe: upright bass/voice/composition

My Interests

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Member Since: 5/17/2006
Band Website: degenerateartensemble.com
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DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE MOONPENNY OPERA LUMINARIES PARIS HURLEY is managed by: THE FRANK AGENCY Established in an effort to open the lines of communication, the frank agency is an innovative arts management organization dedicated to bridging the spaces between artists, presenters, and audience members. By assisting in areas including concert production, grant writing, booking, promotions/publicity, event planning, and the like it is our hope that a higher volume of art can be created and received. www.thefrankagency.org

Influences: Carla Kihlstedt-(2ft yard, Tin Hat Trio, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum), Radiohead, Squarepusher, Blonde Redhead, Tortoise, Interpol, Air, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Okay, BLING...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

the bike bin project

check this out! http://www.thebikebinproject.com/home.htmlit will lead you on a musical tour through the depths of seattle...ooooh...hear from me, joshua kohl of degenerate art enesemble, amy denio, t...
Posted by Paris Hurley on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:19:00 PST

DAE on youtube

go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy_efKAvFnQto see some clips from our show at the hemlock tavern in san francisco-part of our west coast tour Oct. 2006
Posted by Paris Hurley on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:43:00 PST

touring with johanna kunin

this saturday, johanna and i "hit the road" for some "sure to be" exciting adventures. will you be there? will we stay with you? will there be spiders? will my knife slice heal in time?
Posted by Paris Hurley on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:47:00 PST

a magical discovery

Today I discovered that Paurl and I have been washing our clothes with fabric softener for the past two months. It reminds me of the time I washed my hair with conditioner and conditioner for a few we...
Posted by Paris Hurley on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:44:00 PST

so it goes and what i think

I have recently discovered the greatest thing life could offer me: the Immersion Composition Society. The Sleepytime crowd created it in the bay area years ago, and a buddy who recently moved up to Se...
Posted by Paris Hurley on Thu, 25 May 2006 04:54:00 PST

a Lynchian moment

As I left my house this morning, from my unusual parking spot around the side of the house, I saw a very old man, very slowly mowing his lawn. As I returned to my house 5.5 hours later, I was guided i...
Posted by Paris Hurley on Thu, 18 May 2006 06:42:00 PST