This song is part of the original musical score that was commissioned by ShaLeigh Dance Works for its evening-length work of dance and theatre, "enVISION: Sensory Beyond Sight," which premiered through five-sold out performances at the 89th American Dance Festival in Durham, NC in June 2022.

for more info on enVISION visit https://shaleighdanceworks.com/envision-sensory-beyond-sight/ 

Credits:
Eric Hirsh - composition, keyboards, strings, programming, mixing, mastering
Omar Ruiz-Lopez - mandolin
Stephen Coffman - drums, percussion

The performance was an immersive interdisciplinary performance that did not solicit the viewer’s sight but rather all their other senses. Specifically conceived with and for individuals who are low-vision and blind, the work proposed a new sensorial experience of dance and theater. The work was presented to a live audience who chose to experience the show blindfolded and invited six audience members to join the experience onstage.

In retrospect, this could be classified as a symphonic poem/tone poem. I want you to close your eyes as you listen to this music and re-live your own memories that relate to the following text from the script of the show that inspired the song:
"Remember this photo? It's from the woods where we took that walk. It was fall. Cool crisp air. The sound of kids on the playground. A lone dog. Wind chimes from some distant porch. The smell of leaves after rain. Autumn was just beginning. We missed our flight and suddenly had all the time in the world. So we sat you by that pile of leaves and just started swirling around you. That was the first time I told you, I’m going to tell you a story through my movement."

A very very special thank you to ShaLeigh for bringing me onto the Artistic Team for enVISION. It's been such a humbling growth experience to be part of a work about arts access and our shared humanity. Stay tuned for updates about the evolution of the show in 2024!

An Autumn Walk from "enVISION: Sensory Beyond Sight"

Distillation

Big Bad Bronto

Snow Day

The Miraverse

The Beauty Is

Part II Of The Chronicles

Somehow It Seems To Help

Music/Production - Eric Hirsh
Lyrics - Ron Stebelton, Eric Hirsh, Rachel Hirsh
Vocals - Rachel Hirsh
Art - Jeri-lynn Gehr
Fictitious Record Label - Zombie Bronto Production Studios

Not the coronavirus jam we were looking for but the one we deserve. It was fun to blow off steam by parodying uplifting corporate EDM video background music that I...legitimately produced...for a video...for the software corporation that employs me.
Bronto = the company, a great team, a fun creative kind group of people
SAFe = Scaled Agile Framework. Yeah, I know.

I am very privileged to write a song about being able to work, from home, and feel 'safe.' Hope you get a chuckle out of it, given the context. 

Lyrics
Isolating, staying good.
Walking through my neighborhood.
(Bronto SAFe at home)
Try my best to stay inside.
Figure out how to exercise.
(Bronto SAFe at home)
Venture out for groceries -
Toilet paper, dire need.
(Bronto SAFe at home)
How much do I have to groom,
if I’m waist-up-only on the Zoom call?

The bit at the end is all Rachel. She's hilarious.

Bronto SAFe At Home

Eric Hirsh is a restless and ambitious musician whose growing, genre-crossing body of work is finally being showcased in “Distillation,” his debut album as a bandleader.

For the past 16 years, Hirsh has lived in Durham, NC where he co-creates as a founding member of progressive hip hop quartet The Beast and as a director of Orquesta GarDel, a large-format salsa band. Increasingly, he has focused on writing and performing with a jazz quartet comprising longtime friends and Beast rhythm section Pete Kimosh (bass), Stephen Coffman (drums), and Aaron Hill (saxophone).

Hirsh is a 2012 recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council Composer Fellowship, and a four-time winner of the Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award. Residencies at the Kennedy Center’s Betty Carter Jazz Ahead, Chicago’s Ravinia Steans Music Institute, and Brooklyn's School for Improvisatory Music each pushed Hirsh closer to the material on “Distillation.”

An enthusiastic collaborator, Hirsh has performed or recorded with the North Carolina Symphony, the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra, Nnenna Freelon, Jim Ketch, Shana Tucker, Emily Musolino, Greg Humphreys, and The Community Chorus Project. He has performed at Duke Performances, North Carolina State University Center Stage, The Stone (New York), the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the North Carolina Art Museum, UNC Center for the Study of the American South, Lake Eden Arts Festival, Shakori Hills Grassroots Music Festival, and The Art of Cool Project.