Ecstatic melody unimaginable sounds and deep sexy beats created on Industrial Flutes, Bullhorn Harmonica, Regurgitated Music Box, Triple Extended Pennywhistles, Miniature Hand Bell Choir, Obnoxiophone, Glass Bowls With Red Marbles and a clutch of curious objects.

A confusion of novelty, experimental and electronics, wild and entertaining.

As a solo artist Sxip has toured the U.S. as support act for the Dresden Dolls and performed at their two days festival at the Round House in London England. Had a hit show at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia. Performs regularly at Joe's Pub in New York City. Has also performed at The Knitting Factory, Tonic, Makor and many underground parties in Brooklyn.

Sxip Shirey came to New York City when he joined The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus in the year 2000, This started him in a circus/theater direction and he composed music for Anti-Gravity and for the pyro-technic clowns of the Daredevil Opera Company, performing, composing and appearing at The New Victory Theater on Broadway, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Kennedy Center and the Sydney Opera House. His gypsy-tango-klezmer-punk band The Luminescent Orchestrii tours internationally and is part of the wild Balkan scene in New York City, their track "Amaritzi" is featured on the new Putumayo compilation "Balkan Groove". Recently as a solo artist he toured as host and support act for The Dresden Dolls for their fall 2006 US tour and at their two day DVD at The Round House in London. In New York City he performs and curates a high powered variety night called "Sxip's Hour of Charm" at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater. Last winter he composed music for "Marsupial Girl" by Lisa D'Amour for The Children's Theater Company of Minneapolis in a project developed with New Dramatists in NYC. He has also composed for works at the Ohio Theater, HERE, the Southern Theater and Inter-Media Arts in Minneapolis and has toured East Coast Colleges with the puppet theater piece "Savage Nursery" by Erin Orr developed through a grant from the Henson Foundation.

 Sonic New York and Sxip’s Hour of Charm
 
“..one of the most hypnotizing and gratifying shows we had been to in a long time" -Jaded Insider/ Billboard.com

Two variety shows that feature absolutely unique live artists.

Sxip Shirey and Sonic New York
Funky and fantastic music made in improbable ways.

When someone says there is nothing new in music, make them come to Sonic New York. Real-life circus composer, Sxip Shirey and his cohorts reinvent sound and the idea of what a musical instrument is every time they hit the stage. Industrial Flutes, Bull Horns Harmonica, Cell Phone Symphonies, Drum n Bass, Human Beat Boxers, Bicycle Wheel Scratching, Electro Karaoke, Rock Opera Accordion and composers making sounds in ways you can’t describe.

Sxip’s Hour of Charm:
A multi-arts cabaret featuring incredible performance.

This is the touring version of Sxip’s long running art variety show that is currently presented at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater in Manhattan. As a composer for circus, theater, burlesque, clowns and puppetry, Sxip has met many truly amazing artists. He invites them to perform in a show where you honestly have no idea what you will see next. It doesn’t matter if it’s a giant blue bunny, an Arial artist with classical pianist, traditional Indian dance, a Brooklyn rope spinning cowboy, acrobatic modern dance or yodeling banjo player. If it’s amazing, Sxip books it.

Here are some of our performers:

MUSICIANS AND SOUND GENERATORS

Sxip Shirey http://www.sxipshirey.com

Your host and sonic manipulator: Industrial Flute, Mutant Harmonica, Regurgitated Music Boxes, Obnoxiophone and other Sonic Marvels.

Reggie Watts http://www.reggiewatts.com

A human beat boxer, comedian and incredible vocalist. Legendary in Seattle, recently relocated to New York City. Reggie creates live loops, building the structure of the song as he goes. He ALWAYS brings down the house, there is almost no way to describe this guy.

Corn Mo http://www.cornmo.com

Accordion player with a rock opera voice. Corn Mo recently has been opening for Ben Folds Five, also tours as opener for They Might Be Giants and Polyphonic Spree. VERY FUNNY but also writes beautiful serious music.

Bora Yoon http://www.borayoon.com

"a one-woman orchestra.." -- DJ Spooky

Recently featured in the Wall Street Journal for her cell phone composition. Yoon is one of the most fascinating young artists on the New York scene. Voice, electric violin, music box, Tibetan singing bowl, cell phones, water, keys, guitar, live samples and loops.

Project Jenny Project Jan http://www.projectjennyprojectjan.com

“a shocking, dynamic, danceable and hilarious affair” –Billboard Magazine

Electro Kareoke, a boy with a laptop and a boy with a mic.

Curtis Eller http://www.curtiseller.com

New York Citiy’s angriest yodeling banjo player is a total sweetheart.

Adam Matta http://www.adammatta.com

One of the most amazing human beat boxers in New York City! Also the inventor of the bicycle wheel audio tape scratching device.


THE VARIETY ARTISTS

Greg Walloch http://www.gregwalloch.com/

"...wicked sense of humor and his basic strategy for dealing with life: Use whatever you've got to turn life's often bitter lessons into something positive. There's plenty of healthy anger in his humor, and while his material is fairly specific in its focus, it also has a universal appeal." Ken Fox, TV Guide

Greg Walloch is a comedian and storyteller. He's got a beautiful ability to show us how all our situations are universal.

The Red Bastard http://www.redbastard.com

"Very, Very Funny"-New York Times

Eric Davis is a clown and theater artist who has a Bouffant character named the Red Bastard. An absolutely hilarious deconstruction of theater.

Una http://www.circusuna.com

"Una achieves a certain intimacy and connection...a real romance with the audience" -St. Louis Post Dispatch

Una Minnigma is an aerial artist specializing in The Corde Lisse, a vertical rope hung from a single, fixed point in the ceiling. Una also amazes the audience with her Ceiling Walk--she walks upside down from the ceiling--feet hooking into a series of loops. Beautiful and powerful.

Scotty The Blue Bunny http://www.scottybunny.com

Scotty is simply one of the most ridiculously charismatic performers anyone has ever seen. Audiences love Scotty The Blue Bunny. What does he do? Songs, comedy, magic, violin…it really doesn’t matter what he does, he’s Scotty the Blue Bunny!

Johnathan Nosan http://www.acroback.com

An incredible contortionist, aerial artist and acrobat. Trained in contortion in China, then studied butoh and ballet. His work is beautiful and unsettling.

A.J. Silver http://www.acroback.com

The sexiest rope spinning cowboy that Brooklyn has ever produced. Brings down the house every time.

Albums:

Sombule

Sonic New York