Shelley Hirsch’s “Tohuwabohu” is a “choral” piece originally created as
a 5.1 surround sound piece for an installation with Ursula Scherrer called Alga at
the Minoritan Church in Krems Austria and then adapted for KunstRadio /Radio ORF in
Vienna, now extended to 8 channels for Harvestworks. Tohuwabohu is a Biblical Hebrew
phrase found in the Book of Genesis. It is usually translated “waste and void,”
“formless and empty,” or some variation of the same. It describes the condition of
the earth before God said, “Let there be light”. In German it implies chaos/void, in
French.. commotion.
