12 Facts About Sxip Shirey

Gene "Sxip" Shirey is an American electric-acoustic composer, performer, and story-teller.

Sxip Shirey is the host and producer of Sxip's Hour of Charm, a variety show of cabaret acts.

Sxip Shirey graduated from Ohio University, and having studied physics and folk guitar, he moved to New York in the late-1980s.

Sxip Shirey started experimenting with found sound composition and extended instrument techniques when asked to compose music for Ohio University's modern dance department.

Sxip Shirey has released three solo albums, with the first in 2006.

Sxip Shirey has had two songs featured as NPR's Song of the Day.

Sxip Shirey scored five silent films such as "A Trip to the Moon" by Georges Melies in collaboration with The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York.

Sxip Shirey has played exploding circus organ for the Daredevil Opera Company at the Sydney Opera House and the Kennedy Center, industrial flutes for acrobats at The New Victory Theater on Broadway, tamponophone with The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus at Bonnaroo, hillbilly music for gypsies in Transylvania.

Sxip Shirey is the host and producer of Sxip's Hour of Charm, a variety show of cabaret acts.

Sxip Shirey was invited to be a guest lecturer at the Norwegian Institute of Art in February 2012 and September 2013.

Sxip Shirey has run his workshop at Trinity College, Oxford England and for the animation department at Harvard.

Sxip Shirey work utilizes found objects, traditional instruments, computer and modified instruments such as Industrial Flutes, Bullhorn Harmonicas, Regurgitated Music Box, Triple Extended Pennywhistles, Miniature Handbells, and other curious objects.