Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Michael Marcus Hearst (born December 27, 1972 in Virginia Beach, Virginia) is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and writer. He is a founding member of the eclectic musical group One Ring Zero.Founded in Richmond, Virginia, in 1997, One Ring Zero moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 2001. The group's are often programmatic and/or collaborative. They include the acclaimed As Smart As We Are, which consists of lyrics contributed by various authors including Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Lethem, A.M. Homes, Neil Gaiman, Rick Moody and Dave Eggers. The book/CD The Recipe Project is a collection of recipes set to music and sung word for word in the musical style suggested by the chefs, including Mario Batali, Chris Cosentino, Andrea Reusing, David Chang, John Besh, Mark Kurlansky, Michael Symon, and Isa Chandra Moskowitz. Planets is a collection of new compositions to represent the solar system and beyond. Hearst says of Planets, "It had been just about 100 years since Holst had composed his song cycle The Planets. It seemed like it was time to musically revisit our solar system and come up with our own song cycle."Hearst's solo work includes the album Songs For Ice Cream Trucks, Songs For Unusual Creatures, the audio website Songs For Newsworthy News, and the soundtrack to several films, including The Good Mother, The House of Suh, Magic Camp, To Be Takei, and Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger.Hearst established Urban Geek Studios and Urban Geek Records, where he has produced, recorded, and worked on post-production for Guided by Voices, Tanya Donelly, Kansas (band), The Holy Modal Rounders, and Robert Creeley. Hearst has performed and given lectures and workshops at universities, museums, and cultural centers around the world. He has also appeared on NPR's Fresh Air, A+E's Breakfast With The Arts, and NBC's The Today Show. Hearst's most recent album, Songs For Unusual Creatures, is a collection of songs inspired by lesser-known animals. It includes works composed for Kronos Quartet, The Microscopic Septet, Margaret Leng Tan, and the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots.As a writer, Hearst's stories have appeared in literary journals such as McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Post Road, Parenthetical Note, The Lifted Brow, and The Muse Apprentice Guild. He is also the author of the non-fiction children's book Unusual Creatures."Hearst earned a degree in music composition from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1995, where he studied under Dika Newlin.. }
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- Michael_Hearst abstract "Michael Marcus Hearst (born December 27, 1972 in Virginia Beach, Virginia) is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and writer. He is a founding member of the eclectic musical group One Ring Zero.Founded in Richmond, Virginia, in 1997, One Ring Zero moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 2001. The group's are often programmatic and/or collaborative. They include the acclaimed As Smart As We Are, which consists of lyrics contributed by various authors including Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Lethem, A.M. Homes, Neil Gaiman, Rick Moody and Dave Eggers. The book/CD The Recipe Project is a collection of recipes set to music and sung word for word in the musical style suggested by the chefs, including Mario Batali, Chris Cosentino, Andrea Reusing, David Chang, John Besh, Mark Kurlansky, Michael Symon, and Isa Chandra Moskowitz. Planets is a collection of new compositions to represent the solar system and beyond. Hearst says of Planets, "It had been just about 100 years since Holst had composed his song cycle The Planets. It seemed like it was time to musically revisit our solar system and come up with our own song cycle."Hearst's solo work includes the album Songs For Ice Cream Trucks, Songs For Unusual Creatures, the audio website Songs For Newsworthy News, and the soundtrack to several films, including The Good Mother, The House of Suh, Magic Camp, To Be Takei, and Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger.Hearst established Urban Geek Studios and Urban Geek Records, where he has produced, recorded, and worked on post-production for Guided by Voices, Tanya Donelly, Kansas (band), The Holy Modal Rounders, and Robert Creeley. Hearst has performed and given lectures and workshops at universities, museums, and cultural centers around the world. He has also appeared on NPR's Fresh Air, A+E's Breakfast With The Arts, and NBC's The Today Show. Hearst's most recent album, Songs For Unusual Creatures, is a collection of songs inspired by lesser-known animals. It includes works composed for Kronos Quartet, The Microscopic Septet, Margaret Leng Tan, and the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots.As a writer, Hearst's stories have appeared in literary journals such as McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Post Road, Parenthetical Note, The Lifted Brow, and The Muse Apprentice Guild. He is also the author of the non-fiction children's book Unusual Creatures."Hearst earned a degree in music composition from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1995, where he studied under Dika Newlin.".