Paris Hurley
Composer
Paris Hurley is a composer, performer, and songwriter widely recognized for her genre-spanning sound. A classically trained violinist of 37 years turned post-punk vocalist, her work is raw, defiant, and refined ranging from scores for film and TV, to records, rock shows, and string quartets.
Paris scored The Chronology of Water, written and directed by Kristen Stewart, which premiered at Cannes (2025), and short doc, OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage (2024). Additionally, she has contributed to scores by Clint Mansell (Love Lies Bleeding, 2024; Playing Nice, 2025) and Anne Nikitin (Little Wing, 2024). Her music as OBJECT AS SUBJECT has appeared in Fast Charlie (2023), The Republic of Sarah (2021), and Are You Afraid of the Dark (2019), and was listed as a favorite on the 2023 Rollo Grady year end list. Paris also scored a 5-hour site-specific dance work by Seattle choreographer, Alice Gosti (2024).
Traversing elements rooted in experimental, minimalist, modern classical, classical ambient, and drone music, to heavier realms influenced by art-rock, dark wave, ethereal wave, gothic rock, and industrial, Paris uses violin and other orchestral instruments, in addition to voice, drums, bass, and electronics, to create rich, visceral soundscapes, both stark and explosive. She is particularly known for her unique rhythmic sense, often writing with breath and voice, then translating these components to other instruments to create sculptural polyrhythmic layers initiated from the body. The expressions are many, yet all hold together as sonic explorations of her subject’s emotional core utilizing her singular sense of texture.
Paris is a versatile and highly sought-after violinist recognized for her impassioned playing and rare ability to move between the technical and improvisational. She spent her childhood studying classical violin with a passion for string quartets and was frequently featured as a soloist, performing concerto repertoire with her local youth symphony. She played Carnegie Hall at age 16. With college, she took a dramatic turn away from her predestined conservatory path and brought her skill as an interpreter into the realm of generative experimentation, recording and performing live with countless contemporary artists including David Byrne, Amanda Palmer, Angel Olsen, Craig Wedren, Soko, Neil Gaiman, Mirah, and Jherek Bischoff. She co-wrote four records and extensively toured Europe with Balkan punk/metal band, Kultur Shock (2008-2016) and was a member of experimental dance/theater group, Degenerate Art Ensemble (2005-2008).
She is the creator of OBJECT AS SUBJECT, a shapeshifting autobiographical entity questioning the edges of obligation and object-hood as a woman. The project is contained only by Paris’ particular web of keening, multidimensional vocals—at times, a music and dance collective thrashing through audiences with gritty, ceremonial, punk-meets-performance-art, at others, a sacred and cinematic world filled with pulsing drums, synths, and lush string arrangements. OBJECT AS SUBJECT has released two albums, PERMISSION (2018) and HERETIC (2023) on Lost Future Records.
Paris lives in Philadelphia with her wife and daughter.
Selected Credits
FILM
The Chronology of Water (Composer)
The Forge
Director: Kristen Stewart
Producers: Scott Aharoni, Mélanie Biessy, Chris Cooper
Starring: Imogen Poots, Tom Sturridge, Thora Birch
Love Lies Bleeding (Vocalist)
A24
Director: Rose Glass
Producers: Daniel Battsek, Andrea Cornwell, Oliver Kassman
Starring: Anna Baryshnikov, Kristen Stewart, Dave Franco
Composer: Clint Mansell
Little Wing (Additional Music Composer, Vocalist, Licensing)
Paramount+
Director: Dean Israelite
Producers: Liz Brandenburg, Brian Coz, Donald De Line
Starring: Brooklynn Prince, Che Tafari, Brian Cox, Kelly Reilly
Composer: Anne Nikitin
SHORT FILM
OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage (Composer)
Director: Clare Major
Producers: Whitney Bradshaw, Clare Major, Rivkah Beth Medow
Starring: Whitney Bradshaw, Various
MUSIC VIDEOS
Temporary Bodies | OBJECT AS SUBJECT (Composer, Choreographer,
Performer)
Director: Brendan Gill
Producer: Ben Kaplan
REMOVAL | OBJECT AS SUBJECT (Composer, Choreographer, Performer)
Director: Dave Paige
WEAPONRY | OBJECT AS SUBJECT (Composer, Co-choreographer,
Performer)
Director: Megan Fowler-Hurst
SERIES
Playing Nice (Vocalist)
STUDIOCANAL
Director: Kate Hewitt
Producers: Isobel Carter, Kate Crowe, J.P. Delaney
Starring: James Norton, Niamh Algar, James McArdle
Composer: Clint Mansell
City Kitties: The Apartment (Composer)
Chap.Three
Director: Veronica Moonhill
Producers: Lauren Currie and Ellen Steves
Starring: Kerri Lendo, Lucia Towers
DANCE
the sky is the same color everywhere or on the rapture of being alive |
MALACARNE (Composer, Performer)
Choreographer: Alice Gosti
LICENSING
Are You Afraid of the Dark (Series)
Ace Entertainment
Directors: Dean Israelite, Jeff Wadlow, Mathias Herndl
Producers: JT Billings, Chris Foss, Ned Kandel
Starring: Bryce Gheisar, Malia Baker, Beatrice Kitsos
The Republic of Sarah (Series)
The CW
Directors: Yangzom Brauen, Erica Dunton, Megan Follows
Producers: Katharine Bremner, Jeff Grosvenor, Jeffery Paul King
Starring: Stella Baker, Luke Mitchell, Hope Lauren
Fast Charlie (Film)
Vertical Entertainment
Director: Phillip Noyce
Producers: Carrie Adams, Kent Adams, Tamara Birkemoe
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Morena Baccarin, James Caan
DISCOGRAPHY
Against Men | Popular Music (Violinist) 2025
Sanitarium Sound Services
HERETIC | OBJECT AS SUBJECT (Composer, Vocalist, Violinist, Drummer) 2021
Lost Future Records
The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Music from the National Theatre
Production | Jherek Bischof (Violinist) 2021
Sweethaven Records
PERMISSION | OBJECT AS SUBJECT (Composer, Vocalist, Violinist) 2018
Lost Future Records
All Mirrors | Angel Olsen (Violinist) 2019
Jagjaguwar
There Will Be No Intermission | Amanda Palmer (Violinist) 2019
Cooking Vinyl Limited
Quartet for Delores | Amanda Palmer and Jherek Bischoff (Violinist) 2018
8ft Records
Red Cloak | Jherek Bischof (Violinist) 2018
Jherek Bischoff
Reminder | Jherek Bischof (Violinist) 2018
Jherek Bischoff
Mother | Amanda Palmer and Jherek Bischof (Violinist) 2017
8ft Records
Strung Out in Heaven: A Bowie String Quartet Tribute | Jherek Bischoff and Amanda Palmer (Violinist) 2016
Featuring: Anna Calvi, Neil Gaiman, John Cameron Mitchell
8ft Records
Cistern | Jherek Bischof (Violinist) 2016
The Leaf Label Ltd
IX | Kultur Shock (Co-composer, Violinist, Vocalist) 2014
Kultur Shock Records
Oz | Missy Higgins (Violinist) 2014
Eleven: A Music Company Pty Ltd
Changing Light | Mirah (Violinist) 2014
Mirah
I Thought I was an Alien | Soko (Violinist) 2013
Babycat Records
Privilege | Parenthetical Girls (Violinist) 2013
Slender Means Society
Tales of Granpa Guru, Vol. 1 | Kultur Shock (Co-composer, Violinist, Vocalist) 2012
Kultur Shock Records
Composed | Jherek Bischof (Violinist) 2012
Featuring: David Byrne, Caetano Veloso, Greg Saunier, Mirah Zeitlyn, Nels Cline,
Craig Wedren, Carla Bosulich, Zac Penninton, Dawn McCarthy
Brassland
Ministry of Kultur | Kultur Shock (Co-composer, Violinist, Vocalist) 2011
Kultur Shock Records
Tradi-Mods vs Rockers — Alternative Takes on Congotronics (Volume 1) |
Kule Kule arranged by Jherek Bischof (Violinist) 2010
Crammed Discs
Integration | Kultur Shock (Co-composer, Violinist) 2009
Kultur Shock Records
Sonic Tales | Degenerate Art Ensemble (Violinist) 2009
Degenerate Art Ensemble
Entanglements | Parenthetical Girls (Violinist) 2008
Slender Means Society
Villainaire | The Dead Science (Violinist) 2008
Constellation
Cuckoo Crow | Degenerate Art Ensemble (Violinist) 2007
Tellous
The Bastress | Degenerate Art Ensemble (Violinist) 2004
Degenerate Art Ensemble