Artists Elliott Sharp
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PanRec / PANDVD 05 / 2010
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Ambiances Magnétiques / AM 178 / 2008
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Intakt Records / INTAKT 149 / 2008
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PanRec / PANDVD 01P / 2007
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A central figure in the avant-garde music scene in New York City for over thirty years, Elliott Sharp leads the projects Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane. He has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction. His collaborators have included Ensemble Modern, Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt, pop singer Debbie Harry, blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples, jazz greats Jack deJohnette and Sonny Sharrock, turntable innovator Christian Marclay, and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians of Jahjouka. Sharp’s Polymerae was commissioned by the Frankfurter Stiftung and premiered in April 2008 by the Ensemble Modern.
His work was featured in the 2008 New Music Stockholm Festival with the premiere of Sidebands and at Frankfurt’s Klangbiennale in May 2007 with the premiere of On Corlear’s Hook for the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt and his solo performance Momentum Anomaly. His music-theatre work EmPyre was premiered at the 2006 Venice Biennale. His scores for film and theatre include Toni Dove’s sci-fi feature Spectropia, the feature-documentary Commune by Jonathan Berman, and Yellowman and Raw Boys, both plays by Dael Orlandersmith. Sharp’s music-theatre work Binibon will premiere in May 2009 at The Kitchen in New York City. Sharp was curator for Contemporary Music 2004-2006 for WPS1.org as well as for the gargantuan sound-art exhibition Volume: Bed of sound for PS1 Contemporary Art Center in 2001.
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Elliott Sharp
Cleveland (Ohio, USA), 1951
Residence: New York City (New York, USA)
- Composer
- Performer (guitar)
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Main releases
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PanRec / PANDVD 05 / 2010
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Ambiances Magnétiques / AM 178 / 2008
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Intakt Records / INTAKT 149 / 2008
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PanRec / PANDVD 01P / 2007
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Complements
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Intakt Records / INTAKT 163 / 2010
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Various artists
Revue & corrigée / RC 62 / 2004
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Victo / VICTO 044 / 1996
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Victo / VICTO 026 / 1994
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Victo / VICTO 019 / 1992
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Blog
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Intakt Records is a great Swiss label with world-class improv and avant-garde performers including Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier, Elliott Sharp and many others. Get acquainted also with their affiliated label…
Sunday, March 28, 2010 / New releases -
As part of its “Concerts/Album Launch” series, Productions SuperMusique, in collaboration with DAME, proudly present Antoine Berthiaume and Elliott Sharp, an impressive duo whose music blends together soundwaves reminiscent of Xenakis’ arch…
Saturday, March 21, 2009 / In concert -
An exploratory music that is constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed. BASE, Antoine Berthiaume’s most recent opus, finds him teamed up with no other than renown American guitarist Elliott Sharp. A disc to discover!…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 / New releases