Description
Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer. A central figure in New York City's avant-garde and experimental music scene for over 30 years, Elliott Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings spanning orchestral music, blues, jazz, noise, no-wave rock, and techno. He leads the Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane projects and has pioneered the application of fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction. His collaborators include Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt, rock singer Debbie Harry, Ensemble Modern, qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Kronos String Quartet, Ensemble Resonanz, cello innovator Frances Marie Uitti, blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples, pipa virtuoso Min-Xiao Feng, jazz greats Jack deJohnette, Oliver Lake, and Sonny Sharrock, multimedia artists Christian Marclay and Pierre Huyghe, and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians of Jajouka. Sharp was awarded a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2014 Parson's Center for Transformative Media Fellowship. He received the 2015 Berlin Prize in Music Composition from the American Academy in Berlin. He has composed scores for feature films and documentaries; He has created sound design for Interstices on The Sundance Channel, MTV, and Bravo Networks; and has presented numerous sound installations in art galleries and museums. He is the subject of a new documentary, "Doing The Don't," by director Bert Shapiro.
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