ELLIOTT SHARP

Composer/multi-instrumentalist/producer ELLIOTT SHARP leads the groups Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics and Terraplane. His compositions have been performed by the Symphony of the Hessischer Rundfunk, the Ensemble Modern, Continuum, the Orchestra of the SEM Ensemble, Kronos Quartet, Zeitkratzer, the Soldier String Quartet, and the Quintet of the Americas. His collaborators have included qawaali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, cello innovator Frances-Marie Uitti, blues legend Hubert Sumlin, and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians of Jahjouka. Sharp composed music and sound design for computer artist Perry Hoberman's virtual 3-D installation Timetable, which won the Grand Prize at the 1999 NTT ICC Bienalle in Tokyo. He formed zOaR Records in 1978 to release his own and other extreme musics and produced the critically-acclaimed compilations State of the Union and Peripheral Vision. Sharp's latest CD releases include SyndaKit with Orchestra Carbon on zOaR and Tectonics: Errata.

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