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		Elliott Sharp in conversation with Frank J. Oteri
		I loved that one on first listen but was even more perplexed by who Elliott Sharp was and what his music was about.
		Overall I must have charted nearly a hundred projects that Elliott Sharp has been involved with either as composer, performer, or producer.
	www.newmusicbox.org /article.nmbx?id=4800 (406 words)

	Elliott Sharp Reviews
		Elliott Sharp, "composer in combat boots" and darling of the New York avant garde, is among the two or three most innovative guitarists on the planet.
		Sharp's tour-de-force is the 20 minute "Boodlerama," a kaleidoscopic journey through the museum of guitar tones which climaxes in a maelstrom of the kind of 'skronk' guitar style which Sharp helped pioneer.
		Tectonics is Elliott Sharp's electronica moniker, and for those of you that weren't around for the last record, 1998's Field and Stream, Sharp ripped drum-n-bass a new one by layering dreadnought beats with the tortured skkreeches of his saxophone and the razor shards of modified guitars.
	www.repple.se /datacide/reviews.html (5423 words)

	Elliott Sharp Biography
		Sharp undertook graduate studies in music at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he often found himself in conflict with his more tradition-minded professors, and also became drawn into the student protest movement of the era.
		Sharp continued to put out solo records that garnered a following among New York's young downtown experimental music crowd, but he also played in a bar band that performed Motown covers; one of his bandmates was future Village Voice columnist Michael Musto.
		Sharp has produced a studio album nearly every year since 1977, and was extremely prolific during the 1990s, producing several releases each year.
	www.musicianguide.com /biographies/1608004256/Elliott-Sharp.html (1437 words)

	Elliott Sharp: Albums (CD, MP3, Vinyl), Related Products and more : Elliott Sharp Store at Amazon.com
		Sharp claims that his parents wanted him to be both a concert pianist and a scientist.
		Sharp studied anthropology at Cornell, where he played in a band and took an electronics class with synthesizer inventor Robert Moog.
		An improviser at heart, Sharp's compositions tend to be quite loose, allowing plenty of room for the musicians to roam.
	www.amazon.com /Elliott-Sharp/e/B000APWIJ6 (401 words)

	Amazon.ca: Field & Stream: Music: Elliott Sharp: Tectonics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Manhattan guitarist Elliott Sharp is best known for his work with the avant- hardcore band, Carbon.
		Filtering jazz, industrial rock, and modern electronica together is no easy task, but Sharp has been condensing unusual musical alternatives since the late '70s and has little problem here.
		Elliott Sharp's instrumental music is both an intellectual and visceral experience.
	www.amazon.ca /Field-Stream-Elliott-Sharp-Tectonics/dp/B000007TO9 (186 words)

	Browse by Artist: SHARP, ELLIOTT
		"Elliott Sharp is one of the downtown's most consistently original composers and a wildly versatile string player, whether it be on bass, electric guitar, or one of his whacky homemade hybrids.
		Sharp's music is as varied and eccentric as the films he writes for." Some really great loopy characteristics, processed patterns for guitar, and rhythmically inventive -- totally worth the time to listen.
		Elliott has forged a unique language blending computer science, fractals, improvisation and mathematics, and his dynamic compositions for string quartets are some of the best work in his catalog.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists.../sharp.elliott.html (1507 words)

	Bagatellen: Elliott Sharp - Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!
		Guitarist Elliott Sharp is not a player I’ve paid much attention to in the past.
		Sharp seems to anticipate such reactions with his interrogatory and emphatic title.
		Also working in Sharp’s favor is the economical length of the set and the decision to interpret only a handful of compositions.
	www.bagatellen.com /archives/reviews/001438.html (368 words)

	Elliott Sharp : I/S/M - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		I/S/M is a very early release of Elliott Sharp's and one of his best, the recording that defined to a great extent the persona and direction he would pursue for the remainder of the '80s.
		In addition to Laswell, Sharp made the inspired choices of trombonist Art Baron (who worked with everyone from Laurie Anderson to the Mingus Big Band) and, most deliciously, the sublime and, at the time, unheralded cornetist Olu Dara, a valued member of ensembles led by David Murray, Henry Threadgill, and others.
		Together with Sharp and a trio of fine percussionists, they make I/S/M one of the very best albums to emerge from the downtown New York scene of the early '80s.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,210416,00.html (320 words)

	Elliott Sharp \| Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!
		Elliott Sharp might have once been described as a skinny kid from Cleveland, Ohio who has come to steal your women and drink your beer.
		Sharp’s immersion into American folk and blues with his Terraplane band certainly has an effect when he puts his Monk on.
		Sharp’s ballet with Monk can be a gunshot calling for you to “dance like mad” or he can whisper sweet blues.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=23375 (334 words)

	CDeMUSIC
		Elliott Sharp set aside his sax and guitar to collect one-minute music and sound works by 171 leading lights of the international avant-garde, both famous and unknown, that represent a vast array of approaches, attitudes, aesthetics, ethnicities, musical styles, and social persuasions.
		Sharp describes some of the music on this CD as 'mutated dance music, the groove fractured and recombined...' Influences include the hyper-real and sci-fi fiction of Philip K. Dick and others.
		Performances are by Elliott Sharp (guitar, 12-string guitar, baritone guitar, hawaiian guitar, 6-string bass, bass clarinet, alto sax), John Kruth (mandolin, steel body mandolin, 4-string electric mandolin, mandocello, flute, pennywhistle, lira, harmonica, sheng), Jonathan Segel (violin, guitar, piano, mandocello, dulcimer), and Atilla Engin (percussion, ektara, voice).
	www.cdemusic.org /store/cde_search.cfm?keywords=esharpcds (925 words)

	EMANEM 4098: ELLIOTT SHARP
		The material Elliott works with on this CD follows his focus of the last 30+ years: composition and improvisation inspired by the nature of the guitar itself (not to mention sound itself and the algorithms of the rest of the natural world) filtered through a love of country blues guitar and Central Asian musics.
		Sharp has tailored three handfuls of short virtuoso pieces (only four of them cross over the 5-minute mark) that draw from the Blues, the folk finger-picking tradition (Leo Kottke), East-Asian playing (I hear a lot of Chinese traditional pipa music in these fast cyclical motifs), and something indescribable that is pure Sharp.
		Sharp has rarely, it ever, displayed that side before, but still, if he did so he would not be the first to change course mid-stream and pursue more accessible avenues.
	www.emanemdisc.com /E4098.html (2834 words)

	intuition - - Elliott Sharp's Terraplane - Secret Life
		When Elliott Sharp speaks about the Blues, he does not mean translating the Blues into futuristic corset, regardless of how it is defined.
		Sharp has put the laws of nature to music, translated mathematical formulas into sound, and with his songs and albums has often taken a painfully concrete stand in regard to political developments.
		Sharp allows his fellow musicians every bit of freedom to move their own ways within the songs without breaking out of the context of the band.
	www.intuition-music.com /shop/en_UK/products/show,216064.html (951 words)

	Interview with Elliott Sharp
		I suspect that Elliott himself might be a little more modest, but he's clearly aware of the way in which his music acts as metaphor and representation for more than just a series of notes on a piece of paper.
		Elliott's musical life began age six, taking piano lessons which led to taking part in a recital at the age of seven.
		Elliott moved to New York in 1979, realising that it was probably the only place where he could pursue his musical interests, have an audience, and find like-minded people to interact with.
	media.hyperreal.org /zines/est/intervs/sharp.html (2839 words)

	Artist page for Elliott Sharp - Wal-mart
		Trained as a classical pianist from the age of six, and performing in public from eight, Sharp was educated with a career in science in mind.
		Sharp's wide stylistic range makes him a hard man to pigeonhole; indeed, to do so would be to diminish his accomplishments.
		Nevertheless, and against the odds, Sharp (known, inevitably, as E#) is able to apply a distinctive flavour to his work.
	www.walmart.com /cdstore/ArtistInfo.do?artistId=17455 (784 words)

	Brainwashed - Elliott Sharp/Merzbow "Tranz"
		Elliott Sharp may be a very unlikely collaborator for Merzbow's Masami Akita, but that's part of this CD's interest...
		Sharp's first turn at the wheel, "Mares 1," begins with a burbling, flatly-tense background bed of grainy noise, but gracelessly throws in such chestnuts as: the outer-space phaser sound!; The guitar-shop finger-tapping shred solo (these are cringe-inducing without David Lee Roth in the vicinity)!; The twisting the delay-knob up and down sound!; and so on,....
		Sharp marches so blithely over the pleasingly crunchy backdrop that I tried to listen to his piece as if I was hearing two radio stations at once, absorbing one while information from another was irritatingly bleeding through.
	brainwashed.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=311&Itemid=64 (518 words)

	EMANEM 4133: ELLIOTT SHARP & REINHOLD FRIEDL
		First heard Elliott in 1990 in the old Knitting Factory, and at that time, being a nice young composer, was really impressed, not to say, shocked, by the noisy character of his music.
		As Elliott twists those high notes of his soprano on Ject, Reinhold bangs on the high end of the piano, an erupt takes place in the first half, then both men slow down and bend there notes around one another for the second half.
		Sharp brings his splintering edge to bear on soprano sax and guitars, including dobro and fretless electric.
	www.emanemdisc.com /E4133.html (1459 words)

	Elliott Sharp : Carbon - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		One of Sharp's earlier releases, Carbon features his group of the same name on six urban/tribal explorations of the difficult-listening variety.
		While not as prolific or original as his contemporary, John Zorn, Sharp still impresses here with a fine mix of diffuse ramblings, clanging improvisation, and a measured dose of humor.
		He ranges from almost free-form cuts like "Helicopters" to semi-composed outings like "Iso" and the almost-ambient closer "Inverse Proportions." Sharp's guitar work takes more of a supportive role here, leaving plenty of space for his various turns on the trombone, saxophone, and clarinet.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,210410,00.html (232 words)

	Elliott Sharp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sharp attended Cornell University from 1969 to 1971, studying anthropology, music, and electronics.
		He completed his B.A. degree at Bard College in 1973, where he studied composition with Benjamin Boretz and Elie Yarden; jazz composition, improvisation, and ethnomusicology with Roswell Rudd; and physics and electronics with Burton Brody.
		Joey Baron, Elliott Sharp, Roberto Zorzi -Beyond (2001)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elliott_Sharp (332 words)

	DISCOGRAPHY OF ELLIOTT SHARP
		Elliott Sharp plays on two tracks, one with Sonorexia: 14/ F Troop Peter Cherches: kazoo; Donna Rataczak: drums; Elliott Sharp: bass clarinet.
		Sharp plays on one track with Carbon: 6/ Ytykyd (Sharp, Hammerstein) Recorded at White Columns, NYC May 4-8 1983 Elliott Sharp: fretless guitar, voice; Jonathon Kane: drums; Rick Brown: steel drum.
		Elliott Sharp plays on one track with the Semantics: 12/ Encore (Semantics) 6:48 Recorded live at Batschkapp, Frankfurt in 1986 Sam Bennett: drums; Ned Rothenberg: bass clarinet; Elliott Sharp: guitar.
	www.wnur.org /jazz/artists/sharp.elliott/discog.html (4836 words)

	Bagatellen: Elliott Sharp - Octal: Book One
		Intentional or not, the title of Elliott Sharp’s latest Clean Feed entry shares striking similarity to that of a Mick Barr disc released last year on Tzadik.
		Sharp describes a voluminous set of gear particulars in his notes and while most improvisers reveal too little about their preparations and intent, he nearly ends up revealing too much.
		sharp obviously applies a lot of overt math/statistics/whatever to his various approaches, whereas mick is much, much less analytical about it.
	www.bagatellen.com /archives/reviews/001945.html (2042 words)

	Elliott Sharp \| String Quartets: 1986-1996
		Many of Sharp's pieces are composed from mathematical inspiration and seem to be concerned with implicate order, patterns, and spatial relationships.
		It is a rhythm study in which Sharp achieves a "mega-mbira" tonal quality that is quite compelling.
		Even though all of these pieces were composed in the last century, they should provide string players with years of challenging ideas to deal with and bring great satisfaction to fans of modern music.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=11457 (468 words)

	CDeMUSIC: Elliott Sharp
		Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and improviser Elliott Sharp is known for his turbulent style of guitar playing and mathematically structured compositions.
		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.
		Sharp composed music and sound design for computer artist Perry Hoberman's virtual 3d installation Timetable which won the Grand Prize at the 1999 NTT ICC Bienalle in Tokyo.
	www.cdemusic.org /artists/sharp.html (258 words)

	Elliott Sharp’s Instrumental Vision by Patrick Ambrose - The Morning News
		In the mid-’80s, Sharp applied the Fibonacci numeric series—the mathematical sequence that reflects exponential growth in nature—to the tuning of his instruments and established a sonic foundation for his free-form rhythmic guitar pieces, string quartets, and orchestral compositions.
		Always pushing the limits of music, Sharp invents his own instruments whenever he is unable to produce the sound he wants out of a standard one.
		Elliott Sharp’s latest releases are Quadrature, and film scores for Rodrigo Rey-Rosa’s What Sebastian Dreamt and Jonathan Berman’s Commune: Free Land for Free People.
	www.themorningnews.org /archives/interviews/elliott_sharps_instrumental_vision.php (5009 words)

	Elliott Sharp interview
		Sharp, one of the most committed individuals the music world has known in recent years, continues to live true to his vision as an experimental composer, multi-instrumentalist, world-traveling performer and self-described "Zen-Groucho Marxist." He's often calculated, analytical and scientific.
		Yet Elliott understands the power of free expression, unleashing a flash flood of sound that gushes from his guitar and sax.
		Sharp roars in a language that reverberates the walls of our ancient caves while sonically spackling the hole in our souls left by such innovative forefathers as Son House and Sun Ra.
	www.furious.com /perfect/elliottsharp.html (2192 words)

	Elliott Sharp's Terraplane featuring Hubert Sumlin Do the Don't \| Legacy Recordings
		Elliott Sharp's Terraplane is back to follow up their fantastic Blues for Next switching from the now defunct Knitting Factory to Gaff Music.
		While the last album had one disc devoted to the guest artists and one disc more devoted to expanding the blues tradition in new ways, Do the Don't succeeds in integrating the two approaches in a remarkably organic way.
		Eric Mingus and Dean Bowman are both excellent vocalists, and along with Sharp supply bluesy lyrics that never rely on standard blues clichés.
	www.legacyrecordings.com /Elliott-Sharps-Terraplane-featuring-Hubert-Sumlin/DO-THE-DONT.aspx (400 words)

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