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Elliott Sharp (b. Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
, Ohio
Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
, March 1, 1951) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 multi-instrumentalist
Multi-instrumentalist

A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different musical instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists....
, composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
, and performer.

A key figure in the avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 and experimental music
Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-twentieth century, particularly in North America, and whose most famous and influential exponent was John Cage ....
 scene in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 for over thirty years, Sharp has released over sixty-five recording
Recording

Recording is a process of capturing data or translating information to a recording format stored on a storage medium often referred to as a record....
s ranging from blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
, jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
, and orchestral music
Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
 to noise
Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, Consonance and dissonance#Dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization....
, no wave
No Wave

No Wave was a short-lived but influential art music, film, performance art, video, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the mid-1970s in New York City....
 rock, and techno music. He pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction, as well as the use of computers in live improvisation with his Virtual Stance project of the 1980s.






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Elliott Sharp (b. Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
, Ohio
Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
, March 1, 1951) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 multi-instrumentalist
Multi-instrumentalist

A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different musical instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists....
, composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
, and performer.

A key figure in the avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 and experimental music
Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-twentieth century, particularly in North America, and whose most famous and influential exponent was John Cage ....
 scene in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 for over thirty years, Sharp has released over sixty-five recording
Recording

Recording is a process of capturing data or translating information to a recording format stored on a storage medium often referred to as a record....
s ranging from blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
, jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
, and orchestral music
Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
 to noise
Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, Consonance and dissonance#Dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization....
, no wave
No Wave

No Wave was a short-lived but influential art music, film, performance art, video, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the mid-1970s in New York City....
 rock, and techno music. He pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction, as well as the use of computers in live improvisation with his Virtual Stance project of the 1980s. He is an inveterate performer, playing mainly guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
, saxophone
Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
 and bass clarinet
Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet....
. Sharp has led many ensemble
Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music. In each musical style different norms have developed for the sizes and composition of different ensembles, and for the repertoire of songs or musical works that these ensembles perform....
s over the years, including the blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
-oriented Terraplane and Orchestra Carbon.

Biography

Sharp describes himself as a lifelong "science
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
 geek
Geek

The word geek is a slang term, noting individuals as "a peculiar or otherwise odd person, especially one who is perceived to be overly obsessed with one or more things including those of intellectuality, electronics, etc." Formerly, the term referred to a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head...
," -- he has modified and created musical instruments from his teen years, and frequently borrows terms from science and technology for his compositions.

Sharp attended Cornell University
Cornell University

Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four Statutory college. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar....
 from 1969 to 1971, studying anthropology, music, and electronics. He completed his B.A. degree at Bard College
Bard College

Bard College, founded in 1860, is a small, highly selective four-year Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, New York....
 in 1973, where he studied composition with Benjamin Boretz
Benjamin Boretz

Benjamin Boretz is a twentieth- and twenty-first-century United States composer and Music theory.He was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied composition at Brandeis University with Arthur Berger, at the Aspen Music School with Darius Milhaud, at UCLA with Lukas Foss, and at Princeton with Milton Babbitt and Roger Sessions....
 and Elie Yarden; jazz composition, improvisation, and ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology is a branch of musicology defined as "the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts." ...
 with trombonist Roswell Rudd
Roswell Rudd

Roswell Rudd is an United States jazz trombone and composer.Although skilled in all styles of jazz and other genres of music, he is known primarily for his work in free jazz and avant-garde jazz....
; and physics and electronics with Burton Brody. In 1977 he received an M.A. from the University at Buffalo
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly known as the University at Buffalo or , is a public university research university which has multiple campuses located in Buffalo, New York and Amherst, New York, USA....
, where he studied composition with Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City.A major figure in 20th century music, Feldman went through several compositional phases....
 and Lejaren Hiller
Lejaren Hiller

Lejaren Arthur Hiller was an United States composer who founded the Experimental Music Studio at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1958 and collaborated on the first significant computer music composition, 1957's Illiac Suite, with Leonard Issacson....
, and ethnomusicology with Charles Keil.

From the late '70s, Sharp established himself in New York's music scene. His compositions have been performed by the Symphony of the Hessischer Rundfunk, the Ensemble Modern
Ensemble Modern

Ensemble Modern is a chamber ensemble dedicated to the music of modern composers. Formed in 1980, the group is based in Frankfurt, Germany and made up variously of about twenty members from numerous countries....
, Continuum, the Orchestra of the SEM Ensemble, Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet

Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California....
, Zeitkratzer, the Soldier String Quartet, and the Quintet of the Americas. He releases music under his own label (zOaR music) as well as punk
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 label SST
SST Records

SST Records is an United States independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn. The company was initially called Solid State Transmitters through which Ginn sold electronics equipment....
 and downtown music
Downtown music

Downtown music is a subdivision of American music, closely related experimental music. The scene the term describes began in 1960, when Yoko Ono ? one of the Fluxus artists, at that time still seven years away from meeting John Lennon ? opened her loft at 112 Chambers Street to be used as a noise music performance space for a series curated...
 labels such as Knitting Factory
Knitting Factory

The Knitting Factory is a New York City, Hollywood, Boise, and Spokane music club and concert house, originally specializing in jazz and experimental music....
 records and John Zorn
John Zorn

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, orchestration, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer....
's Tzadik label. Guitar Player
Guitar Player

Guitar Player is a popular magazine for guitarists. It contains articles, interviews, reviews and lessons of an eclectic collection of artists, genres and products....
 magazine's 30th anniversary issue included Sharp among their list of "The Dirty Thirty - Pioneers and Trailblazers".

He has collaborated regularly with many people, including Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay is an USA visual artist and composer based in New York.Marclay's work explores connections between sound, photography, video, and film....
, Eric Mingus, Zeena Parkins
Zeena Parkins

Zeena Parkins is a harpist active in rock music, free improvisation and jazz. Parkins plays standard harps, as well as several custom-made one-of-a kind electric harps; she also plays piano and accordion....
, Vernon Reid
Vernon Reid

Vernon Reid is an English guitarist, songwriter, composer and bandleader. Best known as the founder and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Living Colour, Reid was named #66 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time....
, Bobby Previte
Bobby Previte

Robert "Bobby" Previte is a drummer, composer and bandleader. Previte earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he also studied percussion instrument....
, Joey Baron
Joey Baron

Joey Baron is an American Avant-garde jazz Jazz drumming probably best known for his work with Bill Frisell, Stan Getz, and John Zorn in Naked City ....
, David Torn
David Torn

David Torn is an American composer and guitarist known for the organic blending/manipulation of electronic and acoustic instruments and performance techniques that have an atmospheric or Texture quality and effect, along with a particular harmonic richness....
, Nels Cline
Nels Cline

Nels Cline is an United States guitarist and composer, currently the lead guitarist of alternative rock band Wilco....
, and Frances-Marie Uitti
Frances-Marie Uitti

Frances-Marie Uitti is composer and cellist known for her performances of the most esoteric and virtuoso contemporary classical music. She was born in Chicago to Finnish parents, and she studied classical music at Meadowmount with Ronald Leonard and Josef Gingold, Boston University with Leslie Parnas and University of Texas with George Neikr...
, as well as qawaali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan , was a Pakistani musician, primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis . He featured in Time magazine's 2006 list of 'Asian Heroes'....
, blues legend Hubert Sumlin
Hubert Sumlin

Hubert Sumlin is an United States blues guitarist and singer, best known for his celebrated work, from 1955, as guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's band....
, and Bachir Attar
Bachir Attar

Bachir Attar, born in Jajouka in 1964 is the founder and leader of Master Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar. Attar's father, Hadj Abdesalam Attar, led the group Master Musicians of Joujouka at the time of their groundbreaking album produced by Brian Jones....
, leader of the Master Musicians of Jajouka. He was curator of the historic sound-art exhibition Volume: Bed of Sound for P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in 2001, which featured the works of 54 artists including Vito Acconci
Vito Acconci

Vito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist.His father was an Italian immigrant who took him to museums and opera houses and gave him his first arts education....
, Tod Dockstader
Tod Dockstader

Tod Dockstader is an United States composer of electronic music, and particularly musique concr?te. He studied painting and film while at the University of Minnesota, before moving to Hollywood in 1955, to become an apprentice film editor....
, Walter Murch
Walter Murch

Walter Scott Murch is an Academy Award–winning film editor/audio mixing, the son of painter Walter Tandy Murch . Murch married Muriel Ann at Riverside Church, New York City, on August 6, 1965....
, Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams

Muhal Richard Abrams is an United States educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and Jazz piano in the Modern Creative and Free jazz mediums....
, Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles....
, Chris & Cosey, Survival Research Laboratories
Survival Research Laboratories

Survival Research Laboratories is a machine performance art group credited for pioneering the genre of large scale machine performance. After about 30 years in San Francisco, California, SRL spent most of 2008 moving 160 tons of choice machines, tools, robots, and paraphernalia and is now headquartered in Petaluma, California....
, Ryuichi Sakomoto, Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
, and Butch Morris
Butch Morris

Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris is an United States jazz cornetist, composer and Conductor ....
. He also curates the State of the Union CD compilations of one-minute tracks by experimental musicians, and produces records for numerous artists.

In 2003 he was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.

Sharp lives in lower Manhattan with designer/video artist Janene Higgins
Janene Higgins

Janene Higgins is a graphic designer and Video art based in New York, New York. Her work spans several genres, from video performance in the experimental music scene to videos for Saks Fifth Avenue, and the design of several hundred CD packages for such record labels as Sony, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, PolyGram, and a wide variety of inde...
 and their two children.

Partial discography

  • Nots (1982)
  • Monster Curve (1982)
  • Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup (1987)
  • In The Land of the Yahoos (1987)
  • Island of Sanity (1987)
  • Semantics - Bone of Contention (1987)
  • Looppool (1988)
  • George Hurley
    George Hurley

    George Hurley is a drummer noted for his work with Minutemen and Firehose .Even though he went to the same high school as D. Boon and Mike Watt he did not meet them until around 1978....
    , Mike Watt
    Mike Watt

    Michael David Watt is an American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter.He is best-known for co-founding the rock bands The Minutemen and fIREHOSE; , he is also the bassist for the reunited The Stooges and a member of the art rock/jazz/Punk rock/improvisation group Banyan as well as many other post-Minutemen projects....
    , Elliott Sharp - Bootstrappers     (1989)
  • Datacide (1989)
  • Sili/contemp/tation (1990)
  • Arc 1: I/S/M (1990)
  • K!L!A!V! (1990)
  • Twistmap (1991)
  • Tocsin (1991)
  • Trick Moon (1991) with Tsuneo Imahori
    Tsuneo Imahori

    Tsuneo Imahori is a Japanese guitarist and composer. He started to play acoustic guitar aged 12, inspired by United Kingdom folk music from the likes of Bert Jansch, and later the work of Frank Zappa and Andy Partridge....
     on guitar
  • Abstract Repressionism: 1990-99 (1992)
  • Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Yahoos (1992)
  • Westwerk (1992)
  • Bootstrappers - GI=GO (1992)
  • Cryptid Fragments (1993)
  • Truthtable (1993)
  • Autoboot (1994)
  • Bachir Attar
    Bachir Attar

    Bachir Attar, born in Jajouka in 1964 is the founder and leader of Master Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar. Attar's father, Hadj Abdesalam Attar, led the group Master Musicians of Joujouka at the time of their groundbreaking album produced by Brian Jones....
    , Elliott Sharp - In New York (1994)
  • Amusia (1994)
  • Dyners Club (1994)
  • Terraplane (1994)
  • Elliott Sharp, Zeena Parkins
    Zeena Parkins

    Zeena Parkins is a harpist active in rock music, free improvisation and jazz. Parkins plays standard harps, as well as several custom-made one-of-a kind electric harps; she also plays piano and accordion....
     - Psycho~Acoustic (1994)
  • Interference (1995)
  • Tectonics (1995)
  • Boodlers (1995)
  • Sferics (1996)
  • Blackburst (1996)
  • XenocodeX (1996)
  • Hoosegow - Mighty (1996)
  • Spring & Neap (1997)
  • Tectonics - Field and Stream (1997)
  • Figure Ground (1997)
  • Boodlers - Counter fit (1997)
  • Frances-Marie Uitti
    Frances-Marie Uitti

    Frances-Marie Uitti is composer and cellist known for her performances of the most esoteric and virtuoso contemporary classical music. She was born in Chicago to Finnish parents, and she studied classical music at Meadowmount with Ronald Leonard and Josef Gingold, Boston University with Leslie Parnas and University of Texas with George Neikr...
     & Elliott Sharp - Improvisations (1997)
  • Revenge of the Stuttering Child (1997)
  • Poverty line (1997)
  • Rwong Territory (1998)
  • Arc 2: The Seventies (1998)
  • Arc 3: Cyberpunk & the Virtual Stance (1998)
  • Larynx (1998)
  • Rheo~Umbra (1998)
  • John Zorn
    John Zorn

    John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, orchestration, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer....
    , Wayne Horvitz
    Wayne Horvitz

    Wayne Horvitz is a composer, keyboardist and producer.Horvitz has led the groups The President, Pigpen, Zony Mash, and the Four Plus One Ensemble....
    , Elliott Sharp, Bobby Previte
    Bobby Previte

    Robert "Bobby" Previte is a drummer, composer and bandleader. Previte earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he also studied percussion instrument....
     - Downtown Lullaby (1998)
  • Vernon Reid
    Vernon Reid

    Vernon Reid is an English guitarist, songwriter, composer and bandleader. Best known as the founder and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Living Colour, Reid was named #66 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time....
    , Elliott Sharp, David Torn
    David Torn

    David Torn is an American composer and guitarist known for the organic blending/manipulation of electronic and acoustic instruments and performance techniques that have an atmospheric or Texture quality and effect, along with a particular harmonic richness....
     - GTR OBLQ (1998)
  • Tectonics - Errata (1999)
  • Christian Marclay
    Christian Marclay

    Christian Marclay is an USA visual artist and composer based in New York.Marclay's work explores connections between sound, photography, video, and film....
    , Elliott Sharp - High Noon (1999)
  • SyndaKit (1999)
  • Terraplane - Blues for Next (2000)
  • Autar (2000)
  • Joey Baron, Elliott Sharp, Roberto Zorzi -Beyond (2001)
  • Suspension of Disbelief (2001)
  • Radiolaria (2001)
  • Terraplane - Yellowman (2002)
  • Reinhold Friedl & Elliott Sharp – Anostalgia (2002)
  • The Prisoner's Dilemma (2002)
  • Elliott Sharp String Quartets 1986-1996 (2003)
  • Terraplane - Do the Don't (2003)
  • Velocity of Hue (2004)
  • Radio Hyper-Yahoo (2004)
  • John Duncan
    John Duncan (artist)

    John Duncan is an artist who has lived and worked in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Amsterdam, currently lives and works in Bologna. His body of work includes performance art, Installation art, contemporary music, video art and experimental film, often involving the extensive use of recorded sound....
    , Elliott Sharp - Tongue (2004)
  • Terraplane - Secret Life (2005)
  • Quadrature (2005)
  • Soundtrack for the film Commune (2005)
  • Soundtrack for the film What Sebastian Dreamt (2005)
  • Elliott Sharp / Merzbow
    Merzbow

    is a noise music project created in Tokyo, Japan in 1979 under the direction of musician . Since 1979, he has formed two record labels and has contributed releases to numerous independent record labels....
     - Tranz (2006)
  • Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk! (2006)
  • Elliott Sharp, Franck Vigroux
    Franck Vigroux

    Franck Vigroux is a French Avant-garde musician, turntablist, guitarist operating on the borders of rock, electronic, jazz and contemporary art music....
     - Hums 2 Terre (2007)
  • Nels Cline
    Nels Cline

    Nels Cline is an United States guitarist and composer, currently the lead guitarist of alternative rock band Wilco....
     & Elliott Sharp - Duo Milano (2007)
  • Solo Beijing (2007)
  • Terraplane - Forgery (2008)
  • Elliott Sharp and Scott Fields
    Scott Fields

    Scott Fields , is a guitarist, composer and band leader. He is best known for his attempts to blend music that is composed and music that is written and for his modular pieces ....
    : Scharfefelder (2008)


Films

  • Roulette TV: Elliott Sharp. Roulette Intermedium Inc. (2000 DVD)
  • April in New York with Bobby Previte
    Bobby Previte

    Robert "Bobby" Previte is a drummer, composer and bandleader. Previte earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he also studied percussion instrument....
     (2007 DVD)
  • The Velocity of Hue: Live in Cologne (2007 DVD)
  • Elliott Sharp: Doing the Don't (2008 DVD)


Music for film

  • Commune (2005)
  • The Time We Killed (2004)
  • What Sebastian Dreamt (2003)
  • Daddy and the Muscle Academy (1991)
  • Antigone/Rites of Passion (1990)
  • The Salt Mines (1990)


External links

  • in Guitar Player magazine (2007)
  • by Mike McGonigal, published in BOMB magazine (2003)
  • by Adam Shatz, New York Times Arts and Leisure, July 2002
  • Elliott Sharp in conversation with Frank J. Oteri
    Frank J. Oteri

    Frank J. Oteri born May 12, 1964 is a composer based in New York City. He has also been the editor of NewMusicBox since 1999. His work has been performed in venues from Carnegie Hall to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art....
    , NewMusicBox
    NewMusicBox

    NewMusicBox is an e-zine launched by the American Music Center in 1999. The magazine includes interviews and articles concerning American Contemporary Music, composers, improvisers, and musicians....
    , March 22, 2006 (includes video)
  • by the Portuguese journalist Rui Eduardo Paes, September 2004
  • , documentary