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A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over 30 years, Elliott Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from orchestral music to blues, jazz, noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He leads the projects Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction.

His collaborators have included Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; pop singer Debbie Harry; Ensemble Modern; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; 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 is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2014 Fellow at Parson\'s Center for Transformative Media. He received the 2015 Berlin Prize in Musical Composition from the American Academy in Berlin. He has composed scores for feature films and documentaries; created sound-design for interstitials 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 filmmaker Bert Shapiro.

trio Marco Eneidi : alto saxophone
Björn Lücker : drumset
John Hughes : double bass

Tür: 20:00 1st set 21:00, 2nd Set 22:00
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Elliott Sharp leitet seit Jahren verschiedene Ensembles, darunter SysOrk, Orchestra Carbon und Tectonics. Er komponierte für das Ensemble Modern, das Radio-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt und das JACK Quartet. Das mit einem Grammy ausgezeichnete Album „In 27 Pieces“ der Violonistin Hilary Hahn präsentiert eine Komposition von Sharp: „Storm of the Eye“. Sein 2014 erschienenes Album „4am Always“ mit der Formation Terraplane wurde in diesem Jahr mit dem Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik ausgezeichnet. Er wurde auf zahlreichen Festivals gefeatured, z.B. Saalfelden, Willisau, New Music Stockholm, Donaueschingen, Darmstadt, Tomorrow Shenzhen und Au Printemps.

Elliott Sharp arbeitet gerne mit verschiedensten Musiker zusammen, darunter finden sich Namen wie Debbie Harry, Pops Staples, Jack DeJohnette, Sonny Sharrock, Christian Marclay, Bachir Attar um nur einige zu erwähnen.