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Elliott Sharp

Elliott Sharp
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About

Elliott Sharp (born March 1, 1951, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist who has been a central figure in New York City's avant-garde scene since the late 1970s. He has released over eighty-five recordings spanning orchestral music, blues, jazz, noise, and electronics, and leads the ensembles Carbon and Orchestra Carbon. He is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and received the 2015 Berlin Prize in Musical Composition.

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released recordings
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What's new

  • 2025-10

    In October 2025, Sharp concluded his European tour with a solo reading and concert at Prague's Punctum Krasovka.

  • 2025-09

    In September 2025, Sharp began his European tour in Stuttgart and performed at the ImproMonday 5 festival in Zagreb, where he also led a workshop on Contemporary Strategies in Composition and Performance.

  • 2025-11

    In November 2025, Sharp's new book Feedback: Translations from the IrRational (Wesleyan University Press) was published, an essayistic reflection on music, artificial intelligence, and science.

  • 2025-09

    Sharp released with drummer Erwin Ditzner the LP Live at Enjoy Jazz Festival, recorded in 2024.

  • 2021-04

    In April 2021, a reissue of the album Carbon: Truthtable was released on Bandcamp, long unavailable recordings from the 1990s.

Tour

StuttgartMunichLudwigshafenZagrebPrague

Tracks

Carbon (album)debut album of the Carbon ensemble from 1984, foundation of the New York experimental scene
Void CoordinatesCarbon album from 2009 for the Intakt label, after a thirteen-year break of the ensemble
Calling Bird (opera)operatic work for Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt and Ensemble Modern
Terraplane (album)debut of the blues ensemble Terraplane from 1994, interweaving of blues, jazz and avant-garde
CARBON: Truthtablereissued album from the 1990s, peak of the so-called brutalist period of the Carbon ensemble

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