ELLIOTT SHARP / Artista Residente Acéfalo Fest 2021.
13/NOV , Concierto y Presentación del Libro IrRATIONAL MUSIC / en Granja Aromática Los Aromos
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Compositor, escritor, multi instrumentista, productor.
Sharp, un pilar de la escena del centro de Nueva York que comenzó en la década de 1980, ha sido una figura fundamental en la unión del rock, la música experimental y una espiral cada vez mayor de arte, teatro, cine y danza. Durante ya casi 5 décadas, Elliott Sharp ha lanzado innumerables grabaciones que van desde música orquestal hasta blues,
jazz, noise, no wave rock y techno. Dirige los proyectos Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics y Terraplane.
Arraigada en el blues, el rock, el jazz y la vanguardia del siglo XX, la música innovadora de Sharp ha abarcado geometría fractal, teoría del caos, algoritmos, metáforas genéticas y nuevas estrategias para la notación gráfica.
Recibió el Premio Berlín de Música en 2015 y una beca Guggenheim en 2014. Su composición “Storm of the Eye” para la violinista Hilary Hahn apareció en su álbum ganador del Grammy In 27 Pieces.
Sus colaboradores han incluido Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; la cantante pop Debbie Harry; Ensemble Modern;
el cantante de Qawwali Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Kronos String Quartet; Ensemble Resonanz; la innovadora del chelo Frances Marie Uitti; las leyendas del Blues Hubert Sumlin y Pops Staples;
la virtuoso de pipa Min-Xiao Feng; los grandes del jazz Jack deJohnette, Oliver Lake y Sonny Sharrock;
los artistas multimedia Christian Marclay y Pierre Huyghe; y Bachir Attar, líder de los Maestros Músicos de Jajouka.
IrRATIONAL MUSIC
Summary
A memoir and manifesto by a pivotal figure at the junction of rock, the avant-garde, and an ever-widening spiral of art, theater, film, and dance.
For over five decades, Elliott Sharp has been engaged in a quest at once quixotic and down to earth: to take the music he hears in his inner ear and bring it to life in the real world. In this vivid memoir and manifesto, Sharp takes us along on that quest, through some of the most rugged, anarchically fertile cultural terrain of our time. Sharp, a mainstay of the New York Downtown scene beginning in the 1980s, has been a pivotal figure at the junction of rock, experimental music, and an ever-widening spiral of art, theater, film, and dance. Rooted in blues, rock, jazz, and the twentieth-century avant-garde, Sharp’s innovative music has encompassed fractal geometry, chaos theory, algorithms, genetic metaphors, and new strategies for graphic notation.
In IrRational Music, Sharp dodges fake cowboys’ real bullets by the side of a highway near Colby, Kansas; is called on the carpet by a prickly, pompadoured Morton Feldman (“Improvisation… I don’t buy it”); segues from Zen tea to single malt with an elfin John Cage; conjures an extraterrestrial opera from a group of high-school students in Munich; and—back in his own high-school days—looks up from strumming Van Morrison’s “Gloria” in Manny’s Music on 48th Street to see Jimi Hendrix smiling benignly upon him. A mix of tales from the road with thoughts on music, art, politics, technology, and the process of thinking itself, IrRational Music is a glimpse inside the mind of one of our most exacting, exciting creative artists.
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