Editing Elliott Sharp

{{short description|American composer and musician}}

{{Infobox musical artist
| name=Elliott Sharp
| image                 = Elliott Sharp.jpg
| birth_name=
| birth_date                = {{birth date and age|1951|3|1}}
| birth_place               = [[Cleveland, Ohio]], U.S.
| instrument          = Guitar, [[tenor saxophone]], [[bass clarinet]]
| genre               = [[Contemporary classical music|Contemporary classical]], [[Experimental music|experimental]], [[free improvisation]], [[jazz]], [[avant-garde music|avant-garde]]
| occupation          = Composer, musician, producer
| years_active        = 1980s–present
| label               = [[SST Records|SST]], [[Tzadik Records|Tzadik]], [[Clean Feed Records|Clean Feed]], Intuition, [[Homestead Records|Homestead]], [[Atavistic Records|Atavistic]], Intakt, [[Extreme Records|Extreme]], [[Knitting Factory Records|Knitting Factory]], zOaR
| associated_acts     = Terraplane, Carbon, Orchestra Carbon
| website             = {{url|elliottsharp.com}}
}}

'''Elliott Sharp''' (born March 1, 1951) is an American [[contemporary classical music|contemporary classical]] composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, author, and visual artist.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/sharp |title=Classical Composers Database |date=October 2003 |access-date=2009-07-05 |archive-date=2013-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114031624/http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/sharp |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.guitarmoderne.com/book-reviews/book-review-irrational-music-by-elliot-sharp |title=Guitar Moderne Review of IrRational Music |date=29 January 2019 |access-date=2023-09-22 |archive-date=2023-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921112059/https://www.guitarmoderne.com/book-reviews/book-review-irrational-music-by-elliot-sharp |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.artoxin.de/en/exhibition/elliott-sharp |title="Sound In Light - Light In Sound: Graphic Scores by Elliott Sharp" |access-date=2023-09-22 |archive-date=2023-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928110635/https://www.artoxin.de/en/exhibition/elliott-sharp |url-status=live }}</ref>

A central figure in the [[Avant-garde music|avant-garde]] and [[experimental music]] scene in New York City since the late 1970s,<ref>[http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_arts_letter/2009/10/atlantic-center-has-new-batch-of-artists-in-residence.html Atlantic Center has new batch of artists in residence] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020090842/http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_arts_letter/2009/10/atlantic-center-has-new-batch-of-artists-in-residence.html |date=October 20, 2012 }} ''[[Orlando Sentinel]]'' October 2009</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/elliott-sharp/ |title=BOMB, Interview by Mike McGonigal |access-date=2024-01-02 |archive-date=2023-12-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203232322/https://bombmagazine.org/articles/elliott-sharp/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Sharp has released over eighty-five [[Sound recording and reproduction|recordings]] ranging from [[Contemporary classical music|contemporary classical]], [[avant-garde]], [[free improvisation]], [[jazz]], experimental, and [[orchestra]]l music to [[Noise music|noise]], [[no wave]], and [[electronic music]]. He pioneered the use of personal computers in live performance with his ''Virtual Stance'' project of the 1980s.<ref>Maris, E. [http://search2.downtownmusicgallery.com/lookup.cgi?item=2007_04_26_17_20_17 Elliott Sharp/Tectonics:Solo Beijing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723215151/http://search2.downtownmusicgallery.com/lookup.cgi?item=2007_04_26_17_20_17 |date=July 23, 2011 }} ''Downtown Music Gallery Newsletter'', April 26, 2007</ref> He has used [[algorithm]]s and [[fibonacci numbers]] in experimental composition  since the 1970s, and has cited literature as an inspiration for his music and often favors improvisation.<ref name="ambrose">Ambrose, P. [http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/interviews/elliott_sharps_instrumental_vision.php Elliott Sharp's Instrumental Vision] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827151329/http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/interviews/elliott_sharps_instrumental_vision.php |date=2009-08-27 }} [[The Morning News (online magazine)|The Morning News]], October 4, 2005</ref><ref name="Tessalation Row">Tessalation Row,[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r17850|pure_url=yes}} Elliott Sharp with the Soldier String Quartet] [[Allmusic|All Music Guide]]</ref> He is an inveterate performer, playing mainly guitar, saxophone and [[bass clarinet]]. Sharp has led many [[Musical ensemble|ensembles]] over the years, including the [[blues]]-oriented Terraplane, Orchestra Carbon, and SysOrk, a group dedicated to the realization of algorithmic and graphic scores.<ref>Cleveland, B. [http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/elliott-sharp/apr-07/26808 Elliott Sharp] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120143836/http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/elliott-sharp/apr-07/26808 |date=2008-01-20 }} ''[[Guitar Player]]'' magazine, April 2007</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://roulette.org/event/elliott-sharps-sysork-2/ |title=Elliott Sharp's SysOrk |access-date=2023-09-22 |archive-date=2023-12-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201125205/https://roulette.org/event/elliott-sharps-sysork-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Sharp was classically trained in piano from an early age, taking up clarinet and guitar as a teen. He 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 trombonist [[Roswell Rudd]]; and physics and electronics with [[Burton Brody]]. In 1977 he received an M.A. from the [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|University at Buffalo]], where he studied composition with [[Morton Feldman]] and [[Lejaren Hiller]], and ethnomusicology with [[Charles Keil]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://music.wustl.edu/events/elliott-sharp-solo |title=Elliott Sharp at WashU |date=30 October 2023 |access-date=2024-01-02 |archive-date=2024-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240102203629/https://music.wustl.edu/events/elliott-sharp-solo |url-status=live }}</ref>

From the late 1970s, Sharp established himself internationally. His compositions have been performed by the [[JACK Quartet]], [[Kronos Quartet]], [[Ensemble Musikfabrik]], the [[hr-Sinfonieorchester]], the [[Ensemble Modern]], Continuum, the Orchestra of the [[SEM Ensemble]], the [[FLUX Quartet]], Zeitkratzer, the Soldier String Quartet, and Grammy-winning violinist [[Hilary Hahn]]. His work has been featured at festivals worldwide, including [[Other Minds (organization)|Other Minds]] in San Francisco 2021, the 2018 [[RuhrTriennale]], Huddersfield 2018, MaerzMuzik Berlin 2014, Tomorrow Festival Shenzhen 2012, New Music Stockholm festival 2008, [[Donaueschingen Festival]] 2007, [[Hessischer Rundfunk]] Klangbiennale 2007, [[Venice Biennale]] 2003 & 2006, and [[Darmstädter Ferienkurse]] fur Neue Musik 2003. 

He has collaborated regularly with many people, including [[Christian Marclay]], [[Nels Cline]], [[Bobby Previte]], [[Z'EV]], [[Joey Baron]], [[David Torn]], {{interlanguage link|Eric Mingus|de}}, [[Zeena Parkins]], [[Vernon Reid]], and [[Frances-Marie Uitti]], as well as qawaali singer [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]], blues legend [[Hubert Sumlin]], actor/writer [[Eric Bogosian]], jazz greats [[Jack DeJohnette]] and [[Sonny Sharrock]], pop singer [[Debbie Harry]], and [[Bachir Attar]], leader of the [[Master Musicians of Jajouka]]. He was curator of the monumental sound-art exhibition ‘’Volume: Bed of Sound’’ for [[MoMA PS1]], which featured the works of 54 artists including [[Vito Acconci]], [[Tod Dockstader]], [[John Duncan (artist)|John Duncan]], [[Walter Murch]], [[Muhal Richard Abrams]], [[Laurie Anderson]], [[Chris & Cosey]], [[Survival Research Laboratories]], [[Ryuichi Sakamoto]], [[Sonic Youth]], and [[Butch Morris]].<ref>[http://www.henryart.org/exhibitions/past/55/2001 VOLUME: Bed of Sound] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707211311/http://www.henryart.org/exhibitions/past/55/2001 |date=July 7, 2010 }} Henry Art Gallery</ref> 

He produces records for a wide variety of artists, and has curated several ''State of the Union'' CDs, compilations of one-minute tracks by experimental musicians. He releases music under his own label, [https://zoar-records.bandcamp.com/ zOaR music], as well as [[Punk rock|punk]] label [[SST Records|SST]] and [[downtown music]] labels such as [[Knitting Factory]] records and John Zorn’s [[Tzadik (record label)|Tzadik]] label. Sharp describes himself as a lifelong "science [[geek]]",<ref>Kruth, J. [http://www.furious.com/perfect/elliottsharp.html Interview with Elliott Sharp] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041020000829/http://www.furious.com/perfect/elliottsharp.html |date=2004-10-20 }} ''Perfect Sound Forever'', November 2001</ref> having modified and created musical instruments since his teen years, and frequently borrowing terms from science and technology for his compositions.

[[File:Elliott Sharp 2.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Elliott Sharp live at Jazz Festival in [[Saalfelden]], 2009]]
Sharp received the 2015 Berlin Prize in Musical Composition, spending six months as a Fellow-in-Residence at the [[American Academy in Berlin]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.americanacademy.de/fellows-distinguished-visitors/alumni/fellows/?p_search=&p_semester=125&p_area=&p_fellowship= |title=Spring 2015 Fellows, The American Academy in Berlin |access-date=2024-01-02 |archive-date=2024-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240102182126/https://www.americanacademy.de/fellows-distinguished-visitors/alumni/fellows/?p_search=&p_semester=125&p_area=&p_fellowship= |url-status=live }}</ref> He was awarded a 2014 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]], was a 2009 Master Artist-in-Residence at the [[Atlantic Center for the Arts]], a [[New York Foundation for the Arts]] Fellow in music in 2010 and 2019, and received a 2003 [[Foundation for Contemporary Arts]] Grants to Artists Award.<ref>[https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/elliott-sharp/ Elliott Sharp] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240102195528/https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/elliott-sharp/ |date=2024-01-02 }} Foundation for Contemporary Arts</ref> He has composed scores for feature films and documentaries,<ref>The Internet Movie Database (IMDB): [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1656667/ Elliott Sharp] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017211203/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1656667/ |date=2017-10-17 }}</ref> created music and sound-design for The Sundance Channel, MTV and Bravo networks; and has presented numerous sound installations in art galleries and museums. ''Guitar Player'' magazine’s 30th anniversary issue included Sharp among their list of “The Dirty Thirty – Pioneers and Trailblazers”.

In March 2011, Sharp's 60th birthday was celebrated with a weekend of all-star concert events entitled "E#@60", hosted by Brooklyn's [[ISSUE Project Room]].<ref>[http://brooklynrail.org/2011/04/music/an-auspicious-beginning-for-elliott-sharps-seventh-decade An Auspicious Beginning for Elliott Sharps Seventh Decade] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110422213309/http://brooklynrail.org/2011/04/music/an-auspicious-beginning-for-elliott-sharps-seventh-decade |date=2011-04-22 }} [[The Brooklyn Rail]], April 2011</ref> In March 2021, his 70th birthday was celebrated with a series of concert events entitled “E#@70”, presented by Brooklyn’s  [[Roulette Intermedium|Roulette]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://roulette.org/event/elliott-sharp-at-70/ | title=E#@70 - Concert Nr. 1 - SysOrk: New Works | access-date=2021-03-07 | archive-date=2021-03-04 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304173741/https://roulette.org/event/elliott-sharp-at-70/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

Sharp lives in lower Manhattan with media artist [[Janene Higgins]] and their two children.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/2009/01/08/Composer-Elliott-Sharp-s-scientific-approach-is-more-than-a-theory/stories/200901080233 | title=Composer Elliott Sharp's scientific approach is more than a theory | access-date=2023-12-05 | archive-date=2024-05-03 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240503044941/https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/2009/01/08/Composer-Elliott-Sharp-s-scientific-approach-is-more-than-a-theory/stories/200901080233 | url-status=live }}</ref>

== Discography ==

=== Solo ===
* ''The Collapsed Wave'' (2023)
* ''Steppe'' (2023)
* ''Octal: Book Four'' (2022)
* ''Karman Lines'' (2021)
* ''Isosceles'' (2020)
* ''Cryptid Fragments 1991-1996'' (2020)
* ''Octal Book Three'' (2014) for solo 8-string guitarbass
* ''The Yahoos Trilogy'' (2013)
* ''Octal Book Two'' (2010)
* ''Tectonics – Abstraction Distraction'' (2010)
* ''Concert in Dachau'' (2008)
* ''Octal Book One'' (2008)
* ''Solo Beijing'' (2007)
* ''Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!'' (2006)
* ''Quadrature'' (2005)
* ''Velocity of Hue'' (2004)
* ''Tectonics – Errata'' (1999)
* ''Tectonics – Field and Stream'' (1997)
* ''Sferics'' (1996)
* ''Tectonics'' (1995)
* ''Westwerk'' (1992)
* ''K!L!A!V!'' (1990)
* ''Looppool'' (1988)
* ''Rhythms and Blues'' (1980)
* ''Resonance'' (1979)

=== As a leader ===
* ''Nots'' (1981) with [[Art Baron]], [[Olu Dara]], [[Bill Laswell]], Diana Meckley, M.E. Miller, Charles K. Noyes, Phillip Wilson
* ''I/S/M:R'' (1982) with Michael Brown, Al Diaz, David Linton
* ''In the Land of the Yahoos'' (1987) with Christoph Anders, Sussan Deihim, Elizabeth Fischer, David Fulton, [[Paul Garrin]], [[Shelley Hirsch]], Shigeto Kamada, [[Christian Marclay]], Jane Tomkiewicz
* ''Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Yahoos'' (1992) with [[Samm Bennett]], Alva Rogers, [[Anthony Coleman]], Victor Poison-Tete, [[Eugene Chadbourne]], Sussan Deihim, [[Shelley Hirsch]], [[Barbara Barg]], K.J. Grant, Lee Ann Brown
* ''Dyners Club Guitar Quartet'' (1994) with [[Roger Kleier]], David Mecionis, John Myers
* ''Boodlers'' (1995) with Fred Chalenor, Henry Franzoni
* ''Boodlers – Counter Fit'' (1997) with [[Fred Chalenor]], Henry Franzoni, Joseph Trump
* ''Arc 1: I/S/M'' (1996) with [[Art Baron]], Michael Brown, Al Diaz, [[Olu Dara]], [[Bill Laswell]], David Linton, Diana Meckley, M.E. Miller, Charles K. Noyes, [[Bobby Previte]], [[Phillip Wilson (drummer)|Phillip Wilson]]
* ''Arc 2: The Seventies'' (1998) with, Steve Piccolo, Geoff MacAdie, Stewart Gilbert, Kunda Magenau, Denis Williamson, Murry Kohn, [[Donald Knaack]], [[Bobby Previte]], Jim Whittemore, [[Chris Vine]]
* ''Arc 3: Cyberpunk & the Virtual Stance'' (1998)
* ''Autar'' (2000) with the [[Bedouin]] Musicians of Muhammad Abu-Ajaj
* ''Raw Meet'' (2002) with [[Melvin Gibbs]], [[Lance Carter (musician)|Lance Carter]]
* ''Radio Hyper-Yahoo'' (2004) with [[Tracie Morris]], [[Eric Bogosian]], [[Sim Cain]], [[Maggie Estep]], [[Steve Buscemi]], Lisa Lowell, [[Jack Womack]], [[Eszter Balint]], [[Edwin Torres (poet)|Edwin Torres]], {{interlanguage link|Eric Mingus|de}}, Steve Piccolo, Gak Sato
* ''War Zones'' (2008)
* ''[[Christian Marclay]]: [[Graffiti Composition]]'' (2010) Elliott Sharp, [[Melvin Gibbs]], [[Mary Halvorson]], [[Lee Ranaldo]], [[Vernon Reid]]
* ''Electric Willie: a Tribute to [[Willie Dixon]]'' (2010) Elliott Sharp, [[Henry Kaiser]], {{interlanguage link|Eric Mingus|de}}, [[Queen Esther (artist)|Queen Esther]], [[Glenn Phillips (guitarist)|Glenn Phillips]], Melvin Gibbs, [[Lance Carter (musician)|Lance Carter]] (Yellowbird)
* ''Err Guitar'' (2017)
* ''Syzygy'' (2019) [https://www.sergioarmaroli.com/elliott-sharp-syzygy/]

=== with Carbon ===
* ''Monster Curve'' (1982)
* ''Datacide'' (1989)
* ''Sili/contemp/tation'' (1990)
* ''Tocsin'' (1991)
* ''Truthtable'' (1993)
* ''Autoboot'' (1994)
* ''Amusia'' (1994)
* ''Interference'' (1995)
* ''Serrate'' (2009)
* ''Void Coordinates'' (2010)
* ''Amsterdam Live 2010'' (2023)

=== with Orchestra Carbon ===
* ''Larynx'' (1988, 2007)
* ''Abstract Repressionism: 1990–99'' (1992)
* ''Spring & Neap'' (1997)
* ''Rheo~Umbra'' (1998)
* ''SyndaKit'' (1999)
* ''Radiolaria'' (2001)
* ''Quarks Swim Free'' (2006)

=== String Quartets ===
* ''Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup'' (1987) with Soldier String Quartet and Carbon
* ''Twistmap'' (1991) with Soldier String Quartet
* ''Cryptid Fragments'' (1993) with Margaret Parkins, Michelle Kinney, Sara Parkins, and Soldier String Quartet
* ''Digital'' (1986) on ''[[Short Stories (Kronos Quartet album)|Short Stories]]''
* ''XenocodeX'' (1996) with Soldier String Quartet
* ''A Modicum of Passion'' (2004) with (vocals) Devorah Day, Ben Miller, {{interlanguage link|Eric Mingus|de}}, [[Joan Wasser]]; and (strings) Stephanie Griffin, Conrad Harris, Amy Kimball, Garo Yellin
* ''Elliott Sharp String Quartets 1986–1996'' (2003) with Soldier String Quartet and The Meridian Quartet
* ''The Boreal'' (2009) performed and recorded by JACK Quartet
* ''Tranzience'' (2013) performed and recorded by JACK Quartet
* ''Akheron'' (2014) premiered by JACK Quartet

=== Orchestral ===
* ''Racing Hearts, Tessalation Row, Calling'' (2003)
* ''Plastovy Hrad'' (2018) commissioned by Brno Contemporary Orchestra and conducted by Pavel Snajdr. 
* ''Oceanus Procellarum'' commissioned and premiered by Ensemble Resonanz, Kampnagel, Hamburg and Huddersfield Festival, UK. 
* ''Occam's Machete'' (2023) premiered by Sharp's SysOrk string ensemble

=== w/SysOrk ===
* ''Sylva Sylvarum 2014'' (2020)
* ''ReGenerate'' (2021)
* ''Flexagons 2014'' (2022)

=== with Terraplane ===
* ''Terraplane'' (1994)
* ''Terraplane – Blues for Next'' (2000)
* ''Terraplane – Music fr Yellowman'' (2002)
* ''Terraplane – Do the Don't'' (2003) with [[Hubert Sumlin]]
* ''Terraplane – Secret Life'' (2005)
* ''Terraplane – Forgery'' (2008)
* ''Terraplane – Sky Road Songs'' (2012) with [[Hubert Sumlin]]
* ''Terraplane – 4AM Always'' (2014) – Winner of the Jahrespreis from Deutsche Schallplattenkritik
* ''Kick It Six'' (2020)
* ''Century'' (2021)

=== Duos ===
* ''In New York'' (1990) with [[Bachir Attar]]
* ''Psycho~Acoustic'' (1994) with [[Zeena Parkins]]
* ''Psycho~Acoustic – Blackburst'' (1996) with [[Zeena Parkins]]
* ''Hoosegow: Mighty'' (1996) with [[Queen Esther (artist)|Queen Esther]]
* ''Improvisations'' (1997) with [[Frances-Marie Uitti]]
* ''Revenge of the Stuttering Child'' (1997) with [[Ronny Someck]]
* ''Poverty Line'' (1997) with [[Ronny Someck]]
* ''Rwong Territory'' (1998) with DJ Soulslinger
* ''High Noon'' (1999) with [[Christian Marclay]]
* ''Anostalgia'' (2002) with Reinhold Friedl
* ''The Prisoner's Dilemma'' (2002) with [[Bobby Previte]]
* ''Tongue'' (2004) with [[John Duncan (artist)|John Duncan]]
* ''Volcanic Island'' (2005) with Yasuhiro Usui
* ''Tranz'' (2006) with [[Merzbow]]
* ''Feuchtify'' (2006) with Reinhold Friedl
* ''Hums 2 Terre'' (2007) with [[Franck Vigroux]]
* ''Duo Milano'' (2007) with [[Nels Cline]]
* ''pi:k'' (2007) with Charlotte Hug
* ''BASE'' (2008) with Antoine Berthaume
* ''Scharfefelder'' (2008) with [[Scott Fields]]
* ''Protoplasmic'' (2009) with Boris Savoldelli
* ''Afiadacampos'' (2010) with [[Scott Fields]]
* ''Reflexions'' (2010) with [[Michiyo Yagi]]
* ''Chansons du crépuscule'' (2017) with [[Helene Breschand]]
* ''Olso'' (2019) with John Andrew Wilhite-Hannisdal
* ''Kumuska'' (2019) with Saadet Türköz
* ''Alluvial Plain'' (2020) with Matthew Evan Taylor
* ''Peregrinations'' (2020) with Frances-Marie Uitti
* ''Duality'' (2022) with Tracie Morris

=== Collaborative groups ===
* ''Semantics – Bone of Contention'' (1987) Elliott Sharp, [[Ned Rothenberg]], [[Samm Bennett]]
* ''Bootstrappers'' (1989) [[George Hurley]], [[Mike Watt]], Elliott Sharp
* ''Bootstrappers – GI=GO'' (1992) Elliott Sharp, Thom Kotik, [[Jan Jakub Kotík|Jan Kotik]]
* ''Downtown Lullaby'' (1998) [[John Zorn]], [[Wayne Horvitz]], Elliott Sharp, [[Bobby Previte]]
* ''[[GTR OBLQ]]'' (1998) [[Vernon Reid]], Elliott Sharp, [[David Torn]]
* ''Beyond'' (2001) [[Joey Baron]], Elliott Sharp, Roberto Zorzi
* ''In the Tank'' (2006) Natsuki Tamura, Elliott Sharp, Takayuki Kato, [[Satoko Fujii]]
* ''TECK String 4tet'' (2007) [[Carlos Zingaro]], Elliott Sharp, [[Ken Filiano]], Tomas Ulrich
* ''Venice, dal vivo'' (2010) Elliott Sharp, [[Joey Baron]], [[Franck Vigroux]], [[Bruno Chevillon]]
* ''Crossing the Waters'' (2013) Elliott Sharp, Melvin Gibbs, {{interlanguage link|Lucas Niggli|de}} (Intakt)<ref name="AM credits">{{cite web |title=Melvin Gibbs {{!}} Credits |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/melvin-gibbs-mn0000415158/credits |website=AllMusic |accessdate=2018-12-12 |language=en-us |archive-date=2018-12-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215230247/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/melvin-gibbs-mn0000415158/credits |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Expressed By The Circumference'' (2019) Elliott Sharp, Álvaro Domene, Michael Caratti
* ''[[Evocation (album)|Evocation]]'' (Infrequent Seams, 2022) with [[Andrew Cyrille]] and [[Richard Teitelbaum]], recorded in 2011

=== As producer ===
* [[John Zorn]]: ''Spy Vs Spy'' ([[Nonesuch Records|Nonesuch]], 1988)
* Mofungo: ''Bugged'' (SST, 1988)
* N.A.D + [[Sonny Sharrock]], [[Denardo Coleman]], [[Henry Kaiser (musician)|Henry Kaiser]], [[Christian Marclay]], [[Fred Frith]]: ''Ghosts'' (Heron, 1989)
* Mofungo: ''Work'' ([[SST Records|SST]], 1989)
* Kazamaki/Laar: ''Return to Street Level'' (Ear-Rational, 1990)
* The Frigg: ''Frigg: Brecht'' ([[Knitting Factory Records|Knitting Factory]], 1999)
* PAK: ''100% Human Hair'' (Ra Sounds,  2007)
* [[Christian Marclay]]: ''[[Graffiti Composition]]'' (Dog W/A Bone, 2010)
* ''Binibon'' (radio play, produced and directed) (Henceforth, 2010)
* ''Hubert Sumlin - New York 95'' (2020)
* ''Los Desinhibidos'' (2022)

=== As a compilation producer ===
* ''Peripheral Vision'' (zOaR, 1982)
* ''State of the Union'' (zOaR, 1992)
* ''Island of Sanity'' ([[No Man's Land (record label)|No Man's Land]], 1987)
* ''Real Estate'' (Ear-Rational, 1990)
* ''State of the Union'' (MuWorks, 1993)
* ''State of the Union'' (Atavistic, 1996)
* ''State of the Union 2.001'' ([[Electronic Music Foundation]], 2001)
* ''Timebomb: Live at the Clocktower Gallery'' ([[MoMA PS1]], 1997)
* ''Secular Steel'' (Gaff Music, 2004)
* ''I Never Met a Guitar'' (Clean Feed, 2010)

=== Recorded film scores and score compilations ===
* ''Figure Ground''  (compilation) (1997)
* ''Suspension of Disbelief '' (compilation) (2001)
* Soundtrack for the film ''Commune'' (2005)
* Soundtrack for the film ''What Sebastian Dreamt'' (2005)
* ''Q-Mix'' (2009)
* ''Spectropia Suite'' (2010) Score to the sci-fi feature film by [[Toni Dove]] performed by the 31 Band, [[Sirius String Quartet]], and special guest [[Debbie Harry]]

== Filmography ==

=== Film appearances ===
* ''Elliott Sharp: Doing the Don't'' (2008 DVD documentary)
* ''The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music'' (2007 DVD)
* ''Elliott Sharp: The Velocity of Hue. Live in Cologne'' (2007 DVD)
* ''April in New York'' with [[Bobby Previte]] (2007 DVD)
* Roulette TV: ''Elliott Sharp''. [[Roulette Intermedium]] Inc. (2000 DVD)
* ''Record Player: Christian Marclay'' (2000 DVD)

=== Music composed for film ===
*''Spectropia'' (2006)
*''[[Commune (documentary)|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)

== Opera and theater ==
*''Innosense'' (1981)
*''Em/Pyre'' (2006)
*''Binibon'' (2009)
*''About Us'' (2010)
*''Port Bou'' (2014)
*''Instant Opera'' (2017) 
*''Filiseti Mekidesi'' (2018)
*''Die Grösste Fuge'' (2021)

== Bibliography ==
*''Morton Subotnick: We Are Who We Invent'' (2023 - [[TapeOp]] Nr. 255)

*''[https://pleasekillme.com/peter-k-siegel/ Peter K. Siegel: Quietly changing American Music]'' (2022 - Please Kill Me).

*''[https://pleasekillme.com/hubert-sumlin-howlin-wolf/ Hubert Sumlin: Howlin' Wolf's Secret Weapon]'' (2022 - Please Kill Me).

*''[https://pleasekillme.com/tim-wright/ Skull Forming: Tim Wright interview by Elliott Sharp]'' (2021 - Please Kill Me).

*''IrRational Music'' (2019 - TerraNova Press): mix of memoir, music theory, and cultural discussion.

*''Epiphanies - Vong Co Guitar''  [[The Wire (magazine)]] December 2018

== Installations ==
*''Chorale'' (2019): 8-channel sound installation at Geoff Stern Art Space, Berlin.

*''Suspension'' (2004): 2-channel installation of video and sound exploring the awareness of momentary stillness in the metropolis. Collaboration with video artist Janene Higgins, for The [[Chelsea Art Museum]], NYC.

*''Fluvial'' (2002): A system for flowing audio to create moving sound currents within the enclosed space of the Engine 27 gallery in NYC, ''Fluvial'' uses randomization, filtering, and feedback as its basic processing elements to make full use of the room's spatialization potential.

*''Chromatine'' (2001): Both musical instrument and sculpture, encouraging visitors to touch the sculpture and cause it to play music.  For the Gallery of the School of [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]].

*''Tag'' (1997): An interactive audio installation created for the ''Departure Lounge'' exhibition at the [[Clocktower Gallery]] of [[MoMA PS1]], New York City.

*''Distressed Vivaldi'' (1996): Soundtrack created for the ''Model Home'' exhibition at the Clocktower Gallery of MoMA PS1, New York City.

== Further reading ==
* [https://newyorkclassicalreview.com/2024/06/one-man-opera-brings-time-traveling-beethoven-into-the-21st-century/ One-man Opera brings Time-traveling Beethoven into the 21st Century] Review, US premiere of ''Die Grösste Fuge'' by David Wright, New York Classical Review (2024)
* [https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/elliott-sharps-inner-ear Elliott Sharp's Inner Ear] Interview in ''Premiere Guitar'' with Bill Murphy (2019)
* [http://www.taz.de/!5012783/ Avantgarde-Musik von Elliott Sharp: Die Vibes Stimmen] Interview with Franziska Buhre in the Berlin publication ''Die Tageszeitung'' (2015)
* [https://www.npr.org/2012/09/22/161539917/elliott-sharp-blues-is-a-feeling Elliott Sharp: Blues is a Feeling] NPR Interview with Jacki Lyden on the program [[All Things Considered]] on [[NPR]] (2012)
*[http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/144998685.html Elliott Sharp's Warped Passage] By Brit Robson, [[Minneapolis Star Tribune]] (2012)
* [http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/2009/01/08/Composer-Elliott-Sharp-s-scientific-approach-is-more-than-a-theory/stories/200901080233 Composer Elliott Sharp's scientific approach is more than a theory] By Manny Theiner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (2012)
* [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703559604576174811378124494?KEYWORDS=elliott+sharp The 'East Village Nosferatu' Haunts Brooklyn] By Steve Dollar, ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' (2011)
* [http://www.guitarplayer.com/artists/1013/elliott-sharp/21187 Interview with Elliott Sharp] in Guitar Player magazine (2007)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080614085635/http://www.bombsite.com/issues/84/articles/2582 Interview with Sharp] by Mike McGonigal, published in [[Bomb (magazine)|Bomb]] magazine (2003)
* [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CEEDE1430F937A25754C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22makes+for+easy+listening%22&st=nyt No One Said He Makes for Easy Listening] by Adam Shatz, New York Times Arts and Leisure, July 2002
* {{NewMusicBox|id=wide-awake-in-alphabet-city|title=Wide Awake in Alphabet City|composer=Elliott Sharp|author=[[Frank J. Oteri]]|conducted=March 22, 2006|published=October 1, 2006}} (includes video)
* [http://metropolis.free-jazz.net/i-dont-put-barriers-up/artist-portraits/3525/ Interview with Sharp] by the Portuguese journalist Rui Eduardo Paes, September 2004

== References ==
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== External links ==
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