Elliott Sharp

Elliott Sharp is a composer and instrumentalist whose work runs the gamut from experimental and contemporary classical pieces to blues, noise rock, and electronic music. A major figure in New York City's avant-garde community since the '70s, the bulk (over 100 albums among his various projects) and diversity of Sharp's recorded catalog defy concise description, but as a composer and instrumentalist, he is unconcerned with conventional melody and instead values dynamics and atmospheres. He uses sounds both ambient and dissonant, organic and electronic, to create tonal landscape...