Elliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and
performer. 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.