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\"For over five decades, Elliott Sharp has been on a quest 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, we share the adrenalin rush of New York's Downtown scene of the '80s and beyond, where--against a backdrop of junkies frozen 'in a perpetual fall' and escaped tarantulas skittering across club floors--Sharp becomes a pivotal figure at the junction of rock and the avant-garde. Moving deftly between the abstractions of Spinoza and fractal geometry and the gritty physicality of guitars, saxophones, silicon hardware, and offbeat instruments of his own devising, Sharp makes music solo and in a dizzying range of aggregations and collaborations with the likes of Cecil Taylor, Nusrat Fateh Ali-Khan, Sonny Sharrock, Hilary Hahn and blues legend Hubert Sumlin. We watch as he dodges fake cowboys' real bullets by the side of a highway near Colby, Kansas; segues from Zen tea to single malt with an elfin John Cage; trades licks with Bedouin sumsumiya players in a goat's-hair tent in the Negev; and looks up from his teenage strumming of 'Gloria' in Manny's Music on 48th Street to find Jimi Hendrix smiling benignly upon him. A mix of tales from the road and sky with thoughts on music, art, politics, technology, and the process of thinking itself, IrRational Music is a glimpse inside the smooth cranium of one of our most exacting, exciting creative artists\"--Back cover.
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Boss jubilant after vital win
Three clinical finishes defeated a side that had won their previous six home games as the Reds atoned for an abject performance against AFC Telford United in midweek. The goals came against the balance of play as the home side applied almost constant pressure, but were stifled by dogged defending, particularly when Dion Charles twice looked likely to score. Platt fired wide from the edge of the area after a partial clearance from a Sam Topliss throw, while at the other end Johansson turned behind a drive from Charles before saving at close range from substitute Dan Cockerline.
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Boss jubilant after vital win
Three clinical finishes defeated a side that had won their previous six home games as the Reds atoned for an abject performance against AFC Telford United in midweek. The goals came against the balance of play as the home side applied almost constant pressure, but were stifled by dogged defending, particularly when Dion Charles twice looked likely to score. Platt fired wide from the edge of the area after a partial clearance from a Sam Topliss throw, while at the other end Johansson turned behind a drive from Charles before saving at close range from substitute Dan Cockerline.
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Boss jubilant after vital win
Three clinical finishes defeated a side that had won their previous six home games as the Reds atoned for an abject performance against AFC Telford United in midweek. The goals came against the balance of play as the home side applied almost constant pressure, but were stifled by dogged defending, particularly when Dion Charles twice looked likely to score. Platt fired wide from the edge of the area after a partial clearance from a Sam Topliss throw, while at the other end Johansson turned behind a drive from Charles before saving at close range from substitute Dan Cockerline.
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Family kidney swap delight
Baby Elliott Sharp was born in July, just months before his dad Darren underwent a life-saving kidney transplant.
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WPS1 - new Web radio for art fans
All this makes perfect sense to the powers that be at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center - the MoMA-affiliated museum in Long Island City. Monday, the institution launches its own Internet radio station, WPS1 (at www.wps1.org). \"Today, when I'm driving in my car I can barely listen to anything on the radio,\" says Brett Littman, managing director, who views WPS1 as a logical outgrowth of the museum's mission. \"We were the first museum to really incorporate the idea of sound into our overall project,\" he continues, referring to sound as another kind of artistic canvas but also to the venue's embrace of DJ music as a way to draw a younger audience. \"But this is also a reaction to what's happening on radio today. I'm hoping we can capture an audience that will want to listen to eclectic programming.\" \"I'm sure some of these programs will have an audience of 10 people, but those 10 people deserve to be served,\" says [Elliott Sharp], who also has a new piece, \"Suspension,\" on display at the Chelsea Art Museum through May 8. Working with longtime collaborator video artist Janene Higgins, the musician creates a sonic backdrop for the concept of stillness within an urban landscape. WPS1 may well offer something opposite: a busy swirl of ideas and attitudes erupting from a vacuum. \"As radio becomes more and more controlled,\" Sharp says, \"this is open territory.\"
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Carbon: A Sound Track for the City
Carbon is no typical art-rock band. Its latest incarnation - which includes electric harpist Zeena Parkins, keyboard sampler David Weinstein, drummer Joseph Trump, and bassist Mark Sloan - often suggests an anti-rock behemoth. [Elliott Sharp] himself plucks, hammers, picks, strums, and otherwise abuses a double-necked \"guitarbass,\" employing extended splay-fingered techniques that contain ideas gleaned from as far afield as African drumming, John Cage's prepared pianos, Jimi Hendrix-inspired feedback, and thumping funk. Carbon's Friday night sets at the Knitting Factory celebrated the band's 10th year of existence, although only Sharp remains from its original lineup. The retrospective reprised work from as early as the first Carbon recording, \"You Think You Know You Don't,\" and introduced a new singer. Where Carbon's 1992 album, \"Datacide,\" consisted entirely of instrumentals, its new music spotlights DD Dorvillier's moody yodeling and Sharp's peculiar singing style, a growling adaptation of Tuvan \"throat singing.\"
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A MOVABLE NOISEFEAST FROM ELLIOTT SHARP
[ELLIOTT SHARP] kicked things off with a way-too-short set with Carbon, which is more a group of like-minded musicians than a fixed band. Like Live Skull and Glenn Branca's guitar ensembles (spawned from the same downtown NYC scene as Sharp), Carbon tosses down swirling layers of dense sound. Unlike those outfits, Carbon mixes traditional rock 'n' roll instruments like guitar, bass and drums with electric harp, sampling keyboard and soprano sax. After the 35-minute set with Carbon, Sharp added singer/violinist Terry Jenoure for \"Deception,\" a six-part composition mixing improvisation, scripted music and Canadian filmmaker Leah Singer's live manipulations of film and slides, projected behind the musicians.
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Vocals and vodka
As on the first two outings, the timbre and meter of [RONNY SOMECK]'s lugubriously intoned poems mesh seamlessly with [ELLIOTT SHARP]'s ceaselessly inventive instrumental complement. However, on the new album, Someck and Sharp go for a more pristine and acoustic sound with Sharp only playing acoustic guitar. Compared with Revenge of the Stuttering Child, on which Someck was backed by a six-piece ensemble, it is a starkly minimalist product. Each of the six poems on A Short History of Vodka is initially recited by the poet, with skeletal instrumental support, and then followed by Sharp's guitar interpretation of the lyrical content. Sharp is a multitalented, multidirectional artist who has participated in numerous avant garde projects with such leading non- mainstream New York musicians as John Zorn and Anthony Coleman.
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Review/Jazz; An Avant-Garde Merger
At their second set, Mr. [Elliott Sharp] and Ms. [Deidre Murray] played four gritty, urban compositions that rarely gave an audience the benefit of more than a glimpse of a melody or a constant rhythm. Even on Ms. Murray's ''Calypso 3,'' an elegiac, soft-spoken composition, an edge appeared that wouldn't let the audience rest. Highly amplified - a listener could hear even the slightest movements of Ms.
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