Sharp describes himself as a lifelong ", Saxophone and Bass Clarinet ) and with a number of Ensemble s he has formed over the years, including the Blues -oriented Terraplane and Orchestra Carbon . He releases music under his own label (zOaR music) as well as Punk label SST and Downtown music labels such as Knitting Factory records and John Zorn 's Tzadik label.
He has collaborated regularly with many people, including Zeena Parkins , Eric Mingus , Vernon Reid , Bobby Previte , Joey Baron , and David Torn .
Sharp 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 Roswell Rudd ; and physics and electronics with Burton Brody . In 1977 he received an M.A. from the University At Buffalo , where he studied composition with Morton Feldman and Lejaren Hiller , and ethnomusicology with Charles Keil .
He also curates the State Of The Union compilations of one-minute tracks by experimental musicians, and produces records for numerous artists.
Sharp lives in lower Manhattan with designer/video artist Janene Higgins and their two children.
- ''Nots'' (1982)
- ''Monster Curve'' (1982)
- ''Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup'' (1987)
- ''In The Land of the Yahoos'' (1987)
- ''Island of Sanity'' (1987)
- ''Semantics - Bone of Contention'' (1987)
- ''Looppool'' (1988)
- ''Bootstrappers'' (1989)
- ''Datacide'' (1989)
- ''Sili/contemp/tation'' (1990)
- ''Arc 1: I/S/M'' (1990)
- ''K!L!A!V!'' (1990)
- ''Twistmap'' (1991)
- ''Tocsin'' (1991)
- ''Abstract Repressionism: 1990-99'' (1992)
- ''Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Yahoos'' (1992)
- ''Westwerk'' (1992)
- ''Bootstrappers - GI=GO'' (1992)
- ''Cryptid Fragments'' (1993)
- ''Truthtable'' (1993)
- ''Autoboot'' (1994)
- ''Amusia'' (1994)
- ''Dyners Club'' (1994)
- ''Terraplane'' (1994)
- ''Psycho~Acoustic'' (1994)
- ''Interference'' (1995)
- ''Tectonics'' (1995)
- ''Boodlers'' (1995)
- ''Sferics'' (1996)
- ''Blackburst'' (1996)
- ''XenocodeX'' (1996)
- ''Hoosegow - Mighty'' (1996)
- ''Spring & Neap'' (1997)
- ''Tectonics - Field and Stream'' (1997)
- ''Figure Ground'' (1997)
- ''Boodlers - Counter fit'' (1997)
- ''Uitti & Sharp - Improvisations'' (1997)
- ''Revenge of the stuttering child'' (1997)
- ''Poverty line'' (1997)
- ''Rwong Territory'' (1998)
- ''Arc 2: The Seventies'' (1998)
- ''Arc 3: Cyberpunk & the Virtual Stance'' (1998)
- ''Larynx'' (1998)
- ''Rheo~Umbra'' (1998)
- ''John Zorn, Wayne Horvitz, Elliott Sharp, Bobby Previte - Downtown Lullaby'' (1998)
- '' Vernon Reid , Elliott Sharp, David Torn - GTR OBLQ'' (1998)
- ''Tectonics - Errata'' (1999)
- ''High Noon'' (1999)
- ''SyndaKit'' (1999)
- ''Terraplane - Blues for Next'' (2000)
- ''Autar'' (2000)
- ''Joey Baron, Elliott Sharp, Roberto Zorzi -Beyond'' (2001)
- ''Suspension of Disbelief'' (2001)
- ''Radiolaria'' (2001)
- ''Terraplane - Yellowman'' (2002)
- ''String Quartets 1986-1996'' (2003)
- ''Terraplane - Do the don't'' (2003)
- ''The Prisoner's Dilemma'' (2002)
- ''Elliott Sharp / Merzbow - Tranz'' (2006)
- ''Duo Milano'' (2007)
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