SysOrk: ReGenerate by Elliott Sharp

To observe his 70th year, Elliott Sharp presented concerts and recordings under the rubrik E#@70. The initial concert in this series took place at Roulette in Brooklyn on Mar. 4, 2021 and featured the world premiere of four new works created for this event and performed by E#'s open-ended ensemble SysOrk. SysOrk is dedicated to performing Sharp's algorithmic scores, graphic notation, and conductions.  The group's personnel is situational with the first version realized in Tokyo in 2012 with other manifestations in Nagoya, Padua, Berlin, Hamburg, and NYC.

The pieces premiered at this concert and presented in this recording include two algorithmic scores for the ensemble: Feedback 21 and Viridia; Oksusgenos, a solo for bass clarinet and electronics performed by E#; and a long-form animated graphic score in the form of a movie: ReGenerate.

Though not represented on this recording, the concert also included Over Water, a video work by Janene Higgins from 2019 with live score by Sharp on guitar and electronics that will be released as a DVD.

Physical CD to be available mid-December 2021.

Elliott Sharp: composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, author, leads Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics and Terraplane with compositional strategies including fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors as well as new techniques for graphic notation to yield work that catalyzes a synesthetic approach to musicmaking as well as functioning as retinal art.