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Project Website: http://slought.org/content/11191/
Elliott Sharp and Janene Higgins perform duets of video and sound that balance the structure of composition with the immediacy of improvisation. Three sources of video are mixed live by Higgins to the textures and rhythms of Sharp's electro-acoustic guitar, bass clarinet, and computer processing.
Composer/ multi-instrumentalist/ producer Elliott Sharp has studied with Roswell Rudd and Morton Feldman. Beginning in the 1980s, Sharp has become a major figure in the New York experimental scene, collaborating with qawaali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, playwright Dael Orlandersmith, cello innovator Frances-Marie Uitti, sci-fi writers Jack Womack and Lucius Shepard, blues legend Hubert Sumlin, jazz greats Sonny Sharrock, Jack
deJohnette, and Oliver Lake, turntablists DJ Soulslinger and Christian Marclay, and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians of Jahjoukah. His compositions have been performed by the Symphony of the Hessischer Rundfunk, Ensemble Modern, Continuum, Kronos Quartet, and Zeitkratzer.
His orchestra piece "Calling" was commissioned by the Hessischer Rundfunk to open the 2002 Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik and won the German Critics' Prize.
He has recently completed the score to the feature-film Lo Que Soņo Sebastien by Guatemalan writer and director Rodrigo Rey-Rosa featured at both Sundance and Berlin Film Festival in January 2004. Sharp was also composer and music director for the Al-Mashreq All-Stars, a collaborative project with various Arab and American musicians at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival in July 2002. His piece "Quarks Swim Free" performed by his group Carbon was premiered at the Venice
Biennale in September 2003. Current projects include Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane.
Installations include:
Fluvial, computerized audiowork commissioned by Engine 27 gallery, June '02.
Chromatine, an interactive string sculpture/audiowork created for the Gallery of the School of Museum Of Fine Art, Boston, January 2001.
Cryptid Fragments, included in the Bitstreams show at the Whitney Museum, 2001.
Sound design, music for Timetable, interactive installation by Perry Hoberman, July 1999. Grand Prize at Tokyo NTT ICC Bienalle, 1999.
Soundtrack for Sequences by sculptor Antoine Laval, December, 1997
Soundtrack for Prey, a video installation by Janene Higgins, May 1997
Tag, an interactive audiowork for "Departure Lounge" at Clocktower Gallery, March 1997
Distressed Vivaldi, for "Model Home" at Clocktower Gallery, Oct, 1996
Janene Higgins' videos and digital media have been presented
internationally at numerous festivals and galleries, such as the Tampere
Film Festival, Media City (Ontario), Sydney Film Festival, Art Institute of
Chicago, Barcelona Festival of Independent Video, Impakt Festival
(Netherlands), New York Underground Film Festival, and the Hamburg International Short Film Festival. Using laptop, mixers, tapes, and camera, she developed a technique for live video performance, and has collaborated with many of New York's pre-eminent composers and improvisors of new music,
including duos with Elliott Sharp, Alan Licht, Ikue Mori, Okkyung Lee, and Zeena Parkins. Her first full-length piece with Parkins, "Artificial Eye", was presented at Documenta X; their piece "Arch", taped for the Roulette TV program, was chosen to be exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, in their exhibition "New York, New Sounds, New Spaces". Higgins has performed extensively in Europe and the US. She is a frequent artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center, and is a recent recipient of their Electronic Arts grant.
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of ars nova workshop
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