Elliott Sharp Workshop: Composition & Performance at Shift 411

Elliott Sharp Workshop:

CURRENT STRATEGIES
FOR COMPOSITION & PERFORMANCE

For any instruments, voice, movement

Saturday, April 22nd 2pm - 5pm
at SHIFT - 411 Kent Ave, Brooklyn

In this 3-hour in-person workshop, the participants will discuss and develop new strategies for creation and performance. These operations have been central to the innovations pioneered by New York-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp over four decades.

Tuition: $40

Tickets:

https://withfriends.co/event/15973165/elliott_sharp_workshop?fbclid=IwAR2gqkBaEB1TshJIdS-vlI5nooND7jR6y4G7AnyzCIoQ2bTfglUADTqRSg4#%E2%AD%90

Included in the workshop will be:

1. Natural Models As Compositional Inspiration and Strategy: Starting with E#’s 1974 'Hudson River Compositions,' fireflies and flocking birds, RNA replication, Fibonacci numbers, fractals, and cellular automata and other natural forms and processes all present useful models for structure and development.

2. Algorithmic and Self-Organizing Systems: Examination and playing Sharp's composition 'SyndaKit' : music as organism and music as permutational.

3. New approaches to Graphic Notation: 'Foliage', 'Mare Undarum', 'Sylva Sylvarum' and 'ReGenerate' represent a synesthetic approach based on processing the score itself through modulation, filtering, layering and inverting to create work that is both a score and guide to sonic pathways as well as purely retinal.