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A Clockwork Gtr

by Elliott Sharp

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In 1994, turntablist, sculptor, and video artist Christian Marclay built 12 wind-up music boxes into a lacquered acoustic guitar with nylon strings to create the Wind-Up Guitar. The guitar may be played conventionally though it is better thought of as a resonating chamber with various modes of excitation. Sharp performed with it in January 1995 at a museum in Miami where Christian's work was being shown. Using a piezo pickup and a variety of objects and effects boxes including a looping delay, E# was quite taken with its potential. Soon after returning to NYC, Christian brought the instrument to Studio zOaR where A Clockwork Gtr was recorded. A number of gestures were prepared in advance as well as an effects chain devised to further extrapolations building on the sounds produced in the initial explorations. The effects as well as a condensor microphone to pick up the acoustic sound were all routed directly into a DA88 digital multitrack recorder and the results mixed to stereo. The piece as presented here exists as it was recorded: one take, no edits, no overdubs.

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released October 2, 2020

Recorded and mixed at Studio zOaR, NYC, March 1995.

Photos by Janene Higgins.

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Elliott Sharp New York, New York

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. ... more

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