QUADRATURE: SOLO ELECTROACOUSTIC GUITAR

by Elliott Sharp

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1.	Escape Velocity 09:35	buy track
2.	Angularus 10:28	buy track
3.	Paracentric 13:58	buy track
4.	Lamina 11:41	buy track
5.	Lissajous 09:34	buy track

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"Quadrature is a fascinating set of solo acoustic guitar pieces. It's something of a continuation of similar ideas and techniques released as The Velocity of Hue, but this time out the pieces tend to be much longer, allowing Sharp to explore the techniques more deeply. The guitar was recorded using microphones and a pickup, yielding an extremely detailed recording that really allows all the different harmonics and overtones to be heard clearly. He uses a variety of tapping and slide techniques in addition to just picking and fretting, as well as a myriad of other extended techniques that owe a debt to Derek Bailey. But Sharp's playing sounds almost nothing like Bailey's: Sharp's pieces are quite linear, often with a driving rhythm, but certainly imbued with a sense of structure that is generally lacking in Bailey's more angular pieces. The range of sounds Sharp produces on an acoustic guitar is simply astonishing, and he's got a composer's sense of how and when to use them. There are some amazing tapping passages where you'll swear there's more than one guitar present (there isn't: no overdubs), and listen closely as Sharp adjusts his technique (or is it the mix?) to emphasize the shifting harmonics and overtones over what sounds like the same basic tones. The slide work is also very interesting, with strings ringing into volume swells or producing buzzing sounds with the slide extremely close to the vibrating strings. This is avant-garde, highly experimental music to be sure, but Sharp's ideas are focused and easy to follow, and the strong rhythmic and compositional elements ensure that attention does not wander. Sharp proves that there are still unexplored possibilities on the instrument after hundreds of years (or just shy of a hundred years if you count amplification), but best of all, it's a great listen for the open-eared.
Sean Westergaard - All Music Guide

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released May 14, 2020

All music composed and performed by Elliott Sharp on the modified Godin Duet Multiac guitar (01, 03) and the Turner Renaissance baritone guitar (02, 04). Real-time computer processing on the Godin is used for track 05.

Recorded and mixed at Studio zOaR - NYC - May 2005

All compositions published by zOaR Music - BMI

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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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