Auxxx: Elliott Sharp + Ashes

Elliot Sharp — a central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over 30 years — ends his recent stay in Berlin with a special one-off concert at ACUD presented by AUXXX. He will be joined onstage by ASHES - a dynamic new Berlin combo who made their debut appearance last year at the legendary Konfrontationen Festival in Nickelsdorf, Austria. The night will feature three sets of kaleidoscopic music: E# solo, ASHES, E# + ASHES, a magical alchemical mix in the true AUXXX tradition!

 
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set 1:
ELLIOTT SHARP [solo guitar]
 
set 2:
ASHES:
STEVE HEATHER [drums]
HILARY JEFFERY [trombone]
JULIA REIDY [guitar]
RICHARD SCOTT [modular synthesizer]
 
set 3:
E# + ASHES
 
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ABOUT
 
ELLIOT SHARP or E# is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer who has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from orchestral music to blues, jazz, noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He leads the projects Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction. His collaborators have included Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; pop singer Debbie Harry; Ensemble Modern; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Kronos String Quartet; Ensemble Resonanz; cello innovator Frances Marie Uitti; blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; pipa virtuoso Min-Xiao Feng; jazz greats Jack deJohnette, Oliver Lake, and Sonny Sharrock; multimedia artists Christian Marclay and Pierre Huyghe; and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians Of Jajouka. Sharp is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2014 Fellow at Parson's Center for Transformative Media. He received the 2015 Berlin Prize in Musical Composition from the American Academy in Berlin. He has composed scores for feature films and documentaries; created sound-design for interstitials on The Sundance Channel, MTV and Bravo networks; and has presented numerous sound installations in art galleries and museums. He is the subject of a new documentary "Doing The Don't" by filmmaker Bert Shapiro. // Homepage
 
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AUXXX: ELLIOTT SHARP + ASHES
Monday, 27 June 2016, ACUD club
Doors: 19H
Admission: TBA
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