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E#@60: Elliott Sharp & Friends at ISSUE Project Room
Saturday, March 5, 2011 - 5:00pm - Sunday, March 6, 2011 - 12:30am
232 3rd St Brooklyn, NY
Admission: $35 / FREE for members
Elliott Sharp’s 60th birthday celebration continues with a collection of his long-time friends and collaborators performing his music at ISSUE’s current space at the Old American Can Factory. Among Sharp’s works to be performed are Flexagons (Orchestra Carbon), Octal (Elliott Sharp solo), Oligosono (Jenny Lin, piano), Bootstrappers (JG Thirwell, Anthony Coleman, Melvin Gibbs, Don McKenzie, & Sharp), Amygdala (Marco Cappelli, guitar), and an all-guitar version of Sharp’s SyndaKit. The celebration begins at 5:00 with an open Flexagons rehearsal and continues until late.
This is the second night of a celebration of Elliott Sharp, E#@60, which begins March 4 at 110 Livingston with the premiere of Elliott’s new work for double string quartet, Occam’s Razor. Join us to celebrate our friend and supporter at this special event.
The evening begins at 5 pm and continues until 12:30 am:
5-7 pm: Flexagons, a new composition by Elliott Sharp performed by his Orchestra Carbon and conducted by Butch Morris: Open rehearsal and discussion. [feat. CJM]
7:30-8:30 pm: screening of Bert Shapiro’s documentary on Sharp’s work “Doing The Don’t.”
8:30-8:50 pm: Elliott Sharp solo: excerpts from Octal for 8-string guitarbass (20′)
9:00-9:50 pm: Flexagons performance (45′)
with Curtis Fowlkes-trombone, Chris McIntyre-trombone, Jenny Lin-piano, Danny Tunick-percussion, vibraphone, Kevin Ray-bass, Reuben Radding-bass, Judith Insell-viola, Rachel Golub – violin, Ha-Yang Kim-cello, Briggan Krauss – alto sax, Oscar Noriega – reeds, E#-guitar, reeds
10:00-10:30 pm: Oligosono by Sharp: piano solo performed by Jenny Lin (20′)
10:40-11:20 pm: Bootstrappers: JG Thirwell-electronics, Anthony Coleman-piano, Melvin Gibbs-bass, Don McKenzie-drums, E#-guitar (30′)
11:30-11:45 pm: Amygdala by Sharp: guitar solo performed by Marco Cappelli (15′)
12:00-12:30 am: All-Guitar SyndaKit (30′) with Ben Tyree, Marco Cappelli, Angela Babin, Marc Sloan, Ron Anderson, Zach Layton, Dave Scanlon, Debra DeSalvo, James Ilgenfritz, Anders Nilsson