LIVE Concert
Monday, November 11th at 8:00 pm
Elliott Sharp & Kriton Beyer
Elliott Sharp (saxophone, bass clarinet) & Kriton Beyer (daxophone)
On Monday, November 11th, Elliott Sharp and Kriton Beyer engage in a unique musical dialogue at the Zürcher Gallery. In spite of the obvious differences of the instruments they play, both Elliott Sharp’s reed instruments, and Kriton Beyer’s still somewhat obscure daxophone, share a voice-like quality that makes their exchange alluring. As partners in performance, these two voices engage in inventive textural yet melodic improvisations, seamlessly entwine, dance and squirm, counterpoint and support, or clash and burn.
Tickets can be purchased at the door.
Admission is $20. (CASH ONLY)
All proceeds go to the artists.
At Zürcher Gallery, 33 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012
Elliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.
A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Elliott Sharp 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 the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, pop singer Debbie Harry, Ensemble Modern, Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Kronos 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.
http://www.elliottsharp.com/
Kriton Beyer is a Greek-German musician and composer, who – as a performer and improviser – mainly works with the harmonium and the daxophone. He studied musicology in Greece where he collaborated with a variety of local music groups as well as musicians like Sakis Papadimitriou and Floros Floridis.
In 2004 he moved to Berlin, where he got heavily involved in the improvised music scene of the city.
Since then he has worked with many musicians like Phil Minton, Audrey Chen, Steve Noble, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Axel Dörner, Liz Kosack, Kresten Osgood, Tristan Honsinger, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Tomomi Adachi, Richard Scott, Willi Kellers, Matthias Bauer, Antonis Anissegos, Olaf Rupp, Alexei Borisov, Els Vandeweyer, Harri Sjöström, Nicola Hein and Liz Allbee, dancers like Yuko Kaseki in interdisciplinary performance projects like “enLIGHTenment” and “transference” and visual artists like Akiko Nakayama. Kriton Beyer founded the “Fragmentation Orchestra“, is a member of the electroacoustic trio “uproot” and the ensembles “Redox Reaction” and FDBK EXPT.
In his work with the harmonium, Kriton Beyer uses both the natural sound of his instrument and “traditional” playing techniques as well as preparations, objects and extended techniques, while his daxophone play is characterized by a very personal musical and sonic aesthetic, and an unconventional technique, also supported by the subtle use of electronics. As an improvising musician, he has performed throughout Europe. His compositions are usually characterized by conceptualism.
Kriton Beyer has also conceived and commissioned the music software CinePrompt®, which was specially developed for the use for live musical performance and live recording to films.
Kriton Beyer also curates and manages the concert series and record label “The Procrustean Bed”, dedicated to Experimental & Improvised Music.
Photo of Kriton Beyer by Cristina Marx (photomusix)