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Elliott SharpPerformed By Dario Calderone, Gareth Davis, Pepe Garcia, Koen Kaptijn, Rutger Zuydervelt
Foliage
| Label | Moving Furniture Records – MFRC002 |
| Series | Contemporary Series – MFRC002 |
| Format | Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition |
| Barcode | 2090505017670 |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Released | 06 Nov 2020 |
| Genre | Electronic, Jazz, Classical |
| Style | Contemporary, Avant-garde Jazz, Experimental |
| A1 | Foliage I | 9:43 |
| A2 | Foliage II | 1:30 |
| A3 | Foliage III | 5:48 |
| A4 | Foliage IV | 5:06 |
| B1 | Foliage V | 6:28 |
| B2 | Foliage VI | 1:18 |
| B3 | Foliage VII | 6:04 |
| B4 | Foliage VIII | 4:18 |
Bass Clarinet – Gareth Davis
Composed By, Score – Elliott Sharp
Double Bass – Dario Calderone
Lacquer Cut By – Andreas Lubich
Mastered By – Jos Smolders
Percussion – Pepe Garcia
Post Production – Rutger Zuydervelt
Recorded By, Mixed By – Gareth Davis
Sleeve – Rutger Zuydervelt
Trombone – Koen Kaptijn
Composed By, Score – Elliott Sharp
Double Bass – Dario Calderone
Lacquer Cut By – Andreas Lubich
Mastered By – Jos Smolders
Percussion – Pepe Garcia
Post Production – Rutger Zuydervelt
Recorded By, Mixed By – Gareth Davis
Sleeve – Rutger Zuydervelt
Trombone – Koen Kaptijn
Limited edition of 285 copies.
Foliage by Elliott Sharp is a long-form graphic music score that offers abstract instructions allowing for infinite possible interpretations by performing musicians.
Featuring a series of 80 risograph prints, Foliage is, in Sharp’s words, “a graphic score open to interpretation and realization by any instrumentalist or ensemble of any size… [it is a piece of retinal art as much as it is an instruction set for sound, form and function interlocked.” Graphic notation, which evolved during the post-1945 avant-garde, experimental music scene, falls outside the realm of traditional music notation; it is the representation of music through the use of visual symbols. Foliage exists at the intersection of musical composition, art installation and performance – Sharp’s score is brought to life by the distinct singular interpretation of each musician who performs it.
A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has worked intermittently with graphic notation since 1972 but began to immerse himself in the medium again a decade ago. Analogous to his use of audio editing software during live performances to modulate and distort sound, Sharp’s technique in creating Foliage was to use graphics editing software to process musical notion (that he himself composed) to distort, layer, invert, blur and ultimately explode traditionally written sheet music, in turn creating visual works of art.
Foliage by Elliott Sharp is a long-form graphic music score that offers abstract instructions allowing for infinite possible interpretations by performing musicians.
Featuring a series of 80 risograph prints, Foliage is, in Sharp’s words, “a graphic score open to interpretation and realization by any instrumentalist or ensemble of any size… [it is a piece of retinal art as much as it is an instruction set for sound, form and function interlocked.” Graphic notation, which evolved during the post-1945 avant-garde, experimental music scene, falls outside the realm of traditional music notation; it is the representation of music through the use of visual symbols. Foliage exists at the intersection of musical composition, art installation and performance – Sharp’s score is brought to life by the distinct singular interpretation of each musician who performs it.
A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City since the late 1970s, Sharp has worked intermittently with graphic notation since 1972 but began to immerse himself in the medium again a decade ago. Analogous to his use of audio editing software during live performances to modulate and distort sound, Sharp’s technique in creating Foliage was to use graphics editing software to process musical notion (that he himself composed) to distort, layer, invert, blur and ultimately explode traditionally written sheet music, in turn creating visual works of art.