Arbor by Elliott Sharp

A collection of arboreal pieces for solo acoustic guitar - wood transformed into a resonator with the help of metal oscillators and digital manipulation: that is, actions performed by digits, fingers on hands. Thematic improvisations around and in the trees - austere and intense. Performed on a Dell Arte Anouman acoustic guitar.

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.