Elliott Sharp

A composer and multi-instrumentalist who became a central figure in New York's downtown avant-garde and experimental music scene from the late 1970s onward, releasing more than eighty-five recordings that range from free improvisation and no wave to orchestral and electronic composition. He pioneered using personal computers in live performance with his 1980s Virtual Stance project and drew on algorithms and Fibonacci sequences in his compositions well before such techniques became common in experimental music.