ANTS RECORDS

“Spillá” (meaning "to play" in the secret language of the

Neapolitan musicians) is a meeting between two masters of

the guitar: Elliott Sharp's continuous innovation meet Sergio

Sorrentino’s mastery of interpretation.

Recorded live in 2018 in Vercelli (Italy) here we have the

surprising and effervescent rendition of two Sharp’s graphic

scores: "Hudson River Nr. 6" (1974) is an early experiment and

is part of a series of scores derived from topographical maps

superimposed to musical staff and then manipulated by the

author.

"Liquidity" is part of a latter approach (2011) working on

fragments of pre-existent musical notations heavily

manipulated at the computer by Sharp.

Both the scores deals with visual art as well as contemporary

music, and are conceived to give to the performers (better,

interpreters), the broader informations to "walk-in" the

scores (following conceptual images and/or "sonorous"

instructions).

The rest of the disc is comprised of two long improvisations

where Sharp and Sorrentino takes the occasion to use the

most varied (and "extended") guitar techniques, spanning all

the range of contemporary "guitarism".

All the pieces are World Premiere Recordings.

The CD Cover image is a modified detail of the score of

"Hudson River Nr. 6".

A text by Elliot Sharp focusing on Graphic Notation is

included in the four pages booklet.

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 for over 30 years, 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.

Sergio Sorrentino is considered one of the most important

contemporary international guitarists. As a performer he

promotes the classical guitar and electric guitar

contemporary repertory. As a composer and improviser his

music is based on sonic research and combines elements of

contemporary classical music, minimalism, avant-garde,

ambient, experimental.

His CD Dream - American Music for Electric Guitar (Mode

Records) contains works for electric guitar by American

composers as John Cage, David Lang, Elliott Sharp, Alvin

Curran, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff. "Dream" was

reviewed and highlighted in the New York Times as one of the

"Week’s Best Classical Music Moments”. He played and

recorded with new music champions as Gavin Bryars, and

worked with composers as Sylvano Bussotti, Giorgio Battistelli,

Steve Mackey and many others.

track list

1) Hudson River Nr. 6 11:56

2) Allerosa 16:19

3) Liquidity 9:06

4) Bitkorn 10:11

released 19/09/2019