LIVE PERFORMANCE AND STREAMCAST
On Tuesday, January 24th, the Clocktower Gallery presented composer/producer Elliott Sharp's Beneath The Valley Of Gwangi, as part of the Spring 2012 Canyon Candy performance program. Sharp performed a live country/sci-fi score to the cowboys-meets-dinosaurs epic "The Valley Of Gwangi", a masterpiece of Ray Harryhausen animation - his final claymation work and Sharp's own favorite. The piece was introduced by author Jack Womack.
This event was streamed live on our website and can now be found in our Radio Archive on ARTonAIR.org.
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Elliott Sharp leads Carbon, Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered the use of fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetics in musical composition. His work has been featured in the Venice Biennale, Donaueschingen, and Darmstadt festivals and his sci-fi opera for all-teenage performers, About Us, was commissioned by the Bayerische Staatsoper and premiered in Munich in 2010. Sharp's collaborators have included the Ensemble Modern, JACK Quartet, Debbie Harry, Sonny Sharrock, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples, Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt, and conceptual artists Christian Marclay and Pierre Huyghe. A documentary about Sharp's work, Doing The Don't, by Bert Shapiro has been recently released and screened in international festivals.
Jack Womack is an American author of fiction and speculative fiction. Jack moved to New York City in 1977 where he lives with his wife and daughter. His books include of Random Acts of Senseless Violence (1993), Heathern (1990), Ambient (1987), Terraplane (1988), Elvissey (1993, Going, Going, Gone (2000), Let's Put the Future Behind Us (1996), Lying to Children (2004) and the libretto for Elliott Sharp's opera Binibon (2005).
"Womack's fiction may be determinedly non-cyber, but, with its commitment to using Science Fiction as a vehicle for social critique, it definitely has a punky edge. William Gibson once said that he thought he was more interested in basic economics and politics than the average blue sky SF writer. That counts double for Womack, whose fiction is packed with grimly amusing social satire and powerful little allegories exploring urban breakdown, class war and racial tensions." -- Jim McClellan
This program was made possible in part with the generous support of the Jerome Foundation.
