Feedback: Translations from the IrRational - Hardcover

Sharp, Elliott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819502049 ISBN 13: 9780819502049

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Wide-ranging discussion of culture, consciousness, and music from a unique artist's perspective

Feedback is a wide-ranging meditation on music, sound, artificial intelligence, consciousness, contemporary culture and politics, and the life of the touring musician. Author Elliott Sharp is considered one of the central figures in NYC's Downtown Scene and is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist, and educator. Starting from a background in the sciences, Sharp found his passion for music as a teen, and it has never abated. His philosophy is informed not just by music and its creation but by continuing studies in physics and genetics and a visceral interest in our modern world and its joys and horrors. In Feedback, Sharp engages in speculative thought about how consciousness might have arisen and what the future holds for humanity with the advent of an Artificial Intelligence that is certainly artificial but might not exactly be intelligent. The "Improviser's Mind" is discussed in the context of post-quantum physics, probability, socio-acoustics, and Butoh dance. Sharp loves to digress into unpredictable areas but ties it all together in an overarching narrative that is both personal and conceptual.

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About the Author

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 40 years, Sharp has released myriad recordings and he is the author of IrRational Music (2018).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819502049
• ISBN 13: 9780819502049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252