American, New York-based polymath Elliott Sharp is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and author, the bandleader of the Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics and Terraplane with compositional strategies that borrow themes from fractal geometry, chaos theory and genetic metaphors as well as new techniques for graphic notation. And, now, with the experience of a composer and improviser for over fifty years, he experiments with the mandolin family of instruments. We have two new album titled Mandorle and Mandocello.
The modern mandolin as well as its kindred lutes – barbut, oud and pandora – were brought to Iberia by the Moors in the 7th Century and had an almond shape (mandorle means almond in Italian). The roots
