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, Au Printemps, 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. His opera Binibon with libretto by Jack Womack premiered at The Kitchen in 2009. 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.