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Daniel Sharp (b. 1994, Grand Rapids, MI) is a Detroit-based artist, musician, writer, and interdisciplinary organizer. The majority of their work deals with deterioration, social patterns, public policy, and land.

Videos
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Social practice
Photographs
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Sounds
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“You don’t hear as much about them as other dashes, but you’ve most likely seen them around. Endashes (–) can denote a range or connect the endpoints of a route. They can also show a contrast or connection between two words. You can use them to replace the words to, and, or versus. An endash is longer than a hyphen (–) and shorter than an emdash (—). It usually appears directly between the numbers or words it’s connecting, without spaces.” -Dictionary.com

I make music under the moniker Endash. My music explores loss, landscape, memory, science fiction, ambient, and techno.




Come Home (2019)

My first full-length record that solidifies my style of combining sharp and technical percussion, atmospheric synths, and spoken word from my life and the visual art world. It captures my thoughts on moving from Michigan to New York, finding work, making friends, getting dumped, then coming back to what kept me grounded all along. It is about coming home to myself—and letting others know they can also come home to me. The music video is here.




Cyclical Tendencies, or Round and Around (2017)


My third release is a six-track exploration of rhythms outside of house and techno's traditional 4-4 time signature. An array of 5-4 melodies, 7-16 hi hats, 6-4 bass lines, and 3-4 triplet synths are layered over standard or non-standard rhythms. Some songs lack any pattern at all. The result is something cyclical: moments of alignment and clarity lead to dissolving and chaos as sounds rotate on their own time. The work ultimately aims a critique at contemporary house and techno's assumptive reliance on the 4-4 time signature, expected drops, and monotony. It is algorithmic and technical. It channels the summertime.





Damp (2015)


Damp is my sophomore EP. Exploring darker, earthier, and angrier territory than its self-titled predecessor, Damp negotiates the line between natural and unnatural in an electronic environment. It was made directly after two men dumped me in order to get back with their exes. It is about what being “Option B” feels like. It channels the spring.





Tether (2014)
This is my first release as Endash. Four tracks. The start of a journey. It channels the winter.