ArtistInfo

Jeff Morris

sampler,
Electronic and Jazz

Jeff Morris creates experiences that pop audiences' minds out of the ordinary, to realize new things about the sounds, technology, and culture around them. His performances, installations, lectures, and writings appear in international venues known for cutting-edge arts and deep questions in the arts. He has won awards for making art emerge from unusual situations: music tailored to architecture and cityscapes, performance art for the radio, and serious concert music for toy piano, slide whistle, robot, Sudoku puzzles, and paranormal electronic voice phenomena. He has presented work in the Onassis Cultural Center (Athens), Triennale Museum (Milan), D-22 (Beijing's avant-garde music scene), the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum (Austin), the Chicago Architecture Foundation's "Open House Chicago", and the Boston Microtonal Society and won awards in the Concours de Bourges (France), Viseu Rural 2.0 (Portugal), "Music in Architecture" International Competition (Austin), the Un"Cage"d Toy Piano Competition (NYC), and the "Radio Killed the Video Star" Competition (NYC). Jeff's writings exploring the aesthetic questions raised by his music have appeared at the International Symposium on Electronic Art, International Computer Music Conference, Generative Art International Conference, and Computer Art Congress, as well as in publications by Leonardo Music Journal, Springer, and IGI Global.

Genres

• Electronic
• Jazz