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Interfaces: Jazz Meets Electronics
Jeff Morris
Label: Ravello Records
Released: 2018
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Tracks
Upzy; A Solo is the nth Melody; In Which; Rondo; Into; Three at One; Unwind; Clocksays; Inderneath; Dot (dot dot)
Personnel
Additional Personnel / Information
Karl Berger: vibraphone; Joe Hertenstein: stone table percussion.
Album Description
INTERFACES explores the different ways a computer can fit in a modern jazz ensemble and still be true to itself.
Technology performer Jeff Morris is joined by free jazz icon Karl Berger on vibes and piano as well as innovative New
York percussionist Joe Hertenstein. Morris takes sounds from his partners live in the moment and transforms them
into his own musical voice with the DNA of acoustic sounds and the fingerprints of digital processing.
This live sampling improvisation results in expressively shifting quasi-loops and glitchy melodic gestures, drawn
from music that just happened and influencing what the performers will do next. Call it a twenty-first century version
of imitative counterpoint, as in J. S. Bach’s classic fugues.
Taking inspiration from, among others, free jazz legend Ornette Coleman and Brian Eno’s early rebellious sound,
Morris builds different digital instruments and interactive environments to produce unique encounters with the jazz
world. He uses every stutter, glitch, and clash as a chance to discover new kinds of beauty. The native voice of the
technology sings freely instead of pretending to be other instruments or remixing classic recordings.
At times, INTERFACES can feel like an aural puzzle that challenges the mind as much as the ear. But if you’re up for a
sonic adventure, you will find musical moments that are nothing short of revolutionary.
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