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Jeff Morris

I love music that makes you go, "What the…?" !

About Me

Jeff Morris creates experiences that engage audiences’ minds with their surroundings. 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, 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 International Symposium on Electronic Art (Vancouver, Canada), the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum (Austin), and the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s “Open House Chicago.”

His work has won awards in the Concours de Bourges (France), Viseu Rural (Portugal), “Music in Architecture” International Competition (Austin), the Un“Cage”d Toy Piano Competition (NYC), and the “Radio Killed the Video Star” Competition (NYC). He has two albums of live sampling improvisations forthcoming from PARMA Recordings (distributed internationally and online via Naxos).

Writings about his works and their aesthetics have been presented at the International Computer Music Conference, Generative Art International Conference, and Computer Art Congress and are published by Leonardo Music Journal, Springer, and IGI Global.

He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies, and created the Performance Technology (PerfTech) program at Texas A&M University (a Carnegie Tier One Research University and member of the elite Association of American Universities) and created the Fresh Minds Festival of audiovisual art from all over the world.

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My Jazz Story

I met Butch Morris (no relation) after growing up in his legacy for ten years. I auditioned (by accident!) for an avant garde ensemble that had just recorded an album with Butch (Conduction #41 New World, New World). I learned the techniques and concepts he had taught the ensemble, and it inspired my work ever since. Ten years later, I got to work with Butch in an artist residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

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