Jeff Morris

Jeff Morris creates musical 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, paranormal electronic voice phenomena, and live coding using algebra and breath-controlled piano. He is launching a new music technology program at Texas A&M University (a Carnegie Tier One Research University and member of the elite Association of American Universities).

He has presented work in the Onassis Cultural Center (Athens), Triennale Museum (Milan), D–22 (Beijing’s avant-garde music scene), the International Society for Contemporary Music’s World New Music Days, the International Symposium on Electronic Art, the International Conference on Computational Creativity, the Network Music Festival, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum (Austin), the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s “Open House Chicago,” the Boston Microtonal Society, and the Network Music Festival.

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). His music is on Ravello Records (distributed internationally and online by Naxos) and can be found on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music.

Writings about his works and their aesthetics have been presented at the International Computer Music Conference, ARTECH (ACM), Electronic Literature Organization conference, Generative Art International Conference, and Computer Art Congress and are published by Leonardo Music Journal, Springer, and IGI Global.