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 UnCaged Toy Piano Competition (NYC), and the Radio Killed the Video Star Competition (NYC). His CD albums are on the Ravello Recordings label (distributed internationally and online via Naxos).
Writings about his works and their aesthetics have been presented at the International Computer Music Conference, International Symposium on Electronic Art, 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.
- D.M.A in Composition, University of North Texas - (Denton, Texas, United States) 2007
- M.M. in Composition, Florida State University - (Tallahassee, Florida, United States) 2000
- B.A. in Music, Florida State University - (Tallahassee, Florida, United States) 1998
Academic Articles4
- Casey, A., & Morris, J. M. (2012). Fostering a Culture of Creative Interdisciplinary Innovation at Texas A&M University. 2(1), 10-23.
- Morris, J. (2008). Embracing a Mediat[is]ed Modernity: An Approach to Exploring Humanity in Posthuman Music. Performance Paradigm. 4(Emergences: 21st-Century Performance),
- Morris, J. M. (2008). Structure in the Dimension of Liveness and Mediation. Leonardo Music Journal. 18, 59-61.
Chapters2
- Morris, J. M (2015). Preparing Students to Engage the Arts in the 21st Century. Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts. 188-204. IGI Global.
- Morris, J. M. (2011). Humanness, Elevated Through its Disappearance. Metaplasticity in Virtual Worlds. 102-120. IGI Global.
Conference Papers10
- Morris, J. M. (2021). On the Electrodynamics of Working Bodies. 10th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts. 1-2.
- Morris, J. M. (2021). Weblogmusic Taking the Mediatized Stage. 10th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts. 1-6.
- Morris, J. (2018). The Persistence of Elusion: Hard and Soft Dances. Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Computation Communication Aesthetics & X, Conference on Computation Communication Aesthetics & X. 241-244.
- Morris, J. (2015). Weblogmusic: A Performance Platform for Ensembles of Individually Time-Shifted Improvisers. Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art, International Symposium on Electronic Art.
- Morris, J. (2014). Ferin Martino: A Small Piano Algorithm and Its Lessons on Creativity, Interaction, and Expression. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 40-44.
Repository Documents / Preprints1
- Earhart, A., Ives, M., Burkart, P., Ezell, M., Harner, J., Ramasubramanian, S., ... Vedlitz, A. (2009). Texas Center for Digital Humanities and New Media.
Principal Investigator1
- Acousmatic Category conferred by Foundation Destellos - (Mar del Plata, Argentina) - Pre-Finalist 2018
- Viseu Rural 2.0 - Sonic Explorations of a Rural Archive conferred by Binaural - Associacao Cultural de Nodar - (Portugal) - Second Prize 2016
- International Composition Contest for Acoustic Instrument and electroacoustic device Sampo conferred by Musinfo Association - (Bourges, France) - Second Prize 2016
- The American Prize in Compositionâ€â€Chamber Music conferred by Hat City Music Theater, Inc. - (Danbury, Connecticut, United States) - Semi-Finalist 2015
- MSTC101 Intro To Performance Tech Instructor
- MSTC221 Fixed Media Composition Instructor
- MSTC341 Programming For Composers Instructor
- MUSC228 Hist Of Electronic Music Instructor
- MUSC316 Music And Technology Instructor