Jeff Morris
At this year’s TAMU Music Faculty Recital, I performed a live sampling improvisation with tenor saxophonist Jayson Beaster-Jones using the Motet and Elektrodynamik environments.
Performance at TAMU Faculty Recital 9/25/2012…
6/28–6/29/2012 at the Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin , TX (ticketed…)
Choreographers Christine Bergeron and Carisa Armstrong worked with me to create a set of four brief pieces, each one minute long, on the central theme “Deck:” Deck of Cards, Decked
As part of our respective research programs, TAMU Dance professors Bergeron and Armstrong and I won a Collaboration Grant from the IDHMC in support of developing feasible approaches to incorporating live media in contemporary dance performance.
While dance is an art form …
While dance is an art form …
Hands on?
You’ll need:
- My hands-on files
- Audacity (Linux, Mac, or Windows)
- Max (free Runtime version)
Sound basics
- Sound is motion…moving back and forth…vibration…patterns of vibration, really.
- Waveforms, timbre
- Limits of hearing pitch
- Sample
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…This work explores the technology of the horn. Since it is a mature acoustic instrument, we tend to overlook the artificial structures it imposes on the way we think about making music with it. Also, musical conventions lead horn players to struggle
We had some fun with the sound design for the TAMU mainstage production of Prelude to a Kiss… directed by Anne Quackenbush. In addition to using music from TAMU alumni band The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (some of which
…This composition was invited for a compilation CD on the theme of steampunk, an art movement celebrating the ingenuity, effort, and danger of technology of the industrial revolution. In “A Treastise on the Æsthetic of Efforte,” I perform what is called live
…Over the years, I’ve developed a model for composition interdisciplinary/intermedia performances and have used it to devise performances with my students, typically getting a dozen students involved in one performance. I can do this at your school too, adapting an
…This is an interactive art installation using a piano playing computer algorithm I wrote that generates music reminiscent of early twentieth century expressionist composers like Arnold Schönberg. Since the software is capable of generating its own œvre, I gave it a human-like
PerfTech students presented new compositions for live electronics with a 3D surround sound system in TAMU’s Fallout Theatre. The concert featured a performance by the TAMU Laptet, TAMU’s freshman laptop ensemble, one by guest artist Ivica Ico Bukvic… (Virginia Tech).
