jeff at morrismusic dot org

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 things: music tailored to architecture and cityscapes, performance art for the radio, and serious concert music for toy piano and sudoku.

He has presented work in the Triennale Museum (Milan), Onassis Cultural Center (Athens), D-22 (home of 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 Symposium (Austin), the Un“Cage”d Toy Piano Competition (NYC), and the “Radio Killed the Video Star” Competition (NYC).

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 curates the Fresh Minds Festival of audiovisual art from all over the world and directs the Performance Technology program at Texas A\&M University (a Carnegie Tier One Research University and member of the elite Association of American Universities).