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Some Music As I See It:
Composition, Transcription, and Improvisation in New Work by Jeff Morton
Visiting artist Jeff Morton speaks and performs in the new series Crossing Boundaries: Keynote Conversations in Fine Arts at 7 pm, Thursday, February 5, in the ATB Financial Community Room at Casa. He unveils his new music compositions, including a quartet for amplified brass objects, and an electroacoustic performance with solo drums. In a candid presentation, Jeff relates stories and documentation from recent sound installations, live shows, recording projects, and other curiosities. In total, the effect is playful, noisy, funny, melodic, and always personal. The work merges elements of contemporary composition, sound art, noise jams, electroacoustic music, programming, and DIY or recycled technologies for live performance. During his visit on-campus, he meets with students, is providing an artist’s talk and performance in Art NOW, and is delivering a keynote address in the inaugural Fine Arts Graduate Colloquium.
Biography
Jeff Morton is a composer, musician, performer, media artist, and writer. His music and art are playful, experimental explorations of sound, sound-making, communication, and compositional processes using found and musical objects and materials. In performance, composition, and installation, his work has been presented by ensembles and in galleries across Canada and internationally. Jeff completed a Masters Degree in Music Composition at the University of Victoria in 2008.
In 2014 Jeff co-produced and performed at vol.1 and vol. 2 of an electroacoustic new music series in Ottawa entitled J'acousmatic. His sound installation entitled All the Horses was exhibited at the Saskatoon International Children's Festival, where Jeff also led composition and notation workshops with festival participants. Among Jeff's other musical projects, his band Repeat Repeat Offender released its first EP, and his electronic music duo Notaations launched its first two EPs, in addition to performing in Ottawa/Gatineau.
Jeff resides in Ottawa, where he is a Program Officer in the Music Section at the Canada Council for the Arts. Before this, he was Managing Director of Holophon Audio Arts, a non-profit audio art organization in Saskatchewan.
Free Admission
Contact:
Naomi Sato | satony@uleth.ca
