Charlie Morrow

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Charlie Morrow (born February 9, 1942 in Newark , New Jersey ) is an American composer and sound artist .

life and work

Charlie Morrow grew up as the son of two psychiatrists in Rutherford and Passaic . At the age of ten he started playing the trumpet. This was followed by mussels, cow and goat horns, jaw harp , ocarina and self-made instruments. Morrow studied from 1958 to 1962 at Columbia University with the composer Otto Luening and the ethnomusicologist Willard Rhodes , who introduced Morrow to oral tradition and shamanism . Morrow then began studying composition with Stefan Wolpe and William Jay Sydeman and graduated from Mannes College of Music in 1965 .

Morrow met musicians from the New York scene, including Philip Corner , and the Fluxus artists John Cage and Alison Knowles . Morrow was a member of the Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble, which was founded by Corner, James Tenney and Malcolm Goldstein . In 1964 Morrow met the ethnographer Jerome Rothenberg . Between 1974 and 1989 they were joint directors of the "New Wilderness Foundation". This foundation supported concerts, tape recordings and EAR magazine (editors: Beth Anderson , RIP Hayman , Charles Shere , Peter Wetzler, Carol Tuynman).

In 1969 Morrow wrote the soundtrack for the film Moonwalk One and in 1987 for "Beyond Day and Night".

In 1974 Morrow and Carol Weber founded the "New Wilderness Preservation Band" with Joan La Barbara and Bruce Ditmas , Harvie Swartz and Reverend Paul Abels.

Charlie Morrow also worked commercially. He worked for John Hammond at Columbia Records and founded one of the first private studios for electronic music and worked with Simon & Garfunkel , The Rascals , Vanilla Fudge , "The Balloon Farm" and produced jingles .

In 1981 Morrow played with Derek Bailey in London and accompanied several poets musically, including Allen Ginsberg . Morrow and the Swedish sound poet Sten Hanson organized the “12. International Sound Poetry Festival ”in New York City . Jerome Rothenberg, Adriano Spatola , Charles Amirkhanian , Beth Anderson, Bernard Heidsieck , John Giorno and Jackson Mac Low were among the participants.

He reached a large audience with experimental music. A sensational event was "Toot'N Blink" in the New York harbor between Battery Park and the Statue of Liberty . He realized installations in the Kennedy Space Center , Empire State Building and in the American Museum of Natural History .

Morrow has given numerous lectures, including at The Aspen Design Conference, Columbia University, Oberlin College , Helsinki University of Technology, Copenhagen University , Cornell University, and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design . He took u. a. participated in documenta 8 and in the “New York Sound Cube”, which took place in 2004 in The Kitchen .

"MorrowSound® True 3D" is Charles Morrow's latest company specializing in 3D sound.

Charlie Morrow lives and works with his partner, translator and author Maija-Leena Remes, in Helsinki , Finland, and Barton , Vermont.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scaruffi Charles Morrow accessed on March 20, 2016 (English)
  2. ↑ Joan La Barbara:  Morrow, Charlie. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  3. ↑ New Wilderness History accessed on March 20, 2016 (English)
  4. ↑ Charlie Morrow: Wearing Different Hats , accessed March 20, 2016.
  5. ↑ The 12th International Sound Poetry Festival , accessed on March 20, 2016 (English).
  6. ↑ Toot´N blink ( Memento from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on March 20, 2016 (English)
  7. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog pages 327, 337, 339; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
  8. ↑ Experimental Intermedia , accessed on March 20, 2016 (English).
  9. ^ Charles Morrow Productions , accessed March 20, 2016.
  10. ^ Charlie Morrow , accessed March 20, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Morrow, Charlie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morrow, Charles; Morrow, Charles Geoffrey (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and sound artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark, New Jersey