2018
Charlie Morrow (b. 1942) is an acclaimed composer, sound artist, multimedia artist, and producer. He has been in contact or collaborated with many legendary artist, such as Philip Corner, James Tenney, Malcolm Goldstein, John Cage, Jerome Rothenberg, Allen Ginsberg, Charlotte Moorman, Joan La Barbara, Art Garfunkel, John Corigliano, and Fluxus artist Alison Knowles. When Morrow worked as arranger and line producer for John H. Hammond at Columbia Records, he provided arrangements for hit recordings by Simon & Garfunkel, The Rascals, Vanilla Fudge and The Balloon Farm.
Morrow’s outdoor events feature sometimes very large herds of sound sources from the same family: 40 cellos, 60 clarinets, harbors of boats. Morrow’s works have ranged from massive public events, such as “Toot’N Blink” for Chicago’s Lake Michigan and “Fanfare in the Air” for New York Harbor to innovative installations for the world’s leading institutions, including Kennedy Space Center, Empire State Building, and the American Museum of Natural History. Taking sound to the next level, Morrow most recently created MorrowSound®, a state-of-the-art technology at the forefront of the rapidly-expanding field of immersive 3D sound.
Morrow started playing trumpet at age 10. Subsequently he has also performed using conch shells, cow and goat horns, homemade electronics, Jew’s harp, and ocarina. His music teachers included composer Otto Luening, Stefan Wolpe, William Jay Sydeman and ethnomusicologist Willard Rhodes, who introduced Morrow to oral cultures and shamanic traditions.
2012
Passionate about using sound and music to inspire, entertain, and even heal, Charlie Morrow is an acclaimed multimedia artist, producer, and composer. He is a leading figure in branded sound and advocate for the use of sound for well-being.
Throughout his career, Morrow has sought to bring experimental sound and music to a wider audience. His works have ranged from massive free public events, such as “Toot’N Blink” for Chicago’s Lake Michigan and “Fanfare in the Air” for New York Harbor to innovative installations for the world’s leading institutions, including Kennedy Space Center, Empire State Building, and the American Museum of Natural History.
Taking sound to the next level, Morrow most recently created MorrowSound®, a state-of-the-art technology at the forefront of the rapidly-expanding field of 3D sound. The first technology to use a real sound source, MorrowSound projects sound above and below the listening plane, creating the illusion of an expanded space where sound moves up, down and around. It has been showcased at major venues and events around the world, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, and 2009 Design Week Helsinki.
A prolific composer, Morrow’s numerous credits include a Cannes Awards-winning campaign for Diet Coke and the feature film soundtracks for Moonwalk 1 and Altered States.
Morrow works and lives with his partner Maija-Leena Remes, a translator and writer, in Helsinki, Finland and Barton, Vermont.
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