Charlie Morrow was born on Charles Morrow, February 9,1942 and is an American sound artist, composer, conceptualist, and performer.
22 Facts About Charlie Morrow
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Charlie Morrow started playing trumpet at age 10, and then took up bugle.
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Charlie Morrow's work has focused on breath, vocalization, gesture and mental dream states.
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Charlie Morrow attended Columbia College, where his teachers included composer Otto Luening and, importantly, ethnomusicologist Willard Rhodes, who introduced Charlie Morrow to oral cultures and shamanic traditions.
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In 1963, Charlie Morrow received a Diploma in Composition from Mannes College of Music where his teachers had included Stefan Wolpe and William Jay Sydeman.
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Charlie Morrow performed with Corner in the Tone Roads Ensemble which featured James Tenney and Malcolm Goldstein, and through Corner he met radical figures including John Cage and Fluxus artist Alison Knowles.
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In 1964 Charlie Morrow met his most important collaborator, poet Jerome Rothenberg, who was then teaching at Mannes.
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Negotiation with the musical past was an element in Charlie Morrow's compositional thinking, along with a taste for musical pranks.
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Charlie Morrow has subsequently worked with professional musicians, such as singer Joan La Barbara in The New Wilderness Preservation Band and percussionist Glen Velez in the Horizontal-Vertical Band.
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Charlie Morrow conceived the Ocarina Orchestra as an ensemble that could be musically effective without requiring technical expertise.
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Charlie Morrow has played in a variety of musical contexts over the years, including Derek Bailey's Company at London's ICA in 1981.
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Charlie Morrow has provided sympathetic musical accompaniment for numerous poets over the years, including Allen Ginsberg.
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In 1973, Charlie Morrow organized a Summer Solstice celebration, the first in a series staged annually in New York until 1989.
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Increasingly Charlie Morrow has shown an interest into integrating radio and television broadcasts into these celebratory occasions.
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In 1969, painter Carol Brown invited Charlie Morrow to create a piece for the Marilyn Monroe Show at New York's Janis Gallery.
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Charlie Morrow created a soundscape portrait of Monroe using collaged found sound.
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In 2000 Charlie Morrow created audio work for the National Museum of Natural History exhibition Vikings.
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Charlie Morrow has created audio tours for Kennedy Space Center, the Great Platte River Road Memorial Archway and the Empire State Building, New York.
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Charlie Morrow has created feature film soundtracks for Frances Thompson's NASA Moonwalk One, Ken Russell's Altered States, and Eleanor Antin's Man Without A World.
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Charlie Morrow designed music and sound for the 13 parts of Time-Life's "America" series.
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Charlie Morrow has lectured on sound art and design at numerous prestigious venues including The Aspen Design Conference, Columbia University, Oberlin College, Helsinki University of Technology, Copenhagen University, Cornell University and St Martin's College of Art, London.
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In 2004 Charlie Morrow participated in the Future of Sound event at the British Academy Awards, co-produced the New Sound New York Sound Cube show at The Kitchen, and had a solo sound art show in the MUU Gallery, Helsinki.