John Morton (born 1954) is an American

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

. Morton is best known for his use and manipulations of music boxes and their sounds. This may be compared to Conlon Nancarrow's use of the player piano and

John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading fi ...

's use of the prepared piano. Born in Los Angeles, he studied privately with David Sheinfeld in San Francisco and then attended the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Morton Subotnick and Lucky Mosko. In summer 2009 he created the Sound Tunnel in New York City's Central Park.

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20070929110628/http://www.innovarecordings.com/artist1.asp?skuID=283 *http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/features/interview_morton.html Interview *http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0218,gann,34383,22.html *http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/features/2001/nov/musicbox/musicbox.011118.html *http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=5159 *http://www.emusic.com/artist/John-Morton-MP3-Download/11527333.html

Listening

*https://web.archive.org/web/20070817205810/http://www.artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=21

References

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