John Morton (composer)

John Morton (composer)

John Morton is a composer best know 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's use of the prepared piano.

External links

*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

Listening

*http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=21


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