Lawrence "Butch" Morris, Composer:

Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris is recognized internationally as the principal theorist and practitioner in the evolution of CONDUCTION®, and a leading innovator in the confluence of jazz, new music, improvisation and contemporary classical music. Conduction (conducted interpretation/improvisation) is a vocabulary of ideographic signs and gestures activated to modify or construct a real-time musical arrangement or composition.

Mr. Morris's work redefines the roles of composer, conductor, arranger and performer, and bridges the gap between the composer, interpreter and improviser. Employing more than 5,000 musicians in 23 countries and 63 cities, resulting in 22 CDs over a 20-year period.

The universal nature of Morris’ Conduction Vocabulary is obvious… but the unorthodox beauty is what resonates the most.
(CD Review, April 1996)

A CHORUS OF POETS, now in its 16th year, under the direction of Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, continues a vital tradition in the spoken word community of constructing our experiences as a series of contextualized language towers,where the timbre of the spoken word forms the foundation from which spires of ideas and images emerge.