Live recording of premiere performance by Spektral Quartet, Dec. 5, 2011. 

String Quartet No. 1 (live)

Interdisciplinary artist from the Arctic, with roots in the forest

Ben Morris is a composer whose music tells unconventional stories and crosses genre boundaries. He is Assistant Professor of Composition at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Musician, composer and double-bass player.

Violoniste, improvisateur, guitariste, chanteur, décompositeur, ingéniteur du son.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtISQfDQjQLcmIlf1O4Zk0Q
https://www.facebook.com/jeanbernard.jay.7 
Collaborations : 
https://soundcloud.com/improvidenz
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTbVsID6FJlcn8djnw8cyHg




Plusieurs des pièces musicales proposées ici jouent sur trans-spacialité et trans-temporalité. Les bruits extérieurs, souvent considérés comme parasites, entrent en confrontation avec l’ici et maintenant du musicien. Une rue, une gare, une place recèlent des rythmes, des textures sonores spécifiques variables selon le moment où on les parcourt. Dépourvus de fonction décorative, ils cristallisent du temps humain, trace de temps passé dans ces lieux. Ils témoignent aussi de l’impact sonore de l’activité humaine au sein de laquelle prend place la musique. Cette matière sonore n’est pas le prétexte à l’énonciation du musicien, mais son théâtre – terme à prendre  dans tous ses sens : scène, scénographie, dramaturgie,  genre, représentation. Il transforme le réel enregistré, produit en effet d’étrangeté. Comme le babil à la parole, cette musique confronte le bruit fortuit de la vie humaine à l’art.

Sais Steely Dan keyboardist Jim Beard… “Congratulations on a marvelous album JOrdon!”.

Albany’s WXET Dave Michaels sais “ JOrdon your Pixie Dust album is a masterpiece!”.

Hello magical entity... Thank you for visiting..

Three names I go by are JOrdon (which I use for Bandcamp and SC) and Jae Ordon and Mascot’s Distance,(which I use everywhere else, such as Spotify, Apple, etc.).

I've written music for Taye Diggs, Ian Gillan of Deep Purple, Pete Yorn, the Gorillaz Dan the Automator, John Spencer Blues explosion’s Russel Simons and Bed Bath and Beyond.  In summer of 2022 my recording Life Whispers On was #7 on Canada’s Cashbox Radio.  Currently finishing up a musical called Humane.


I'm playing all the instruments on many tunes, ones I'm not are…Brian Allen of Lori McKenna, Christopher Cross and Robben Ford on Bass, Michael McDonald's horn section, in addition to Yutaka Uchida playing drums on some tunes and Laurent Medelgi on guitar, also Danny Zanker and Joe Bearclaw Burcaw playing bass.
Thank you for listening to my Vegan, Folk-Jazz-Rock recordings…

Since I can remember, the love of music has always been my passion. I started taking lessons when I was 11 years old in September of 1999. From that moment on, I discovered my love and passion for the piano and classical music. I continued my education in piano and music theory all the way through college. In 2005 I started taking music history, theory, orchestral and piano courses through Las Positas College in Livermore, CA. In the year of 2011, I was able to graduate with an A.A. in Music and a Certificate in Beginning Piano Pedagogy, later on acquiring a certificate in Teaching Intermediate Piano. During my college years, starting in the year of 2008, I worked at a music studio called SmARTSunlimited, where I taught piano, guitar and drums for 6 years. In 2014, I went on to teaching privately and have been teaching ever since. When I am not teaching piano and music, I also compose my own pieces ranging from solo piano to ensembles. I have been told by many of my colleagues that my music is idiomatic and expressive. I hope you enjoy my music.

String Quartet No. 1 (live)

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