Jeff Harrington

Jeff Harrington is a composer of new experimental electronic and
classical music and an agent provocateur for disreason. The
compositions and improvisations from his tape, "Obliterature" are explorations
of profound ecstatic states, and may produce unusual psychic effects. He has
been accused of actively attempting to produce "psychotic" mentalities in his
listener's minds for which he responds, "my music is not for everybody. I'm
interested in writing music which will provoke people to self-knowledge.
Exploring unusual mental states is part of this path to self-knowledge and it
is dangerous. You have been warned. If I did not express my full experience, I
would be committing an act of personal censorship."

Since 1982, Jeff Harrington has been involved with a project to disrupt
corporate telecommunications telepathically called IdEAL ORDER Psychic TV. See
the IdEAL ORDER WWW site for more information in this regard.

Jeff Harrington also composes music for orchestras and instrumental ensembles
and he has scores and MIDI files available at the IdEAL ORDER WWW site for
those who are interested in his more classical musics.

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He was born December 28, 1955 at 2:00 AM in Forest, Mississippi. His mother and
father were amateur musicians who played the popular music of the 40's and 50's
for their entertainment. He spent his formative years in New Orleans and taught
himself blues and boogie-woogie piano after hearing the music of Professor
Longhair.

Harrington continued his composition studies at LSU and at the Juilliard School
where he studied in the Master's program with Elliott Carter and Roger
Sessions. He has also studied with Morton Subotnick, Jacob Druckman, Joan
LaBarbara, James Drew, Barbara Jazwinski and Deborah Drattell.

Jeff Harrington has practiced zen meditation since 1972.

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"Bright and Boundless" is an electronic exploration of profound ecstatic states
and may produce unusual psychic effects. Cascades of thousands of notes,
perfectly tuned by using Pythagorean tunings, overwhelm the listener into utter
psychic submission. Rilke said, "Beauty is a terror we can barely endure."
"Bright and Boundless" is beauty as terror.

"Turning the Pearl" is an electronic musical exploration of the world near the
edges of mental psychosis. Sounds tuned by perfect intervals morph and bend
constantly, taking the listener on a tour of bizarre musical consequence. You
have been warned.

"The Conduct of the Moon and Clouds" is an electronic exploration of lush
impressionistic rapture. Waterfalls of notes gush, compete, and erupt, washing
over the listener in innumerable pleasurable ways. Musical excess at the
service of beauty and disreason is here made manifest.