OUTLIER * New Music for Music Boxes The music box takes center stage in this exciting and novel CD by New York composer/pianist/instrument builder John Morton. Through the manual and electronic manipulation of composed music box mechanisms, layers of tones, surprising textures, and elegantly constructed figures are moulded into abstract melodies. Joined by Steve Hardwick, guitar, Ted Piltzecker, vibraphone, and Bill Blossom, bass, the altered music box becomes a distinct, expressive musical instrument: it intrigues the imagination and evokes the power of childhood musical memories. Among the compositions on the CD is a suite from A Delicate Road, commissioned by the Greenwall Foundation and first performed at The Kitchen with dancer/choreographer David Appel; an early work, Slurry, for three clarinets; as well as stylistically diverse compositions that explore the rhythmic, enveloping sound of Morton"s ingenious music boxes. *Outlier - any person or thing that lies, dwells, exists, etc. away from the main body or expected place.