Jon Christopher Nelson

"I am preoccupied with exploring the innermost facets of sounds, and extrapolating new sonic worlds..."

Jon Christopher Nelson is a composer of electroacoustic music.

His music has been performed widely throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America. His awards include the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Fulbright Foundation, and prizes include the Luigi Russolo Competition, and Bourges Competition. He has worked as a technical consultant at MIT's Media Lab for visiting composers Mario Davidovsky, Jean-Claude Risset, and Morton Subotnick.

Nelson lives in Texas, where he is Associate Professor at the University of North Texas and co-director of the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia.