Evelyn Morris

A gifted composer, celebrated for their dexterity across multiple instruments and for composition that is complex and structurally adventurous, Evelyn Ida Morris started their career releasing albums under the name Pikelet. In 2014, Morris co-founded LISTEN, an advocacy group focused on creating discourse around gender diversity and politics in Australian music. In 2017, Morris released their first self-titled album. The album represented a significant departure from the looping pop of Pikelet, for which Morris was best known. It built on the structural complexity of that project, but focused wholly on piano. Thematically, the album dealt with the experience of being non-binary and making sense of that experience. Morris’s debut film score – for Thomas M. Wright’s critically acclaimed feature film Acute Misfortune – was nominated for an ARIA and garnered critical acclaim. Morris has since scored two further features: Under My Skin, starring Liv Hewson, and the recent New Zealand feature Millie Lies Low, which premiered at the NZ Film Festival and played at the Berlin Film Festival, SXSW and the Sydney and Melbourne international film festivals in 2022. Morris also scored Lucy Knox’s short film Hot Mother, which screened at the last pre-Pandemic Berlin Film Festival and has since screened at MIFF. Over the past three years, Morris has also worked as a sound designer and composer for conceptual artists Agatha-Gothe-Snape and Sarah Rodigari, and has presented works at MUMA gallery with them both. They work closely with contemporary dance and are currently making their own collage film series featuring contemporary dancers, to be presented as an installation work with paintings and sculptures, released alongside their upcoming album Like Comfort. This will be released in 2023 on Remote Control Records, as well as an improvised piano album called “Extended Time”, made in response to the work of painter Elizabeth Newman. All of Morris’s work with film, dance and art, and their solo albums, communicate their deep interest in music and how it creates relationships with other objects, images and movement, to deepen and clarify emotions and concepts and ultimately to create worlds for people to explore.

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