Mixes & Live Sets

live recording of music I'd like to play more of.  The title comes from an essay from George Lewis: https://www.van-outernational.com/lewis-en/

Memeshift - Diversity Prosthetics

Thanks Eiliyas from Mixtape Menage for recording this set: https://linktr.ee/mixtapemenage

A recording of my live set from my release party with Chinabot for Echoes, May 16th 2024 at Fitzroy, Berlin, Germany.

Aphex melancholia with grungey shoegaze forays and gamelanic accoutrement, melodic science fiction that’s at once kind, heavy, magical and playful.

All original material with only 2 vocal samples and one drum loop. Many of these sounds are processed granularly with a spring-loaded XY joystick controlling multiple parameters at once, particularly around reverb decay and size.

Technology:
- Ableton Live
- MacBook Air, M1 2020
- ﻿﻿Kenton Killamix
- ﻿﻿Roland TR-8S
- ﻿﻿Ableton Push 2
- EHX Platform

Tracklist:
mom_s kettle
Clue
Zöe Game (Ass n Titties mashup)
Racially Charged
Grunge (unreleased)
messyfinger gamela+. grain (unreleased remix)
(unreleased, uses Javanese tunings from RBI)
Balikpapan (live rework)
Sad Sunda (Hati Hati Melayuncholia Mix)

Sources:
mom_s kettle contains a recording of Ibu Miri’s kettle along with processed recordings from sessions with Marcioz.
Balikpapan contains recording of insects from Mangrove Margomulyo in Kalimantan, Borneo.
messyfinger gamela+. grain contains loops from epitra, made on the glorious Landscape Noon.
Ass n Titties, DJ Assault
Super Mario Brothers 2: Overworld theme, Koji Kondo
unlabled cassette tape belonging to my mother, that she purchased in Kuala Lumpur in the early 80’s
peppered throughout is the saron from the Javanes gamelan used by Lindhu Raras housed at the Rumah Budaya Indonesia Haus of Indonesian Cultures in Berlin.

Live At Fitzroy, Chinabot Album Release Party For 𝕰𝖈𝖍𝖔𝖊𝖘

This collage took Sipaningkah's Ranuang as a starting point, ending on Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow Tree as sung by Almeda Riddle. Between these two points lay the aural cinema of Neogeodesia's Seven Seas Sanctuary interspersed by ambient selections spanning Bandung, Berlin, Ukraine, Brasil and Seattle, Washington. I hope the

Tracklist:
1. Sipaningkah - Ranuang (Sipaningkah from @chinabot)
2. Memeshift - (unreleased live recording) (@memeshift)
3. Neo Geodesia - Seven Seas Sanctuary (Neo Geodesia from @chinabot)
4. Uakti - Aluá
5. Plaid - Air Locked 
6. Jonny Nash & Tegu Permana - Air (@melodyastruth & @teguhpermana555)
7. B & B Project - Still Loving You (Scorpions bandura & button accordion cover 🇺🇦) 
8. Jon Hassell - Empire III 
9. Bilawa Respati - Setelah Kebutaan Itu (@sastraswara)
10. Neo Geodesia - Decarcassed By 2562 Neon Flames/Zheng Hao - trycheln/Naturalismo - Cavo (For Zbigniew Karkowski)
11. EPRC - SOMETIMES (EPRC from @straysignals)
12. Nirvana - Milk It
13. Neo Geodesia - Seven Seas Sanctuary (Neo Geodesia from @chinabot)
14. (field recordings: dad’s house, Moscow, Idaho/Hinterhof, Wrangelkiez, Berlin)
15. Almeda Riddle - Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow Tree

Chinabot - Radio Alhara

Culled from old hard drives, YouTube rips, Bandcamp purchases and unreleased material.  

Featuring Arab-influenced Indo/Malay music, deconstructed gamelan, psychedelic Occitan and Turkish folk, keroncong and closing out with a specially blessed, unreleased jaipong footwerk remix of Waldjinah’s ‘Kembang Kacang’, recorded in 1967.  Also in this mix is Mother Bank, whose members are from a COVID-born experimental mobile bank in Jatiwangi, Majalengka, West Java whose activities also include recording music together.

This mix also features unreleased recordings I made with friends using slendric tuning developed as part of Latent Sonorities, a project exploring the tuning systems and musicology of Rumah Budaya Indonesia Berlin’s (RBI) Javanese gamelan.

Tracklist - 
Cheryl Ong & Khyam Allami - Intro (taken from Latent Sonorities)
Raed Yassin - a Fistful of Stardust
Kadapat - Bloronk
Sourdurent - Franc De Bruch
Waldjinah - Walang Kekek
Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek - Nem kaldi
Nusantara Beat - Djanger
Orkes El Surayya Medan - Di Satu Masa
Morgan Sully & Mauricio Takara - Laras Interlude II (unreleased) 
Morgan Sully & Mauricio Takara - Bonang Roller (unreleased)
Mother Bank - Pabrik
messyfingers - Home (Intro)
Waldjinah -  Kembang Kacang (Memeshift’s Keroncong Queen mix) (unreleased)

Featured prominently through this recording is a sample from RBI’s gong ageng from their Javanese Gamelan.

Radio Alhara: Codex Club w/ Memeshift - 13/02/24

Between 2006 and 2007 I assembled this mix of songs I'd been working on in the tiny town of Columbia, California.  I was a little adrift and stayed with my mom in an old, A-frame cabin, chopping wood to stay warm during the winter.

I lived in the top part of the house and there was a cute little pulley system my mom and I made.  She'd often make coconut soup to hoist up to me while I worked on my tracks for this, so thanks a lot mom.

These are all original tracks, made with Ableton Live 4/5, a Yamaha PSR-36 and an Alesis Micron on a Powerbook G4 using the line input.

Tracklist:

1) Welcome
2) Mini Classic
3) Boer
4) Where Did That Come From
5) Nauzy
6) New Organ
7) Dirty House Loop
8) Dirty Bass

Border Community DEMO (live mix of all original material)

Morgan (he/him, USA/DE) is a practice-based music researcher whose output sits in the experimental field between academia and club music.

His work spans live electronic music, curation, lecture-workshops, panel discussions and the development of sample packs, tuning systems and other musical strategies to engage with materiality, diaspora, and the thoughtful resynthesis of new/traditional music.

Morgan's music productions draw from an archipelagic range of influences and intrinsic reverence for experimental computer dance music that can be described as playful, abrasive, promiscuous, feral and eclectic.

Last year, he released his debut album on Chinabot, which The Wire called "…a gently vaporous hulk of melancholia."

Morgan has performed at Cafe Oto, presented at CTM Festival, co-curated Soydivision's long-running Soy&Synth series, organized an online album co-release festival with folk-doom metal band Senyawa and 44 labels (mentioned in NYT, CDM), and was interviewed by Ableton about Latent Sonorities, a project that expands public access to sonic heritage for transcultural experimentation and research.


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2025

UPCOMING:
- October 13th @ OGH: MINUSFOKUS + Ghaliz, KUNTARI and Memeshift
    

PAST:
October 12th @ Panke: mankind, Morgan Sully + Pedro Oliveira, Ugne Uma, Justin
August 27th - Irene Trejo, Carla Boregas, ágata, Morgan Sully @ Refuge Worldwide (not Oonah) Niemetzstrasse 1
     September 3rd – Galerie im Turm – group show/exhibition with Dea Karina, Jay Afrisando and Ariel William Orah – Berlin, DE
    September 12th-14th – The Three Sound of Revolution Expo – Berlin, DE
    June 26th.  – A L L T A R III F I R E book launch/club night @ 90mil – Berlin, DE
Jan. 11th – Deanator, Cavid Dhen, MOTENG! (live duo with Tengal), secret location – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 14th – dB sauna & health club: KOTOE, Memeshift (live set) – Studio db – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 18th – Soydivision Selectors: Vol. 2 @ KWIA  w/Jay Afrisando, Sumugan Sivanesan, Morgan Sully (dj set) and more TBA – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 23 – The Bureau of Race Neutrality presents Creative Labour – with Sumugan Sivanesan, Louis Quek, NaN, Sangeeta + Morgan Sully, Nithin Shams  – Berlin, DE (link)
March 12th -BURRE x Enigma – GIRI Berlino, Vitsche Fundraiser
June 12th – Spanners w/Mara, 100, Stella Z, Memeshift - London, UK (live set)
    June 14th - Attack/Release Festival w/Mara + more - Glasgow, UK (live set)

2024

    May 7th – Café Oto: MEMESHIFT + AYANKOKO + KEPLA + OISHI (link)
    May 16th – Fitzroy – “Echoes” Album Release/Chinabot label night (tickets)
    April 5th – Codex Club: Kuntari (live), Pic-Vert (live), Leila Hassan (live), Dj sets by Morgan Sully and Chago – Berlin, DE
    Aug. 11th – Soydivision Selectors: Vol. 1 @ KWIA w/Hany, Ariel, Deb Chia, Jaeho, Morgan Sully – Berlin, DE
    April 28th – Morphine Raum: Kuntari, Memeshift (live) – Berlin, DE
    Oct. 12th – Memeshift (live), Ravenative @ Norwegian Centre for Technology, Art and Music (NOTAM) Oslo, Norway
    Oct. 13th – Latent Sonorities Workshop @ Norwegian Centre for Technology, Art and Music (NOTAM) Oslo, Norway
    Oct. 24th – Sudden Beams 3: Dreamy Party Chinabot Neo Geodesia, Memeshift & Chooc Ly – Brighton, UK (link)
    Oct. 26th – Platform Asia Panel: Talks on Asian Futurism (panelist & performer) – Brighton, UK (link)
    Nov. 15th – MOTENG! (duo with Tengal), Trommel – Berlin, DE

2023

    Oct. 29th – Soy&Synth 2023, Pt. 3 – Arkaoda – Berlin, DE (link)
    Sept. 30 – Soy&Synth 2023, Pt. 2 – Acid Mach Neu – Berlin, DE (link)
    Sept. 23rd – Latent Sonorities @ Berlin Asia Arts Festival (performance): Dea Karina, Tusa Montes, Morgan Sully & Hany Tea (link)
    Sept. 16th – Latent Sonorities (performance): Tusa Montes + Morgan Sully, Bilawa Respati + J “Mo’ong” Santoso Pribadi, Wanton Witch @ Morphine Raum – Berlin, DE (link)
    Sept. 15th – Latent Sonorities (presenting): Pinky Htut Aung, Cheryl Ong + Khyam Allami @ Morphine Raum – Berlin, DE (link)
    Sept. 14th – Latent Sonorities: Open studio & Discussion Evening (presenting) @ Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen – Rumah Budaya Indonesia – Berlin, DE (link)
    August 26th – Soy&Synth 2023, Pt 1. Panke – Berlin, DE (link)
    June 9th – Codex Club @ Panke – Morgan Sully, Anjeline de Dios & bela – Berlin, DE (link)
    May 22nd – Morphine Raum – Morgan Sully & Anjeline de Dios w/bela – Berlin, DE
    Mar. 1st – Trx***r, Memeshift, Dea Karina, Ghaliz and OLVRA – Berlin, DE
    Feb. 18th – Memeshift LIVE @ TARKA NIGHT 2 w/ Mo’ong Pribadi and Demetrio Castellucci, Ideas Block – Kompresorinė , LT

2022

    Dec. 23rd – Refuge Worldwide, PoC w/Mauricio Takara
    Dec. 12th – Refuge Worldwide, Soy&Synth 2022 Album Co-release with L-KW, Soydivision & Midnight Shift: 20hr-00hr
    Nov. 16th – Soy&Synth 2022: Discourse Program in collaboration with Radical Sounds Latin America @ Anaconda am Ufer
    Oct. 28th – Soy&Synth 2022: (as messyfingers) @ Berghain Kantine
    Sept. 24th – Soy&Synth 2022: (hosting w/L-KW) @ Morphine Raum
    Aug. 27th – Soy&Synth 2022: (hosting w/L-KW) @ Anaconda am Ufer
    Jul. 14th – PoC: Refuge Worldwide
    May 27th – CTM Festival ‘Contact’ Discourse Series (panelist) – Music as a Means of Reorganising Sociality w/Alkisah Network– Berlin, DE
    May 17th – Refuge Worldwide (host) – PoC w/Kasimyn (Gabber Modus Operandi) – Berlin, DE
    May 15th – Celestial Festival (panel moderator) – On Asian Music Industry, Labels and Trends w/Saphy Vong (Chinabot), Whitney Wei (Resident Advisor), Cedrik Fermont (Syrphe) – Berlin, DE
    May 14th – Celestial Festival (panel moderator) –  On Asian Activism & Other Collectivities w/Annie Jael Kwan (Asian Art Activism/Asia Forum), Belle Phromchanya (Non Native Native) – Berlin, DE
    Apr. 17th – KIAMAT – (as Soydivision Ensemble w/Rabih Beaini) @ Rumah Budaya Indonesia – Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen – Berlin, DE
    Mar. 16th – Refuge Worldwide (radio host) – PoC w/Pisitakun – Berlin, DE

2021

    Oct 16th – ramé-ramé (as Soydivision): soundwalk with STANDARDS, Spazio META & Rob de Matt – Il Pianeta Festival, Milan, IT
    Aug. 21st – Memeshift (DJ set) – KAUM Closing Party @ OYOUN – Berlin, DE
    Aug. 6th – (as Alkisah Trio) @ Camp Cosmic: Cosmic Gathering Alkisah Meetup – Chemnitz, DE
    May 27th – Unusual Business – Decentralizing and Commoning Music (panelist) – Nusasonic (remote)

2020

    July 25th – Soy&Synth w/Sibéri, Balthazar Conrad, Memeshift, GHALIZ @ Sarisari – Berlin DE
    Apr. 28th – Memeshift @ Hör Radio (DJ set) – Berlin, DE
    March 21st – +62 Tour 2020, presented by L_KW ^ Audial Plane: Messyfingers, Theo Nugraha, Jeritan, Sarana, and Robby Ocktavian x Dhuha Ramadhani @ Rumah Rawa, Samarinda, Borneo, ID
    March 13th – +62 Tour 2020, presented by L_KW ^ Audial Plane: Ravenative x Wildan Indra Sugara, Memeshift, Juan Arminandi, Dissa Kamanjaya, and GURU @ NuArt Sculpture Park, Bandung, Java, ID
    March 10th – +62 Tour 2020, presented by L_KW ^ Audial Plane: messyfingers, Firzio, Mahesa Almeida, Juan Arminandi and Ravenative @ Rubanah Underground Hub, Jakarta, Java, ID
    March 4th – +62 Tour 2020, presented by L_KW ^ Audial Plane: messyfingers, Kasimyn and Ravenative + special guest Evans Störn @ studio eksotika, Canggu, Bali, ID
    Feb. 18th – BIBIT, BEBET, BOBOT messyfingers w/LK__W @ Sari Sari – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 31st – RECALIBRATION w/Soydivision, Nowhere Kitchen and un.tha.tled @ studio db – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 26th – SonicSeasoning messyfingers w/ravenative @ top e.V. – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 25th – Soy&Synth w/Soydivision @ Motif Wein – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 19th – Marameo Dance Playground (solo) – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 17th – CTM Vorspeil w/Soydivision @ Acud Mach Neu – Berlin, DE

2019

    Dec. 15th – Marameo Dance Playground (solo) – Berlin, DE
    Dec. 7th – Soy&Synth messyfingers @ MotifWein – Berlin, DE
    Oct. 25th – SONUS – THE SOUND WITHIN US @ Ballhaus Naunystrasse w/Pepe Dayaw and meLê yamomo – Berlin, DE
    Aug. 31st – Memeshift @ Nanometri Festival (interactive dance performance) – Berlin, DE
    May 4th – PYjAMA: Space cookies 14 ♉ 10 as Kencur (Morgan Sully + Denis Altchul) – Berlin, DE

2018

    Oct. 8th – Memeshift @ Visions of A New World – San Francisco, US
    Jan. 22nd – Memeshift @ Run the Length of Your Wildness – San Francisco, US

2010

    June 3rd (in Skycamp)- Slims, San Francisco, US

2006-2009

various gigs in San Diego, Los Angeles, Tijuana

Border Community DEMO (live mix of all original material)

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