“A lot of these songs are improvised and I have forgotten the tunings for the guitar.  But I keep returning to these melodies and harmonies - they are maybe an echo of something I’ve heard before.”

Recorded over the course of 6 years in between other performances, tours, club nights, a pandemic and work commitments, these songs share in common the expression of a ‘complete statement’.  

Their final release here now for the first time, are inspired by albums like Prince’s post-humous, Piano and A Microphone 1983, Beck’s One Foot in the Grave or one of Kurt Cobain’s last known recordings outside a Nirvana release, Do Re Mi.

“A lot of these songs are inspired from demo tapes that me, Kurt Cobain and Prince made (not together obviously). Mostly just me and a piano or a guitar and my iPhone microphone. These are my take on the 90's pop and grunge I grew up listening to after moving to what is now called the United States of America.”

Carefree, reflective and raw.

Morgan Sully: Phone Recordings

Drifting Lullaby with Starts and Stops

Usually when it's just me and one instrument, it's under 'Morgan Sully'.  This is me on a piano.

Hissy Hope

Probably Channeling Thom Yorke but I don't Have Any Lyrics

Modern Goth Baroque

I Woke Up and this Song Came Out and the Coffee Was Still Warm While I Played

Looking on the Bright Side even Though You Are Stranded in a Rowboat in the Middle of a Big Ocean

Small Devices

Curmudgeon Redux

Central Asia

Pearl Jam

Lullaby 2

Kurt, Maybe

Lullaby

Searching

I Think I Hear a Full Band in My Head

Raspy Mumbling Above a Windswept Loch

One Foot in the Grave

Regress

GM2 113 GT Feedback

TREMOLO STRINGS!!!!!

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:
- November 23rd – In Conversation: Finnisage Performance with Jay Afrisando, Dea Karina and Ariel William Orah - Berlin, DE
- November 29th – BURRE: Night of Many  – Memeshift live A/V debut with Pock Root, Heavenphetamine, Andriy K b2b BLUME, Dmytro Filatov, Mykolo Lebed, Khrystyna Kirik  – Berlin, DE (tix)

    

PAST:
- October 13th @ OGH: MINUSFOKUS + Ghaliz, KUNTARI and Memeshift
- October 12th @ Panke: mankind, Morgan Sully + Pedro Oliveira, Ugne Uma, Justin
     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
August 27th - Irene Trejo, Carla Boregas, ágata, Morgan Sully @ Refuge Worldwide (not Oonah) Niemetzstrasse 1
    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

Morgan Sully: Phone Recordings

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