Music
“Memeshift is the personal project of ShareSD co-founder Morgan Sully. Pulling influences from Orbital, Plaid, The Secret Frequency Crew and even Nirvana, Morgan thrives on developing a diverse electronic repertoire in his often difficult to place music. From illegal outdoor parties in Bay Area forests to cafes, galleries and nightclubs in San Diego and Mexico, Morgan has dj’ed and performed original electronic music in venues throughout California.
While his produced work reflects an oft quieter side of his musical aspirations, his live shows explore the more pastoral, improvised, experimental, and glitched-out trajectories of his machine funk music.”
Well, according to my press release anyway. I’ve also played with such diverse artists as Jega (Planet Mu, Matador), Tom Burbank (Planet Mu), El Poeta (imputor?), dj Jon Baker (Brokenbeat, Frik n’ Frak), Louis Haiman (Transmat, fwdthought), Disrupter (disruptermusic), Miguel Vega (AccentFeed), and Marcos Fernandes (Accretions, Trummerflora). I’ve also produced music for a variety of events, local documentaries, and an independent feature film.
On Performing
While I occasionally enjoy DJing with records, these days find me not far from my laptop - it’s an essential part of my performing (that and a drum machine or two). A lot of my process revolves around manipulating and improvising with pre-recorded loop, rhythms and various other sounds I channel into my mixer during shows. Other times, I have a more dj-oriented ’set’ of pre-selected tracks (both original and from others) which find their way in.
One of my favorite instruments is a microphone for really being able to channel the ambience of a room and audience into my set. The video to the right shows me and my good friend Louis Haiman jamming together. He was playing the wonderful rhythms to my ambient textures.
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