Morgan is an organizer and experimental electronic musician who draws creative strength from the vast diasporas of his fellow southeast Asian kin.

Departing from the interconnected punk, noise and rave scenes of southern California of the late 90s, his recent sonic homings invoke the music of his matrilineal roots from Borneo and Java.

This history finds its gestural articulation in his performances that traverse chord and texture, recollecting more nuanced musical intervals and atypical rhythms evocative of worlds more kind, magical and playful.

While not overtly political, much of Morgan’s work seeks overlaps between musical diasporas to celebrate and support each other.

Morgan currently plays modular, groove-oriented polymetric rhythms and microtonal interference inspired by Balinese gamelan.  Evolving, hand-programmed percussion sequences, are infused with drone-like FM and wavefolding techniques, drawing inspiration from pelog and slendro scales as much as from the delicate unfolding sound spaces of Élian Radigue.

Morgan also co-manages label operations for L-KW, hosts a monthly radio show on Refuge Worldwide, and co-curates Soy&Synth with performing art collective, Soydivision.

With Soydivision, Morgan collaborated with Rabih Beaini from Morphine Records for a musical staging of KIAMAT, inspired by Senyawa’s Alkisah, which they also co-released with over 40 other record labels.

Most recently, L-KW, Soydivision, and Midnight Shift collaborated on a 3-part improvised music series featuring artists from southeast Asian and south American diasporas.

Morgan’s musicological interests include ballads, spirituals, and other roots Americana as well as FM synthesis, gamelan, and site-specific sound composition.

Morgan has taught and produced music and sound for a variety of community documentaries, independent films, media centers, festivals, and interactive dance performances in Australia, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, and the Netherlands.

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