Morgan Garrett

Morgan Garrett has long been a stalwart presence in independent American experimental music. One of those souls reared in the borderlands where rural Appalachia begins to melt into the Midwest, where the long shadows of DuPont Chemical and Perdue Pharma lay over thousands of lives. Reaching for any sonic tools without pretense of recapitulating any musical tradition, his work evades the confines of genre, but has found a home amidst both the more personal and off-kilter visions from American noise and industrial music, and the fringes of electronic music. Morgan's live performances are notoriously potent and surreal, often compared to Butoh. Strobing footlights both obfuscate and illuminate Morgan's extreme gestures and unwavering energy throughout his psychodrama.