Michael Morgan

Composer / Producer / Artist | Process-Based Sound Practice

About

Michael Morgan is an artist, musician, and music producer from Altadena, California, based in Ojai, with a practice oriented towards sound as material and as a memory field. All sounds, whether recorded, resampled, or composed, are treated as found sounds—fading and returning.His portfolio exists in boxes, on magnetic tapes, hard drives, light-sensitive photochemical paper, drawings, paintings, and collages.

Visual Work for Sea Is for Carpentry (Medium Sundial, 2026)

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The Album

Sea Is for Carpentry (Medium Sundial Recordings, January 2, 2026) is a 17-track instrumental album. Two recordings remain unchanged from sessions in 2012 and 2013 while building a studio inside a 1920s garage in Altadena, California. Afternoons were spent covered in sawdust, drywall chalk, and thermosetting cross-linked polymers, and running up and down pink, decomposing quartz trails in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains at dusk.Without a fixed plan, the body of the work began in the summer of 2021, continuing in Ojai from 2024 through the end of 2025. The album was mixed and sequenced between October and the first week of December of 2025.Post-rock, electronic, ambient, and experimental—the album’s influences include György Ligeti’s choral work Lux Aeterna, the motorik tempos of Can and Neu!, the time-worn tape loops by William Basinski, Boards of Canada, and soundscapes ranging from gentle Brian Eno meditations to Suicide-influenced hypnotic post-punk.The recordings layer guitars, bass, analog synthesizers, orchestral arrangements, live drums, and drum machines—built in part by folding his own recordings from across two decades into the present moment. Materials are brought into new relationships. Synchronicities in and out of phase—each remaining partly visible, as transparencies—overlapping, though not consumed.Mark Lewis of bands Idaho, Languis, West Indian Girl, and Omagaro Miguel plays drums on 4 tracks on the album.

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Airplay

"That'll do me. That's absolutely beautiful stuff there."
-Danny Chifley, 2SER Breakfast

Since its January 2026 release, Sea Is for Carpentry has received ongoing international college and community radio airplay.195+ plays in the US, Canada, Australia, and Germany68+ plays on Radio K, Minneapolis#28 on CHIRP Radio Chicago’s Top 50, January 202638+ plays on 2SER 107.3 FM, Sydney, including 13 spins on 2SER BreakfastFeatured in 2SER Sydney’s New Music Report, January 202637+ plays on KKJZ HD3, Cal State Long Beach#2 on WKNC 88.1 FM’s Afterhours Top 10 in Raleigh, North Carolina, June 30, 2026

Credits

Produced and mixed by Michael Morgan.Guitars, bass guitar, piano, synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines performed and programmed by Michael Morgan.Drums on “Here and Gone,” “Real Projective Plane,” “Litany of Things,” and “Idle Hour” performed by Mark Lewis, and recorded by Mark Lewis and Paul Gagliardi.© Michael Morgan (ASCAP). 2026, Medium Sundial publishing (ASCAP). All rights reserved.

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