Morphogenesis

Morphogenesis is one of the few improvisational groups still active who traces their lineage not to jazz improvisation, but to the live electronic music of John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, AMM, and Musica Electronica Viva (M.E.V.). They eschew virtuosic displays of instrumental prowess, preferring a collective texture and group dialogue in a context of continual formal evolution and integration of the most diverse elements. Seldom does one even hear a recognizable instrument, as the group not only prepares the instruments such as piano and violin, but each group member perfor...