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Welcome to the audio lair of Travis J. Morgan on Virb. Here you will find a selection of tracks I have composed and produced. I am into dubstep, dub, electronic, experimental, concrete music, and other various genres.

My Passion:

It’s one thing to listen to music, like what you hear, and even love it, but it another thing to play and to be played. You know you have crossed over when everyday natural sounds are now melodic, rhythmic, and beating in your head. You heart keeps in step, your tongue counts the beats, and your mind…the needle on the record. You hear music everywhere you go. You become the vibrations, and they move you in a way that makes you want to move them back with the same passion and intensity that they moved you with. Your ears have evolved into megaphones that can hear a wave length tremble. But it seems your equipment is never good enough to capture that audio crispness that plays over and over in your head. You are on the tip and as the record passes beneath you, you put your fingers down and let its smoothness glide by. You’ve gone beyond the b-side, and the music did this, these sounds created you, they produced you to produce them, to reinvent them, to keep the record spinning. Just as a producer produces sounds into music, the sound of music produced the producer. So you wonder for a moment, who is producing who here? But you know, this is how the record spins.

Website (blog): http://www.travisjmorgan.com

Enjoy the tunes!

Featured Track

Track: Cafe Connection

After releasing my track, "Cafe Connection," on January 29th 2009, it immediately got a stir of attention. It was featured on CCMixter in the Editors Pick section with the following review:


"Cafe Connection is like a virtual street performance in le marais, this track showcases not only excellent source music but what can happen in the hands of a motivated producer. One of my new favorites." - MC Jack in the Box.

After is was featured it of course received even more attention. It has been used in over a dozen videos since its release and has been played in various podcasts around the net.

Most of the individual sounds I used to compose "Cafe Connection" I downloaded on CCmixter from a user that goes by the names of "Morusque" and "Nurykabe." Thanks to him for the high quality sound samples.

The video displayed above was created by Stephen Niebauer and features my track, "Cafe Connection." Here are a few more of my favorite videos using Cafe Connection:

- The Little Cart

- A1 LON

- Hard Worker

Beyond the B-side

The Art of Sound

In addition to being a musician, I am a phonographer, designer, artist, philosopher, and poet. When I am composing music, creating a track, the process is very much like that of when I am painting a picture, writing a poem, or designing an art piece. Except now, sounds are my paint and my ears are my guide. How I arrange the sounds, combine them, move them, creates the scene. I simply listen, and begin, and soon enough the sounds start to compose themselves, and I am simply the guiding hand. I have no schooling in tending vibrations, only experience through experimentation. It seems as though my other artistic abilities have ported over easily and are just as accessible in the art of sound arrangement. The rhythms, beats, melodies, just come naturally, I am uninfluenced, untouched, by the conditioning of rules that would have enveloped me had I of had formal training. This allows me freedom to let the sounds speak to me and tell me how to move them in harmony with each other. The final track often reflects an intimate part of me previously unknown. It is an unleashing, the sound of nature, a heartbeat, I hear everywhere.

Musique Concrete


Sometimes I compose tracks that fall into the "Musique concrete" genre. Concrete music is music created with "real world" sounds, natural environmental sounds, and other noises that are not inherently musical. I love composing with "real world" sounds, because for me, it reflects the rhythm and heartbeat of our every day lives, our routines, movements, etc%u2026You will find at least accents of the "concrete music" genre in a lot of my work.