SORNE
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SORNE in his hometown, Tallahassee, Florida, January 1, 2015
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Morgan Sorne July 24, 1983 Tallahassee, Florida |
| Alma mater | Florida State University |
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Morgan Sorne (born July 24, 1983), known in his solo music project as SORNE, is an American singer-songwriter, composer, multi-media artist, music producer, and actor based in Los Angeles, California. His musical style has been described tribal, electronica,avant-garde, avant pop, alternative rock, and electro-space-folk. Though sometimes associated with the broad genre of rock, his songs feature no electric guitars, conventional bass instruments, or conventional drum sets. His music utilizes layered vocal samples and unconventional (mostly hand-made) instrumentation. He was a Texas Biennial artist in 2009, and in 2013 won the Austin Chronicle 2013 Avant Garde Artist of the Year award.
Morgan Sorne was born in Tallahassee, Florida on July, 1983. He was raised in a Christian setting but does not consider himself to be religious. According to an interview with Sorne in OVERLD, his mother, an opera singer, had a voice teacher who noticed that when he was two years old, Sorne had perfect pitch. As a young child, he was enrolled in a music class but he hated it and threw a maraca at another child. He never continued any sort of formal music education. He did do stage acting, including musical theatre. He also studied the visual arts and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Florida State University which he attended from 2002 to 2004.
Sorne moved to Texas in 2007 to paint, compose, and collaborate with other artists. He became recognized in Austin for his visual art and was a Texas Biennial artist in 2009. Before joining with his bandmates and developing his current stage show, he began his live musical performances by “setting up installations in galleries, doing drawings, and singing and building a vocal landscape - adaptations of songs, motifs out of songs - letting those things just fill a room.” His short film, SORNE: Children of the Black Mountain, premiered at the SXSW film festival in 2012. In 2013, he won the Austin Chronicle 2013 Avant Garde Artist of the Year award.
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