Loscil

Scott Morgan lives in Vancouver, BC where he creates sound-effects for video games and makes music. He took the name Loscil from the Csound computer program, it is a compound of "loop" and "oscillate." As a student at Simon Fraser University he studied composition; making electro-acoustic music and playing drums in bands. He sent kranky a demo in 2001, and all but one of the tracks on it made it the debut Loscil CD "Triple Point" . Eschewing glitch for its own sake or complex beat programming, Loscil works in real depth of field. Scott Morgan worked away on his third album throughout 2003, using real instruments and input from other musicians. With sound sources that ranged from sampled instruments to miscellaneous lo-fi mini-cassette recordings, Morgan generated music on computer by custom programming sequencing and processing designed so that no two performances of the patches would be exactly the same. In turn, Jason Zumpano on fender rhodes piano, Tim Loewen on guitar and Nyla Rany on cello improvised over those electronic sequences. Morgan then edited and mixed the live and premixed sections together. The resulting album, First Narrows, was released in May 2004.