“Morphic Resonance” Channels Sound As A Living System

With Morphic Resonance, mutantrumpeter and composer Ben Neill offers a bold and meditative soundscape that fuses science and art into one organic whole.

The piece, which is built around the voice and theories of biologist Rupert Sheldrake, explores the idea that memory exists not only in minds but in nature itself—passed down like habits through invisible fields.

Neill takes this concept and runs with it, transforming Sheldrake’s spoken words into spectral layers of texture and rhythm. These intertwine with Neill’s custom Mutantrumpet, a hybrid instrument that allows real-time sampling and manipulation.

The result is a piece that feels not composed but completely cultivated - evolving, shifting and echoing itself like a memory made of sound.

The Bifurcated Mix deepens this experience, fracturing the calm with glitchy percussion and dissonant moments and underscoring the themes of change and adaptation.

As both a standalone work and the first release from Neill’s forthcoming album "Amalgam Sphere", Morphic Resonance is a thought-provoking and immersive journey.

It’s not just inspired by Sheldrake’s theory, but it embodies it and offers the listener a rare chance to inhabit a living, breathing sound world.

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