SORNE

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, He was a Texas Biennial artist in 2009, and in 2013 won the Austin Chronicle 2013 Avant Garde Artist of the Year award.

Biography

Morgan Sorne was born in Tallahassee, Florida in 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. 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. Live shows consist of primarily live vocals, sampled vocals and other pre-recorded sounds, live drums, and occasionally incorporate other instruments as well. SORNE has been described as seeming as though he is in a trance in his live performance. He describes the early development of his live act, before teaming up with the other bandmates, as "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." in his recordings. The musical style has been described tribal, electronica,

House of Stone saga

SORNE has written over 80 songs which tell the story of the House of Stone saga through the points of view of the five main characters: First Born, Second Sun, Black Sister, Little Brother, and Blue Sister. House of Stone is the name of both the entire saga and the first album, which was released in 2011 and featured 13 songs written by Sorne including "Golden Death Chant".

Discography

Albums House of Stone (2011) House of Stone: Death I (2014) House of Stone: Death II (2014) House of Stone: Death III (2015) House of Stone: Death IIII (2016) House of Stone: Death V (2017)

Singles Ego Altar (2013)

Guest appearances A Thousand Faces-Act I: Beats Antique (2013) A Thousand Faces-Act II: Beats Antique (2014)