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About Dr FuturityDr. Futurity began in 2001 with a chance meeting between 2 local students taking an electronic music course. One, Mark Morton, who handles synths in the current configuration, was returning to school after 16 years away from electronics. Finding that the intervening period had produced new and befuddling technology, he took a "refresher" course at the local community college in hopes of reducing his bafflement. There, he met Brandon Rogers, a computer science student and electronic percussionist who was also taking the course out of interest. They began playing together shortly afterward, combining Morton's love of the rich heritage of "old-school" pre-midi electronic music with Rogers' enthusiasm for current edgy sounds. Before long they had evolved a unique, flexible "ancient-to-the-future" style that morphed old and new styles into something quite more than the sum of its parts.A subsequent live radio broadcast on Chris Stecker's Electric Kingdom show (88.3 FM Ann Arbor) and several dance shows at club X-cel were well received, as was an 11 track demo disc. Dr Futurity began appearing with frequency at clubs around town, including the temple club and played a set at the 2004 Movement festival in Detroit on the Electronic Revolutions stage. More recently, Dr Futurity tracks were selected for the soundtrack of an independent film. Part of the uniqueness of the duos' sound comes from the fact that the pieces are self-generated and anchored by a firm Detroit percussion sound, generated by Morton's variety of analog and other synths and Rogers' analog electronic drums. Not much sampling is used but Morton uses synths to generate dark and churning drones, searching melodies and churning, thrashing sequences to go with Rogers' throbbing, evolving Detroit beats. The "old and new" way of putting pieces together morphs into a new, dark, hip, yet accessible sound that is perfect for club settings. Morton also performs ambient pieces with a focus on long drone oriented tribal ethnic sounds. Morton also performs abstract electronic compositions for "deep listening" and has performed at art gallery installations and scored pieces for ballets. A long time electronic musician, Morton began playing synthesizers in 1975, earned a degree in music composition from Michigan State University in 1985, and continued in bands and doing solo performances until he entered law school in 1985. He has performed electronic concert in California and Michigan, done scores for dance concerts and performed in bands. After 15 years in the legal business, Morton became intrigued with the new developments in electronic music for the twenty-first century and became motivated to reemerge into today's scene. Please contact Dr Futurity using the email address below if you are interested in receiving a demo of Morton's abstract electronic pieces and/or Dr. Futurity demos. |