A Hyatt

Mutantrumpeter Ben Neill’s new release “Morphic Resonance” is out now in two distinct versions. This song marks the first release from his album Amalgam Sphere set to unfold over the coming months. “Morphic Resonance” holds a special significance for Neill, not only for its innovative musical approach but also because it features a collaboration with evolutionary biologist and philosopher Rupert Sheldrake. Sheldrake’s groundbreaking ideas on morphic resonance have had a profound influence on Neill’s thinking since he first encountered them in the early 1990s through a series of conversations between Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, and Ralph Abraham. Both versions of Morphic Resonance blend the rich, live-sampled textures of Neill’s signature instrument, the Mutantrumpet, with Sheldrake’s voice, processed and transformed into a musical element. The harmonic and melodic structure of the track is built by mapping the letters of the title to musical pitches, creating a sonic embodiment of the concept itself. These sequences trigger the live sampled sounds of Neill’s instrument in real time, creating a distinctly dynamic form of ambient music. The Bifurcated Mix introduces glitchy electronic percussion to the dreamy textures, emphasizing the powerful nature of bifurcation as a creative process. The concept of morphic resonance suggests that memory is inherent in nature—that natural systems inherit a collective memory from previous similar systems through habitual behavior. This idea deeply resonates with Neill’s own creative philosophy, where patterns and forms emerge from layered, repetitive processes and evolve organically over time. Neill views morphic resonance as a fundamental principle that shapes the way life unfolds and develops.