morsanek (mark morse: prepared guitar/electronics/editing/sound) repository.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

lysn in gonzo.

This month's Gonzo Circus has a nice little feature on Hilary, and there's a LYSN track on the included Mind the Gap CD as well. This is what we looked like hungover in Berlin last month (foto: Siegmar Zacharias).

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This is the online repository for Amsterdam-based guitarist, arranger/assembler, and sound editor, Mark Morse, aka (dj) morsanek aka Morsanek aka etc etc etc.

It's kind of a disorganized mess, so if you're just interested in hearing some of the sounds I make, they're under the Recordings tag, click here to filter on that.

My audio constructions are heavily influenced by the rhythms and techniques of film editing, and...texturally I'm pretty fascinated by timbral combinations involving both instrumental and non-instrumental sounds. This would be an awesome personal ad. I also like to play with the differences between "chance music" and group improvisation and the role of the listener in discovering or manufacturing structure within either. Call me.

My ongoing struggle with being a non-repetitive, idiom-resistant improvising guitarist is based on using prepared guitar as a sort of sampler or emulator, and experimenting with the limits of texture as narrative glue. I also try to work with handheld amplifiers and feedback.

In addition to playing kind of regularly in ad hoc improv ensembles around town, I'm a member of a few irregularly performing and/or possibly defunct entities:

Morsanek: Tended to be the catch-all for sample-based constructions, performances, or mixes, usually just me but not always, and frankly it's a name that's not getting much use anymore.

Hidden Pincer: In development, designed to rip off Young Marble Giants, ESG, and The Aislers Set in equal measure.

Sleep Gunner: guitar duo paying homage to 1950s heartbreak duo The Louvin Brothers, with composer/guitar hero Jeroen Kimman. New website here.

Light Metal Trio: improvising trio interested in unstable aluminum foil preparations. With Dirk Bruinsma on baritone sax and Santiago Botero on double bass.

The Family Tapes: no-effects electric guitar quintet exploring an anti-wanking approach to ensemble improvising, website here.

LYSN: Composer Hilary Jeffery's variable-size drone ensemble. Music here.

Minister Kebab: With Hilary Jeffery on trombone and tromboscillator and Alan "Gunga" Purves on all manner of homemade percussion, plus me on samplers, feedback, and analog electronics. Influences or resulting resonances include Throbbing Gristle, La Monte Young, and cartoon Scottish-Haitian pipe bands. Recordings here.

The Durians: Mysterious two-decade-old Atlanta-based improvised art rock quartet featuring the ultra-pithy verbal stylings of high-school teacher/Dante translator Terrill Soules.

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Released in Feb 2009 on the Kazemat label, my first (split) vinyl LP:

My side is 20 minutes, one highly edited piece, 181 "tracks" of me playing prepared and unprepared guitar, unlikely percussion, dilapidated brass and woodwinds, and not-very-realistic keyboards.

Sounds awesome, I know, but nonetheless Gonzo Circus called it something like "a fascinating puzzle", and Vital Weekly called it a "surprising piece of music", so there you go.

Here's a 5-minute edit I did of it for radio:

Morsanek: The Vacation (radio edit) (4:40)

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Get in touch if you need to: mark (at) wittereus (dot) net.

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Where Was I

16 Feb 2012: AUXXX @ OT301, Amsterdam (as dj morsanek).
21 Dec 2011: Set 1: w/Bruinsma/Morse/Botero, Set 2: w/Oğuz Büyükberber, @ Zaal 100, Amsterdam
23-26 Nov 2011: WE'RE ALL FOR THE UNDERGROUND @ Frascati, Amsterdam
09 October 2011: this is hardly an installation, Milano, Italy as part of the Short Formats Festival
23 August 2011: this is hardly an installation @ Podewil, sommer.bar, Berlin as part of Tanz im August
08-09 July 2011: WE'RE ALL FOR THE UNDERGROUND @ Paradiso, Amsterdam, as part of I Like To Watch Too
01 June 2011: Sleep Gunner @ OT301, Amsterdam (w/ Duke Garwood)
16 April 2011: Sleep Gunner @ Winston International, Amsterdam
01 Apr 2011: Sleep Gunner @ SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (w/Seamus & Viljam, Perennial Company and Hope Phone)
22 March 2011: w/Cactus Truck @ Zaal 100
20 Feb 2011: Sleep Gunner, OCCII, Amsterdam (w/Vril)
07 Dec 2010: w/Jasper Stadhouders, Jacob Wick: Zaal 100, Amsterdam
28 Nov 2010: duo w/Jasper Stadhouders, De Tulp, Amsterdam (w/Daniel Hicks)
12 Nov 2010: This is hardly an invitation (w/Hillary Blake Firestone), Bellevue Theatre, Amsterdam
14 Oct 2010: OT301 Music & Dance: The Duets (w/Ema Nik Thomas)
07 Oct 2010: w/Mt. Fuji Doomjazz Corporation, OT301, Amsterdam
08 March 2010: DNK, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (Sleep Gunner)
24 February 2010: Tabula Rasa, Martin Luther Kerk, Amsterdam, with Dirk Bruinsma, John Dikeman, and Raoul van der Weide
06 February 2010: De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (This is hardly an invitation, with Hillary Blake Firestone)
04 February 2010: Grand Theatre, Groningen (This is hardly an invitation, with Hillary Blake Firestone)
10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 December 2009: Connie Janssen Danst, Rotterdam (Sleep Gunner)
12 September 2009: KuLe Theatre, Berlin (LYSN)
11 September 2009: Reichenow, Berlin (LYSN)
04 June 2009: SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (The Family Tapes)
23 May 2009: This is hardly an invitation, Theatre Frascati, Amsterdam (with Hillary Blake Firestone)
22 May 2009: This is hardly an invitation, Theatre Frascati, Amsterdam (with Hillary Blake Firestone)
19 May 2009: This is hardly an invitation, Grand Theatre, Groningen (with Hillary Blake Firestone)
09 April 2009: OT301, Amsterdam (The Wench)
18 March 2009: Zaal 100, Amsterdam (Minister Kebab)
28 February 2009: Outline, Amsterdam (with Hilary Jeffery and Jim Fulkerson)
24 February 2009: Kikker Theater, Utrecht (Morsanek vs. Vinkepeezer live)
20 February 2009: Outline, Amsterdam (with Hilary Jeffery, Rozemarie Heggen, Eric Thielemans)
17 February 2009: Zaal 100, Amsterdam (with Eric Boeren and Oscar-Jan Hoogland)
15 February 2009: Outline, Amsterdam (with Hilary Jeffery)
01 February 2009: Petersburg Project Space, Amsterdam (Morsanek vs. Vinkepeezer live)
6 January 2009: Zaal 100, Amsterdam (The Family Tapes)
10 December 2008: AUXXX @ OT301 (DJ)
27 November 2008: Zaal 100, Amsterdam (w/Hilary Jeffery, Rozemarie Heggen, Louise Landes Levi
21 Nov 08: Andergrond, Den Haag (Morsanek & Vinkepeezer)
5 Nov 08: OT301, Amsterdam (LYSN, w/Chris Corsano)

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Saturday, October 10, 2009

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