Before I started playing with other people again, back in 2007 or something, I was doing a lot of solo multitrack recordings, basically kind of playing with an idea for 2 or 3 minutes, then recording another take without hearing the first one, and then a third without hearing the first two, etc. Then I would nudge some things around in Sound Forge to synchronize events that were interestingly nearby each other. Anyway yes here are three of those kinds of things, probably recorded in 2006.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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031012 (Nothing much happened that day) by etripp
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