In actuality it never started up, did it. We had like 4 summery days this summer, and I think I was locked in a rehearsal studio for 3 of them. Total bullshit.
At least it's not like I have to switch back into work mode or anything now: we never stopped. But I'm not really complaining: August in Berlin was unsurprisingly fun and rewarding: our hosts at Podewil/sommer.bar/Tanz Im August were perfectly great, and our modifications to hardly resulted in something quite hallucinogenic and exhausting (in a good way), it was my favorite thing I've ever done onstage. We did three loops over two hours, the video above is loop 1 plus 7 minutes of loop 2. I'm really hoping we get a chance to do this again somewhere so we can try more loops...right now we imagine that 5 in a row (3.5 hours) could be possible.
Currently enjoying the luxury of a whole week off, and then it's back into the studio to get some work done on WAFTUG before we take this is hardly an invitation to Milano in October.
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.
Botero/Bruinsma/Morse: improvising trio interested in unstable aluminum foil preparations. We're trying to come up with a catchier name.
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.
Remembering March 16-20, 1992
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*"Halfway through the week, I thought, 'Gee, this is like working on a
classic Rolling Stones album. This is going to be a great record and it's
going to ...
Monotribe Meets Pro-One Part 10: Grooved Sync
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This is the latest piece from a group of microtracks that feature the Korg
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Pro-One. In ...
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This week, the 2012 EMP Pop Conference hits New York City. They write:
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gather to ta...
Sun Ra Sunday
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This BBC documentary, *Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet*, is fun but a
little disappointing. It neither works as a compelling overview for
newcomers nor...
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We’ve posted before about Wolfram|Alpha’s ability to answer questions about
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Annette Krebs/Anthea Caddy/Magda Mayas - Thread (Another Timbre)
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031012 (Nothing much happened that day)
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031012 (Nothing much happened that day) by etripp
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ARTISTS IN FOCUS: Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder
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announced death ...
International Ornette Coleman Day 2012
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What I find inspiring about Ornette is hisgenuine creative impulse. He
arrived on the scene with a fully formed conceptthat was innovative and
completely...
madal öö (shallow night)
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engraved glass eg.p018 new release available as a high quality CDr or
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Circuit Bender’s Ball in Columbus, OH
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Our friends at the non-profit Fuse Factory in Columbus, OH are trying to
bring us back for an event at the end of March. Please help support this by
visiti...
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The following interview was conducted with artist/writer Brandon LaBelle
prior to the launch of his new publication Site of Sound Volume Two (Errant
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Mystery Disc
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Mystery, not in the sense of trying to stump anyone, but being stumped
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only inform...
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Here’s a few thoughts on DEPLOYMENT, a new piece of mine that is premiering
at the New England Conservatory next week. Why such an strident title? I
kept t...
EVIL TWIN "The Black Spot" (UK, 1993)
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One of the masterworks in Karl Blake's catalog, *"The Black Spot"* was
created between 1987 and 1991, when Blake's main band *Shock Headed Peters* wa...
FM SHADES Library Stream back online!
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Listen to the FM SHADES Music Library Streaming 24/7!
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Richard Garet + Asher Thal-Nir - Melting Ground
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Flying over the Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska... ...videotaping mazes
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No, the blog hasn’t been overtaken by 2012 spammers, this really is the
end. When this blog started a few years back, it was a place for me to
reach out an...
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
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So. I've been gone a while and you oughtn't expect much from me in the
coming month, as I'll be in a cabin away from electricity for most of it. I
wante...
Dick Devall - Timely Tunes 1563
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Here's a great record. If you ever wanted to know what real cowboy singing
was like, well I bet this is about as close to that as you'll ever find.
This ...
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*Director: Pierre Hébert*
*Year: 2005*
*Time: 14 mins*
*Music*
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How to Make Xylophone – the keys…
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winter compilation
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ooTray is pleased to announce our first compilation. We set out with the
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