It's a bummer that Roland discontinued the Micro Cube this year: it weighed about 3 kg, so you could wear it around; had a 5-inch speaker driven by 2 watts of power, fueled by 6AA batteries. I always liked most everything about it except the built-in noise gate that you can't turn off, but oh well. My point is: I'm recording with it right now b/c yeah, I can't be bothered to set up a microphone and my real amp, so this is the sound of the Cube going direct out to my soundcard, monitored through my stereo. It's like I'm in high school. That awesome hum is my Telecaster.
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.
Past Week at Twitter.com/Disquiet
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Street sounds. Shot while with @boondesign, a block from the street for
which the filter is named. #415 http://t.co/5TIa6055 # RT @markrushtoncom:
re my Tw...
About the “insane horizon” of cinema
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By Philippe Grandrieux “A segment has been cut out of the back of his head.
The sun, and the whole world with it, peep in. It makes him nervous, it
distrac...
Locus 13.07b
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This is another piece from a stockpile of synthesizer tracks that I’ve been
sitting on for a while. Locus 13.07b is a study in polyrhythmic
arpeggiation pr...
Songs That Soul Asylum Taught Us (James At 16)
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Y'all should know how much I love Soul Asylum, at least the Soul Asylum who
existed from roughly 1986-90. I've written about this era of the band here,
h...
Cat Breeds Join Wolfram|Alpha’s (Meow) Mix of Data
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Famed amateur astronomer David H. Levy once stated, “Comets are like cats;
they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.” I’m a cat person
and thi...
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...
VIDEO: NETTLE IN STUDIO & SONIDEROS ON THE STREETS
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Last week Nettle gathered at DJ N-Ron’s studio in downtown Brooklyn to
record several new songs. Here is a snapshot of the control room magic,
creativity c...
Brandon LaBelle
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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
Bodies...
Sun Ra Sunday
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*Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Jazz Showcase, Chicago, IL 11-27-76 (AUD 2CDR)*
Paging through the *Discography*, it is apparent that, beginning with the
Châteauv...
Mystery Disc
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Mystery, not in the sense of trying to stump anyone, but being stumped
myself. About 20 years ago, a friend of a friend gave me a cassette. The
only inform...
lind, raud, aastaajad – 2cd set
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yannick dauby, john grzinich, murmer “lind, raud, aastaajad” ib005 – 2 cd
set – 2012 edition of five hundred and nine invisible birds is very proud
to anno...
Notes on DEPLOYMENT
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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...
Next Steps (For Voice Synth)
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Faux 80′s soundtrack underscore ideas, featuring rotating AI interval
decisions for re-synthed alchemical voices. SET 1 Player SET 2 Player
SET 3 Player...
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...
UPLOAD SOLUTIONS ARE IN THE WORKS
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*First, I'd like to take the time to truly thank those of you who were kind
enough to offer to help with the process of re-upping the downed content on
Mut...
FM SHADES Library Stream back online!
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Listen to the FM SHADES Music Library Streaming 24/7!
It also works from the Justin.tv iphone app. Just search FM SHADES on there.
Watch live video from...
Richard Garet + Asher Thal-Nir - Melting Ground
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Flying over the Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska... ...videotaping mazes
of crevasses, peaks blurred by clouds, sinuous lines drawn by snow...
...runn...
The end is nigh
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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 ...
PIERRE HÉBERT THE TECHNOLOGY OF TEARS (2005)
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*Director: Pierre Hébert*
*Year: 2005*
*Time: 14 mins*
*Music*
*Fred Frith*
*Tenko & John Zorn*
*Eye of Sound: Fred Frith once lamented that the dancers for...
How to Make Xylophone Type Instruments – the formula
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How to Make Xylophone – the keys…
Okay, this week we’ll be making a xylophone – so what do we need to know as
far as any math here? Well first, let’s take...
winter compilation
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ooTray is pleased to announce our first compilation. We set out with the
theme of “winter,” with a final product that represents our diverse
membership’s t...
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