honeytone meltdown.

(Photo: Raymond van Mil)

This is the encore from last Friday's Sleep Gunner gig at SMART. I was quite ill, victim of some kind of food poisoning thing, and I think my playing reflects a certain inner toxicity here. Since someone's already asked: besides a little tremelo at the beginning, there are no effect pedals here, just feedback and that underused bit of real estate on your guitar, the tone knob.

Sleep Gunner: Satan's Jeweled Crown (4:38).



Jeroen Kimman: harmonium
Mark Morse: guitar, handheld amplifier

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unprepared.

So, I tend to do these solo studies when I have an impro gig coming up, because I really hate doing the same old shit all the time and these studies are an attempt to find something new to experiment with during the gig. This is going to be a set of two-minute impros on the 12-string neck, mostly unprepared, no effects, etc.

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Solo Study v-8.



Solo Study v-5.



Mark Morse: 12-string guitar

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multifingered.

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.

Wond.



Omeg.



Pipe.



Mark Morse: guitar, AudioMulch.

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in like a lion.

Or something like that. In the absence of having anything smart or funny to say, I'll post about an upcoming gig, two sets of improvised skronk with a nice band.


22 march 2011 @ zaal 100, 21:00uur, 5 euro entry.

Jasper Stadhouders: guitar
John Dikeman: saxophones
Onno Govaert: drums
Mark Morse: guitar
Nicolau Lafeta: trumpet

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six string tunings.

This isn't the most thrilling post on the block, but I've got to put it somewhere. I mess around with a lot of different tunings, but rarely ever write them down...or remember them. So, in an attempt to not waste my time by coming up with things that I then can't recreate, this little post will contain a list of these tunings, as I stumble across them. These are all from head-to-floor.

D, Ab, C, D, Bb, E

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