Michael Morley (musician)

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Michael Morley is an experimental musician and visual artist from New Zealand.

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Morley sings and plays guitar and laptop as a member of The Dead C, [1] [2] but also records on his own (and with collaborators) as Gate. Earlier, in the 1980s, Morley was a member of Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos. [3]

Morley founded the Precious Metal label [4] sometime in the late 1980s to document, first on cassette and later LP and CD, his own work as Gate. Most of the releases on Precious Metal were limited to very small quantities.

Morley currently teaches at Otago Polytechnic School of Art in Dunedin.

Discography

a partial Gate discography;
title, format, label, country

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References

  1. "In Praise of Miscompetence: Noise Icons the Dead C Remain ..." Observer. Observer. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  2. "Label lives on at the Hocken". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  3. Jeffries, Graeme (August 2018). Time Flowing Backwards: A Memoir. Mosaic Press. p. 260. ISBN   1771612371.
  4. Vaughan, Laurene; Edquist, Harriet (1 September 2012). The Design Collective: An Approach to Practice (Unabridged ed.). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 285. ISBN   1443840270.