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Bedroom Full O’ Blooze – (mostly) acoustic blues videos, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Sing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest Appearances, feature art by Mike Kupietz
“The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)” — Electric Guitar Noodling With A Purpose, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Bedroom Full O’ Blooze – (mostly) acoustic blues videos, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Got To Pay Your DuesBedroom Full O’ Blooze – (mostly) acoustic blues videos

This is a playlist from my GuitaristInProgress Youtube channel, just a bunch of old blues tunes I ran through at various points. These are some select ones I like, but…
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Sing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest Appearances, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Nearly FamousSing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest Appearances

Here’s a page collecting some of my musical guest appearances documented on the web. Currently there ain’t much that’s been documented, and less of that that’s posted, but as I…
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“The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)” — Electric Guitar Noodling With A Purpose, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Tonal Eclipse Of The Heart“The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)” — Electric Guitar Noodling With A Purpose

Over the past few years I accumulated a range of inexpensive but beautiful-sounding equipment: a ’94 Standard Stratocaster, both Xtomp and Ampero modeling effects pedals from Hotone, and a Fender…
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RavineHousesTake12 mp3 image, feature article by Mike Kupietz
mosrite picks crop jog smaller, feature article by Mike Kupietz
The Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist, feature art by Mike Kupietz
RavineHousesTake12 mp3 image, feature article by Mike Kupietz
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DemoThe Ravine Houses Are Gone (A Song For Hume, And Wacks, And Dan, And You)

May 28, 2007 On May 27, Christopher Hume’s parents met up with my friends Dan and Wacks at Bard College, and they went down to the on-campus waterfalls on the…
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mosrite picks crop jog smaller, feature article by Mike Kupietz
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Serious Gear GeekeryMosrite/Bakersfield Guitar Picks

I wonder how many of even my guitarist friends will appreciate the above photo. Maybe some of you Seattle musicians, or Ventures fans. I found a set of vintage Mosrite…
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The Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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If I Do Say So MyselfThe Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist

These are probably my favorites of the various video performances I posted on the GuitaristInProgress Youtube channel over the years I was active there. There’s a little variety here — both…
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Bento software synthesizer screenshot, feature article by Mike Kupietz
Michael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Yiki·dū·sō (A Dream) digital single by Mike Kupietz cover, feature article by Mike Kupietz
Bento software synthesizer screenshot, feature article by Mike Kupietz
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Equipment OverviewBento Box Software Synthesizer

I love the Bento synthesizer app. This is the kind of thing I never would have thought was worth my time, until I started to actually play with it and…
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Michael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Album PreviewMichael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009

Back in 2009 my old ex-friend Rick Abruzzo, whom I’d met some years earlier during a mutual effort to resuscitate the soggy corpse of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, invited…
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Yiki·dū·sō (A Dream) digital single by Mike Kupietz cover, feature article by Mike Kupietz
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Digital SingleYiki·dū·sō (A Dream)

This digital 0″, originally hosted on my Bandcamp page, contains a track that sat unfinished on my hard drive for far too long, now finally having had the burrs filed…
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Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Five Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05, feature art by Mike Kupietz
गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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DemoMonster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a

An early experiment in the serialist style I’ve been developing, which I was once told by a figure in a dream should be called “Zetetic Music”. 2017.
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Five Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Album PreviewFive Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05

Posted with great reluctance, my perpetually unfinished magnum opus, likely to someday stand as my failed masterpiece, a ponderous 65-minute arabesque of serialist post-rock instrumentals which, after 7 ongoing years…
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गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Album Previewगोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra

This one is finished except for the final production and mastering… it needs some studio gloss on it. This a a drone album I did in early 2023. I created…
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The Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Ethay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture, feature art by Mike Kupietz
The Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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DemoThe Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15

I’ve been putting together an album of goofy electronic arrangements of classic tunes. Here’s one I’m still working on at the moment, a medley of classic favorites, called “The Strutbutter…
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Ethay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Album PreviewEthay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture

Imagine if an esteemed Pig Latin cinema auteur filmed a classic 1970s horror movie entirely in his native tongue. Then, imagine if I had been picked out of my second-grade class by that auteur to create a vintage electronic progressive soundtrack to that film. Now, imagine that soundtrack was unearthed and finally saw release as an album in the 2020s. These are the work-in-progress demos for what someday will be what would have been that legendary classic film score.
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