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"The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)" — Electric Guitar Noodling With A Purpose, feature art by Mike Kupietz
The Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist, feature art by Mike Kupietz
गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra, 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 Champion 20 modeling amp, the latter three of which, as digital modeling hardware containing hundreds of software models emulating vintage analog signal processors, amps, and...
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The Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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If I Do Play 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 both kinds of music here — classic rock AND blues! Plus, a few hints of electric guitar and one odd psychedelic spin on my old Wurlitzer organ. If you're only...
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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 the basic audio for this with the wonderful Bento analog synthesis emulator, then arranged and produced it in my hated enemy Logic Pro. Unlike a...
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Ethay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Michael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Bedroom Full O' Blooze - (mostly) acoustic blues videos, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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 1970s Pig Latin cinema auteur had filmed a classic horror movie entirely in his native tongue. Then, imagine that I, at that time, rather than being entirely preoccupied with my second-grade studies and unavailable to travel, had instead left the safe confines of my suburban Long Island childhood home to see...
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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 me to come down with my guitar and fill some airtime on Baghdad By The Bay, his show on San Francisco's Pirate Cat Radio. A...
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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 if you click that link to go to the channel, there are plenty more. The below is displayed with some new scripts I'm working on,...
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Five Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05, feature art by Mike Kupietz
The Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Sing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest Appearances, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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 of work and no end in sight, is at this point holding up the completion of 8 subsequent albums. I wouldn't make a recommendation as...
Posted in genresWork-In-ProgressFull AlbumZetetic MusicProgressive / Art Rock
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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 / The Great Game Show In The Sky". https://michaelkupietz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/The-Strutbutter-The-Great-Game-Show-In-The-Sky-v13.14c8c.mp3
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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 go through my archives I'll dig up more. Daniel Sonenberg with Mike Kupietz: Dan's a very old and dear friend and major force early in...
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RavineHousesTake12 mp3 image, feature article by Mike Kupietz
Yiki·dū·sō (A Dream) digital single by Mike Kupietz cover, feature article by Mike Kupietz
Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a, 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)

Originally posted on my blog Sloth And Dignity. 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 Sawkill Creek, where Chris and I had spent so much time back in school, to scatter Chris's...
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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 off and rough edges sanded down for safe general listening. It's an experimental techno sample manipulation exercise exploring the text of a meme video that...
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Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Night Of The Living DreadEarly Experiment: Monster 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. This is not a listenable or enjoyable album nor a particularly interesting piece of music, and is posted here primarily for the historical record. There are many other...
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