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“Of Uncertain Origins” — original demo for “Five Themes in Uncertain Times”
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Early Demo: “Of Uncertain Origins” — original demo for “Five Themes in Uncertain Times”

Here we have a interesting relic of how the creative process can mess with you. My perpetually unfinished magnum opus "Five Themes In Uncertain Times" has been through a lot…
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“The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)” — Electric Guitar Noodling With A Purpose
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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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Sing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest Appearances
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Nearly Famous: Sing 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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Bedroom Full O’ Blooze – (mostly) acoustic blues videos
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Got To Pay Your Dues: Bedroom 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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The Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist
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If I Do Say So Myself: The 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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mosrite picks crop jog smaller
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Serious Gear Geekery: Mosrite/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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Demo: The 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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Yiki·dū·sō (A Dream) digital single by Mike Kupietz cover
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Digital Single: Yiki·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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Michael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009
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Album Preview: Michael 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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Bento software synthesizer screenshot
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Equipment Overview: Bento 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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गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra
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Album Preview: गोल्डन 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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Five Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05
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Album Preview: Five 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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Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a
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Demo: 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.
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Ethay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture
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Album Preview: Ethay 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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The Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15
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Demo: The 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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