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 my music education, currently a successful opera composer, music professor at University of Southern Maine, and still playing rock & roll. I’ve contributed small bits to his rock and classical compositions twice.
It Doesn’t Matter To Me (feat. Michael Kupietz & John Kapsis)
Dan Sonenberg – Words & Music, Jon Kapsis – organ & clavinet, Mike Kupietz – guitar solo, Matt Schickele – backing vocals
Radiohead Song
Dan Sonenberg – music, Mike Kupietz – text
This was a facebook request by Dan for intense emotional memories involving music. Not knowing what was to come, I responded with a short paragraph about perhaps my personally darkest private moment ever, which happened to come during a listening of Radiohead’s “Ok Computer” and had resulted in me not listening to that album again for about 5 years. Dan set it to avant-garde classical piano music, charmingly incorporating some momentary strains of “Karma Police”, as part of a suite he called Detuned Radio: Ecstatic Reminiscence and Arguments about Music and had an operatic soprano sing it the world.
Mike Kupietz and Phillip Laurent
My neighbor across the hall, Phillip Laurent, is a teacher, electronic music composer, and organist, as well as the founder of Hilarious Youth, a children’s radio comedy workshop. I don’t know how I got lucky enough to share a landing with this guy. Over the 15 or so years we’ve been neighbors we’ve done our fair bit of collaborating; and yet somehow these few moments of casual, directionless noodling are all of it that has ever been preserved for posterity online. I like it though, especially my Standard Strat’s tone through a crappy little 15 watt amp. (And insecurity compels me to point out that this video captures me in glorious full profile at the heftiest I ever was; no comments from the peanut gallery, please.)
