Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inElectronic MusicZetetic Music 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 16, 2024Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10389
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inElectricky GuitarVideoLive Performance Tonal Eclipse Of The Heart“The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)” — Electric Guitar Noodling With A PurposeOver 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 14, 2024Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10292
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inMisc. Appearances Nearly FamousSing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest AppearancesHere'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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 3, 2024Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9347
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inVideoBluesAcousticky GuitarLive Performance Got To Pay Your DuesBedroom Full O’ Blooze – (mostly) acoustic blues videosThis 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz June 15, 2024Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10302
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inRockFolk & BluesAcousticky GuitarLive Performance If I Do Say So MyselfThe Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlistThese 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz June 15, 2024Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10328
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inEquipment & Tools Used Serious Gear GeekeryMosrite/Bakersfield Guitar PicksI 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 12, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4238
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inSinger / SongwriterAcousticky Guitar 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4191
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inElectronic MusicExperimental Music 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 1, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=3838
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressFolk & BluesAcousticky GuitarLive Performance Album PreviewMichael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009Back 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 11, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1482
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inEquipment & Tools Used Equipment OverviewBento Box Software SynthesizerI 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 7, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1241
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressDrone Album Previewगोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden YatraThis 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 7, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1236
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressZetetic Music Album PreviewFive Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05Posted 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 2, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=511
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressZetetic Music DemoMonster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5aAn 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. Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 2, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=509
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressSoundtrackProgressive / Art Rock Album PreviewEthay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion PictureImagine 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. Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 2, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=507
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inWork-In-ProgressElectronic MusicCover Songs DemoThe Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15I'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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 1, 2023Tags: Music & Sounds1 Comment| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=1