Michael Morley is an experimental musician and visual artist from
New Zealand
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.
Morley sings and plays guitar and laptop as a member of
The Dead C
The Dead C are a New Zealand music and art trio consisting of members Bruce Russell, Michael Morley and Robbie Yeats, formed in Dunedin. Russell is a co-lead guitarist, Morley sings and plays guitar or laptop, and Yeats is a drummer. They hav ...
,
but also records on his own (and with collaborators) as Gate. Earlier, in the 1980s, Morley was a member of
Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos.
Morley founded the Precious Metal label
sometime in the late 1980s to document, first on cassette and later LP and CD, his own work as Gate. Most of the releases on Precious Metal were limited to very small quantities.
Morley currently teaches at
Otago Polytechnic
Otago Polytechnic is a public Education in New Zealand#Tertiary education, New Zealand tertiary education institute, centred in Dunedin with additional campuses in Cromwell, New Zealand, Cromwell and Auckland. Otago Polytechnic provides career-f ...
School of Art in
Dunedin
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.
Discography
a partial Gate discography;
title, format, label, country
*''Fear of Music''. CS (Precious Metal, NZ)
*''Metric''. CS (Precious Metal, NZ)
*''Hate''. CS (Precious Metal, NZ)
*''Cropped Silver Hi Lo''. CS (Precious Metal, NZ)
*''Trance''. CS (Precious Metal, NZ)
*''Cachian''. CS (Precious Metal, NZ)
*''1994''. LP (Precious Metal, NZ)
*''Guitar''. LP (Majora, USA)
*''Amerika''. LP (Majora, USA)
*''Metric''. LP (Majora, USA)
*''The Dew Line''. CD (Table of the Elements, USA)
*''Golden''. CD (IMD, NZ) a singles collection
*''My Dear Sweet Reluctant Sweetheart''. 2xCD (Hells Half Halo, USA)
*''The Wisher Table''. CD (Precious Metal, NZ)
*''The Monolake''. CD (Table of the Elements, USA)
*''The Lavender Head''. 2xLP (Precious Metal, NZ)
*''The Lavender Head''. 2xLP (Hells Half Halo, USA) Reissue
*''The Lavender Head v.3''. CD (Precious Metal, NZ)
*''Lounge''. CD (Twisted Village, USA)
*''Live in Boston, NYC 1994''. CD (Poon Village, USA)
*3M. 7" (Toneschacht, Ger)
*"Prophet" / "Rebel". 7" (Siltbreeze, USA)
*"Sunshine" / "Ives". 7" (Twisted Village, USA)
*"Trig" / "Tonken". 7" lathe (Precious Metal, NZ)
*I.O.M (1967-1992). 7" lathe (Precious Metal, NZ)
*Julian Dashper Gate Experience (Parts 1–4). 7" lathe (Precious Metal, NZ)
*577 Crash / Latent HM Rights (Part 2/Part 3). 7" lathe (Precious Metal, NZ)
References
External links
Precious Metal discographyMichael Morley interviewon MonsterFresh.com (Aug. 2010)
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Musicians from Dunedin
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of Otago Polytechnic