Michael Morley is an experimental musician and visual artist from New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

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Morley sings and plays guitar and laptop as a member of The Dead C

The Dead C

The Dead C are a New Zealand based noise rock trio made up of members Bruce Russell, Michael Morley and Robbie Yeats. Most often, Russell plays electric guitar, Morley sings and plays electric guitar or laptop, and Yeats plays drums....

, 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

Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos

Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos was a band from New Zealand consisting of Michael Morley and Richard Ram. During the early 1980s they released numerous cassettes through the Wrecked Music and Every Secret Thing labels. In 1986 the Flying Nun label released their River Falling Love EP,...

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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

The Otago Polytechnic is a public New Zealand tertiary education institute, centred in Dunedin with campuses throughout the region of Otago including Cromwell, Wanaka and Queenstown....

 School of Art in Dunedin

Dunedin

Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...

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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)

External links

• Precious Metal discography
• Michael Morley interview on MonsterFresh.com (Aug. 2010)