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13-08-09 | 20.00 'till 00.00 | DE PLAYER | Multi | 6,00 euro
8-INCH #2 - GATE / Michael Morley (nz)

DE PLAYER presents
thursday 13 August 2009

8 INCH #2 – MICHAEL MORLEY
vinyl release, video, conversation, exhibition, live program with GATE / MICHAEL MORLEY – featuring special guests (to be announced later)

-opening/live event: 13 august 20.00 hrs,
entrance free
concert costs 6 euro
-visiting exhibition: 14, 15, 20,21 & 22 augustn 13.00- 17.00 hrs

DE PLAYER presents in its new series 8-INCH the second edition with MICHAEL MORLEY from New Zealand. MICHAEL MORLEY is a visual artist. He sings and plays guitar and laptop as a member of THE DEAD C, 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 sees sounds as an elementary medium with which it is possible to construct space. Not in a sexless clean aesthetical and theoretical way, but as it is. Music not made by tonal systems, but build out of the real scratch and possibly hard to swallow. His lyrics (if used) reflect this primal attitude.

“Rented My Ass to See The Sky, You Dumb Fucks Don't Mean Very Much, I've Got More Important Things to Worry About.” (from: Sky – THE DEAD C)

For the 8-INCH, 50 unique artist editions will be released with original sound and artwork on square 8-INCH vinyl and cover by MICHAEL MORLEY. The issue further contains a poster and a photo.
On the evening MICHAEL MORLEY will perform a site-specific live set, featuring SPECIAL GUESTS (to be announced later). MORLEY is currently also working on new recordings in the studio of WORM, Rotterdam.

That same night DE PLAYER opens the first European solo exhibition entitled 'SILENCE' of this New Zealand artist and experimental musician. Curated by freelance curator Roland Groenenboom, the exhibition contains recent watercolours, paintings and drawings made in New Zealand, as well as those made during his residency in Paris (June – August 2009). It also includes in situ works by MORLEY, who will spend most of August in Rotterdam to work both on visual art and recordings.
In his visual production, MORLEY explores how the vast territory of sound may be used within the truly visual practice of painting, among others focusing on how silence and painting relate to each other. His research takes on different forms: from paintings on seven-inch records to watercolours of vintage guitar amplifier and speaker stacks, and from watercolours of anonymous high-rise buildings to paintings of record players that appear to play a vinyl record.

About 8-INCH
8-INCH is a new series in DE PLAYER's program. Six artists are invited to make a limited edition (50) of specific vinyl (square 8") and printwork made by the artist and produced by DE PLAYER. Each issue will be launched with an exhibition and a multi-disciplinary live event that highlights the inspiration and concept of the artists involved. In other words, it reflects the mental state in which the original music is created. For 2009 the series emphasizes the relation between music/sound, performance and visual art. We selected the participating artists because of the particular choices they have made in combining these different media. They combine, extract, deform, reconstruct and invent their own pasts and futures in very organic and inimitable ways. The results are always unique, rousing and provocative.

You can buy 8-INCH limited editions at our webshop at www.deplayer.nl
One issue costs 60 euro. A subscription for 6 costs 275 euro.

Sensational Fix
Next to the 8-INCH release, Roland Groenenboom’s SENSATIONAL FIX on the same night presents SENSATIONAL FIX ZINE #3 ‘MORLEY’, the first monographic publication dedicated to the art of MICHAEL MORLEY. This third fanzine in a projected series of five has 24 pages, of which 12 with full colour illustrations of MORLEY’s art. It furthermore contains an essay by the artist about his visual production. A DVD with a video/sound work by MORLEY accompanies the publication. SENSATIONAL FIX ZINE #3 ‘MORLEY’ is published in a limited edition of 500 signed and numbered copies.
When bought at DE PLAYER it costs 8,50 € and when ordered through SENSATIONAL FIX it costs 10,50 € (international p&p included). Send orders to: sensationalfix@yahoo.com
More info on the philosophy behind the ZINE SERIES and SENSATIONAL FIX on http://sensationalfix.blogspot.com/.

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