Michael Morley is an experimental musician and visual artist from

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

. Morley sings and plays guitar and laptop as a member of

The Dead C The Dead C are a New Zealand based music and art trio made up of members Bruce Russell, Michael Morley and Robbie Yeats. Russell plays electric guitar, Morley sings and plays electric guitar or laptop, and Yeats plays drums. They have been 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 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 ...

. 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 was a public New Zealand tertiary education institute, centred in Dunedin with additional campuses in Cromwell and Auckland. Otago Polytechnic provided career-focused education and training, offering a range of New Zealand accr ...

School of Art in

Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...

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 discography

Michael Morley interview
on MonsterFresh.com (Aug. 2010) {{DEFAULTSORT:Morley, Michael Musicians from Dunedin Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people)