Drift
Drift: turning out of sync Drift: internal clocks Each of these two videos is an experiment in creating patterns through error. In Drift: turning out of sync each note is created by a rotating record...
View ArticleClimbing Walls series
Two pairs of collages made from cutup record sleeves, based on photographs of indoor climbing walls. Made on 5th October 2018. 21 x 21 cm / 8.25 x 8.25 inches Two of these were used as the front and...
View ArticleUntitled (record sleeve cutups)
Three more square collages made from cutup record sleeves. Made between January and April 2018. These have been used as covers for the following albums, all released in 2018: Graham Dunning –...
View ArticleMuseum of Peripheral Collections
Opening in late September 2017, an exhibition exploring the connections between the act of collecting, and music appreciation and music making. The exhibition at Bon Accuiel in Rennes, Nantes had two...
View ArticleField Tracing
Video (30’54”), five channel audio, four tracing styluses and a rope. Reading about the idea of the Edison Defect – the first introduction of surface noise in recorded sound1 – I conducted an...
View ArticleSchéma
Exhibition of work made during a residency at Galerie Paradise, Nantes, France; May and June 2017. At the opening I played a live Rhythm & Drone set with a circular set-up. Also a performance...
View ArticleReal Data
Video (22’35”) made by deliberately misinterpreting data collected from music producers about the extent to which they consider themselves Bedroom Producers (by my own definition). The video consists...
View ArticleObsolète
An exhibition of existing work for the start of a two month residency at Gallery Paradise, Nantes, France. May 2017. List of works: Various Modified Records; Stone Tapes; Untitled (Tape Ghosts);...
View ArticleOrganisms series
A comment I’ve often heard about music made with the Mechanical Techno system is that it sounds more organic than music made with ordinary sequencers. With this in mind I made trigger records and cut...
View ArticlePlay It Today
Recorded May 2020 using the Music by the Metre method. Edition of 20 tapes, individually recorded with hand made recycled covers, and digital download. The recordings were made with automated systems...
View ArticleGraham Dunning / Colin Webster – Terrain
Graham Dunning and Colin Webster have worked together since 2014, and to date have recorded six albums as a duo as well as two trio releases with Sam Underwood. Until now the duo have utilised the...
View ArticlePanopticon
‘Half-Life’, all in-game sounds replaced with samples from 90s rave tracks and sample CDs. https://everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com/album/panopticon “The research consists of four main phases:...
View ArticleIngrid Plum, Anton Mobin & Graham Dunning – Ancient Lights
This is the first recording by the trio of UK-born, Denmark-based Ingrid Plum, France’s Anton Mobin, and Londoner Graham Dunning, consisting of concise tabletop improv pieces utilising electronics,...
View ArticlePILOTS Live Duo
As a duo, Amy Cutler and Graham Dunning perform live improvisations with an evolving set which includes deadly nightshade “film soup”, greenhouse field-recordings after dark, visuals with toy goo (aka...
View ArticlePILOTS
PILOTS: A daily collaboration with Amy Cutler. (B-roll jingles / idents; pilot episodes; petridish horizons) ‘there are no environments without veering’ – Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental...
View ArticleFeatherphone
A percussion instrument using springs from snare drum wires. Amplified with four pairs of contact mics, one pair for each set of springs. Something like a kalimba/mbira with springs for tines. I use...
View ArticleReach Into Time
Tracks made from edits of live code gigs and rehearsals, all improvised from scratch. Released by SØVN Records on 13th February 2020. Graham Dunning is a British musician and artist, who has...
View ArticleSomething About Still Trying
An album of field recordings with various alterations, released by Kate Carr through her label Flaming Pines. Released as a cassette and download on 30th January 2020. Something About Still Trying is...
View ArticleDunning & Brosamer – Glocken
Released 15th December 2019 by Invisible City, a collaboration with Sascha Brosammer as tape and download. Made using gramophone, turntable, modified records, cast 78s, retextured disks by Lisa...
View Article1947
Recorded October 2019 using the Music by the Metre method. Edition of 10 tapes, individually recorded with hand made recycled covers, and digital download. The recordings were made with automated...
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