The show features Witch House, Drone and Field Recordings, alongside samples from a recording of H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau. You can listen to or download the podcast from here.

Many thanks to the team at Sadayatana for featuring my sounds.

Graham Dunning | For Posterity
Exhibition: 15 March – 21 April 2012 | noon-6pm | THUR-SAT & by appt.
Artist Talk: SAT 17 March 2012 | 4pm | Free entry | RSVP
Closing celebration: SAT 21 April 2012 | 7-9pm | All Welcome | RSVP 

A domestic reel-to-reel tape recorder bought at a car-boot sale, a spool of tape still on the machine. On the tape, a family’s audio diary from 1958 to 1967. In the last entry, the parents explain to their youngest son the reasoning behind the recordings: “It’s for posterity,” the father clarifies. The mother adds, “for your children, and your chi…” She is interrupted, soon the tape ends. 

This new installation from artist Graham Dunning is an attentive document of his attempt to reunite the tape with its makers. Artefacts and correspondence are shown alongside the machine on which the recordings were made: the uncanny experience of disembodied voices playing through obsolete technology, a ghost in the machine. 

In an age of digital media where memories – as photographs, videos and audio recordings – exist only as numbers on hard-drives and CDs, or online on a distant server, For Posterity calls into question the apparent advantages of digital over analogue technologies; the role of physical artefacts in preserving our own histories; and the function of archiving per se. Recent debates regarding online privacy focus on the personal traces we leave behind, the “right to be forgotten”, and the implications of policing this with regard to freedom of speech and censorship. These themes are also explored across the installation by way of the considered presentation of both personal and sensitive material.

 SoundFjord
Unit 3B – Studio 28, 28 Lawrence Road, London N15 4ER ,United Kingdom
soundfjord.org.uk

For further information please contact Helen Frosi at SoundFjord:
helen@soundfjord.org.uk | +44 20 8800 3024 | +44 7973 153 366

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Seven tracks totalling fifty minutes: drone, record crackle, noise, improv, found sound, field recordings, circuit bending, analogue synth and edited live performances.

Click here to listen/download.

My first solo performance of the year will be at Unconscious Archives #4 on Tuesday 7th February at Apiary Studios. I’ll be performing with turntables and objects, dubplates and retextured records.
Here’s some more detail from the press release:

UNCONSCIOUS ARCHIVES #4
LEE GAMBLE
IAN HELLIWELL
LYNN LOO / STEVEN BALL
GRAHAM DUNNING

Tuesday 7th February
Apiary Studios, 458 Hackney Road, London, E2 9EG
7.30pm-10.30pm, £5 donation, b.y.o

Unconscious Archives transverses noise core and vision spectacle bringing together expanded cinema and sonic propositions from London and afar.
UA4 is teaming with other worldly light fantastic machines and aural intricacies to ripen the apocalyptic new year.
Lynn Loo concocts a garden of colour and form for 16mm film accompanied by Steven Ball on sonic manufacturing. Ian Helliwell takes us as close to intergalactic planet watching as your going to get this year. Graham Dunning seeks to cement our appreciation of vinyl with his tough loving of it. Lee Gamble completes the circuit with a music box workout that will disfigure the biosphere leaving detritus and debris thick enough to rival the amount of space junk out there.

Click here for more info.

Also on the bill there’s sci-fi electronics from Man From Uranus and live low-tech hardware disco from Jellica. Plus DJ Leee Nite.

Click here for the Facebook event.

Moving from Manchester to London in January was a massive change for me but exciting in so many ways. I was honoured to be asked to join Eat Lights; Become Lights as a session annalogue synth player for live gigs, though it took until September until I actually played with the group due to their relocation to LA. I set up the Open Sound Group netlabel in February, initially as a way to present my archive of recordings and, through the year, to put out eight superb releases of sound art, improvised music and field recordings from other groups and artists.

March saw an installation at the Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts, a composition featured for the Lightworks multimedia exhibition in Grimsby and an exclusive track released on-line through Classwar Karaoke. In March I also joined Now as their drummer, a band I’ve loved for a long time and really enjoyed playing with. A couple of line-up changes and dozens of gigs later, Now are preparing to release a 7″ EP early in 2012 shortly to be followed by a CD album (and, of course, plenty more gigs).

I met some great artists in April on a short residency on a light ship, where I presented a new installation and some collaborative performances. Also in April I had a download release, the soundtrack to a previous installation, on one of my favourite netlabels, Modisti, and a track featured on a special show about narrative on Resonance FM. May was another busy month, with a new site-specific installation at an exhibition in Wales and a composition featured at the New Lexicons of Dark show in London, as well as the release of a brand new track on Found in a Skip netlabel.

If May was busy, June was hectic. Alongside gigs with Now, Damo Suzuki and The A Band, I joined newly-formed Sci-Fi improv ensemble Asteroid, with whom I’d play several high-intensity gigs throughout the year. I was also lucky enough to be selected to work with The Science Museum on their co-curation programme, helping put together an exhibition about Daphne Oram and the History of Electronic Music, the results of which are now on show until December 2012. I took a slight break in July, in preparation for the rest of the year, but was delighted to have a new composition debuted at the ICA for Soundfjord’s Re/Flux event.

Throughout August I worked on my biggest commission to date, a public, interactive sound installation for the Luton Festival, called Your Luton Symphony. August also saw another Open Sound Group workshop and networking event, with corresponding release on OSG. At the start of September I was in New York setting up my first international solo show, Loss Shines a Light on What Remains, which featured three of my older installations. And later in the month I spent a long weekend at Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbarn in the lake district, recording an album with other artists associated with White Label Music.

In October things quietened down again, with only the openings of the Oramics exhibition and the Figure Ground publication launch. November saw me beginning to explore movement in performance, firstly as I reunited with an artist from the Light Ship, Ingrid Plum, for a duet, hopefully to be repeated in 2012. The month also saw the first performance for dance/sound/improv quartet Familiars, which will also be explored further in the coming year.

Finally, as the year wound down, in December I began a fortnightly net-radio show, Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone, on Dalston’s NTS live. This will carry through into next year where I’ll play more sound, improv, experiemental music and found tapes.

Many thanks again to all who’ve supported me in this frantic, hectic and rewarding year. I hope to see you all soon.
Thanks also for reading.
All the best for 2012!

You can listen by clicking here!

In an audio scrapbook of a programme I’ll be playing sonic art and experiments, improvised music, drones, textures and rhythms. Alongside this musical collage, the show (which will be broadcast live and be available via Soundcloud for a limited time afterwards) will feature guest artists, musicians and curators in conversation, choosing tracks and occasionally performing in the studio. Regular features will include previews of upcoming events, exhibitions, gigs and performances; selections from my archive of found home tape recordings; a focus on a different netlabel in each show; and interviews and features recorded out in the field.

For the first show I’m interviewing sound artist and improvising musician Jo Thomas; previewing some great upcoming gigs and exhibitions; featuring Clinical Archives as the netlabel in focus; playing some odd sounds and recordings from tape and record; and throwing together lots of unusual musical and non-musical gems.

‘Stranger than Fiction…’
A Monthly Celebration of Improvisation in Performance
in collaboration with Independent Dance
Saturday 26th of November at 7:00PM

with
Neat Timothy
Performers: Seke Chimutengwende, Gareth Green, Jane Leaney, Rick Nodine and Gabriele Reuter.
Neat Timothy improvise with text and movement in performance – with their own distinct aesthetic. They mix contemporary dance, contact improvisation, storytelling, folk songs, stand up comedy and the occasional audience experiment.

Language Game
Performers: Alex Crowe and Amaara Raheem.
A flat white after a job interview. A barmaid scrubbing down tables while a fat man holds forth. A major philosophical work consisting entirely of jokes. What lures them in, those elusive meanings that lurk between language and movement?
A structured movement improvisation based on texts by Alex Crowe, Amaara Raheem and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Sense[less] Acts
Performers: Jenny Hill and Rosanna Irvine.
Sense[less] Acts works with movement and text to create particular parameters for an improvisational event. It continually challenges the performers to hone their attention in the present, as a strategy to elude an already recognized future.

Familiars
Performers: Rebecca Bogue, Anthony Donovan, Graham Dunning and Jane Munro.
Familiars acknowledge the movement of the musican and the sound of the dancer; listening and sensing both as they arise in the moment.

Siobhan Davies Studios
85 St George’s Road
London SE1 6ER
Elephant & Castle or Lambeth North tube - Directions
£7 cash only (includes refreshments)
Doors open at 6:30PM

The performance is part of a night called BURN MAGICK BURN which is showcasing works crossing of live art, ritual, sound, improvisation and performance-lecture. See the press release below for more info:

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BURN MAGICK BURN
Friday 4th November 2011
Apiary studios
458 Hackney Rd London, E2 9EG
DOORS 7PM
FREE

Curated By Kevin Quigley

BURN MAGICK BURN is a unique evening of performance that brings together a series of artists / performers to explore the boundaries between performance, music and ritual. Coming together under the cloak of Fire magic Ritual in conjunction with the sacrificial Guy Fox’s bonfire weekend the artist’s will present new performance works evoking the sprites and imps of fire!

- expect an evening of spine chilling immersive enchanted music -

ARTIST DETAILS

ENGLISH HERETIC
English Heretic Present: Burnt Out – Fire Sermons, Fire Summons
Tonight English Heretic explore together the Buddhist concept of The Fire Sermon in the context of its Black Plaque recipients. The Fire Sermon – a metaphor for the burrning nerves of complete psychic capitulation epitomised by the suicides of Michael Reeves and Robert Cochrane; the schizophrenic Ian Ball’s act of royal treason. The Fire Sermon was made popular in the West by TS Eliot’s Wasteland. In 1925, Elliot wrote the Hollow Men, an allusion to the straw effigies of bonfire night, an allusion to his own mental breakdown.

GUY HARRIES + YUMI HARA CAWKWELL
Yumi Hara Cawkwell and Guy Harries perform another intense sound ritual around the theme of fire, using electronics, found objects, movement and voice. Otherworldy, engimatic, transformative, magical.

MYSTERIUM
will perform a intense drone vocal piece with earthquaking ‘transcending’ vocals / drone phasing guitar / dark organ / euphoric saxophone
mysterium players for this performance are -
Christos Fanaras (analog synth-organ)
Colin Webster (alto-sax)
Kevin Quigley (Guitar / electronics)
Leslie Goosey (vocals)
Leigh-ann Abela (vocals)

The new exhibition at The Science Museum, Oramics to Electronica: Revealing Histories of Electronic Music, is now open to the public. Above is a short film by Nick Street and Jen Fearnley about the show itself and the process that me and the other eleven co-curators were involved in.