Throughout the event, various musicians, dancers and performance artists will create an interpretation of Dante’s Inferno, traversing through the realms of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. I’ll be collaborating with dancers Rebecca Bogue and Jane Munro to represent Purgatory.

The event takes place at Apiary Studios, Hackney Road (Cambridge Heath), London with doors at 7pm sharp. Full details from the Apiary website.
Preview on Art Rabbit.

BJORN HATLESKOG – WARREN CONLON
GRAHAM DUNNING – JANE MUNRO – REBECCA BOGUE
KEVIN QUIGLEY – CALUM F KERR

On Tuesday 24th April I’ll be performing using turntables in a duo with saxophonist Colin Webster. The event takes place at Luminere in Clapton, East London, at a night called Uncharted Soundscapes.

Also performing are:
Ilze Ikshe (flute) / Christopher Boudhun (guitar);
Daniel Thompson (guitar) / Bendict Taylor (Viola);
and Alex Ward (Clarinet).

More info from the Uncharted Soundscapes blog or the facebook event page.

On Saturday 21st April from 7-9pm will be a closing celebration, an informal meeting with refreshments etc. I’ll be there to answer any questions about the exhibition or my work in general.
Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

Currently the release is only available direct from our gigs, but I may be able to arrange something if you’d like to buy one mail order.

Thanks to $500Limit for releasing the record; you can preview one of the tracks, Creatures, on the label’s site.

The exhibition runs on into April. More info here.

The exhibition, For Posterity, tells the story of my attempts to reunite a family with an audio journal they made to reel-to-reel tape, which I found at a car boot sale. I’ll be talking about the process I went through to find the family; the issues raised in the process including the legacy of archive and questions of anonymity; how the work links in with my wider art practice; my earlier work which has informed this installation; and future projects.

During the talk I’ll show audio and video and examples of previous work and take questions from attendees.

The event runs from 4pm to 7pm on Saturday 17th March, 2012, at  SoundFjord, Unit 3B – Studio 28 | 28 Lawrence Road | LONDON | N15 4ER. Please RSVP to info@soundfjord.org.uk.

There’s also a Facebook event page here.

The first track of the EP is a twenty-two minute live recording of the group made in October last year. At the event I played percussion and electronics alongside two barritone saxophones, percussive guitar and laptop.

The release also features two remixes of the track, from Noise Research and Guy Harries.

Click here to download from archive.org.

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

Tagged: Artist's Talk, Event, Exhibition, Found Sound, Installation, Sound, Tape ]]> http://grahamdunning.com/2012/02/15/for-posterity-new-solo-exhibition-at-sound-fjord-london/feed/ 2 grahamdunning SoundFjord_Graham-Dunning_For-Posterity http://grahamdunning.com/2012/02/08/new-release-archived-tracks-from-exhibitions-compilations-and-radio-play-2010-2011/ http://grahamdunning.com/2012/02/08/new-release-archived-tracks-from-exhibitions-compilations-and-radio-play-2010-2011/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:48:52 +0000 Graham Dunning http://grahamdunning.com/?p=750 Continue reading →]]> Released this week through Open Sound Group, for free download, a selection of my tracks  played at exhibitions, on radio shows and released on compilations in 2010 and 2011.

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.