Graham Dunning

I’ve got two new tracks out today, and thought this would be a good opportunity to round off my year’s recorded music outputs too. Today, Friday 5th December 2025 is the last “bandcamp Friday” of the year, where anything you spend on the site goes directly to the labels/bands without bandcamp taking a fee. I have two tunes out today on two different compilations.

Compassion through algorithms volume III is a digital compilation of tracks mostly by live coders, to generate funds for charities working in Palestine. My contribution is an edit of a Mechanical Techno studio jam. There are over 50 tracks on the comp running all sorts of electronic music genres, including techno, electro, breakcore, drone and noise. Priced at £1 or more, with buyers encouraged to donate whatever they can, all proceeds are donated equally between Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), working for the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees [www.map.org.uk] and A M Qattan Foundation, supporting culture and arts in resisting systematic erasure of the Palestinian people [qattanfoundation.org].

Collapsing Tape: Experiments in Rupture and Repair is a compilation on cassette and download by Bristol based label Collapsing Drums. My track on here is from the duo with Sam Underwood, where we combined my extended turntable with Sam’s acoustic modular system to create some clattering and wonky rhythmic electroacoustic music. The piece is an edit from our performance at LineUp! Festival in Malvern last year, which also features in chapter 6 of my PhD. The design of the tape is lovely and the rest of the tracks are great too, including some of my favourite noisemakers like Mariam Rezaei, Valentina Magaletti, Sculpture and Mr AKA Amazing.

I had two other releases earlier in the year too which are both available online. Some recordings from the RMA Study Group, Music and/as Process were released by the label associated with Birmingham Conservatoire, where the conference took place in 2024. Unusually for a multi-day academic event, us attendees were encouraged to bring instruments along, and the paper presentations were interspersed with both performances and opportunities for us to make music together. This album collates some of those sessions, including “directed improvisations led by Alistair Zaldua, whose ensemble line-ups were chosen at random, allowing for a fresh and dynamic approach to music-making. The album also features performances of contemporary works: Critical Mass (2023) by Steve Gisby, Post-card Sized Pieces (2020) by Sophie Stone, and What Is Left If We Aren’t The World (2021/22) by Emmanuelle Waeckerlé.” The album came out in June 2025, and you can download it here.

I worked with longstanding collaborator Sascha Brosamer on a new pair of recordings in late 2022, when we toured together and did some recording at my uni. Telescope/Microscope was released on Total Silence, Sascha’s label for new music and conceptual art, in August 2025. One of the pieces is expansive, cosmic and psychedelic, featuring extensive use of guitar, synths, and textural sounds. The other is more introspective and focused on phonomanipulation, noise and a monochromatic, minimal palate. Both use lots of turntable (me) and gramophone (Sascha) and many discs from our respective collections of field recordings, machine noise and other unusual documentary sound. You can download the album here. We have some exciting stuff in the pipeline, with our work featuring in a documentary about architectural history, and a performance for the gallery debut of that work in Berlin in 2026.

Finally it’s the anniversary of the release of Beaux Timbres, the album me and Sam Underwood released last year with Accidental Editions. This also features in the PhD, and it’s been great going back over the project to write about it over the last few months. The label still has copies of the vinyl and special edition modified record, as well as the download. All available here.

Lots more to come in 2026. I’m also planning to post here more as I’ll stop using instagram and need some way to promote what I’ve been doing! Stay tuned.