Gigs
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8/11/25 | Simple Things Festival, Bristol Beacon Modified turntable duo with DJ Food, visuals by PuttyRubber. Playing as part of the lineup curated by Steve Davis, with Sculpture, Kayla Painter, Ceephax Acid Crew, Aya, Joker and many more. |
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| 20-22/6/25 | Innovation in Music 2025 Conference presentation – Mechanical Techno in the studio: writing a track by building a kinetic sounding sculpture |
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| 1/3/25 | Perifest, De Perifeer, Deventer, Netherlands Mechanical Techno set. With: Ambu Bambu, Cow Shift Z, Gabey A Tham, |grens|, Mark Leckey, Max Ligtenberg, MMKI.Y & Odaira, Stix Omar (Easter), Suzan Peeters, Underbelly, Vinnieragua |
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27/2/25 | Machine Yearning, LaVallee, Brussels, Belgium Graham Dunning presents Mechanical Techno + Yann Leguay presents Volta |
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| 14/12/24 | Accidental Records All-Dayer, Strongroom Bar, London Dunning & Underwood: Acoustic Modular System vs Mechanical Techno. Beaux Timbres album launch. SPECIAL GUEST, Neil Luck, Flywheel, Tullis Rennie & Ruby Colley + Accidental DJs |
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| 30/11/24 | Sounds of Now: Gritstone Turntable double bill, Crucible Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse, Sheffield Leafcutter John / Graham Dunning double bill Solo: extended turntable in-the-round |
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5/10/24 | Levitation Festival Modified turntable duo with DJ Food. Line up: A’Bear, Field Lines Cartographer, Graham Dunning& DJ Food,James Adrian Brown,James Holden,Jo Johnson,Loula Yorke,The Mistys,Nik Colk Void,Paul Cousins, Polypores, The Soundcarriers, Stone Anthem,System 7, Twilight Sequence,Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan |
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| 4-6/9/24 | NIME 2024, Utrecht, Netherlands Paper presentation: Ironing In The Creases: Developing An Idiosyncratic Electro-mechanical Musical Instrument By Reinforcing Its Faults |
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| 24-5/8/24 | LINE-UP Festival, The Cube, Malvern, Worcestershire Dunning & Underwood set with Mechanical Techno & ams (acoustic modular system). With: Shovel Dance Collective, Richard Dawson, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Alison Cotton, Dunning and Underwood, Eliza Marshall, Gwenifer Raymond, Michael Valentine West, Sipho Eric Ndlovu with David Austin Grey, Mikweed. |
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| 2-4/8/24 | Awamu Together Festival, Chiltern Hills, South East England Mechanical Techno live set. With: A Guy Called Gerald, VXRGO. DJ Tamsin, T Williams, DJ SP, Paddy Steer, Miko, Dog Unit, Radio Waves Goodbye, DJ Awen, Nico Lupo, Super Sevens, East West Duo, Racubah, Mei-Sing, Polyop, Lady SK, The Secret Garden, Scrotum Clamp, Dope is the Devil, Kai Daguerre aka monkaiboy, Yeti Bianco, Ivy & Artis |
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| 20/7/24 | Peckham Digital Festival Duo with Heavy Lifting. I will use the Mechanical Techno setup alongside Lucy’s live coding with Tidal Cycles, aiming to connect our systems with different audio feeds and control signals. |
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| 15/6/24 | Innovation In Music 2024, Kristiania University, Oslo Paper presentation: “Messing About as creative process: anti-solutionist approaches in the maker’s workshop, home studio and on stage” |
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| 7/6/24 | Entangled Sounds, KM28, Berlin, Germany Mechanical Techno set. With Lisa Simpson: Prepared sewing machines. |
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| 1/6/24 | EMF Camp, Eastnor, Worcestershire Mechanical Techno set. Electromagnetic Field is a non-profit camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, artists, geeks, crafters, scientists, and engineers. |
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31/5/24 | Rhythm Sticks, Centrala, Birmingham The science of synchronisation in music, mind and body. Mechanical Techno set. With NikNak, Sic’Nis, Simon Peter Green. Plus ascientific experiment and a panel discussion featuring artists and scientists |
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| 3/5/24 | Future Classical podcast, Resonance FM Interview with Benjamin Tassie about my practice and process. |
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| 13/3/24 | Creative Technologies Reserch Centre, LSBU, London Presentation to the department about my PhD research. |
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| 19/01/24 | Baba Yaga’s Hut Takeover, Iklectik, London Mechanical Techno set. Lia Mice playing Catastrophone. Fundraiser / closing party for Iklectik. |
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10/12/23 | A New Wave of Jazz: Two Day Label Festival, Hundred Years Gallery, London Performing as part of Dirk Serries’ minimal ensemble TONUS alongside Andrew Lisle , Benedict Taylor, Colin Webster, Dirk Serries, José Lencastre, Mark Wastell, Martina Verhoeven, Tom Ward. |
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| 29/11/23 | Next Festival, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia Modified turntable duo with DJ Food. |
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18/11/23 | The Birley, Preston, Lancashire Mammoth Beat Organ live set with Sam Underwood. |
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25/10/23 | Excuisite Stitch radio show Short DJ mix for the 100th episode of the show. |
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15/10/23 | Colin Webster Large Ensemble, Cafe Oto, London The second outing for London based saxophonist Colin Webster’s large ensemble, which comprises many of the leading players in the current generation of improvising musicians. Please note that this is a matinee show. Doors will open at 2pm and the performance will start shortly after. Colin Webster / alto sax; Rachel Musson / tenor sax; Cath Roberts / baritone sax; Charlotte Keeffe / trumpet / flugelhorn; Sarah Gail Brand / trombone; Graham Dunning / electronics; Dirk Serries / guitar; John Edwards / bass; Andrew Lisle / drums |
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30/9/23 | Machina Bristonica 2023, Document, Bristol + live stream Mechanical Techno live set Test out gear from 90+ synth companies flying in from across the globe, soak up 10+ hours of live performances (with some very special guests), make your own hardware with our DIY Workshops, drop in on top tier panel talks, educational sessions and live interviews |
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| 29/9/23 | Centrala, Birmingham Mechanical Techno live set. With Sam Underwood: Acoustic Modular System & Lara Jones solo electronics set. |
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28/09/23 | Pattern Club, Sydney + Matilda, Sheffield An evening of pattern-based algorithmic dance music, with focus on live manipulation and sharing of code and other strange structures Epiploke (Heavy Lifting + Yaxu), Eye Measure + Sam Underwood, Graham Dunning, Innocent, sclews |
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| 26/9/23 | Baba Yaga’s Hut (Free gig!), Shacklewell Arms, London Mechanical Techno live set. With Sam Underwood: Acoustic Modular System |
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24/9/23 | Soundings: Mechanical Techno workshop St Swithens Church, Worcester, Worcestershire Make modified records and play them on the turntable tower to create wonky electronic music. Participants keep the records they make plus recordings. |
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23/9/23 | Soundings #5 Finale, St Swithens Church, Worcester, Worcestershire Bringing the foremost experimental mechanical musical instrument makers to Worcester for an evening of discussion and performances Mechanical Techno live set with Rie Nakajima & Pierre Berthet: Dead Plants & Living Objects + open session: bring your inventions |
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| 27/8/23 | Line Up Festival, Malvern Cube, Malvern, Worcestershire Mechanical Techno live set With Aidan Pope, Judy Brush, Sipho Eric Ndlovu, Blue Ruth, Ore, Sly & The Family Drone. |
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5/8/23 | FogFest, Iklectik, London Debut duo with DJ Food – modified turntable back-to-back/soundclash with: Steve Davis, Lauren Sarah Hayes, Nad Spiro, Howlround |
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| 29/7/23 | Culture As A Dare playlist premiere A selection of artists’ video works I put together for the CAA youtube channel. Mechanical musical instruments, live coding, noise music, video synthesis, lots of turntables, bird song, bee sounds and dogs joining in. Premiere at 19:30 with live watch-along. Videos remaining live therafter. |
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| 27/7/23 | TACO, Thamesmead, London Jin Synth, Cath Roberts & Graham Dunning TACO! presents an evening of live musical performances by 3 artists working within experimental music. Each has an approach to performance that employ self-made instruments or sound making devices in the production of their work, fusing electronic, acoustic and analogue sounds and textures, often in improvised sets. The evening has been curated by sound artist and muscian Kate Carr. |
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8/7/23 | A Day In The Sun, Bexhill United Football Club, Bexhill-on-Sea 10 hours of live electronic // abmient // drone Live: Graham Dunning (Mechanical Techno set), Sulk Rooms, Emma Papper, NUNKR, Lo Five, Automouse, Alien Alarms, Megaheadphoneboy DJ sets: Werra Fxma, Kate Bosworth, Kieran Mahon, todos, Peter Moore |
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| 6/7/23 | Centre for the Study of the Networked Image Summer School, Photographers’ Gallery, London Talk about my PhD research: “Extended turntable practice research cycles” |
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3/6/23 | Records of the Paradise, Galerie Paradise, Nantes, France Duo performance with Sam Underwood: electromechanical improvisation, following a week’s residency working on new collabrative recordings and performance. |
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| 31/5/23 | Askip Live #36: Sam Underwood & Graham Dunning. Askip, Nantes, France Duo performance with Sam using his Acoustic Modular System; I will use turntable with extensions. |
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26/5/23 | Tread Into Mulch, Hundred Years Gallery, London Cath Roberts & Graham Dunning duo, Ivy Nostrum, John Macedo |
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22/4/23 | Brak, waterintobeer, Brockley, London Cath Roberts & Graham Dunning, Tom Ward & Panos Ghikas, Colin Webster & Robbie Judkins |
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| 31/3/23 | Dosenfabrik, Hamburg, Germany Sascha Brosamer & Graham Dunning duo – details TBC |
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30/3/23 | Telescope Microscope, Arkaoda, Berlin, Germany Sascha Brosamer & Graham Dunning duo, Alianationist live |
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| 25-26 /3/23 | The City is Full of Noises, The Herbert, Coventry annual electronic music festival building on Delia Derbyshire’s legacy in Coventry. I’ll an expanded turntable set using modified records, triggers and modular synthesiser. |
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25/2/23 | ‘Momentary Lapses’ Album Launch, Iklectik, London BAG X Collapsing Drums + Tears|OV + [something’s happening] + Sensory Leakage (DJ) + Sam Terentjev-Watts (DJ) + Special Guest “Expanded DJ Set” – using modified records and drum machine as well as normal records. |
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23/2/23 | STRAYDOGS008 ODDWORLD II – TAMU NKIWANE A mix by Tamu Nkiwane including two of my unreleased tracks, which I made with live coding program TidalCycles. |
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12/1/23 | Overtones & Undertones #2, Iklectik Art Lab, London Improvising duo with Cath Roberts (eletronics). With Hans Koch, Jonas Kocher, Gaudenz Badrutt, Phil Durrant, Marjolaine Charbin, Jackie Walduck |
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| 21/11/22 | poumons-punaises, Internet Public Radio Guest mix for the Glasgow-based radio show by Boris Allenou. |
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| 8/11/22 | Centrala Space, Birmingham Sascha Brosamer and Graham Dunning with Steckdose |
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| 6/11/22 | Sascha Brosamer & Graham Dunning + Megan Steinberg + Gary Fisher, Peer Hat, Manchester Sound art, live composition, improvisation, noise, turntablism, gramophones, drone music. |
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5/11/22 | Elif Yalvaç + Sascha Brosamer & Graham Dunning + Far Rainbow, Iklectik Art Lab, London Matinee show: 2pm – 5pm International musicians and sonic artists creating abstract, ambient and psychedelic soundscapes. |
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4/11/22 | Flim Flam, The Bee’s Mouth, Brighton Extremely Composed Nonsense. Electro-acoustic Tinkering / Artful Mysticism / Performative Domesticity Sascha Brosamer & Graham Dunning, Lad i Shaura, Layla Tully |
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2/11/22 | Chaotic Behaviour, Eastville Project Space, Yeovil Experimental techno, abstract electronica and warped ambient from: Sascha Brosamer & Graham Dunning, Terminal Optimism, Tonecrop |
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1/11/22 | Liquid Library Presents, Cube Cinema, Bristol Abstract sound art and low-brow noiz in the Cube auditorium: Sascha Brosamer & Graham Dunning, IVY NOSTRUM, Legion Of Swine, Robert Ridley-shackleton, Robin Foster |
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29/10/22 | Hackoustik All Dayer, Iklectik Art Lab, London A day of live music, interactive installations, workshops and talks all focussed around innovative and exciting new ways to make music and sound. Performances & Talks: Samuel Sharp with YOAF, Hangrui Zhang, Craig Scott & Hollie Miller, MyPandaShallFly, Leon Trimble, Cassandra Gurling, Bioni Samp & Psychiceyeclix, Graham Dunning. Installations: Andrew Hockey, Damian Lintell-Smith, Arlene Burnett aka Queen of Camelias, PlinkPlunk, Simon Belshaw, Vulpestruments, Tim Yates. |
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17/9/22 | Soundings, St Swithens Church, Worcester Sarah Kenchington, Lee Patterson, Mammoth Beat Organ Show & Tell 3-5pm, performances from 7pm |
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| 10/9/22 | Drone Bath, Moseley Baths, Birmingham Site specific drone performance with multiple artists tba. 18:00 – 21:00 |
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21/8/22 | Colin Webster Large Ensemble, Cafe Oto, London (matinee show) London based saxophonist Colin Webster has put together a brand new large ensemble which comprises many of the leading players in the current generation of improvising musicians. Colin Webster – alto sax, Rachel Musson – tenor sax, Cath Roberts – baritone sax, Charlotte Keeffe – trumpet – flugelhorn, Graham Dunning – electronics, Dirk Serries – guitar, John Edwards – bass, Andrew Lisle – drums |
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| 12/8/22 | Supernormal Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire Live set using code remixing tracks from Silo. |
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7/8/22 | Splitting The Atom 59, Green Door Store, Brighton Club Zygotic and Lost Property present Splitting The Atom LIX experimental/free/noise all dayer involving: Column 258, Graham Dunning, Phil Durrant & Roger Harmar, Baby Hair, Expedient Self, Screaming Alice, Loner Club, Ethersonic, Blanc Sceol, Andrej Bako – Falling Into The Sea |
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21/7/22 | Homemade Disco: Container + support, Walthamstow Trades Club, London Live set remixing tracks from new album Silo. |
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| 17/07/22 | Out To Lunch Radio Show – guest mix An hour long mix of electronic music which influenced or feels similar to my new album Silo, for Paul Stan Nataraj’s radios show. |
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| 16/7/22 | deXterBentley Show, Resonance FM Live in session with two short sets. 12:00 – 13:30 |
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| 4/6/22 | EMF Camp, Herefordshire Solo gig playing melodica, tape loops and drum machines |
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| 3-5/6/22 | EMF Camp, Herefordshire Mammoth Beat Organ performances, demos and talks throughout the weekend with Sam Underwood |
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| 19/5/22 | Repeater Radio, Walthamstow Trades Club, London Pearl Home Records – Mammoth Beat Organ single launch DJ set and interview in person and broacast on Repeater Radio |
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| 15/5/22 | Transnational Phonography, Phono Museum, Paris, France Solo + Duo with Sascha Brosamer (gramophones/turntables/electronics) with talks from Elodie A. Roy, Eva Moreda Rodriguez + guests Jalal Aro (Phonomuseum Paris), Team of Collaborative Situated Media (CoSiMa, Centre Pompidou, IRCAM Paris) |
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| 13/5/22 | Transnational Phonography, Deutsches Phonomuseum, Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald, Germany Solo + Duo with Sascha Brosamer (gramophones/turntables/electronics) with talks from Elodie A. Roy, Eva Moreda Rodriguez + guests Dinah Bird, Hank Strummer, Andreas Schmauder (Phonopassion). |
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2/5/22 | Tusk TV – Spring ’22, online Two video collaborations with Sam Underwood, using the Mechanical Techno sequencer alongside his Acoustic Modular System. |
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30/4/22 | Cats of Tottenham screening, Harringay Ladder, London House gig playing tape loops and melodica – private event, email me if you want to come down. |
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| 28/4/22 | Noods Radio: guest slot Live coding special featuring UK and international artists and music from my new album. |
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| 8/4/22 | Graham Dunning + Weston Olencki + Dominic Coles, Iklectik, London Solo set with tape loops, melodica and dub effects. |
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31/3/22 | 10 Years of Algorave at Corsica Studios, London Duo live coding set with Heavy Lifting. With: Bad Circulation, Claude Heiland-Allen, darch, Deep Vain, digital selves, Eye Measure, Hellocatfood, hmurd, Hortense, ideoforms, Innocent, Joana Chicau, Luuma, Mahalia Henry-Richards, Michael-Jon Mizra, rumblesan, Ulysses Popple, Yaxu. |
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| 11/3/22 | PartyUp, The Castle, Whitechapel, London DJ set playing acid, disco, kosmische, techno. With Angela Last, Justin Paton, Ben Polhill, Marcello Madrid. 9pm – 3am, Free Entry |
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| 3/9/21 | Oto Bar with Graham Dunning, Cafe Oto, London Playing some records from about 19:30, free entry. |
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| 28/8/21 | Mariam Rezaei presents These Are The Breaks, Repeater Radio An interview about my ways of using turntables to make music, plus an hour long mix of turntable tracks. |
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| 29/7/21 | Kate Carr – Record Launch of ‘dawn, always new, often superb,…’, Forma HQ, London Abstract turntable set alongside Kate Carr and Hannah Dargavel-Leafe [tickets] |
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17/7/21 | IKLECTIKA – Experimental Music & Book Fair (1st Edition), Iklektik, London A DJ set of music related to the Fractal Meat Cuts tape label. [info] |
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15/7/21 | LUME, Hundred Years Gallery, London Improvised music from Cath Roberts & Sam Andrae, Deemer +1, and me. [info] |
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| 13/7/21 | RMA Sonic Makers Study Group (online) A virtual show-and-tell event discussing the Mammoth Beat Organ with Sam Underwood. [info] |
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| 6/3/21 | Guthman Musical Instrument Fair, Georgia Institute of Technology, US (online) Running a virtual stall chatting to visitors about the Mammnoth Beat Organ, with Sam Underwood. |
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| 25/7/20 | NIME 2020: New Instruments for Musical Expression, Royal Birmingham Conseratoire (online) Keynote video presentation: new modules for the Mammoth Beat Organ with Sam Underwood. |
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| 16/7/20 | Sonitus Live – live stream AV live stream set with Amy Cutler |
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13/6/20 | radio show for RTM.FM: The noise of the machine itself: mechanical music and the avant garde exploring leftfield mechanical music |
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25/5/20 | Guest Mix for Noods Radio New releases, speed garage, techno, noise |
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| 22/5/20 | TOPH Housebound #9 AV live stream set with Amy Cutler |
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16/5/20 | Panopticon album launch – live stream Streaming playing Half Life with rave samples, via twitch. |
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9/5/20 | further_in live stream AV live stream set with Amy Cutler |
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27/5/20 | Algo:ritmi at The Circle – virtual exhibition uxr.zone Improvised live coding rave set |
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16/4/20 | The Gävle Goat – experimental and ambient music livestream from Sweden/UK Remote collaboration with Slim Vic in Sweden – 10 turntable set |
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11/4/20 | I Am An Instrument: PANOPTICON – live stream AV live stream set with Amy Cutler |
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28/3/20 | Backbone Brisbane – Live & Solo at the Bowlo, live stream Live set with drum machines and drones |
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| 6/3/20 | Inklingroom, Leytonstone Ballroom, London mechanical techno set |
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3/3/20 | Be Nice Club, Green House Hackney Wick, London live coding set |
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| 1/3/20 | Le Bal Pirate #45, La Maison Bleue, Rennes, France Mechanical Techno live set |
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29/2/20 | BRÅK Festival of Improvised Music, Hundred Years Gallery, London Duo (turntable and objects) with Brigitte Hart (voice, objects) |
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| 22/2/20 | Triple-bill, The Garage, Norwich Trio set as hymn, with Chris Dowding (trumpet & electronics) & David Ross (electronics) |
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8/2/20 | A New Wave Of Jazz – Festival of improvised music, Hundred Years Gallery, London (turntable, spring reverbs) with Benedict Taylor (viola) & Daniel Thompson (guitar) |
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7/2/20 | Threads Live!, Threads Radio, Tottenham, London Live coding set, live stream. |
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| 31/2/20 | Ideas of Noise Festival, The Tin, Coventry Mammoth Beat Organ live set |
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| 6/1/20 | Tehno Restobar, Helsinki, Finland mechanical techno & live coding set |
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| 3/1/20 | Bar Ö, Turku, Finland mechanical techno & live coding set |
For gigs etc pre-2020 please visit: Gigs Archive (pre 2020).
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