Graham Dunning

exhibitions / instruments / videos / workshops / installations / events / print / publications

	10/12/24	Improvising with Machines: A taxonomy of musical interactions, by Adam Parkinson and Graham Dunning Journal article for Organised Sound, peer reviewed publication by Oxford University Press. (open access)	[publication]
	5/9/24	Ironing In The Creases: Developing An Idiosyncratic Electro-mechanical Musical Instrument By Reinforcing Its Faults Paper presentation for NIME ’24 conference (New Interfaces for Musical Expression). Published peer reviewed conference paper and video presentation	[video] [ paper (pdf)]
	1/12/23	Mechanical Techno Workshop, Next Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia Workshop in modifying records and making music.	[video]
	24/9/23	Mechanical Techno Workshop, Soundings, Worcester A workshop making modified records and music.
	16/3/23	Book launch for Transacting as Art, Design and Architecture: A Non-Commercial Market, online. Edited by Marsha Bradfield, Cinzia Cremona, Amy McDonnell and Eva Sajovic I took part in the art market in July 2015, with a Music By The Metre kiosk, documentation of which is included in the book.	[book]
	25 – 29/10/21	Aldeburgh Young Musicians: Experimental Music Workshops, Snape Maltings, Suffolk A week of workshops for young musicians, exploring graphic scores, composition, improvisation, foley, field recording and listening. With Cath Roberts, Dee Byrne, Sam Andreae and Nathan Gregory.
	10 – 13/9/22	Errorcamp, Lake District, Cumbria Research, workshops, performances & social weekend with live coders & electronic musicians.
	29/7/20	Noise Quest 7: Lauren Sarah Hayes / Bell Lungs / Remi Fox-Novák / Jonathan Higgins Live stream event	[videos]
	19/7/20	Programmable Acoustic Bass Banjo Instrument module for the Mammoth Beat Organ. Presented at NIME 2020.	videos: demo making
	8/7/20	Noise Quest 6: SERF / Miri Kat / Colin Webster / Tom Mudd Live stream event	[videos]
	17/6/20	Noise Quest 5: Ain Bailey / Me, Claudius / TYPE (The Yorkshire Programming Ensemble) / Sharon Gal Live stream event	[videos]
	13/5/20	Noise Quest 4: Shelly Knotts / Void Hands / TVO / Andrew Lisle Live stream event	[videos]
	30/4/20	Noise Quest 3: Li Yilei / Leon Trimble / GD Live code archive set / Daphnellc Live stream event	[videos]
	16/4/20	The Gävle Goat – live stream experimental and ambient music from Sweden & UK Slim Vic & Graham Dunning / Annie Tådne / AKB / Bredbeddle Live stream event	[videos]
	9/4/20	Noise Quest 2: Mariam Rezaei / Yaxu & hellocatfood / Tom Richards / Loula Yorke Live stream event	[videos]
	27/3/20	Noise Quest 1: Phantom Chips / Jo Thomas / My Panda Shall Fly / Katie Gerardine O’Neill Live stream event	[videos]
	23/3/20	Modified records exhibition, Sound Records, Stroud Some modified records on display – normally used for Mechanical Techno or other live sets, or some just made to look nice.	[photo]
	13/12/19	Tinderbox Lab Workshops: Mechanical Techno, Edinburgh Workshop making modified records and playing them on the MT setup.
	1/12/19	On Turntablism Article about current practice and practitioners of experimental turntablism for Wire Magazine
	1/11/19	Noisevember 2019 – A new noise every day Daily short videos: noises, instruments, cutups, experiments	[videos]
	17/5/19	Algomech 2019 residency, workshop, exhibition and live set, Sheffield During the residency I made a new video piece from different inconsistent rhtyhms slipping out of synchronisation.	[video]
	5/3/19 7/2/19	Modified Records / Vinyl Destruction workshops for Estorick Gallery, London Two workshops using turntables and records	[video]
	15/12/18	Hack the Mammoth Beat Organ + Hackoustik Xmas party. Iklektik, London. An opportunity for people to have a go on the machine and test out new ideas.
	20/10 – 3/11/18	The Ghost Tide, Thames-Side studios, Woolwich, London Exhibition curated by Monika Bobinska and Sarah Sparkes – showing my cast Stone Tapes.
	22/8/18- 23/5/19	It’s A Mixed Bag – radio show all on vinyl, from 199 Radio, later Threads. Episodes: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7	[audio]
	1/10/18	Mammoth Beat Organ videos Three videos about the project made by Michael Forrest, demonstrating the machine, a making of interview and our debut gig at Supersonic Festival.	[demo] [making] [gig]
	1/12/17	Deconstruct Yourself, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea Leslie Deere, Tom Richards, Joanne Armitage, Graham Dunning: live performances, video and installations.	[preview]
	30/9/17	Tusk Festival exhibition, Workspace Gallery, Newcastle installation of Real Data video as part of a group show.	[video]
	28/9/17	Museum of Peripheral Collections, Le Bon Accueil, Rennes, France Solo exhibition of various collections, a diorama, album of recordings, tape swap project and live performance at the opening.	[photos]
	20/9/17	Emotion and the Tech(no)ody, Austrian Cultural Forum, London Groups show including my cast Stone Tapes.
	8/8/17	Mix series for New New World Radio (Moscow) Four radio shows, each 2hrs long with a different focus: Scratchy improv, dream sounds, odd electronics, noise.	[tracklists]
	15/7 – 31/12/17	Global Forest 2017 Exhibition Group exhibition showing new video and installation works made during a residency in the town.
	15/6/17	Schéma, Galerie Paradise, Nantes, France Culmination of my residency at the gallery, showing new works and playing a live show with Sascha Brosamer doing a grammophone set.
	12/5/17	Obsolète, Galerie Paradise, Nantes, France Exhibition of existing work, plus live performances from me and Leslie Deere	[video]
	15/4/17	Dismantle Yourself, Somerset House, London Live: Ewa Justka, Algobabez, dtub and me. DJ: Chloe Freida (Alien Jams) Lasers: Jason Haebich	[preview] [photo] [gif]
	3/4/17	Michael Forrest – Computer Screen – Mechanical Techno remix Remixing Michael’s track with sampes from the original pressed to dubplates – the video made by michael also works as a demonstration of the process.	[video]
	24/3/16	Empty Content Machine installation for ReROOTed, Humber Street Gallery Hull Automated mechanisms creating an overlaid abstract video projection.	[video]
	15/12/17	Obsolete Desire: group show curated by Lisa McKendrick Exhibiting a listening post for composition “Aggregate” made in nearby Balfron Tower.	[release]
	1/11/16	AAS: Chaotic Good: Crabhead / Collaborative Princess / Lumpy Oracle, Gallery North, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Three room show for AAS: multiple video works, sculptural installations, sound, interactive monolith, live stream. Opened with four hour performance, edited through audience interraction with the installation and subsequently re-broadcast into the exhibition space.	[video]
	3/9/15	Mechanical Laboratory of Antimatter, Fort Process Festival, Newhaven A day-long performance installation with Henry Liam Collins, Leslie Deere and Sam Underwood – part of the festival in an old sea defence on the south coast.
	31/8/16	AAS – “The Heartbeat of Kong, or More Mouse Bites” at The Royal Geographical Societies Annual International Video/conference paper exploring the deleuzoguattarian concept of Holey Space.	[video]
	31/5/16	AAS: Farming the Young / On the Mirrors of Yukon Performance at IMT Gallery, London, plus video piece and soundtrack tape.	[video] [release]
	19/4/16	Rotor Station A, B, C – for Flatpack Film Festival Installation of some small versions of the Mechanical Techno setup. I never developed the installation version any further so this was the only showing.
	22/11/15	Mechanical Techno Demonstration video Demoing the setup – made at the end of a residency at Machines Room with Michael Forrest.	[video]
	1/11/15	Machines Room Residency Maker residency at Machines Room, London, developing some tech for mechanical techno. Talks, live event and exhibition as part of the residency.	[archive]
	14-28/9/15	Closet Music – Music for Imaginary Performance curated by Janet Oates Showing a piece called Twenty Nine of the Best Recordings I Never Got Round To Making, consisting of empty tape boxes with titles on the spines.
	11/7/15	TransActing: A Market of Values, Critical Practice Chelsea, London Music By The Metre kiosk – making spools of abstract tape music on demand.
	8/5/15	Roadside Museum | An exhibition curated by John O’Hare & Gordon Culshaw A dubplate and a spool of tape left buried for a year, alongside other artists works, were exhumed and exhibited again, this time in Leeds.
	5/2/15	Untitled (Translation 1) – exhibited in London: Sonic Fragment, The Auricle, Christchurch, New Zealand. Curated by Justyna Burzynska. Video made with a rotating collage and automated music.	[video]
	5-9/2/15	CORRESPONDENCE, Prestamex House, Brighton Tape-swap installation with Embla Quickbeam (Rowan Forristier-Waker).	[photo] [photo]
	4/9/15	Election Cut 02 collage shown at IM’Ten, IMT Gallery, London Collage shown in a group show. Part of an ongoing series of colourful, abstract collages made with cut up record sleeves on a 21cm square base. Sometimes used for album covers.	[collage] [collage] [collage]
	6/7/15	Ghost in the Machine Music, Reactor Halls, Primary, Nottingham Exhibition and performances I put together with me, Leslie Deere, Tom Mudd, Shelley Parker, tom Richards. Also a mixtape.	[mixtape] [photo]
	9-30/10/14	For Posterity – exhibition at The Auricle, Christchurch, New Zealand Found footage of a family’s audio diary from the early 1960s, plus documents of my attempts to contact them to reunite them with the tapes.
	1/10/14	AAS: Lammas Drone Silo, for Hackney Wicked festival. Large scale installation/performance with sub bass drone soundsystem, chicken feed, steam, blacklight, lasers and strapping an audience member into a stretcher.	[photos] [video]
	12/9-6/10/14	Roadside Museum | An exhibition curated by John O’Hare & Gordon Culshaw A dubplate and a spool of tape left buried for a year, alongside other artists works, were exhumed and exhibited in Venn Projects, Blackpool.
	26/7/14	AAS: Holectics – Team 1/2/3 Workshop and video installation for Fear+Trembling_, Five Years Gallery, London	[archive]
	23/7/14	The Radiophonic Laboratory of Antimatter Workshopping an audio translation of Situationist Pinot Gallizio’s ‘industrial’ painting process into abstract audio. Broadcast for SoundFjord / concertzender Radio in Netherlands.
	27/2/14	sound.art, Tin Tabernacle, London Group exhibition, showing a version of And A Word Carries Far: an installation using reverb of a space to alter a participant’s voice as they read from a text.
	09/13 – 03/20	Experimental Sound Art, Mary Ward Centre, London An evening class in various aspects of soundmaking, installation, recording and performance.	[archive] [audio]
	13/4/13	Residency, open studio, workshop and performance at The Penhouse, Manchester Making new collages & audio recordings on a week long residency.	[release] [video]
	12/6/12	Crystal World Laboratory participant Participant in the 5 day Crystal World open laboratory, which was curated by Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp and Ryan Jordan.	[archive]
	6/6/12	Music By The Metre A audio analogy to Situationist Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio’s industrial paintings, also sold by the metre. Market stall, recordings and a video. An ongoing project.	[video]
	15/3/12	For Posterity, SoundFjord, London Found footage of a family’s audio diary from the early 1960s, plus documents of my attempts to contact them to reunite them with the tapes. First showing.	[audio] [photo] [photo]
	2/12/11	Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone – NTS Radio Radio show on NTS. Intially fortnightly on a friday morning with lots of live guests and features, now in the early hours of Tuesday mornings usually with a continuous mix of odd sounds, mostly brand new releases.	[archive] [blog]
	1/11/11	From Oramics to Electronica – The History of Electronic Music, Science Museum I was one of 12 musician co-curators who helped advise museum staff on items to include in this exhibition.
	8/9/11	Loss Shines a Light on What Remains, AC Institute, New York An exhibition of some of my installations at this NYC gallery – including inviting people to smash up reocrds I’d initially bought for DJing with.	[photo] [photo]
	10/8/11	Your Luton Symphony – public installation for Luton Festival 10 turntables with different field recordings from around Luton, playable by visitors individually or in combination.	[audio] [photo] [photo]
	11/7/11	Y Gwylwyr (Sentinels) – installation for RHÔD 2011 Artist group show and mini-residency. My installation was turning two bird houses into a big solar-powered stereo listening device.	[audio] [photo]
	20/4/11	And a word carries far, installation aboard the Light Vessel 21, Gillingham Kent During this short residency I made a piece using the reverberant air tanks from the ship’s fog horn system – reader’s voices would be played back inside the tank, picked up and returned to their ears. The book is Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim.	[audio] [photo] [photo]
	3/3/11	Time Pieces – group show at Peter Scott Gallery, University of Lancaster showing my installation Untitled (Tape Ghosts)
	2010 – 2014	Open Sound Group – workshop series and netlabel Improv workshop for artists working with sound, which led to further worksops. I released the recordings from them all, and later releases by other artists too.	[archive]
	17/9/10	Visitor Centre installation / Rea Garden artist in residence Two month residency in a derelict plot of a former shellac warehouse in Digbeth Birmingham: DIY archaeology, sound installation, audio guide, workshops.	[archive]
	2/9/10	A Site of No Special interest – group exhibition, Solihul Arts Complex Former atists working on the Rea Garden site, including my installation Three Artifacts, made of 3 field recording dubplates on record players.	[photo]
	8/7/10	Mill24 – group show for residents of Salford’s Islington Mill over 24 hours I made sounds and did experiments in and around my studio, documented it over time and did a little performance at the end.	[archive]
	6/4/10	Untitled (Tape Ghosts) installation – for Lost Language exhibition, Kraak, Manchester 3 channel audio from 3 modified tape units, playing back a composition of home recordings of people singing from found tapes.	[photo]
	1/7/09	Long Railing – video shown at Krumm, Outlet, Manchester Running a drum stick along a long railing – like a physical score in the landscape.	[video]