Releases

tapes / records / digital / editions

13/3/24Various – Hard Return Compilation
Artists were invited to respond to “the most repetitive thing you’ve ever done” for this compilation, which features 66 tracks by different artists.
My piece Torque uses a fast 1-step rhythm and improvised mixdown, using various synths and effects.
Hard Return | download
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1/9/23Cath Roberts – Setlist
“Setlist is an anthology of words by artists from the worlds of improvised and experimental music. Each person was invited to write a four-word provocation/title/agitation/starting point for an improvising group or solo performer.”
I contributed four words.
Cath Roberts | mini-zine
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5/6/23Colin Webster Large Ensemble – First Meeting
Recorded live at Cafe Oto, London on 21st August 2022
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
Raw Tonk Records | CD / download
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17/2/23Machinefabriek – +
52 short pieces, each with Machinefabriek responding to work by a different collaborator. I made something using featherphone, walkman, and synth.
Machinefabriek | CD / download
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27/11/22Dunning / Taylor / Thompson – The Tape
Live in concert at A New Wave Of Jazz festival, Hundred Years Gallery (London, UK) on February 8th, 2020.
Graham Dunning (turntable, dubplates & spring reverbs), Benedict Taylor (viola), Daniel Thompson (acoustic guitar)
a new wave of jazz | cassette / download
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16/9/22various – Rental Yields Vol.2
For this compilation series, artists were invited to remix one another’s work. My track uses samples by THAT CLOUD, using Tidal Cycles as a granular sequencer.
Front & Follow | download
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9/9/22Lucy Cheesman & Graham Dunning – Collage postcard edition
An edition of 20 postcard collages made in collaboration, swapping each iteration by post. Released with a recording of our live performance for 10 Years of Algorave, Corsica Studios.
Fractal Meat Cuts | Postcard / download
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31/5/22Graham Dunning – Silo
Off-kilter house, techno and 2-step made with live coding program Tidal Cycles. Part algorithmic and part live changing and tweaking.
Fort Evil Fruit | Tape / download
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24/5/22Various – TUSK Editions #7
Two studio collaborations between myself and Sam Underwood, using my mechanical techno sequencer and his Acoustic Modular System.
TUSK Editions | download
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19/5/22Mammoth Beat Organ – At Home with the Mammoth Beat Organ
Two short tracks of improvised, mechanical, acoustic music. Side A features rhtythms on a piano hrp with low organ pipe drone; Side B is 100% accordian reeds on an air sequencer.
Pearl Home Records | Lathe cut 7″ / download
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31/3/22Heavy Lifting vs Graham Dunning – hurlothrumbo
Edits of live code duo improvisations. Chaotic, maximal, polyrhythmic techno and breaks with sharp granular sprinkles and crunching gear changes. Like a clown car mixtape.
Fractal Meat Cuts | Tape / download
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1/10/21Graham Dunning – Mindscape From The 7th Level
Bedroom recordings – house, techno and breaks using a drum machine and a synth. Cosmic but claustraphobic, pining for the dancefloor in deepest lockdown. Artwork by Chris Clover.
Third Kind Records | Tape / Minidisc / download
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4/6/21Various Artists – Music for queuing at the supermarket
SØVN Records invited several of us to submit music we thought would work well in a supermarket queue – my track is made using live coding programme TidalCycles, mostly with samples from a prepared piano.
SØVN Records | Tape / download
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3/12/20Various Artists – Insitu Sessions Remixes
49 remixes of gamelan recordings from previous compilations on the label.
I remixed Bangsing – I Kadek Tunas Sanjaya sequencing some of the sounds from the original piece into a new composition using live coding program TidalCycles. The original is available on this album.
Insitu Recordings | download
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28/11/20Graham Dunning & Slim Vic – Locked Grooves
Each side of the record has 10 loops, each one element of a song. My side is UKG made in TidalCycles, Slim Vic side is more synth/techno. Play all 10 at the same time to hear the full track.
Lamour Records | 7″ locked groove disk
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3/7/20Graham Dunning / Laica – Blast Lock
Meandering electronic tracks between ambient & techno, recorded with Laica at a visit to a decommissioned nucelar bunker in Cambridgeshire and two subsequent studio jams.
Broken20 | CD / download
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19/6/20Various Artists – Responses 2
Tracks initiated by recordings from Matt Atkins who also curated and released the project. Mine used Matt’s persussion rhythms to trigger new synth sounds.
Minimal Resource Manipulation | CD / download
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8/6/20Graham Dunning – Play It Today
Two extended automatic compositions: one using mechanical/electroacoustic soundmakers, the other using an algorithm and rave samples.
Fractal Meat Cuts | handmade recycled tape edition / download
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1/6/20Graham Dunning / Colin Webster – Terrain
Snare drum and saxophone explorations of texture and timbre.
Raw Tonk Records | LP / download
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16/5/20Graham Dunning – Panopticon
Recordings of playing Half-Life but with all sounds replaced with rave samples
Every Contact Leaves A Trace | tape / download
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20/3/20Ingrid Plum, Anton Mobin & Graham Dunning – Ancient Lights
Studio improvisations using turntable, spring reverbs and objects with Ingrid on voice, percussion, tapes and Anton playing his prepared chamber.
Fort Evil Fruit | tape / download
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30/3/20Damo Suzuki & sound carriers – Live 23​/​5​/​12
Live set from 2012, playing turntable & percussion in this 6 person group.
Beauty & Disgust | download
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20/3/20various artists – The Hackompilation (an album for Iklectik)
Compilation album – track recorded using Featherphone (amplified tines)
Hackoustic | download
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20/3/20various artists – CHEAP BASTARD VOL.1
Compilation album – featherphone improvisation
Humanhood Recordings | download
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13/2/20Graham Dunning – Reach Into Time
Album of edits from live code live sets and rehearsals: rave, UKG, techno and other rhythmical weirdness.
SØVN Records | tape / download
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30/1/20Graham Dunning – Something About Still Trying
Field recordings altered or added to in different ways – windmill, coach interior, seaside floor scraping.
Flaming Pines | tape / download
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14/1/20Various Artists – The Stochastic Method
Five exclusive recordings from five performers, curated by Leslie Deere. Proceeds to Ubuntu Women’s Shelter.
Fractal Meat Cuts | download
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15/12/19Dunning & Brosamer – Glocken
With Sascha Brosamer: Improvisations for gramophone, turntable, modified disks, synth & effects. Recorded at Repetitive Movements exhibition, Basel Switzerland in June 2018.
Invisible City | tape / download
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7/12/19Graham Dunning – Mesophases
Edition of 16 postcards each smeared with melted-down shellac. The audio is a one-take improvised live code reworking of the sound from the record. Postcards were sent without an envelope, to pick up ‘surface noise’.
Fractal Meat Cuts | postcard / download
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30/11/19Sculpture – Projected Reworks
Sculpture released a 5″ picture disk of locked grooves – I was one of the turntable artists they invited to make a remix. Remix comes as a download with the record.
Psyche Tropes | download
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16/10/19Graham Dunning – Music By The Metre Archive Two
Automated recordings recorded to spools of tape to be cut up and sold by the metre: rhythms, textres, loops, effects.
Falt Tapes | tape / download
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4/10/19Graham Dunning – 1947
Recycled tape edition of automated music made with loops, records, mechanisms / hacked computer game.
Fractal Meat Cuts | handmade recycled tape edition / download
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17/8/19Various Artists – Total Solidarity
A benefit compilation for grassroots LGBTQIA+ organizations in Poland.
My track is a live code edit.
Oramics | download
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26/7/19Lärmschutz / Graham Dunning – Joint Statement
Split release for netlabel’s antifascist noise series. My tracks are automated TidalCycles compositions.
Noise In Opposition | download
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20/7/19Graham Dunning – J-card
Set of small collages made on tape j-cards, each to the same design but slightly different.
Collage edition
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2/6/19Graham Dunning & Edward Lucas – End of a Cable
Turntable and tromobone improvisations.
TSSS Tapes | tape / download
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12/4/19Graham Dunning – Music for Climbing Walls
Mechanical techno tracks recorded in PRAH studios Margate in November 2017.
LTR Records | LP / download
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22/2/19Dunning & Underwood – the Blow Vol.5
Mammoth Beat Organ recordings with Sam Underwood.
Front & Follow | tape / download
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19/1/19Tonus – Ear Duration
5 piece quiet/meditative improvations to a structure by Dirk Serries.
A New Wave Of Jazz | CD / download
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9/1/19Colin Webster & Graham Dunning / Lärmschutz – Faux Amis Volume 1
Snare drum and saxophone improvisations from me & Colin, split with trombone, guitar and electronics trio from Lärmschutz .
Faux Amis | tape / download
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9/1/19Graham Dunning – Tunnel Rhythm / Dog Tube Dub
Very early mechanical techno tracks – made in an evening at Dog Tunnel studios including using their plate reverb. Recorded to tape and lathe cut by hand.
Dog Tunnel Records | lathe cut 12″ / download
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12/11/19Graham Dunning – Keg/Bulkhead
Two longform drones with electroacoustically activated snare drum.
Courier Sound | tape / download
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2/9/18Graham Dunning – Tentation
Two long mechanical techno tunes (17/18mins), one of which using ping-pong balls to create semi-random patterns.
White Denim | LP / download
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27/4/18Graham Dunning – Way Too Much Time
Four mechanical techno tracks some more tech., some more dub.
ADAADAT | LP / download
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22/3/18Leslie Deere & Graham Dunning – Chime
Collaborations recorded in London in 2016 and Nantes, France 2017
Park 70 | tape / download
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9/10/17Dunning / Serries – Live in the Lowlands
Improv turntable & effects with Dirk Serries on guitar – recorded on tour in Netherlands and Belgium earlier in the year.
Raw Tonk | CD / download
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6/10/17Various Artists – Most of What Follows Is True, remixes
Remixes of mine and Colin Webster’s improvisations by Tom Mudd, Shelly Knotts, Lucia H Chung, John Macedo, Steph Horak & Phil Julian.
Fractal Meat Cuts | tape / download
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6/10/17Webster / Dunning – Most of What Follows Is True
turntable & dubplate improvs with Colin Webster on baritone saxophone.
Sound Holes | tape / download
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28/9/17Graham Dunning – Stuck Trax
Bedroom recorded minimal electronic tunes: house, acid, motorik, drone. Physical copies by tape swap only – free in exchange for any tape.
Fractal Meat Cuts | tape / download
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9/7/17Graham Dunning – Monochrome
Five mechanical techno recordings made during a residency at Galerie Paradise, nantes, France. Each postcard of edition included a unique digital track.
Fractal Meat Cuts | tape / postcard edition / download
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15/5/17Dunning | Macedo | White – Live Balls
Improv trio with Tom White and John Macedo using an amplified surface, lots of different types of balls, and effects. Recorded live at Cafe Oto, 5th July 2016.
The Black Plume Editions | tape shell filled with small balls / download
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4/3/17Graham Dunning – Mechanical Techno Live 2
Rough cuts of live sets. Only sold at gigs.
Not on label | CD
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28/2/17Dirt & Space – Ten Million Ways To Die
Collaboration with Andrew Leslie Hooker, intialted as a tape-swap. Recorded using tape loops, feedback, spring reverb, plate reverb, tape delay, no-input mixing, scratchy faders and found sound.
Dinzu Artifacts | tape / download
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13/12/16DunningWebsterUnderwood / Rutger Hauser – Viol of Acetate
Turntable/Sahophone/tuba improvisations recorded live at Cafe Oto – paired with recordings of Rutger Houser’s tracks from the same gig.
The Lumen Lake | tape / download
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6/12/16Graham Dunning – Previously Unreleased Mixtape 1995-2016
An infinite number of cassettes, each duplicated from the one before it. As such the quality is reduced with each iteration. Secretly accompanied by digital version from iteration 1.
Fractal Meat Cuts | recursive tape edition / secret download
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4/11/16Graham Dunning – Aggregate
Composition made from room resonances from Balfron Tower, shellac record surface noise with concrete dust & synths, to a photographic score by David Fryans. With text by Ruaridh Law.
Broken20 | text print & photograph / download
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8/10/16Embla Quickbeam & Graham Dunning – Inside Memory’s Head
Swapping 4-track tapes and related objecs and artefacts in a collaboratve writing/recording/postal project with Embla Quickbeam.
Third Kind Records | tape / download
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16/7/16Colin Webster / Graham Dunning – Oval
Longform drone pieces for baritone saxophone, turntable, spring reverbs and dubplates.
Tombed Visions | tape / download
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14/7/16Graham Dunning / Tom White – You Are A New Creature
Experiments with Foley recording, live performance vs pre-recorded sound, and non-human body horror. Features Andrea Kearney and Stuart Tait on crisps and Jennifer Pengilly on rice drop.
Fractal Meat Cuts | tape / printed lasagne sheet / download
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4/6/16Tom Wallace & Graham Dunning – Dawn Into Dusk
Split tape of field recordings. Mine is a DJ set of field recording dubplates recorded in an empty nightclub in the daytime, Corsica Studios, in London.
Earshots! | tape / download
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31/5/16AAS – Farming the Young / On the Mirrors of Yukon
Performance at IMT Gallery, London, plus video piece and soundtrack tape.
Holectics Research Recordings | tape / download
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22/5/16Graham Dunning – Auxon
Mechanical techno studio tracks.
Seagrave | tape / download
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22/3/16Bobby Barry & Graham Dunning – Whirlwind, Immobile
Samples from music by Martinu for an event by Non-Classical. Bobby Barry: samples / electronics, Graham Dunning: records / tapes / effects.
Fractal Meat Cuts / Zero Wave | tape / download
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17/3/16Left Hand Cuts Off The Right and Graham Dunning – Rat’s Nest
Drones and loops from Robbie Judkins (LHCOTR) and mechanical techno from me.
Fractal Meat Cuts | tape / download
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12/3/16Graham Dunning – At Home With Spanish
Recycled tape edition of automated music made with loops, records, effects, synths.
Fractal Meat Cuts | handmade recycled tape edition / download
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4/2/16Ingrid Plum with Graham Dunning, Ian Stonehouse & John Harries – Everything Is Becoming Science Fiction
Turntable and objects improvisation with Ingrid Plum playing voice, tapes and percussion, based on a score by Ingrid extracted from a JG Ballard text.
PlumRecords | tape / download
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13/1/16Caleb Madden, Graham Dunning, Cieciura/De Sousa – AIRM 2015: Rhythm Out Of Time
Edition of 10 transparent dubplates with no digital available. Side A is a recording of Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm  byt Caleb Madden. Side B is Three Note Cycle (A Brackish Dub), my live recording using mechanical techno in 3 channels. Design by Cieciura/De Sousa.
Lathe cut 10″ edition
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2/1/16Various Artists – Hypnosis
Originally a radio mix for Kelvin Lord’s Hypnosis series, I also dubbed a few copies onto recycled tapes to give to some of the artists whose music I included.
Fractal Meat Cuts | recycled tape / stream
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17/12/15AAS – The Cult of Sonic Affect
Recording of an AAS ritual performance. Orignally released as a split tape with Teleplasmiste, on AAS’ tape label HRR.
Holectics Research Recordings | tape / download
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28/10/15Stuart Chalmers & Graham Dunning – Home Taping
Edits from some synth, tape and turntable jams in Bristol, plus tape-exchange pieces.
Bum Tapes | tape / download
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16/10/15Graham Dunning – Process Archive One
40 page booklet/fanzine, black and white photocopies. Made from offcuts, sketches, scans and other bits and bobs.
Fractal Meat Cuts | booklet | pages: 1 / 2 / 3
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15/10/15Graham Dunning – Whispers of the Dead
Recycled tape edition of automated music made with loops, records, effects, synths.
Fractal Meat Cuts | handmade recycled tape edition / download
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16/8/15AAS – Balancing Ritual
30 minute drone & drums composition made for a corresponding ritual performance.
Holectics Research Recordings | tape / download
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16/8/15DunningWebsterUnderwood – Bleed
Turntable & electronics improvisations with Colin Webster (saxophone) and Sam Underwood (tuba).
ADAADAT | CD / download
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23/7/15Graham Dunning – Noise Club Vol.4
Twelve artists each submitted a sample of sound, then each remixed them all into an album. For mine I recorded to 4-track and used lots of loops, layering and dub effects.
Fractal Meat Cuts | tape / download
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26/7/15Graham Dunning – Cat’s Eyes
Recycled tape edition of automated music made with loops, records, effects, synths, made during an exhibition at Goldsmiths Music Dept.
Fractal Meat Cuts | handmade recycled tape edition / download
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11/7/15Graham Dunning – Kiosk Two
Unique automated composition on each of 13 tapes. Made at TransActing: A Market of Values, at Chelsea College of Art on Saturday 11th July 2015. Digital tracks are edits from some of the tapes.
Fractal Meat Cuts | handmade recycled tape edition with 1m of loose tape / download
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6/6/15Various Artists – Ghost in the Machine Music
Two mixes of tracks by Leslie Deere, Graham Dunning, Tom Mudd, Tom Richards and Shelley Parker, for the event Ghost in the Machine Music, at Reactor Halls E16 in Nottingham, June 2015.
Side 1 mixed by Shelley Parker, Side 2 mixed by Tom Richards.
Fractal Meat Cuts | tapes with unique labels / download
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6/6/15Graham Dunning – Stone Tapes
Edition of nine resin cast stones similar in shape to a cassette. The original was found on the bank of the Thames. Usually exhibited as a pair – master and copy.
Edition
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1/5/15Various Artists – MottoDance
My track on this compilation “Ends” was an early mechacnical techno studio tune.
MottoMotto Records | double LP / download
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20/4/15Graham Dunning – Mechanical Techno Live
CD released for sale at 2015 gigs. Recording of a live set from September 2014.
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1/3/15Various Artists – Rewound
Remixes of my album Wound by several electronic musicians.
Fractal Meat Cuts | download
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1/3/15Graham Dunning – Wound
Tapes from junk shops, sampled and recorded to 4-track. The resulting album was recorded back to the original tapes as an edition. Cutup sleeve.
Fractal Meat Cuts | recycled tape edition / download
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13/2/15Colin Webster & Graham Dunning – Live at Hundred Years Gallery
Turntable and saxophone improvisation from October 2014.
CRAM Records | CDR / download
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12/1/15Rindmice – Fairytale Wasting Disease
Noise/electronics trio with Anthony Donovan and Matt Chilton.
Quagga Curious Sounds | tape/ download
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24/8/14Graham Dunning – Kiosk One
Edition of 50 unique music by the metre tapes, plus digital album of edits from tracks recorded at my kiosk at Supernormal Festival 2014.
Fractal Meat Cuts | unique recycled tape edition / download
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20/4/14Graham Dunning – Winning In Negotiations
Recycled tape edition of automated music made with loops, records, mechanisms.
Fractal Meat Cuts | handmade recycled tape edition / download
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18/4/14Colin Webster & Graham Dunning – Invertebrata
Colin on Tenor and Baritone Saxophones, I played Walkmans, Found Tapes, Amplified Objects
Raw Tonk | CD / download
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12/4/14Graham Dunning – Linguaphone
Recycled tape edition of automated music made with loops, records, mechanisms.
Fractal Meat Cuts | handmade recycled tape edition / download
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1/3/14Graham Dunning – Music By The Metre Archive One
Automated music recorded to spools of tape and cut to length.
Entr’acte | CD / download
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7/2/14Colin Webster and Graham Dunning – Estigate
Colin Webster: Tenor and baritone saxophones Graham Dunning: Turntable, mixer and dubplates. Recorded 2012 in a storage lockup in South London.
Linear Obsessional | CD in carry case / download
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20/12/13Graham Dunning – White Donkey
Cutups using Xmas records, tape-loops and effects recorded at a collage exhibition. Sleeves are hand printed with bits of record sleeves attached.
Fractal Meat Cuts | CDRs with handmade sleeves / download
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26/11/13Various Artists – If Wet… in the village hall
Music by the Metre track made during the If Wet event I presented at. Fundraising compilation for the event series.
If Wet… | download
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29/9/13Graham Dunning – The Marketing Tapes
Recycled tape edition of automated music made with loops, records, mechanisms.
Fractal Meat Cuts | handmade recycled tape edition / download
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22/9/13Graham Dunning – Permanent Location Archive One
Field recordings to tape from outisde every address I’ve lived at, plus photos and map tracings of each street.
RHP CDRs | CDR / framed photo & map tracing / download
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2/5/13Dunning x Testrack x Fisher – Triangle
Improviing trio: electronics & percussion with Testrack (Kane Clover) & Gary Fisher. Recorded during a residency at Penhouse, Manchester.
Open Sound Group | download
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19/4/13Open Sound Group – Penthouse
Improvisations with Gary Fisher, Debbie Sharp, Rosanne Robertson, Coryn Smethurst, Loise Woodcock and Rose Niland during the residency.
Open Sound Group | download
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10/4/13Colin Webster – Katepistemum (Graham Dunning Remix)
Remxi made with multiple cassette tape loops, of Colin’s minimal sax sounds.
Gaffer Records | download
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28/12/12Various Artists – Boiler Room X Red Stripe
Live track from my first Boiler Room session with NTS, on this compilation.
NTS | LP
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30/8/12Various Artists – Classwar Karaoke – 009 Survey
Turntable and synth track on this large compilation of avant-garde, field recording, electroacoustic and musique concrete.
Classwar Karaoke | download
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8/8/12Various Artists – Signal Void
A compilation of hundreds of one-minute noise tracks designed for shuffle-playing, to which I contributed three.
Signal Void | download
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19/7/12Graham Dunning – Topaz
Tracks made by live sampling found tapes, in a lo-fi way with cheap delay pedals.
Open Sound Group | download
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7/8/12Analogg – Scrap Head EP
Three long and slightly weird dance music tracks.
hippocamp.net | download
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1/4/12now – 500$limit
Record and CD from now, the experiemtnal pop band, on which I played drums.
500$limit | late cut 10″ / CD
13/3/12Asteroid – Black Lines
Sci-fi improvs: ensemble of me (drum/FX), Jo Thomas (electronics), David O’Connor (bari sax), colin Webster (bari sax) & Kevin Quigley (guitar)
Electronic Musik | download
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8/2/12Graham Dunning – Recompiled 2010-2011
Tracks from other people’s compilations:drone, record crackle, noise, improv, found sound, field recordings, circuit bending, synth and edited live sests
Open Sound Group | download
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17/3/11Graham Dunning – Tape Ghosts
Stereo mixdown from 3 channel installation of home recorded voices singing, found on old reel-to-reel tapes at car boot sales.
Modisti | download
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9/2/11Graham Dunning – Three Artefacts
Three field recordings from The Rea Garden in Digbeth, Birmingham I used in an installation of the same name.
Open Sound Group | download
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3/10/10Electronic Organica Ensemble – Fifth Quartile
Live improv from Abigail Sanders (french horn), Richard Knight (laptop), Graham Dunning (turntables/objects), Ian Simpson (electronics)
Electronic Musik | download
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Graham Dunning - TUFA - Electronic Musik27/6/10Graham Dunning – Tufa
Live recording from a turntable live show in Manchester in May 2010.
Electronic Musik | download
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13/1/10Graham Dunning + Noise Research: Ocean Epicure
Turntable and electronics recordings I did with Noise Research (aka Ian Simpson) in late 2009.
Clinical Archives | download
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8/12/09Graham Dunning – A Little Noise in the System
Minimal circuit bend tracks named after a Pauline Oliveros synth compistion.
Electronic Musik | download
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21/11/08Graham Dunning – A Bubble of Dove’s Blood
My early experiments with turntable music, and some found tape voices.
Frequent Sea | CDR
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