Graham Dunning
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Turntables, mechanical music, live coding and improvisation. I run a tape label and a radio show called Fractal Meat. Current PhD student at LSBU. Other posts […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://post.lurk.org/@grahamdunning, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
New release: Leafcutter John – Warm Grit Artist: Leafcutter JohnTitle: Warm Grit Format: C44 cassette (edition of 60) / downloadRelease date: 30 September 2026 Bandcamp page (stream/buy/download): After moving from London to Sheffield in 2021 Leafcutter John quickly fell in love with the Peak […]
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Trying to fix my Portastudio four track, which I'd basically given up for dead. Having watched plenty of food youtube footage I now know the most likely issues and how to fix them - perished drive belt (check) - crumbling "gear C" (check) So just need to get the replacement parts and should be […]
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The flat I'm staying in for the last night has a piano, so did a bit of recording today, for potential use in the drone recordings I'm working on.
Complicated gig, this, playing out music to an artist's film installation - multiple video feeds, projections, voice actors, video score, pre-recorded audio and live audio. Basically a 48hr sound check before go time. We will kick off the actual show in almost exactly 24hrs time.
Article in the paper about someone who gave up listening to podcasts 24/7, which they said freed up their thought processes and internal monologue. It's something I probably need to do - often listening to stuff for the sake of it rather than cos I'm really paying attention or even properly […]
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Top tip for field recordings, which I mostly remember to do now: speak out loud your location, date, and what you are recording when you hit record. Really helps when organising the recordings later on (to remember what the particulars were and why you were recording that specific noise).
Episode 242 – tracklist Episode 242 of Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone broadcasts on Monday night / Tuesday morning 1st September 2026. Two hours of experimentation, computer music, noise, turntables, improvisation, drone and some live acid. Tune in live via NTS.live, or find recent episodes in […]
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Hmm, my plan to cycle to the gig tonight (approx 90mins each way) looking to be scuppered by the rain.
A free sample set - metallic percussion - of contact-miked scrappy metal gate thing, by Sam Underwood. "I recorded a rather wonderful patchwork metal gate in Timoulilt, Morocco, using a contact mic. This was subsequently edited down to form this sample set." […]
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Finally got round to doing some field recordings of the huge flocks of parakeets which assemble around Hackney Marshes at dusk. It's like a busy, rawkus jungle down there.
[mention of dead animal] There's a bad smell in the living room and I suspect there might be a dead mouse in the skirting board or somewhere. It's a smell I remember from my old house where that used to happen sometimes.
Crossword answer was KINKAJOU, a tree dwelling mammal I hadn't heard of. So I looked up what it looked like, scrolled through the images. I was surprised by how noticeable the AI generated ones were, they really stuck out. Saccharine, slightly cartoony, too perfectly cropped, and somehow an […]
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Got the Beastie Boys book as audiobook from my library (Libby app). Delighted to hear the array of guest readers, including Kim Gordon and Steve Buschemi alongside the two living Beasties.
Portsmouth Sinfonia - Classical Muddly (1981) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C5jjptATlc This disco edit/remix is new to me. The orchestra was formed by Gavin Briars, with non-instrumentalists and musicians playing unfamiliar instruments, covering the popular classical canon. This later piece […]
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Yesterday listened to the Tape Notes podcast with Overmono - nice to hear them go into detail about the production and writing process, name checked Sylvia Massey, re-amping channels through a Marshall stack and an ond train station come speaker, talked about throwing lots of assumptions out of […]
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In this week's edition of "it never rains but it pours / you wait forever for a bus then three turn up at once", the day after I've booked a tooth extraction for my failed root canal tooth (due in 6 weeks time), a bit of a filling fell off another tooth as I was flossing, so I needed to make […]
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Picked up a boxed 3xLP version of Mala - Mirrors (2016) album. Really enjoying listening, it's up there with Mala in Cuba. The box came with a CD and DL code - actually playing the CD rather than the vinyl as can't be bothered changing sides so often.
First ever offer of a paid/product sponsorship on youtube - a posh vintage style mic - for the Mammoth Beat Organ channel (with 250 ish subscribers, currently dormant)
Went to the newly refurbished Battersea Power Station today. On the inside, imagine what the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern would be like if, instead of contemporary art, they had filled it with all the shops you can find at any big airport.
Campain to recognise Egg & Spoon Race as an olympic sport.
Wilhelm Scream spotted in Toy Story (Buzz knocked out of window)
Thinking about the Baldurian-French existentialist woodland philosopher, Owlbear Camus. #5e
First climb in a fortnight - lots of fun. Didn't try anything super hard but just enjoyed climbing some new routes.
Nobody sends emails on Saturday mornings.
NOISE TABLE #1: 30 September at Walthamstow Trades NOISE TABLE #1: Leafcutter John / Poulomi Desai / SILKess Demon Experimental music, improvisation, sound, art and performance. Wednesday 30 September Upstairs at Walthamstow Trades Hall 19:00 - 22:00 Tickets £9 / Members £6 / Low income £5 (a […]
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45 revolutions of the sun completed today.
Having really bad tooth ache for 48 hours really puts things in perspective.
