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Graham Dunning

grahamdunning@post.lurk.org

<p>Turntables, mechanical music, live coding and improvisation.<br />I run a tape label and a radio show called Fractal Meat.<br />Current PhD student at LSBU.</p><p>Other posts may contain Dungeons &amp; Dragons <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/dnd5e" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dnd5e</span></a>, <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/running" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>running</span></a>, <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/bouldering" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bouldering</span></a> and other bits &amp; bobs.</p><p>I have a separate account to post photos at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pixey.org/graham.dunning" class="u-url mention">@<span>graham.dunning</span></a></span></p>

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    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&#39;s something I probably need to do - often listening to stuff for the sake of it rather than cos I&#39;m really paying attention or even properly interested. There&#39;s part of me that sees it as a process of learning or self improvement, a dripfeed of information (on history, music, philosophy or politics, depending on the show), making use...

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    Milan Knizak - broken music composition 1979 https://youtu.be/88ONydyRX7c Recorded in the late 60s, as I understand. A series of recordings made of destroyed and modified records. Sad to hear that he passed away yesterday.

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    Episode 140 – tracklist Episode 240 of Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone broadcasts on Monday night / Tuesday morning 7th july 2026. Two hours of noise music, improvisation, live coding, no-input mixer, computer music, drone and more. Tune in live via NTS.live, or find recent episodes in the archive on the show page. tracklist Luiz Ser Eu - blue is movement… https://fractalmeat.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/episode-140-tracklist/

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    Out for a run round Belgrade. Lovely weather. Seemed rude not to. Soundcheck was 11am and not on stage till midnight, so plenty of time to spend. I dropped my hotel keycard taking my phone out of my pocket to take a photo of this delightful sentry box. Looped back 25mins later and it was still there, phew. #running #castledon #Belgrade #turret #minecraftIdeas

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    Blog post: Getting started with Mastodon and the Fediverse http://grahamdunning.com/2026/05/13/getting-started-with-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

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    Amazing work from Bart Hopkin as always - a collection of unusual zithers: https://youtu.be/PY7E5RH7Yeo

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    One of the recent videos has had loads of traffic from Discord, but I&amp;#39;ve no way of knowing which server it&amp;#39;s come from.

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    horse shampoo

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    Mammoth Beat Organ rehearsal session from a couple of years ago. Includes a bit with four swannee whistles on a turntable, playing cards in the spokes, and a nice upbeat mechanical-acoustic technoise ending. https://youtu.be/zK6-6ADHM4w #mechanicalMusic #machine #music #noiseMusic #noise

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    Rehearsing today with Sascha for a live video soundtrack we&amp;#39;re doing in September. It went pretty well, I think, and we worked out all the sections we will use. It&amp;#39;s a very different way of working for me, and for us as a duo. Typically we would improvise live, perhaps to a loose structure. In recording sessions we have previously just sort of jammed through pieces - improvising around a sound palate or set of textures. We&amp;#39;re yet to work out how the soundtrack will fol...

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    new Harry Hill post-punk reclaimed meat track just dropped. https://summatnotright.bandcamp.com/track/mechanically-reclaimed-meat-feat-harry-hill #PostPunk #np #music #HarryHill #reclaimedMeat

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    A live drone/noise set from 2017 in which I cycled round a table, adjusting various continuous sound making processes in turn. As such the physical assemblage of the system is also the score which determines the output. Layers of out-of-phase loops from analogue, digital and virtual sound sources: Looping field recording dubplates, walkman with synth drones, analogue synthesizer, laptop running TidalCycles live coding program, analogue modelling digital drum synth triggered by rotating stones (...

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    When I was at school they taught us how to make circuit boards using Letraset, ultraviolet light and an acid bath. (It was completely weird and mysterious to me at the time, I had no concept of why anyone would want to do it). Making a single circuit board or a couple of copies. I&amp;#39;m assuming nowerdays there&amp;#39;s a way to do this more easily - either with some element of digital fabrication at home or sending off to a fab lab of some sort. I wouldn&amp;#39;t know what to even search...

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    Very kind review of my new album in The Quietus. It&amp;#39;s nice when someone has properly taken time to listen to something you&amp;#39;ve made. Interesting to me what bits he focused on and the comparisons he made to other artists. https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/graham-dunning-quern-review/

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    I&amp;#39;m finally getting round to putting together a &amp;quot;how to get started on Mastodon&amp;quot; blog post for all the people I&amp;#39;ve been recommending the platform to. I could do with links to good server directories, if anyone knows of any they would recommend.

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    [New album] Quern. Mechanical Techno studio recordings. Quern is a collection of tracks recorded with the Mechanical Techno setup during my PhD research. Twelve tracks of wonky techno, machine funk, suboptimal beats and rough cut rehearsal edits. It&amp;#39;s out on cassette and download via Brooklyn based label Jollies. The cover is a record sleeve cutup collage. More info in the press release below. Stream/buy from bandcamp here: … http://grahamdunning.com/2026/04/03/new-album-quern-mechanic...

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    I&amp;#39;m most excited to share the technical video which shows all the new stuff I made during the PhD. Some eurorack modules, sequencing discs and switches, and mechanical small percussion. The video shows how each of them works with short examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBhGbHVQYvI #making #eurorack #modular #synths #turntable #sequencer #mechanicalTechno #mechanicalMusic #machine

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    PhD Thesis: Mechanical Techno: extended turntable as live assemblage My PhD has now been approved by university, so I can now share my thesis and the media that goes along with it. Here&amp;#39;s the main page with the thesis download and links: http://grahamdunning.com/phd In a three-year practice-as-research project, I developed new instrumental interfaces, performances, recordings and collaborations with the Mechanical Techno extended turntable setup. The thesis presents this practical wor...

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    My new album comes out in a couple of weeks - any radio hosts / bloggers / music writers who want a copy, just let me know and I&amp;#39;ll ping over a download code. (also if you want a copy but can&amp;#39;t afford it, drop me a DM and I&amp;#39;ll share one too). https://grahamdunning.bandcamp.com/album/quern #music #radio #blogs #blogging #ElectronicMusic

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    My new album QUERN is up for pre-order today! Listen to a track off it now, Tentacle Motion Study. Order on cassette and download from Jollies in Brooklyn. 12 tracks of mechanical techno made throughout my PhD, four of which are discussed in a chapter. #release #MechanicalTechno #techno #tape #music #cassette https://grahamdunning.bandcamp.com/album/quern