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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 />Recently completed a PhD 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