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THE INCREDIBLE LINE-UP:
Mechanical Techno Dead Plants & Living Objects
Graham Dunning’s work explores sound as Rie Nakajima and Pierre Berthet have been
texture, timbre, and something tactile, drawing creating various ways to vibrate things so that
on bedroom production, tinkering and recycling their acoustic shadows dance around invisible
found objects. In this Mechanical Techno live set, air volumes that constantly reshape, move
he uses a standard DJ turntable as a sequencer, in space, and enter the most secret places
sound source and ramshackle engine, building a inside ourselves. A way to get closer to things
spinning contraption in real-time to make wonky inherent spirits is to listen to them. Eventually,
and weird dance music. encouraging them to produce sounds and
resonate by various means: to hit, caress,
www.grahamdunning.com
shake, beat, scrape, scratch, claw, boil, clap,
rattle, rock, throw, move, magnetize, clamp,
cook, pinch, galvanize, motorize, bow, blow,
pluck, heat up, let flow, freeze, drop, drip,
connect, roll, mix, extend, sing…
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