BIOGRAPHY

Graham Cunnington is a composer, musician, producer and sound designer with a long-term practice of working with found instrumentation and sounds. As a founding member of the experimental creative collective Test Dept he has produced sound-works and large-scale film and installation pieces, with a focus on political inquiry and location response, since the early 80s.

He has worked extensively in collaboration with artists, filmmakers, theatre and dance groups, producing soundtracks to film and devised work; and recently presented a commission for the Afterness project by Artangel together with the artist Rachel Pimm.

Graham is an accomplished studio producer and uses his studio for sound production and design, mixing, editing and remix work alongside his other creative projects.

In 2014 Graham co-produced, with other Test Dept founder members Paul Jamrozy and Angus Farquhar, the large-scale installation work DS30 for the AV Festival and in 2015 co-authored the book Total State Machine documenting the work and archive of Test Dept.

Graham also devised, wrote and performed the autobiographical solo theatre production Pain, which premiered at The Royal Court Theatre, London, and toured the UK and Europe.

In February 2021 Graham co-presented the Annual Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture for the Visual Cultures Dept. at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Portrait: David Altweger