David Cunningham (musician)
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David Cunningham | |
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Born | 20 December 1954 |
Occupation(s) | composer, music producer |
Known for | The Flying Lizards |
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David Cunningham (born 20 December 1954) is a composer and music producer from Northern Ireland.[1]
Cunningham was born in Armagh on 20 December 1954.[1] Between 1973 and 1977 he attended Maidstone College of Art, in Maidstone in Kent. In 1976 he released Grey Scale, an own-label LP of pieces in minimalist idiom.[1]
From about 1993, Cunningham began to make installations in which sounds within an architectural space were picked up by a microphone and then fed back into the space; the presence of an audience altered both the shape of the space and the sounds within it. A work of this type, The Listening Room, was installed in the Queen's Powder Magazine on Goat Island in Sydney Harbour during the Sydney Biennale of 1998.[1][2]
Recordings
The Flying Lizards
- The Flying Lizards (Virgin Records, 1980) (UK No. 60, US No. 99[3])
- Fourth Wall (Virgin Records 1981)
- Top Ten (Statik, 1984)
- The Secret Dub Life of the Flying Lizards (Piano Records, 1996) (vinyl re-release, Staubgold, 2010)
- The Flying Lizards & Fourth Wall (re-release, RPM Records, 2010)
Solo
- Grey Scale (piano 001, 1976)
- Zina - film soundtrack (Filmtrax MOMENT 103,1986)
- Terminus - film soundtrack (Carrere – 66416, 1987)
- Voiceworks (eva WWCX 2041, 1992, re-released as piano 505)
- Water (MTM, 1992)
- ext.night (piano 507, 1997)
- Novembre (Editions Circuit, 2008)
References
- ^ a b c d e David Toop (2008). Cunningham, David. Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Accessed June 2018. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.2061636 (subscription required).
- ^ The Listening Room, Biennale of Sydney. UAL Research Online. London: University of the Arts London. Accessed June 2018.
- ^ Strong, Martin C. (2003) "Flying Lizards", in The Great Indie Discography, Canongate, ISBN 1-84195-335-0