David Cunningham (born 20 December 1954) is a composer and record producer from Northern Ireland.[1]

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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, as his Degree show.[1] The cover was from fellow student and video artist, Stephen Partridge with whom he made a number of collaborations over the next 20 years.

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

as producer

• This Heat (Piano Records, 1979) [3]

The Flying Lizards

• The Flying Lizards (Virgin Records, 1980) (UK No. 60, US No. 99[4])
• 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