Thomas Lea Clarke is a sound artist and electronic musician living in Berlin.
His work spans installation, live performance, and composition, using sound as a material to shape experiences, articulate spaces, and tell stories. Through recent works that engage with spatial audio composition, Clarke has been examining the ways in which sounds transform and interact with our physical environments.
Drawing on a background in broadcasting, Clarke’s installations explore connections between audio technology, memory and sonic perception—creating immersive environments that emphasise repetition, degradation, and spatiality.
Clarke has released music on multiple record labels including Optimo Music, Offen Music, and Knekelhuis. He also runs Phase Group, a record label and platform dedicated to experimental and forward-thinking electronic music.
His work has been presented at institutions including Casino Forum D’Art Contemporain, Hosek Contemporary, Silent Green, Berghain, Tramway Glasgow, Fuse Art Space, and Cafe Oto.
An installation for 12 turntables and locked-groove vinyl loops in quadraphonic sound. Twelve loops carved into vinyl with a razor blade play continuously, routed through software that automates mixing patterns and spatial panning, creating a modulating soundscape that morphs and alters the listening experience as the listener moves through the gallery space.
This installation explores themes of music consumption, personal and collective memory making, our experience of the passing of time, and the evolution of audio technology in shaping how we engage with pop culture. By blending analog and digital technologies, destroying audio media whilst simultaneously creating a new artefact of transmission, Cut Cloud invokes reflection on processes of repetition and difference and non-pulsed time.
- Sound Installation
- 12 Turntables, Locked Groove Vinyl and 4 Channel Sound
- Hošek Contemporary, Berlin
- 21-23.03.25