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.
Performance, installation and research project that explores the topics of memory, technology, obsolescence and forgotten histories. Using radio cassette players and reel to reel tape machines from the DDR era of East Germany that the artist procured through the popular German second-hand trading website “Ebay Kleinanzeigen”, Clarke mixes excerpts of interviews that he conducted with the original owners of the various machines, with their own 1980s home-made radio cassette recordings, and field recordings made by the artist in various locations around Berlin.
- Sound Performance + Research Project
- Reel to reel tape machines, vintage radios + DJ mixer
- Casino Forum D’art Contemporain, Luxembourg
- 27.07.2023
04.10.2024