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 medium 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.
Live improvisational sound performance that brings together digital and analog processes to create an immersive deep listening experience in which the phenomena of repetition and difference and the passing of time are blurred through, rhythm, drone and spectral processing.
Sample material from vinyl locked grooves are layered and processed through MaxMSP and a pioneer DJM 900 mixer. The incoming signals from the vinyl loops are mixed, effected and processed by the artist via a MaxMSP patch based on spectral processing and granular synthesis, creating entire droning soundscapes from the minutiae of sonic detail in the polyrhythmic repetitions.
- Live Sound Performance
- 4 Turntables, DJ Mixer, Max MSP, Locked groove vinyl loops