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.
Three saxophonists improvise in a reverberant staircase on successive days. Each new performance is layered on top of the recording of the previous day's performance which is played back into the stairway on loudspeakers.
the performers are thus required to incorporate the large reverb of the stairs as an active dynamic of their performances, meanwhile the loudspeaker playback adds another spatial dynamic to the setting, with multiple sound sources creating separate reverberations and echoes that add to an immersive spatial experience in which the audience are free to move up and down the staircase in order to experience, and experiment with, their spatial perception of the sound.
- Sound Installation + Performance Series
- Layered Instrumental Improvisations in Reverberant Space
- Lietzenburger 45, Berlin Str, Berlin
- 18-20.07.25