Vicky Clarke. Photo: © Ben Williams Vicky Clarke
Vicky Clarke is a sound and electronic media artist whose work explores materiality, electrical phenomena and ritual. Working with sound sculpture, DIY electronics and human-machine systems, she explores our relationship to technology considering themes of human agency in autonomous systems, post-industrialisation and the techno-emotional states we experience through these interactions. Her work takes the form of composition, installation and live AV performance. She produces music as SONAMB and her debut album, SLEEPSTATES, a ‘glitchy experimental techno jerker’ (Boomkat) was released in 2022, accompanied by net-art piece SLEEPSTATES.NET, exploring machine addiction, sleep territories and sonic algorithmic control.
Latent Spaces, her recent spatial sound installation, was created as a selected ‘In Motion’ composer with Sound & Music UK. Inviting audiences to step inside a computational model, the piece draws on her research into machine learning and musique concrète, working with early neural synthesis models and custom industrial datasets.
Other recent work includes T1/2 (Half-Life) (2024–2025), a collaborative sound installation with Kamila Narysheva responding to the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site. T1/2 (Half-Life) (2025) is featured in the exhibition Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations and Anti-Nuclear Solidarities (2026) at Framer Framed.
Vicky won an Oram Award in 2020 from the New Radiophonic Workshop (BBC), and has performed and exhibited at CTM, ICA, MUTEK, National Science & Media Museum, QO2 and STEIM, amongst others.
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