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.
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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