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Electronic MusicVicky Clarke - Neural SynthesisVicky Clarke joins Caro C to explore her experimental approach to sound, from field recording and neural synthesis to AI technologies and spatial audio. She also discusses immersive installations, open-source tools and the unconventional inspirations that drive her work.Chapters00:00 - Introduction02:06 - Field Recording, Musique Concrète and DIY Electronics05:34 - Residency In Russia06:27 - Neural Synthesis And Machine Learning10:53 - Working On Aura Machine14:16 - Working With AI Technologies16:35 - Open Source Software18:30 - Developing An Immersive Sound Installation
2025-11-2737 min
SOS Magazine Audio ExamplesVicky Clarke - Neural Synthesis | PodcastVicky Clarke joins Caro C to explore her experimental approach to sound, from field recording and neural synthesis to AI technologies and spatial audio. She also discusses immersive installations, open-source tools and the unconventional inspirations that drive her work.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
02:06 - Field Recording, Musique Concrète and DIY Electronics
05:34 - Residency In Russia
06:27 - Neural Synthesis And Machine Learning
10:53 - Working On Aura Machine
14:16 - Working With AI Technologies
16:35 - Open Source Software
18:30 - Developing An Immersive Sound Installation
20:41 - Fear Around Technology
22:23 - Spatial Audio Using Spat
25:28 - Routing Ableton For Spatial Audio
27:53 - Sculptures As Sound S...
2025-11-2736 min
2022-11-2102 min
2022-11-2103 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBCircular Sferics_Radio Antenna_VLF_Yorkshire Sculpture Park_2.WAVField recording with 'Circular Sferics' Radio Antenna Sculpture. VLF and DIY electronics circuit in custom built form. Recording naturally occuring electrical atmospheric phenomenon in Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Part of the Convention House Residency project 'Circular Sferics' August 2022 with East Street Arts.
2022-08-2110 minVicky Clarke | SONAMBCircular Sferics_Radio Antenna_VLF_Yorkshire Sculpture Park_1.WAVField recording with 'Circular Sferics' Radio Antenna Sculpture. VLF and DIY electronics circuit in custom built form. Recording naturally occuring electrical atmospheric phenomenon in Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Part of the Convention House Residency project 'Circular Sferics' August 2022 with East Street Arts.
2022-08-2110 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBMELDSample for Making Space St Petersburg Art Residency. One sound from St Petersburg 2020, one sound from Manchester 2021
2021-02-1300 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBSLEEPSTATESSleepStates is a sound work exploring machine addiction, sleep territories and sonic algorithmic control. Utilising sound sculpture, DIY electronics, broken radio transmissions and an AI trained on lucid dreams, self help slumber fragments and cyber-socialist manifestos.The piece is part of my ongoing SLEEP_STATESDOTNET project, a browser based artwork where the user sleepwalks between different states or audiovisual moments of anxiety, inertia and online perpetuity. I collaborated with digital artist Izzy Bolt who created the video piece working with TouchDesigner. The work premiered at MUTEK Montreal in Sept 2020, as part of the DISTANT ARCADES virtual exhibition for the hybrid...
2020-10-2404 min
2020-05-1004 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBSLEEP STATE ONESLEEPSTATES.NET: networked dream intermissions from lockdown. Sleepstates.net is a series of audiovisual moments capturing cyclical feelings of inertia, anxiety and online perpetuity experience through lockdown.
2020-05-0602 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBSTRASSECommission for soundtrack to MIF Originals Podcast series 2019. Listen to the full series here https://mif.co.uk/mif-originals-podcast/
2019-08-2802 min
2019-08-2502 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBMATERIALITY SONA DESK RECORDINGDesk recording of live performance of MATERIALITY set for SONA at Dina, Sheffield Nov 2018. Set features metal sound sculptures, recordings from National Glass Centre and London Sculpture Studio, performed with a self built Graphene musical interface for Ableton.
2019-08-2519 min
2019-04-1403 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBHUMAN BEINGCommission for Anthony Burgess Foundation Manchester, working with Burgess tape excerpts. Track features samples from ex-BBC Tape machines recordings I made at Eve Studios.
2019-01-3102 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBTHREAD EDIT 02This piece was created as part for the Edit 02 exhibition for our first ?Thread {} exhibition at The Lowry. The sounds are taken from the One69a printing studio at Islington Mill, recorded using contact/directional mics and distorted samples from DIY Noise Machines. All the sounds you hear are of the process and ambient sounds involved in the screen printing process.
2018-04-1505 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBEscape sketchSketch made as part of the Push:Music project for emerging electronic musicians led by Modul Projects
2018-01-0703 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBCTM Festival 2017: FEAR ANGER LOVE Performance EditCollective performance edit for CTM Music Makers Hacklab 2017: FEAR ANGER LOVE #EmotionalInvention. Working with 20 international musicians and artist for one week at Native Instruments Berlin exploring emotion in music. Live performance took place at Hau2 Kreuzberg. Love to the CTM family x
2018-01-0505 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBWaves Around Edges Edit response to the Delia Derbyshire ArchiveWaves Around Edges was a live composition responding to the Delia Derbyshire Archive at John Rylands Library. Commissioned by and performed as part of Manchester After Hours 2017. This is a 3 minuite edit of a 15 minute live piece, the live version includes the Magnetic Tape Sound Sculpture in the picture which was performed at the event.
2017-12-0502 min
2017-11-0702 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBJourney Through the Mirror Pool'Journey Through the Mirror Pool' Created for National Science & Media Museum exhibition 'Supersenses'. This is a stereo reduction of a multi channel piece created from unheard sounds recorded with contact mics, electromagnetic detectors, hydrophones and field recorders and take the audience on a sonic decent to an industrial underground beach through Bradford's mirror pool. Created with Noise Orchestra and Danny Saul and featuring recordings from Alan Dunn's students at Leeds Beckett Uni.
2017-10-2808 min
2017-10-2802 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBWAVES AROUND EDGESTest Audio for Delia Derbyshire Commission for Manchester After Hours. Exploring sine wave layering and multi-voice processing.
2017-05-1302 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBBrutalist Speaker: Construction Audio ClipField recording of Ancoats construction site for Might and Main residency at The Penthouse, Manchester 2016. Played from Brutalist speaker sculpture
2016-12-0300 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBTrilogies LIVE. Call & Response Commission for CFCCAPerformed Live at HOME in June 16th 2016 as part of CFCCA's 30 year anniversary Call & Response programme. In response to Susan Pui san Lok's Condor Trilogies film.
2016-08-0913 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBGreater Manchester Sound Archive commissionI worked at the Greater Manchester Sound Archive for their event LGBT Voices. I was interested in the incidental sounds of the recordings of the oral histories including the pops, clicks and whirrs and creating rhythmic loops from these. It was amazing to delve into the archives, I was fascinated by the Jodrell Bank space tapes, the industrial mill sounds and the world music found within the Paul Graney archives. This is a rehearsal recording of the set, I performed a version of this live at Manchester Central Library on Friday 26th February 2016.
2016-02-2714 min
Vicky Clarke | SONAMBManchester Mills Drum MusicWorking with the sounds of the industrial revolution, I created this piece working with recordings from the Greater Manchester Sound Archives. Textures you can hear are Spinning jennys, Arkright carding engine and mill hooters.
2016-02-2704 min