vicky clarke: Recent Episodes
vicky clarke
Field 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.
Field 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.
Sample for Making Space St Petersburg Art Residency. One sound from St Petersburg 2020, one sound from Manchester 2021
SleepStates 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 festival
Commission for soundtrack to MIF Originals Podcast series 2019. Listen to the full series here https://mif.co.uk/mif-originals-podcast/
Desk 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.
Commission for Anthony Burgess Foundation Manchester, working with Burgess tape excerpts. Track features samples from ex-BBC Tape machines recordings I made at Eve Studios.
This 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.
Sketch made as part of the Push:Music project for emerging electronic musicians led by Modul Projects
Collective 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
Waves 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.
'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.
Test Audio for Delia Derbyshire Commission for Manchester After Hours. Exploring sine wave layering and multi-voice processing.
Field recording of Ancoats construction site for Might and Main residency at The Penthouse, Manchester 2016. Played from Brutalist speaker sculpture
Performed 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.
I 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.
Working 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.