Vicky Clarke: The Oram Awards 2020
Vicky Clarke is a sound and electronic media artist from Manchester, UK. Working with sound sculpture, DIY electronics and human-machine systems, she explores our relationship to technology through sonic materiality, live audiovisual and browser-based artwork. Vicky is currently artist in residence with NOVARS, University of Manchester and PRISM, Royal Northern College of Music, exploring systems for machine learning, sound sculpture, musique concrete and live electronics, part of the EASTN (European Art-Science-technology Network) for Digital Creativity 2020 – 2021.
Recent project MATERIALITY explored sound sculpture as a gestural and acoustic medium to interface the physical and digital, working with industrial musique concrete. Collaborating with researchers at the National Graphene Institute, she developed a conductive graphene performance interface for Ableton Live, featured on Sound and Music’s Composer-Curator series and at Music Tech Fest, Stockholm.
Her work has featured in ‘SONIC FUTURES: How Technology is Guiding Electronic Music’ and ‘ArtistDIY’ for FACTmagazine’s documentary series in 2020. This year she was a selected artist for British Council’s UK-Russia Year of Music, researching machine learning and music for new project SleepStatesdotnet.
As co-director of Noise Orchestra, a DIY electronics project building Noise Machines that translate light into sound, she’s been artist in residence at the National Science & Media Museum, STEIM and Q-02, exploring DIY music technologies and the cultures existing around them.
The Oram Award 2020, will support her with studio time for mixing and mastering tracks towards her debut album SleepStates exploring ideas around machine addiction, broken transmissions and algorithmic sleep territories.