Anastasia Clarke — Curriculum Vitae

Born: 1987, New York, USA
Lives:  Brooklyn, New York, USA
Email: anastasiaclarke@gmail.com
Website: http://anastasiaclarke.info

Also performing as AC Diamond

Education

• 2018, MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media, Mills College, Oakland, CA
  
• 2010, BA in Liberal Arts, concentration music composition, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
  

Continuing Education

• 2021, GAI 102 Audio Concepts And Practice in AR/VR, Game Audio Institute, San Francisco, CA
  
• 2019, Max/MSP/Jitter II Certificate, CCRMA Summer Workshop, Stanford University
  
• 2017, SuperCollider Certificate, CCRMA Summer Workshop, Stanford Universit

Grants, Residencies, Awards, and Honors

• 2022-23, NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellow in Music/Sound, New York, NY
  
• 2021, COVID-19 Artist Relief Grant, New York, NY
  
• 2021, Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
  
• 2020, Van Lier Fellowship at Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY
  
• 2019, Women in Computer Music Scholarship for Max/MSP/Jitter, CCRMA, Stanford University, CA
  
• 2019, Elektronmusik Studion (EMS) Artist-in-Residence, Stockholm, Sweden
  
• 2019, Cycling ’74 Scholarship for participation in Expo ’74 at Mass MoCA, North Adams, A
  
• 2019, Queens Council on the Arts/Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant, Queens, NY
  
• 2018, Elizabeth Mills Crothers award for Self/Work, Mills College, Oakland, CA
  
• 2019, Women in Computer Music Scholarship for SuperCollider, CCRMA, Stanford University, CA
  
• 2017, Tri-Tryagain Maker Space Artist-in-Residence, Queens, NY

Teaching: Faculty Appointments

• 2022–present, Adjunct Faculty – Music Technology: Creating with Interactive Media (Spring & Fall, annually) and Advanced Computer Music Composition (Fall, annually), New York University, Steinhardt
  
• 2022, Adjunct Faculty – Art History: History of Sound Art (Fall 2022), School of Visual Arts
  

Teaching: Invitational Lectures and Presentations

• 2023, Panelist, The Story of Pauline Oliveros film screening for South Sound Experimental Film Festival x Northwest Film Festival, Seattle, WA
  
• 2023, Artist Talk: Summer Institute of Music Technology, New York, NY
  
• 2023, Shard Speakers: An Inquiry into the History and Origins of Crystal Singing Bowls and their Musical Possibilities, NIME 2023 at Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico City, MX
  
• 2023, Serge Modular 50th Anniversary: The People’s Synthesizer: In Practice: Artist Talk, presented by ISSUE Project Room & NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY
• 2022, Artist Talk: Columbia University Computer Music Center, New York, NY
  
• 2022, Artist Talk: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI / online
  
• 2021 & 2022, Artist Talks (3): New York University, Steinhardt, New York, NY / in person and online
  
• 2021, Artist Talk: Music Hackspace, London / online
  
• 2021, Panelist, Max/MSP discussion for Nuts & Bolts, Oslo / online
  
• 2021, Artist Talk: deliberate indifference / swans lakeless, Justice Arts Coalition National Convening, co-presented with Shannon Lumpkin and Dawn Felicia Knox, Washington, DC / online
  
• 2021, Artist Talk: Swans Lakeless Q&A and Discussion, co-presented with Shannon Lumpkin, Dawn Felicia Knox, and Anna Blackwell by Star and Shadow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK / online
  
• 2019, Artist Talk: Bennington College, Bennington, VT 
  
• 2019, Artist Talk/Workshop: Interactive Sound Design, Barnard College Movement Lab, New York, NY
  
• 2019, Facilitator: Diversity in Teaching and Learning Max, Expo ’74, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
• 2019, Demo Presentation: Cracklepads, Expo ’74, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
  
• 2018, Artist Talk: Embodiment in Sound Practice for WISE at New Women Space, Brooklyn, NY
  
• 2018, Artist Talk: Cracklepads: A Sprawling Interface for the Performance of Attention for Avant.org event “You Do (it) You(rself)” at the School for Poetic Computation, New York, NY
  
• 2018, Demo Presentation: Cracklepads at NIME 2018, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
  

Teaching: Other

• 2017–2018, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Electronic Arts, Mills College, Oakland, CA. Assisting James Fei
  
• 2016–2017, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, CA. Assisting Maggi Payne

Group Exhibitions (Sound Art)

• 2022, Hinterlands: soundscape for Dawn Felicia Knox’s The Felling (audiovisual installation), commissioned by BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
  
• 2022, Ode on Crushed Matrices (sound sculpture) for Grave New World, organized by ABC No Rio at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, New York, NY
  
  

Performances: Concerts (Evening-Length)

• December 2021, Puffy Wide Boundaries for Experimental Intermedia December Series, New York, NY (online only due to pandemic)
  
• April 2021, Swans Lakeless at Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY (online only due to pandemic)
  
• October 2020, Ego Death Repair Tool Kit I at Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY (online only due to pandemic)
  
• August 2019, Solo performance at Old Stone House Musical Ecologies Series, Brooklyn, NY

Performances: Shared Bills (Non-Self Produced)

• May 2023, Beyond Hexagons, solo electronics on shard-speakers at NIME 2023, Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City, MX
  
• March 2023, Beyond Hexagons for Haptic Drift at Theaterlab, New York, NY
  
• June 2022, Beyond Hexagons for Infrequent Seams Streamfest at Scholes St. Studio, Brooklyn, NY
  
• January 2020, touchRelease Oracle premiere at Outpost Artist Resources, Queens, NY
  
• September 2019, Solo performances in Bay Area including Pro Arts (Oakland, CA), Tom’s Place (Berkeley, CA), Noisebridge Hackerspace (San Francisco, CA), and Private Venue (Sunnyvale, CA)
  
• April 2019, Performer/Composer, Crushed Matrices (Excerpt) at Expo ’74, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
  
• April 2019, Performer/Composer, Crushed Matrices #5 at Basilica Hudson’s 24-Hour Drone, Hudson, NY
• March 2018, Performer/Composer, SELF/WORK (MFA thesis) at Signal Flow 2018, Mills College, Oakland, CA

Selected Compositions

• 2023, Beyond Hexagons, improvisational work using custom-created Max for Live instruments on shard-speakers
  
• 2022, The Felling, sound score for audiovisual installation by Dawn Felicia Knox
  
• 2021, Swans Lakeless, collaborative intermedia work with Shannon Lumpkin & Dawn Felicia Knox
  
• 2020, Ego Death Repair Tool Kit I, 90-minute “sound bath” for solo voice and electronics
  
• 2020, touchRelease Oracle, for ensemble performance on custom sprawling instrument-interface
  
• 2019, Learning How To Be Alone Is Learning How To Dance Alone And Mean It, solo electronics
  
• 2018, SELF/WORK, duo for voice, movement, electronics
  
• 2018, Crushed Matrices, serial work for crystal singing bowls, shards, and electronics
  
• 2017, Blowing Black Smoke from the Crown, solo for crystal singing bowls, electronic backing track
  
• 2017, Openings, solo for movement and electronics
  
• 2015, Bells of Nothing, Bells of Offering, solo for voice and electronics
  
• 2015, Surrounding the Dragon, solo suite for voice and electronics
• 2015, RES/URU/SER, trio for voice, electric guitar, electric bass, and percussion
  
  

Released Recordings

• 2023, the During Times, collection of ambient works, digital self-release
  
• 2023, Beyond Hexagons, album on cassette/digital released by Infrequent Seams
• 2015, Silent Isle – Surrounding the Dragon, solo suite for voice and electronics. Recording: Surrounding the Dragon by Silent Isle, digital self-release (2015)
  
• 2015, Silent Isle – RES/URU/SER, trio for voice, electric guitar, electric bass, and percussion; limited edition cassette on ((Cave)) Recordings
  
• 2011, Silent Isle – Sylvan Pass, self-released CD-R / split C90 with Belltonesuicide on Gilded Throne
• 2011, Silent Isle – Scales of Erosion, self-released CD-R

Significant Collaborations

• 2013–ongoing, A. Clarke/S. Gordon, duo improvised electronics/percussion project with percussionist Sandy Gordon. Recordings: RES/URU/SER, trio for voice, electric guitar, electric bass, and percussion on ((Cave)) Recordings (as Silent Isle) (cassette, digital, 2015); Total Development Cost, EP/cassette on Generations Unlimited (as A. Clarke/S. Gordon) (cassette, digital, 2016)
• 2014–2016, Middle Grey, duo for voice and electronics, co-composed with Jaxyn Randall. Recording: Cassette 1 of 2 in Mirror Medicine, box set released as Middle Grey on Cryptic Carousel (cassette, digital, 2016)

Sound Design for Theater & Dance

• 2019, The System, by Ilana Stuelpner, The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY
  
• 2018, I Shall Please, by Boom Bat Gesture Performance Group, Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper, NY
  
• 2017, Self(-)iterative, by Jennifer Gerry, Bookstore Theater at Mills College, Oakland, CA
  
• 2017, Volcanic Winter, by Mechanism Dance Theater, Student Union at Mills College, Oakland, CA
  
• 2016, Blankland!, by Boom Bat Gesture Performance Group, Triskelion Arts, New York, NY
  
• 2014, Screen Eyed Baby Ice, by Boom Bat Gesture Performance Group, multiple venues, New York, NY
  
• 2013, ZOOM Thousand Time, by Boom Bat Gesture Performance Group, Incubator Arts, New York, NY

Publications (as author)

• Clarke, Anastasia. 2023. “Shard-Speakers: An Inquiry into the History, Sonic Properties, and Musical Possibilities of Quartz Crystal Singing Bowls” (paper). Published as a part of NIME 2023 Proceedings.
  
• Clarke, Anastasia. 2023. “Rhizomatic” (poem). Brooklyn Rail, April 2023 Critics Page.
  
• Clarke, Anastasia. 2018. “Self/Work: Performing Attention in an Exploration System” (paper). Master's Thesis, Mills College.
  

Bibliography (mentions)

• Teboul, Ezra. 2020. “Bleep Listening.” Chapter in Online Resources: Culture & History for Third Edition of Handmade Electronic Music by Nicolas Collins, Routledge.
  
• Smith, Steve. 2020. “Goings On About Town” in The New Yorker, Sep 16 2019.
  
  

Freelance Technician – Audiovisual & Electronic Arts

• 2023, Audio Systems Consultant, Giorno Poetry Systems
  
• 2021, Audio Systems Consultant, Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born
  
• 2020, Production Sound Mixer: MoreART x Krzysztof Wodiczko, Meerkat Media
  
• 2019, Camera Operator (live performance videography), International Contemporary Ensemble
  
• 2018, Sound Recordist (feature length film), 100 Year Films So Pretty
  
• 2018–19, Sound Recordist (live performance videography), Zanni Productions
  
• 2018–20, Studio Assistant (Soldering & Wiring for Electronic Art Installations). Clients included: Leo Villareal Studio, Jen Lewin Studio, Todd Polenberg Studio, Bentley Meeker Staging & Lighting, One Thousand Birds
  
• 2018-20, AV Engineer (A1/A2): Clients included The Rubin Museum, ISSUE Project Room, We Are Listen
  
• 2019, Audio Engineer: We Are Listen, Issue Project Room, The Rubin Museum
  
• 2018–19, Multidisciplinary Support Technician, Chemistry Creative
  

Artist Archives & Libraries

• 2021–present, Archival Project Manager, Studio Rondinone, New York, NY
  
• 2021–22, Project Consultant, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY
  
• 2020–21, Director of Archives, John Giorno Foundation, New York, NY
  
• 2013–20, Processing Archivist, Giorno Poetry Systems, New York, NY
  
• 2016-17, Project Consultant, Pacific Zen Institute, Santa Rosa, CA