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Martin Clarke is a composer, saxophonist and sound recordist working in improvisation, electroacoustic composition and field recording.

Martin studied music at the University of Edinburgh and composition at the University of Birmingham with Jonty Harrison where he performed regularly with Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST) in the UK and abroad.

He has released music on his own label (oem) as well as Gruenrekorder, Standard Form, and Trestle Records. He has also appeared on compilations for Winds Measure, Framework Editions, Cronica, Engraved Glass, Audiobulb and Ambolthue Records.

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Martin Clarke
Selárdalur
2014, 5xFile, WAV, Open Ear Music
Martin Clarke
Caucasus Tapes
2011, 14xFile, MP3, Album, 320, Gruenrekorder
Martin Clarke
Fasada
2011, File, Trestle Records
Martin Clarke
Music For An Urban Lighthouse
2006, File, MP3, Open Ear Music
Impetus Group
Live At Hundred Years Gallery November 17th, 2019
2020, 3xFile, FLAC, Album, Hundred Years Gallery (2)
Tom Ward
Transient Signalling At A Distance
2022, Cass, Album, Raw Tonk
Kodian Trio
Live at BRÅKFest
2021, CD, Open Ear Music, ,
Free Improvisation
Charlotte Keeffe
Right Here, Right Now
2021, CD, Album, Discus, ,
Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
Daniel Thompson (7) / Colin Webster
hakons ea
2021, CD, Album, Ltd, Num, Empty Birdcage Records
London Improvisers Orchestra
Hive - Dedicated To Carole Finer
2020, File, FLAC, Not On Label (London Improvisers Orchestra Self-released), ,
Free Improvisation
London Improvisers Orchestra
You Never Know
2020, File, FLAC, Not On Label (London Improvisers Orchestra Self-released)
Caroline Kraabel, London Improvisers Orchestra
We Stay Apart Because We Love Each Other. Love Is Stronger Than Greed.
2020, File, FLAC, Not On Label (London Improvisers Orchestra Self-released), ,
Free Improvisation
London Improvisers Orchestra
Sustaining The Music
2020, 20xFile, FLAC, Album, Not On Label (London Improvisers Orchestra Self-released), ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental
London Improvisers Orchestra
What Now?
2020, File, FLAC, Not On Label (London Improvisers Orchestra Self-released), ,
Free Improvisation
Various
In The Chinks Of The World Machine
2020, 9xFile, FLAC, Hundred Years Gallery (2)
London Improvisers Orchestra
Chain Reactions
2020, 23xFile, FLAC, Not On Label (London Improvisers Orchestra Self-released)
Pascal Marzan, Phil Durrant, Martin Vishnick
Live At Arch 1
2020, 2xFile, WAV, Open Ear Music
Philip Gibbs, João Pedro Viegas, Benedict Taylor
Live At Arch 1
2020, File, WAV, Open Ear Music
London Improvisers Orchestra
Birthday Piece
2020, File, FLAC, Not On Label (London Improvisers Orchestra Self-released), ,
Free Improvisation
London Improvisers Orchestra
Traces Of Bicarbonate
2020, File, FLAC, Not On Label (London Improvisers Orchestra Self-released)
Thelmo Cristovam, Cassio Sales*
Flutuando Suspenso
2020, 4xFile, WAV, Open Ear Music
Benedict Taylor And Daniel Thompson
t'other
2020, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, Num, Empty Birdcage Records
Various
Discovery Festival 2017 - Channel
2018, 23xFile, FLAC, Album, Weekertoft, ,
Free Improvisation
3 Head Mechanism
Full Auto Stop
2017, File, WAV, EP, Open Ear Music
Robert Curgenven
SIRÈNE
2014
Robert Curgenven
Live At The Exchange, Cornwall 12th August 2011
2013, File, MP3, 192, Touch
Various
Sound Localities Compilation
2011, File, MP3, Comp, Not On Label
Otto Willberg
Barbaric Mystical Bored
LP, Why Eye
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
A Direction Out There, Readwalking (With) Thoreau
2xCD, Edition Wandelweiser Records
Various
ATTN​:​Span
2020, 206xFile, WAV, Comp, ATTN:Magazine, ,
Experimental/Noise/Harsh Noise Wall/Sound Art/Abstract/Ambient/Minimal/Lo-Fi/Grindcore/Field Recording/Glitch/Musique Concrète
Various
Responses
2019, Cass, Comp, Ltd, C40, Minimal Resource Manipulation
Various
Framework500
2015, 3xCDr, Comp, Framework Editions
Various
Animal Music – Sound & Song In The Natural World
2015, CD, Comp, + B, Gruenrekorder
Various
Compilation #2 - Bad Alchemy 81
2014, CDr, Chmafu Nocords
Various
A Quiet Position: Wildeye Edition
2012, 20xFile, FLAC, Comp, Engraved Glass
Various
V-P V-F Is V-N Double [Field] Compilation Series, 203
2012, 2xCDr, Album, Winds Measure Recordings
Various
Crossovers
2012, 23x File 320 kbps, ,
Abstract/Experimental
Various
Three Years In Nodar (Context-Specific Art Practices In Rural Portugal)
2011, 2xCD, Comp, Boo, Binaural Media
Various
Framework250 (Root Edition)
2010, 2xCDr, Comp, Framework Editions
Various
Birmingham Sound Matter
2009, CD, Comp, Audiobulb Records
Various
What More Do You Need Than A Recorder?
2007, CDr, Comp, Ltd, Sli, Ambolthue Records
Various
Autumn Leaves
2007, 32xFile, FLAC, Comp, Gruenrekorder, ,
Field Recording
Various
The Sound Of Snow And Ice
2007, 35xFile, MP3, Comp, VBR, Gruenrekorder