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I’m Jesse Solomon Clark- I make sounds and music.
Over the past two decades, in collaboration with incredibly talented creative partners, I’ve driven innovation and creative excellence in my music scores and sound design for media: narrative film, ads, TV, interactive games, generative art and AI-assisted projects.
Currently, I create soundscapes for large scale art installations and exhibitions around the world- these emergent narrative forms offer incredible opportunities for immersive storytelling and deeply engaging experiences.
For inquires and commissions: hi@jessesolomonclark.com
Selected Exhibitions:
After the Dinos, The Field Museum, Chicago 2025 (forthcoming)
Origins: Life’s Epic Journey, Kuntskraftwerk, Leipzig 2025
The Chicago Archaeopteryx, The Field Museum, Chicago 2024
Elemis, Frameless, London 2024
Latent Spaces, Illusionaries, London 2023
Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery, The Field Museum, Chicago 2022
About A Bicycle, Wilton Park, Dublin 2021
Understory, The Spheres, Seattle 2018
Little Winter, The Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas 2015
Storytelling and Experience Design:
My work for spaces- installations, immersive experiences and exhibitions- features soundworlds that invites the visitor to experience the narrative of the project as an environment rather than a show. There is no proscenium- the audio experience is 360 and not simply in terms of multi-channel surround sound.
I work closely with my creative partners and consult the architectural layout so that the soundscape can become a seamless element to the space. The goal is to convey the narrative in such a way that the audio experience is both a texture of the space, like the lighting or the ambient temperature, while at the same time an integral and active part of the storytelling.
Sound Composition and Music Design:
One of my superpowers is the ability to compose music that functions like sound design and craft sound design that sings like music.
This music design/sound composition approach yields a seamless audioworld that is tuned perfectly to the new emergent narrative forms of our time.
AI:
In 2020, super friend (and best-selling novelist) Robin Sloan and I embarked on a project to combine his facility with writing and interest in machine learning with my work in music composition and production. We wanted to explore what we could come up with if we used artificial intelligence to generate sounds that did not replace anything we could do, but rather find the weird and unexpected results that only AI can provide.
The process went like this:
I would produce some audio “seeds” (short musical phrases) for Robin to use as a starting point for his work.
He would write lyrics and, using those little audio bits, create AI-generated audio material: vocals singing his lyrics that used my intial audio as the basis for the harmonic and melodic direction. Sometimes things went off the rails and this is where things got interesting and weird.
Robin would send me his selects of these generations.
I would pick and choose from these files bits that I found interesting or fruitful to work it. I’d edit and compose using these audio files while composing new material to support or contrast with it.
I would then send this work back to Robin and we would interate as long as it took to come up with a track that we thought was great.
The band is called The Cotton Modules and we think the result of this work is great music on it’s own, but is also wholy unique in the world of AI-assisted music.
An Experiment:
ALOUTTE, the generative robo-organ
Albums:
