LATENT SPACES is a work in progress for 2025 | Comprising an EP release in April, and a spatial sound installation in October.

LATENT SPACES explores our perceptions of sonic, computational and cerebral spaces, considering what happens to the materiality of sound in the latent space of a neural network model. In these hidden spaces where statistics meets alchemy, and sound becomes data, we imagine different symbolic realms of utopia, fear and technological myth. LATENT SPACES invites
the listener to enter a computational model and experience a materiality in flux.

Combining machine learning and musique concréte, sound sculpture and electronics, the project begins with the AURA MACHINE EP on LOL Editions release in April, and ends with the LATENT SPACES spatial sound installation in October 2025.

The work is created using custom concrète datasets of post-industrial field recordings, comprising echoes of industrial millscapes and material eras of electricity, glass and metal, trained on PRiSM SampleRNN neural synthesis model. It builds on her artistic research since 2019 into machine learning & musique concréte as resident artist with NOVARS, University of Manchester in collaboration with PRiSM, Royal Northern College of Music, and ‘Neural Materials’, a Cyborg Soloists commission.

Latent: a state present but not yet manifest; hidden but not apparent.

LATENT SPACES is created by sound artist Vicky Clarke aka
SONAMB. This work is made possible by Sound and Music’s In Motion programme. In Motion is supported by Arts Coun-
cil England, Jerwood Foundation and Garrick Club Charitable Trust. With exhibition support from FutureEverything, as part
of the Innovate UK-funded Cultural Accelerator programme
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