Will Clark is a pianist, improviser, composer and songwriter. He works with the acoustic piano, synthesisers and electronics, and his voice. Recently he's performed with Eddie Prevost (AMM), Grain Collective, the London Improvisers Orchestra, and made cross-disciplinary works with sound artist Cameron Randall and contemporary dancer Sara Maurizi, among others. 

 

His current focus is on embodiment, time and instrumental improvisation, moving away from our obsession with machine-like productivity and instead following the body in less deterministic and more ecologically embedded directions. With dancer Sara Maurizi he creates spontaneous compositions, in which traditional hierarchies between music and dance - one leading while the other follows - are exposed, ruptured and inverted. In their place is a genuinely horizontal mode of authorship.

 

Will has a research interest in aesthetics and global politics, guest-lecturing at the University of Warwick in South Asian cinema. He lived in India for just over 5 years before the pandemic, working as a film composer and performer in electronic genres, and training community music teachers with charity Music Basti. His work featured in the highest grossing Indian film of 2022, Gehraiyaan, and at the internationally renowned Magnetic Fields festival. His songs have been featured on BBC Radio 1. 

 

Music (BMus), first class hons. KCL/RAM

Aesthetics and World Politics (MA), distinction. UCL