Yas Clarke

Yas Clarke is a sound artist and musician, often working in collaboration with performance makers and choreographers. 'The Palmhouse ' expands on the unique approach he honed on 2024’s ‘The Thicket’ - one of the most distinctive sound works to come out of Bristol in recent years. Following a complex in-ear score, rhythmic text is passed along the line of performers, words and syllables phasing and shifting to create a sound that lies somewhere between Bob Cobbing, Chaucer and Steve Reich. As voices and meanings slip and overlap, a new text, with its own mystical intention, materialises from the interplay of the different voices.