Ryan C. Clarke is a tonal geologist from the southeastern banks of the Mississippi. His work in the field of expanded earth science proposes counter-architectures of sociality based on the deltaic processes that built the land his home resides on. His writings and lectures have been published by E-flux, Rhizome, Terraforma, Harvard, and Dweller Electronics where he is a co-editor. 

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Editor, Director of Educational Programming, Curator (2020- ) @ Dweller Electronics

Ethnomusicology, M.S (2022-2024) @ Tulane University

Earth and Environmental Sciences, M.S (2019-2021) @ Tulane University

Geological Sciences, B.S (2012 – 2016) + M.S (2016-2018) @ Louisiana State University

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“Weeping Between the Porch and the Altar: A Localized Typological Analysis of the Ancestry, Form, and Function between the Shotgun Home and New Orleans Jazz” (2024) @ Tulane University

“Nor’easter in Blue (Bird Changes)” (2024) @ Montez Press

“Annotation as Inscription as Graffiti” (2024) @ Burnaway

“The Edge of Nothing In Preparation For Their Retrospective Live Show for Dekmantel 2024, Octave One Looks Backs On Their 1998 Landmark Compilation, ‘The Collective'” (2024) @ Dekmantel

“Kelela – Cathartic Transcendence” (2023) @ Terraforma Journal #4

“Electronic Cafe for Poetic Computation’s Material Cause for the Immaterial” (2024) @ Recess

“Katherine McKittrick, a Conversation on Black Dreamcatchers” (2023) @ Dweller Electronics

“Dub as an Act of Love: An Interview with Edward George” (2023) @ Dweller Electronics

“A Sediment Diversion for the Audible World” (2022) @ E-flux

“Reverse Hallucinations of the Lower Delta” (2020) @ Rhizome

“Southern Electronics” (2021) printed in Arena Annual 2021 @ Arena

“On Sorry Business in the Posthumous Rap Industry” (2022) @ Hii Magazine

“All Feeling”: An Interview with Al Ester” (2021) @ Dweller x 8Ball Radio

“‘A Healing Thing’: An Interview with Stacey Hotwaxx Hale” (2021) @Dweller x 8Ball Radio

“Running Out of Space: Drexicya, Boards of Canada, and the 9/11 Digital Psychedelia You Haven’t Processed Yet” (2021) @ Dweller Electronics

The Collapse of Modern Culture (2021) @ Terraforma (Journal #1)

The Myth of Drexicya (2022) @ Terraforma Journal #2

“Ghettoville (2014): An Ode to Forgotten Black Geometries” (2020) @ Dweller + printed in Cultural Bulletin Issue E, Jan 2021

“Where’s The Drop?: Notes on Dance Music Ecologies” (2021) @ Soap Ear

“Microtuning” (2021) @ LuckyMe Records

“Twin Flames Extinguished: Notes on Karma & Desire” (2021) @ Dweller

“Fog Springs Eternal!” (2020) in Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry by Speaker Music @ Planet Mu

“Mirrors In An Empty Room: Metal Gear Solid and the Catch-22 of Constructing Better Realities” (2021) @ GreyOverBlue

Techno History Library (2020) @ Dweller

“Space is Our Place: Notes on Southern Electronics” (2020) @ Dweller

“A Brief History of Techno-fascism, 1976-1996” (2020) @ Dweller

“Vertical Sediment Accretion in Jamaica Bay Wetlands, New York” (2018) @ Louisiana State University

“Black Care, Blue Notes” (2020) @ Dweller

“Fate with Love: Actress – ’88’ Review “ (2020) @ GreyOverBlue

“’We Don’t Come Past Here’: Impressions of ‘T’, a film by Keisha Rae Witherspoon (2020) @ GreyOverBlue

“A Lost Care Package” (2019) @ GreyOverBlue

“Suffocation of the Void: Hauntology, New Orleans, and Art Neville” (2019) @ GreyOverBlue

A/V

“Living Equipment” @ Triple Canopy + Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought (2025) (conversation series)

“Techno As A Pedagogy of Suggestion” @ Harvard University, 2023 (lecture)

Ryan Clarke, Season 4 Episode 2 Harvard African American Design Nexus, 2024 (podcast)

“Joy One Mile From Here” (2025) @ Montez Press Radio (Mix)

“A Conversation With Cauleen Smith and Ryan C. Clarke” (2023)

“Group Solo, Mass Choir” @ Marigny Opera House for Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, 2024 (Performance)

“Inspiration/Transition: Black Electronic Music Making as Self Possession” @ Electronic Cafe for Poetic Computation, 2023 (lecture)

“Never Created, Never Destroyed” (2023) @ Dweller, debuted at Dweller 2023 (film)

“Social Aid & Pleasure” (2022) @ Dweller, debuted at Dweller 2022 (film)

Ryan C. Clarke and Aria Dean in conversation @ Rhizome, UCI Department of Art, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, and LAX Art

Shirley Sound & Further Processions (2022) @ Frieze Art Fair Los Angeles 2022

Shirley Sound (2021) @ Boiler Room Festival New York 2021

“Nature’s Notifications” (2021) @ Computer Mouse Conference 2021

“Tired” Official Video (2018) by Suicideyear @ LuckyMe Records

“Hate Songs” (2018) by Suicideyear @ LuckyMe Records, Artwork

“Care Forgot: A Southern Electronics Visual Mixtape” (2019) @ Rhizome

Ep. 11 of Silent Reading Hour w/ Sparkle Nation Book Club (2021) @ Montez Press Radio

“WORKER005 (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ❤️ Early Works 2012-2019 (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ❤️” (2020) @ Worker

“Lüisiana Fugiēns” (2020) @ YesWeCannibal

“UNITY MUSIC” (2020-2023) @ 91.5 WTUL New Orleans

Press

“How Dweller Charts a Path Through Black Queer Spaces” (2024) @ Criterion Channel

“With Ryan Christopher Clarke” (2024) @ Eyebeam

Art Militant: Ryan Clarke’s Exploration of Music, Culture, and Earth’s Passage of Time in the Black Community (2025) @ ArtCurrently

Black electronic music’s “radical resonances” to be explored in New York event series, Living Equipment (2025) @ DJ Mag

Triple Canopy and Rivers Institute Collaborate on Black Electronic Music Series (2025) @ Martin Cid Magazine

Ryan C. Clarke | Music as Prophecy (2025) @ Metal Magazine

New York City event series to trace ‘migrations and mutations’ of Black electronic music (2025) @ Resident Advisor (2025)

Well-versed in

Louisiana Geological History, New Orleans Ethnomusicological Histories, Sedimentology, Grain Size Analysis, Vibracore/Multicore/Auger Sampling and Analysis, Coastal Dynamics, Sequence Stratigraphy, Radiocarbon Age Dating, Geochronology Gamma Dating, ARCGIS Data Interpretation, Curating Festivals, Programming, Radio Hosting, Podcasting, Editing & Publishing articles

Technical Skills

Microsoft Suite, Genie 2k, MSCL 7.9, Sigmaplot, ArcMap 10.1, LS 13 320 Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analyzer, Adobe Photoshop CS7, Ableton 10 Live Suite, WordPress, Audacity, GarageBand, Rekordbox, Serato, Final Cut Pro, and a wide array of audio devices

Honors, Awards, and Leadership Activities

GSSA Representative for Tulane’s Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, 2020-2021

Critical Minded Grant for Dweller Electronics, 2021

Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, 2012-2016

Vice President of LSU Geology Club, 2015

Member of the American Geophysical Union

Recipient of the LSU Staff Senate Scholarship, 2012