Claire Dickson is an experimental vocalist, composer, improviser, and producer based in Berlin practicing emergent embodied songwriting. She considers song to be an artistically flexible modality that can encompass poetry, melody, harmony, rhythm, theater, philosophy, and any other idiom catalyzed by voice. Her work utilizes microphones, pedals, synthesizers, field recordings, acoustic instruments, and draws from lineages of improvisation, extended vocal technique, sampling, and deep listening. She creates interdependently with the Berlin and New York experimental music communities as an improviser, and in her ongoing collaborative project Myrtle, with Camila Ortiz (Otracami) and Lex Korten’s Canopy. She has released two albums, Starland (2022) and The Beholder (New Amsterdam Records, 2024). 

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THE WIRE

“Enticingly atmospheric on first listen, Dickson's work retains its glow, while seeming to grow in depth and substance on return visits.”


DOWNBEAT

striking – at times, wordless – lyricism and melody-driven sound chamber within shapeshifting ambiance” 


MOJO

"Dickson's voice pierces the sensorial aura, creating an idiosyncratic brand of ambient art pop."

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