Sam Dunscombe

Phone: 858-534-8868
Office: CPMC 173
Email: s1dunscombe@ucsd.edu

Sam (Samantha) Dunscombe, Recording Engineer

(she/her/hers)

Sam (Samantha) Dunscombe is an audio engineer, sound artist, performer, and composer. Her interest in the ways music allows for novel experiences of time has led to explorations in a wide variety of areas: from studio engineering to field recording; spectralism and just intonation to free improv; new complexity to free jazz; computer music to wandelweiser. She has presented work for acousmonium at INA GRM and Archipel Geneva; conducted the opening concert of Maerz Musik in 2019 and performed Eliane Radigues music at the Berlin Philharmonie with Klangforum Wien and ONCEIM; engineered records for Mode, Black Truffle, Another Timbre, Hospital Hill, Editions Wandelweiser, Ftarri, and Modern Love; and worked with composers including Cat Lamb, Anthony Pateras, Mary Jane Leach, Iancu Dumitrescu; and much more. From 2017-2023, Sam worked as the archivist to the estate of Romanian spectral composer Horatiu Radulescu, revising his scores for re-publication, digitising and remastering audio recordings for commercial release, and performing as both an electronic musician and a clarinetist at festivals throughout Europe. Sam is a founding member of Berlin's Harmonic Space Orchestra, and continues to work closely with the group on recording, electro-acoustic, and archival projects.