Sam Dunscombe

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

Sam Dunscombe, Recording Engineer

Sam Dunscombe is an audio engineer, sound artist, performer, and composer. Sam's 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. Notable presentations include work for acousmonium at INA GRM and Archipel Geneva; conducting the opening concert of Maerz Musik in 2019; performing Eliane Radigue's music at the Berlin Philharmonie with Klangforum Wien and ONCEIM; engineering records for Mode, Black Truffle, Another Timbre, Hospital Hill, Editions Wandelweiser, Ftarri, and Modern Love; and working 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.