Clarice Jensen is an American cellist and composer based in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the Juilliard School. She is the founder and artistic director of ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble), with whom she has premiered and recorded works by Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Gavin Bryars and many others; she also composed the evening-length work The Exaltation of Inanna for string quartet, guitar and six singers for the ensemble. As a cellist she has collaborated with Max Richter (including Sleep and From Sleep), Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O'Halloran, Nico Muhly, Stars of the Lid, Björk, Paul McCartney, Dirty Projectors, The National, Michael Stipe and Taylor Swift. Her solo music layers the cello through loops and chains of electronic effects into drone-based sound fields, heard on For This From That Will Be Filled (Miasmah, 2018), the Drone Studies EP (2019), The experience of repetition as death (130701, 2020), Esthesis (2022) and In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness (130701, 2025). She also wrote the score for the 2021 film Identifying Features. Source: Rondo DB

Usual Name Clarice Jensen
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Title Subname Catalogue Key Year Type

From Sleep

2015-09-04

Deutsche Grammophon (DG)