Welcome. I’m Seth Peter Clark.

Two paths.One musical life.

Acoustic fingerstyle storytelling meets electronic composition, percussion orchestras, Mutation Synthesis, direct digital synthesis, and science-fiction sound worlds.

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The work

Music built between the familiar and the impossible.

My musical life has always followed two distinct but deeply entangled paths. One is rooted in the intimate architecture of solo fingerstyle guitar—melody, harmony, rhythm, and counterpoint carried by a single instrument.

The other moves outward into electronic systems, synthetic timbres, detuned percussion, algorithmic structures, and imagined worlds. Together, these practices form one evolving body of work.

Fingerstyle guitar Solo keyboard Sound synthesis Percussion orchestra Experimental music
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Featured albums

Four collections.
Many sides of the same imagination.

Each album page includes the complete story behind the collection, interactive track cards, official YouTube videos, technical notes, and credits.

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23 electronic works

Promethean Conception

A symphonically structured collision of solo keyboard, Electronic Percussion Orchestra, and free experimentation through Direct Digital Synthesis.

Enter the sound world →
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14 solo compositions

All New Good Songs for Guitar

An intimate fingerstyle collection mapping the emotional frequencies of family, friendship, animals, departure, memory, and return.

Open the songbook →
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15 experimental works

Mantis

A fifteen-part sound collage designed for close listening and trance-like focus, built around Mutation Synthesis, transformed waveforms, complex harmonic spectra, and a deeply personal dedication to Patty Liu.

Enter the altered state →
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Coming soon · 4 tracks available

Electronica For Mammals

A collaborative electronic album by Seth Clark, Hugo Keith, and Grant Miller featuring electronic percussion orchestra and multi-timbral synthesized soundscapes.

Hear the pre-release →
Seth Peter Clark
Composer, fingerstyle guitarist, electronic musician, teacher, and lifelong explorer of sound.
About Seth

Classical foundations. Eclectic roots. No fixed destination.

The journey began with classical guitar lessons as a Beatles-obsessed twelve-year-old in upstate New York, expanded through jazz ensemble, marching percussion, and concert band, and eventually moved into alternate tunings, electronic composition, and radical sound design.

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Acoustic revelation

Fingerstyle composition became a way to combine melody, harmony, counterpoint, and personal narrative in a single performance.

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Electronic frontier

Studies in algorithmic composition, recording media, synthesis, improvisation, and experimental systems opened an entirely different sonic language.

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Synthesizing two worlds

Today, acoustic intimacy and science-fiction scale continue to inform and challenge one another.

Read the complete biography →
Choose a path

Begin with wood and steel—or step into the machine.

Both paths are personal, narrative, and exploratory. The instruments change. The impulse to discover what a sound can mean remains the same.

Acoustic

Melody held in the hands.

Solo steel-string guitar, alternate tunings, open strings, counterpoint, and compositions inspired by the individual energy of people and animals.

Hear the guitar album →
Electronic

Sound without borders.

Generative piano, synthetic timbres, found sounds, phase vocoding, tape manipulation, and percussion orchestras built for imagined worlds.

Hear the electronic album →
Experimental electronic

Alter the listening state.

A focused fifteen-part sound collage using Mutation Synthesis and other electronic processes to reshape simple waveforms into complex spectra and altered states of attention.

Hear Mantis →
Coming soon / pre-release

Hear sound become something new.

Electronic percussion orchestra, multi-timbral synthesized soundscapes, transformed samples, and collaborative sound design from Seth Clark, Hugo Keith, and Grant Miller.

Hear the first four tracks →

Run, stroll, skip, and explore.

Follow any path—or move freely among them. Three complete albums and one evolving pre-release are here to be explored.

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