Claire Rousay

Claire Rousay is a concrete music artist working out of San Antonio, who also veers into more conventional song structures every now and then. Her music is constructed out of recorded everyday sounds that foreground the mundane details of our real life soundscape, including things like tapping on surfaces, beeps, dings, clocks, cereal being pored into a bowl, so forth. There are spoken or whispered pieces, as well. She has been gradually adding more musicality to these found sounds, which began with backgrounded chords on electronic keyboards, and gradually moved up to recognizable song fragments on strummed guitars accompanied by singing vocals. These are mixed in and out, autotuned and distorted, but still, their presence suggests that more conventional forms of a song may be creeping into her music. Her work before 2019 was built around percussion instruments, typically a drum set where she constructed solos with shifting beats and time signatures.