Through treated vocals, glitched melodies and looping rhythmic pulses, Auclair makes a firm break with reality, installing surrealism into everyday life. Having made abstract electro-pop for labels such as Kit Records, her music has found a space between density and sparsity, playing noisy textures and hushed minimalism off of one another. Works such as In Waves sum up Auclair’s sound: moments of clarity are weaved through an otherwise surreal tapestry of daydreaming electronics and percussive cascades, her voice the only constant in an ever-changing world.
Auclair has appeared across a staggering range of projects. She was part of the bee-themed opera The Swarm, contributed to Beck’s Song Reader project, and has also taken part in a live rework of the Afro-Brazilian classic Black Orpheus. She has also explored sound art, drawing it into her composition with works such as Four Points Talk, a piece built from recordings of buildings, and Dawn Chorus Live, an exploration of birdsong with Marcus Coates.