Photo by Amanda Cole

Aeriae is electronic composer/producer Wade Clarke, born in Sydney in 1975. His grandfather was an engineer and almost-concert pianist and Wade grew up playing the piano by ear. Prominent in his childhood repertoire were creaky renditions of his favourite electronic film scores, such as Escape From New York, Halloween and TRON.

After high school, Wade studied Communications at the University Of Technology, Sydney, then variously worked on short films, as a writer and reviewer and also as a webcomic artist (Ocular Trauma) before reconnecting with contemporary, purely electronic music via Aphex Twin's phenomenal Druqks album. Work on a series of videogame soundtrack remixes led forward to the development of original material as Aeriae.

Fave Musicians: Aphex Twin, Autechre, Beethoven, Celtic Frost, Chopin, Curve, Deee-Lite, Emperor, Faktychno Sami, The Jesus Lizard, Nirvana, The Pixies, Retina.it, Suzanne Vega, Luke Vibert

Fave Film Scorers: Angelo Badalamenti, John Carpenter, Goblin, Philip Glass, Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Hermann, Ennio Morricone, John Williams

Fave Films: Deep Red, Star Wars, Wild At Heart

Fave Artist: H. R. Giger

Fave Writers: Ruth Rendell / Barbara Vine, Colin Wilson

Fave Comics: Judge Dredd, Peanuts

Fave Computer: Apple II series

Fave Videogames: Resident Evil series, Silent Hill