Cliff Caruthers

music composition  ·  sound design


Recently featured in American Theatre’s Role Call series, “6 Designers You Should Know.”

“The goal for me is to recapture the immediacy and intuition you get from improvising, making recorded audio as responsive as possible.”

Shout in the Dark

Deborah Slater Dance Theater  ·  Studio 210, San Francisco

Sound design for Deborah Slater's meditation on hope and grief. An atmospheric and soothing soundscape—naturalistic rain, marimba, xylophone, piano, and occasional vocal lines—holds space for five performers whose movement explores the shape of hope: its loss, pursuit, attainment, and retention.

Deborah Slater Dance Theater — Shout in the Dark (2025)

Photo: Robbie Sweeny  ·  Deborah Slater Dance Theater