Clausen is a 2016 Composer/Sound Artist Fellow with the Jerome Foundation. His works have also been supported by the McKnight Foundation, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Clausen has recently attended the Atlantic Center for the Arts summer residency program and the East Coast Chamber Ensemble’s Etchings festival. Clausen has been commissioned by Wild Rumpus collective (San Fransisco), Milieux Percussion (Baltimore), AVIDduo (Dallas), The Dream Songs Project (Minneapolis/Los Angeles), the pianist Keith Kirchoff (Boston), saxophonist Kyle Hutchins (Blacksburg, VA) and clarinetist Sarah Porwoll-Lee (Minneapolis).