Philip Clemo(I)
- Director
- Composer
- Editor
Philip Clemo's work is "mesmerising" (The London Times), "startlingly original" (The Observer, UK) and "beautiful, transcendent" (BBC).
Clemo is a trans-disciplinary artist working across composition, sound design, film and installation. His work explores landscape, perception, ambiguity & consciousness and has been shown around the world inc. Cannes, London V&A Museum and Eden Project, UK.
Clemo joined the BBC in 1987, working as a film editor on one of its flagship programmes Panorama before leaving in 1993. He subsequently worked as a freelance editor, media consultant and director for a number of years. In 1989 he started making short films, in a collaboration with photographer and film-maker Colin Gray. The partnership took them to Asia and Scandinavia and Clemo subsequently travelled widely making films and gathering an eclectic library of sound recordings.
As a composer Clemo has released six critically acclaimed albums. He builds complex sound worlds, weaving in location recordings made on his worldwide trips. He develops pieces through a process of composition and improvisation, with contributions from a diverse group of musicians including Arve Henriksen, Byron Wallen, B J Cole, Henry Lowther, Evi Vine and Cleveland Watkiss.
Clemo's Breath Project (www.breathproject.net) is a multi-sensory, highly communicative work exploring humankind's relationship with life-cycles and the environments we inhabit. It is produced by perfectmotion, in collaboration with the V&A, Eden Project, Arri, Vision Research and 5 UK universities. Content includes imagery from a gyro-stabilised helicopter rig over Iceland, ground-based material from ultra-high speed camera technology loaned by world leaders Vision Research and petri dish shots in collaboration with Dr Jonathan Graham. Soundscapes include Malaysian rainforest insects to human & humpback whale heart rhythms. Breath has already attracted the attention of David Lynch's producer Joni Sighvatsson and Francis Ford Coppola's producer Fred Fuchs.
Selected Filmography:
Breath (in development, 2017) Water in the Flow (2016) Memory of Objects One (2014) Orchid (2013) Four Seconds to Midnight (2013) Wide-eyed (2013) Return (2013) The Mesmer vignettes (2012) Sigur Rós - Fjögur Píanó (2012) Melt (2009)
Discography:
solo works: Dream Maps (2016) Mesmer (2012) The Rooms (2008) Ambiguous Dialogues (2004)
(with Ysanne Spevack): soundzero (2009) Inhale the Colours (1997)
Clemo is a trans-disciplinary artist working across composition, sound design, film and installation. His work explores landscape, perception, ambiguity & consciousness and has been shown around the world inc. Cannes, London V&A Museum and Eden Project, UK.
Clemo joined the BBC in 1987, working as a film editor on one of its flagship programmes Panorama before leaving in 1993. He subsequently worked as a freelance editor, media consultant and director for a number of years. In 1989 he started making short films, in a collaboration with photographer and film-maker Colin Gray. The partnership took them to Asia and Scandinavia and Clemo subsequently travelled widely making films and gathering an eclectic library of sound recordings.
As a composer Clemo has released six critically acclaimed albums. He builds complex sound worlds, weaving in location recordings made on his worldwide trips. He develops pieces through a process of composition and improvisation, with contributions from a diverse group of musicians including Arve Henriksen, Byron Wallen, B J Cole, Henry Lowther, Evi Vine and Cleveland Watkiss.
Clemo's Breath Project (www.breathproject.net) is a multi-sensory, highly communicative work exploring humankind's relationship with life-cycles and the environments we inhabit. It is produced by perfectmotion, in collaboration with the V&A, Eden Project, Arri, Vision Research and 5 UK universities. Content includes imagery from a gyro-stabilised helicopter rig over Iceland, ground-based material from ultra-high speed camera technology loaned by world leaders Vision Research and petri dish shots in collaboration with Dr Jonathan Graham. Soundscapes include Malaysian rainforest insects to human & humpback whale heart rhythms. Breath has already attracted the attention of David Lynch's producer Joni Sighvatsson and Francis Ford Coppola's producer Fred Fuchs.
Selected Filmography:
Breath (in development, 2017) Water in the Flow (2016) Memory of Objects One (2014) Orchid (2013) Four Seconds to Midnight (2013) Wide-eyed (2013) Return (2013) The Mesmer vignettes (2012) Sigur Rós - Fjögur Píanó (2012) Melt (2009)
Discography:
solo works: Dream Maps (2016) Mesmer (2012) The Rooms (2008) Ambiguous Dialogues (2004)
(with Ysanne Spevack): soundzero (2009) Inhale the Colours (1997)