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Philip Clemo

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Philip Clemo’s work is “mesmerising” (The Times, UK), “startlingly original” (The Observer, UK), “immersive... unexpected” (MOJO) and “beautiful, transcendent... indefinable” (BBC).

Clemo is a trans-disciplinary artist working across composition, sound design, film and art installation. His work explores perception, ambiguity, boundaries and consciousness and has been seen and heard around the world inc. BBC, Cannes Film Fest, V&A Museum and Eden Project.

As a composer Clemo has released six critically acclaimed albums. He builds complex sound spaces, 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 ongoing Breath Project (www.breathproject.net) is a multi-sensory, highly communicative work exploring humankind’s relationship with life-cycles and the environments we inhabit. Produced by perfectmotion, in collaboration with the V&A, The Eden Project, Arri, Vision Research and 5 UK universities. Content includes imagery from a gyro-stabilised helicopter rig over Iceland, on the ground from ultra-high speed camera technology loaned by world leaders Vision Research and in the petri dish in collaboration with Dr Jonathan Graham. Soundscapes include Malaysian rainforest insects to human and 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.

www.philipclemo.com www.breathproject.net

Discography: solo works: Dream Maps (Sep 2016) Mesmer (2012) The Rooms (2008) Ambiguous Dialogues (2004)

(with Ysanne Spevack): soundzero (2009) Inhale the Colours (1997)

Selected Filmography: Breath (in development, 2017) 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) The Air Holds Still On My Breath (2009)