Philip Clemo

Film-maker and composer Philip Clemo is interested in achieving a kind of fusion where visual and sonic data are rendered equal and experienced synthetically. His films, shot on location throughout the world, are propelled in the direction of music through his use of distended temporality, layering and transpositions of various kinds. It is evident that the assumptions of film and music interpenetrate one another in Clemo's mind. Couple this with the sense of intensity in the music and in his choice of recording locations - geothermal sites in Iceland, the rainforests of Malaysia, the crowded streets of Delhi, glass and metal workshops in London and Sydney - and a hunger for the sublime is revealed, a state in which the boundaries of the senses, the body, are somehow de-differentiated in relation to a broader field. He uses video projections of his film work extensively in his live performances.

Described as 'quietly mesmerising' by The Times (UK), Philip Clemo's densely layered compositions reveal a process of negotiation across the boundaries of jazz, contemporary classical, post-rock and electronica. Instruments and atmospheres are in constant interplay, moving in and out of focus. His pieces are infused with a filmic sensibility - in the way time unfolds and compositional form melts into ambience, and in the evocation of landscapes and cultures through location recordings. All strangely visual, colourful somehow - supersaturated. His pieces are abstract, melodic, composed; and at the same time fixed to the everyday experiences of real times and places.

Philip Clemo was born in north east Scotland in 1964. He has been living and working in London since 1982.