Philip Clemo – Composer, sound-designer, film-maker

Philip Clemo is a UK-based artist working in composition, film & sound-design. He is also a TED Speaker.

Over 20 years he has released 6 albums, most recently Dream Maps, developing an individual musical language and working with a diverse and extraordinary group of musicians.

In his film-making he captures imagery from the world around us from highly unusual perspectives, challenging familiarity and using ground-breaking technology in partnership with world-leading media companies such as Arri & Vision Research. His work has been shown at international festivals, London’s V&A Museum & Eden Project in the UK, and on TED.

Through live performance he brings his music, sound-design and imagery together into hypnotic shows.

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FIRST BREATH short film release

On EARTH DAY, April 22, 2021, I will be launching my short film FIRST BREATH, which you will now be able to screen online for the first time. I have been working on THE BREATH PROJECT for over a decade, beginning with a memorable filming trip from a helicopter over Iceland with Colin Gray in 2008. Several of my creative projects have sprung from Breath over the years, the First Breath short film being one. You can preregister for a 20% discount to screen the film here…

PLAY FIRST BREATH FILM

FROM SILENCE INTO SONG

An audio visual collaboration with the charity Shout at Cancer, as featured on BBC Radio. You can view Emmy-nominated documentary film-maker Bill Brummel’s interview with the makers of the project Thomas Moors & Philip Clemo HERE

75 years on from the Hiroshima & Nagasaki atomic bombs, we’re celebrating life-affirming stories shaped by the powerful and dichotomous legacy of radiation, from the extraordinary trees that survived those bombs to a choir of cancer survivors, treated with radiotherapy, who lost their voices & then learnt how to sing.

You can learn more about the project HERE

And you can support it through JustGiving below…

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UPCOMING SHOWS

DIGITAL ARTWORKS on SEDITION ART

Limited editions of Philip Clemo’s digital artworks are available to purchase as downloads at SEDITION ART

DREAM MAPS LIVE

From performances in the UK and Germany

Philip Clemo: guitar, keys, voice, soundscapes, theremin
Evi Vine: voice

Arve Henriksen: trumpet, voice, fx
Byron Wallen: trumpet

BJ Cole: pedal steel guitar

Sarah Homer: clarinet, bass clarinet
Emily Burridge: cello
Steven Hill: guitar

Simon Edwards: bass
Martyn Barker: drums, percussion

Imagery: www.breathproject.net

PHILIP CLEMO ON TED

Music is fundamental to our lives, transporting us to extraordinary places. Imagine if we could learn to experience visual imagery with that same intensity.

UK-based artist, Philip Clemo, works across composition, film, sound-design and live performance. In this talk he delves into his multi-sensory Breath Project and explores the idea that our relationship with the world around us can be hugely enriched if we widen our visual perception.

LARK SHORT FILM

Lark is the third short film coming from the Dream Maps album. It explores confinement and escape as well as the dissolving of form. Thanks to Vision Research for its help in the making of this project.

DREAM MAPS ALBUM PREVIEW

A taster of the Dream Maps album. The official live launch was at Kings Place, London with an 8-piece band including Arve Henriksen. Video from that concert is on the Live Video Archive page.

Imagery in this preview is from The Breath Project www.breathproject.net, directed by Philip Clemo, produced by perfectmotion and Animal Monday.

Dream Maps was mixed by Philip Clemo, with Phill Brown
Recorded by Phill Brown and Philip Clemo
Produced by Philip Clemo