Philip Clemo is a composer, filmmaker and visual artist. His work explores the hidden relationships between sound, environment and perception.

Clemo develops interdisciplinary projects for film, live performance and exhibition contexts, with a  practice bringing together:

• slow-motion and macro cinematography, revealing hidden natural phenomena
• composition shaped by orchestration, improvisation and sound design
• immersive audiovisual works spanning film, performance and installation

He has released seven acclaimed albums, including 2024’s Through the Wave of Blue, and has performed internationally with his Dream Maps multimedia project, blending live music with hypnotic imagery. His work has been showcased at international film festivals and cultural institutions such as the V&A Museum and the Eden Project.

Clemo’s imagery investigates perception, abstraction and the edges of familiarity. Using cutting-edge technologies, he captures imagery on dramatically different scales — from petri-dish ‘galaxies’ and extreme close-up motion-control studies of the human body to gyro-stabilised helicopter footage of Icelandic geothermal landscapes.

His multi-sensory Breath Project, presented at TEDx and TED events in the UK and USA, explores our connection to the environments around us. Supported by five UK universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, and industry partners such as ARRI and Vision Research, the project reveals extraordinary visual and sonic perspectives of the natural world.

Current projects include From Silence Into Song, a collaboration with the charity Shout at Cancer exploring the destructive and healing legacies of radiation. The project honours trees that survived the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and a choir of cancer survivors who learned to sing after laryngectomy surgery. It has already featured in live performances and workshops in the UK and internationally and will expand into gallery and performance contexts in 2026–27.

Selected Press:
“MESMERISING” ★★★★ – The Times
“HYPNOTIC” – The Guardian
“IMMERSIVE” – Mojo
“STARTLINGLY ORIGINAL” ★★★★ – The Observer
“TRANSCENDENT” ★★★★ – BBC
“BEAUTIFUL… MESMERIZING” – All Music Guide