Luke Younger (Helm) & Tom James Scott w. Paul Clipson + Mohammad
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Film maker Paul Clipson pairs his saturated super8 film projections with a new collaboration between Luke Younger aka Helm and Tom James Scott. The three are joined on the night by Greek string/electronics trio Mohammad who celebrate the release of their LP on PAN.
NB: Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is no longer appearing at this event.
PAUL CLIPSON
Paul Clipson has shown his films internationally in various galleries, festivals and performance venues in Spain, The Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Japan and Russia, as well as throughout the U.S. and in the Bay Area, including at the Pacific Film Archive, the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, Artists Television Access, The Exploratorium and the San Francisco Art Institute. He works primarily in film, video and works on paper. Since 2003, Clipson has collaborated on film/music performances, documentaries and short films with sound/music artists such as Tarentel, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Joshua Churchill, Robert Rich, Jim Haynes and Metal Rouge, projecting largely improvised in-camera edited experimental films employing multiple exposures, dissolves and macro imagery, that bring to light subconscious preoccupations and unexpected visual forms.
In 2003 a collaboration between Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson was begun. The duo create unique live performances with music and film. They have released a number of DVDr's on Root Strata as well as 'Within Mirrors' a DVD collection of their collaborations. They have performed at the New York Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival, San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as well has having their film collaborations screened at a number of international film & music festivals.
Luke Younger is a Sound Artist and experimental musician based in London, working with a vast array of revolving instrumentation and abstract sound sources most frequently under the name HELM.
Younger's compositions build a dense aural landscape that touches on musique concrete, uncomfortable sound poetry, noise, and hallucinatory drones. His most last LP for the Kye label, Cryptography, presents a five-part suite of expertly rendered electro-acoustic study which uses processed piano, Casio MT-40, cymbal and broken guitar strings. Younger creates a world where these instruments morph into spectral rust, a shimmering klang swims alongside passive noise and the relationship between acoustic and electronic derived sounds forms a solid foundation. This sound is steered through a melange of fringe territories: glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organized feedback, all coalesced in a post-industrial fashion with a commitment to homemade exploratory zeal.
For the past ten years, Younger has also performed extensively in Europe and the US with Steven Warwick as pioneering avant-drone duo Birds of Delay. New LP 'Impossible Symmetry' on PAN coming out in spring 2012.
Tom James Scott is an instrumentalist / composer / improviser currently residing in London.
Scott's early interest in music was informed as much by a fascination with sound and improvisation as it was by traditional musical training, and his work continues to explore both lyrical and abstract means of sound making and composition.
Since 2007's 'Red Deer', Scott's solo releases to date have seen a switch between guitar, piano and keyboard as their focal point (often with the addition of bowed objects and strings, field recording and electronics). United by a preoccupation with modern composition, traditional music, improvisation and song, Scott's recorded work also draws inspiration from visual and literary sources, with certain titles often citing a now largely archaic form of dialect particular to Scott's home county of Cumbria.
MOHAMMAD is the project of Coti K, ILIOS and Nikos Veliotis. Having worked separately in the experimental field they decided to join forces in order to study and work on the principles of inter-modulation using contra-bass (Coti K.), oscillators (ILIOS) and cello (Nikos Veliotis). They will release a new LP in October 2010 on PAN records.
