King Midas Sound and Fennesz Share "Lighthouse" Video
London dub outfit King Midas Sound, led by Kevin Martin (the Bug), have teamed up with Fennesz for the new album Edition 1, out September 18 via Ninja Tune. Their video for “Lighthouse”, shot on 16mm film, is a collage put together in-camera, directed by Paul Clipson (who has worked with Grouper, How to Dress Well, and others). Watch it below via Pitchfork.tv.
Clipson said in a statement:
When I first heard “Lighthouse”, I was immediately drawn to the subtle textures and tones of the music, to the rhythmic structure of the piece. It drew out of my memory various film images, as if when listening to the music I was dreaming while awake. The track evokes a sense of life lived and dreamt, of time’s passing in a thought, enigmatically phrasing this idea within a subtle, minimalist approach. The images were filmed with a Bolex 16mm motion picture camera in San Francisco, and while traveling this year to New York and Hong Kong. The color and black and white superimpositions, images layered on top of each other, were all created in-camera while I was shooting in these cities. I make films in the hope of finding sounds that will create a responsive environment, an imagined architecture in which images exist and resonate within music. When listening to “Lighthouse”, all sorts of associations and emotions began to refer to visual moments from my films. The collage of images that resulted is a series of visual echoes, a meeting place between experiences both literal and abstract in nature. The guitar tones and surface textures of the track, the expansive breadth of the sound, suggested to me city surfaces of grids, graphs, geometries, and lines, with layers of subterranean streets evoking multiple levels of consciousness.
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