Sophie Clements

Evensong

Not taken with it at all, either in terms of the imagery or the sound.

Amber Bennett

mmmmm.BBC advert?

Damien.H

Well, Sophie, I thought it was very moving, intricate and incredibly beautiful - the stuff of standing hairs and goosebumps. Congratulations.xxx

Abi Isherwood / Rice

Why did this win?

Not impressed

Congrats Sophie! yay!!

Paul Baron

Congrats Sophie!

Gavin Carver

one word RUBBISH

w

BORING BORING, VERY BORING.

T

Beautiful, capturing the essence of the spirit that gives its energy to each and every plant form ,drop of water and to the air we breathe.

Imogen Gaffney

Great!!!

Matteo

pretty dull eco-hippie stuff.

DP

I love how those lights look like strange alien life forms having come down on earth to study, scan and copy our beautiful nature. They would hopefully do a better job at preserving it than us... A celebration of nature and a very sensual video and soundtrack. And those lights were filmed in situ!!!!

Paul Baron

Great piece... really like the slow and zen like spirit of it.. not pretentious as most of the work presented are... shame about the poor screen quality and very quiet headphones provided... this piece deserves much better presentation. and shame about people who prefer to watch paint dry...

aalex.info

I second the below criticism...there is so much more interesting work being made!

CF

Really BORING ARTY FARTY nonsense. We want ART, not Moby pop videos. I would prefer to watch paint dry.

s

Very good work, all moved in situ?? That must of taken hours. The sceanery and light do lead it towards the spiritual in video. The shear skill involved in making the piece . Brilliant.

Marksman Jay

I always think at the end of the day you have to have an idea and this idea has to work and it also has to simply look good. I think its often forgotten. And here is a perfect example. It fulfills both. Thats very rare.

Joana Niemeyer

an extraordinary sense of texture emerges out of this glowing sound its wonderful

j cheadle

Totally captivated by the powerful dynamic created between the mounting tension and grace of movement..even more so when I discovered what care and sheer determination must have gone into the creative process. Stunning!

Tanya

This has been done before. Four words: match of the day.

Calcillius

Inspirational. I know these rocks. I know those trees. Will change the way I see them forever.

Alistair John Allport

very interesting, a memory of movement..if only we could all tune into this way of thinking / seeing i am sure the beauty of the "unseen" would touch many

jane elizabeth truelove

technique without anything extra

bored of wathcing now

It began so beautifully, but grew dull. The compositions chosen within the six landscapes were good to see, but the light effects seemed crashingly limited. The music was neither here nor there. Perhaps more experimentation needed?

JBD

An incredible piece of fine art at its most profound.

T Shaw

Gods... If only it were longer.

Hudson Gardner

There is no doubt that this piece bridges and positively interlinks the questions related to the field of fine art and the skillfully used craft of filmmaking. It is a real inspiration to me and many of my students.

Paulus M. Dreibholz

Beautiful!

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About the artist
Sophie Clements is a visual artist working specifically in relation to sound and music. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2005, her work takes the form of audio-visual installation, music video, live performance and collaborative work with musicians, all unified by her approach to the 'visualisation' of sound (or vice versa), and the expression of the two languages of sound and visual as a singular voice.

About the work
Evensong is a piece of visual music; it is a song, sung by layers of landscape and the geometric light forms that emerge from them. Using a process of 'painting' in real space with light, Evensong explores the notion of physical reality in relation to time and memory. The light objects are not fake, but they are still unreal - an altered memory of an event that happened - a movement in time seen in its entirety, like the beauty of hindsight. The lights are filmed in the exact space that you see them, involving a long process of filming an LED light moving in precise geometric shapes, (all moved individually by hand in situ using hand-built rigs such as wooden frames and bicycle wheels), and layering up consecutive frames to make the whole movement of the light visible as a single object. The light forms are notes of a score whose pages are the six different landscapes. In a sense, the process of creating an edit was more like writing a score - a moving graphical score that would be brought to life by finding the sounds that embody the essence of the image, with many of the decisions of placement, timing and dynamics made with the musical structure foremost in mind. Titled 'Evensong' not as a direct reference to its religious connotations, but rather a reflection of mood that the lights and landscape themselves suggest - the piece is somehow a melancholy celebration of dusk and stillness - an essence of something else - the 'planned' unforeseen, seeping out of the systematic process of filming. These objects are at once sound and light, real and unreal, kinetic and frozen, and the beauty that comes with them lies on the edge between these opposites.

* Ratings do not contribute to the panel's decision.