patten - Winter strobing (directed by Jane Eastlight)

patten's Warp-LP, 'ESTOILE NAIANT', was released last week (after an early leak and stream on his website).  In the video for 'Winter strobing', a camera lingers behind a woman making her way through Canary Wharf (one of London's glittering financial districts replete with futurist monoliths and second only to New York in international financial services exportation).  The video finds concurrence with patten's recent Xlr8r interview in which he draws particular attention to how music functions in diverse contexts and spatial dimensions:

"In the project, there's a fascination with objects that are being made and how they might create the circumstances by which one could be creative in their interfacing with those images, those sounds, those kind of real-time experiences with a live performance. What could a piece of music do when someone is walking along the street with it directly in their ears? What could it do when it's pounding on their chest in a dark space? How can one form move between these different spaces? What characteristics could it accrue as it moves from headphones into a club space, into a seated theatre, into a research paper, into text, into conversation, into a garment, into a color or a combination of two colors, into a texture, into a single word or combination of words, into a spatial dynamic... It's open, and I think that's really important."