Emlyn Ellis Addison
- Music Department
Emlyn Ellis Addison was born in Somerset West, South Africa. He emigrated to the United States in 1990, studying music theory and composition at the Arizona State University School Of Music, then graduate studies in music composition and new media at the California Institute Of The Arts.
Working under the artist name clocolan, Addison shapes imaginary spaces from original writings and the found sounds of generations of abandoned ideologies. His creative thirst dawned in South Africa: a childhood of neglected hinterlands, eroded topology, unconquered vastness. From it emerged a nostalgic, lo-fi, vintage electronica; expansive themes lost in the background noise of human affairs. A long formal training in music traced an unlikely path to an awakening: new modes of expression materialized from knob-twiddling and endless textural cravings. But the beauty of structure and melodic arcs are never far beneath the surface. Addison reaches for a musical cohesion that feels tenuous: the thin line that separates incidental harmonics from conscious expression.
Addison lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Working under the artist name clocolan, Addison shapes imaginary spaces from original writings and the found sounds of generations of abandoned ideologies. His creative thirst dawned in South Africa: a childhood of neglected hinterlands, eroded topology, unconquered vastness. From it emerged a nostalgic, lo-fi, vintage electronica; expansive themes lost in the background noise of human affairs. A long formal training in music traced an unlikely path to an awakening: new modes of expression materialized from knob-twiddling and endless textural cravings. But the beauty of structure and melodic arcs are never far beneath the surface. Addison reaches for a musical cohesion that feels tenuous: the thin line that separates incidental harmonics from conscious expression.
Addison lives in Providence, Rhode Island.