Vevey
Clay Kin (Julian Sartorius, Dan Nicholls, Louise Boer / Lou Zon)

Synopsis
Vevey is an audiovisual album film by Clay Kin––the trio of Swiss percussionist Julian Sartorius, UK electronic artist Dan Nicholls, and visual artist Louise Boer (Lou Zon). Shot entirely in and around the Swiss town of Vevey, the film documents a series of improvised performances recorded in wild, open-air locations: on pedalo boats, in dense forests, and atop alpine hills.

Over the course of a week-long residency, Sartorius and Nicholls responded directly to their environments, creating an album from seven hours of unplanned, unrehearsed sessions. Their instruments– drums, objects, samples, synthesizers –interact not only with one another but with birdsong, rushing water, passing hikers and children's laughter, all captured in surround sound by Martin Ruch. The resulting album, Vevey, is unreproducible: each track is tied to a moment, a place, and a fleeting configuration of sound and trust.

Louise Boer’s visual approach blends realistic observational footage with layered analogue tape textures, creating a shifting landscape between the raw and the dreamlike. This mixed-media sensibility evokes a form of magical realism, where the everyday is heightened and transformed through texture, rhythm and light. 

As much a film about listening as it is a document of performance, Vevey resists genre, offering a meditative, sensory experience where improvisation, environment, and deep attention converge. It is a sonic pilgrimage– a film where nature and music shape one another in real time.

The album Vevey is released on Munich based label Squama: https://squamarecordings.com/release/vevey