kwes. - Blox⧸Connor

What this video is

Released April 2018 on Warp Records as the closing track of the Songs For Midi EP, Blox/Connor sits within a deeply personal family-participatory creative project by London-based producer and composer Kwesi Sey (kwes.). The EP was conceived as an electronic ode to his young niece Midori and cousin Connor, incorporating recorded sounds of their toys. The music video, directed by an 11-year-old family member using…

Why it matters

Blox/Connor represents UK experimental electronic music's continued evolution toward intimate, non-commercial visual language in the late 2010s. As a Warp release, it sits in a lineage of avant-electronic music video practice, but radically subverts professional norms by using a child director and…

The director

An 11-year-old cousin of kwes., identified only by first name in press materials. Directed the Blox/Connor video using iMovie as part of kwes.'s family-participatory creative campaign for the Songs For Midi EP on Warp Records (2018). No prior or subsequent…