Archive of PELLYVISION w/ No Translation

Broadcast on DUBLAB 6.16.22 (audio archive available here)

Live set: 0:03:12
DJ mix: 0:38:18

PELLYVISION is a monthly cohesion of sound and vision. Alex Pelly synthesizes live video to accompany sounds from an artist of her choosing. Make sure to check out the live video stream on our homepage by clicking the live video button or at twitch.tv/pellyvision!

No Translation is Emma Palm, a musician and visual artist currently based in the California high desert. Her music collages synths, field recordings, and vocals to create personal and meditative soundscapes that reflects on the specificity of relationships between the self and environment, location and memory, relationships and communication.

Tonalism at Descanso Gardens

Saturday, June 11 - 6pm-1am

dublab & Descanso Gardens present: Tonalism ( in space ) Live Happening

Tonalism is back in Los Angeles!!! Join us for an evening of live performances, DJ sets and video art in the Rose Garden of Descanso Gardens.

Visitors are encouraged to bring pillows, cushions, and sleeping bags to lay down, listen and watch for an extended period of time.

Live performances by:
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Drum & Lace
Colloboh
Yialmelic Frequencies
Matthewdavid
Indradeep Ghosh, Neelamjit Dhillon & Chris Votek
Grace Oh
Nanny Cantaloupe
Oguri
Roxanne Steinberg
Michelle Shiu-Lin Lai

DJ sets by:
Barbarelle
Hoseh
Rona Rapadas
Frosty
No Translation
Jimmy Tamborello
Chris Kissel

Video art by
Alex Pelly
Carole Kim w/Alise Spinella, Alicia Gorecki, Theo Rasmussen, Eli Rosenkim

Installation by:
Centering Center
Ki Oni
Kamran V
Automatic Trance Ensemble

Advance tickets required, $20 members/$25 non-members.

Descanso Gardens //1418 DESCANSO DRIVE, LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE

Syng | The Space Between with Matthewdavid and Leaving Records

A branded content piece directed, shot and edited by Alex Pelly for Syng.

Leaving Records founder Matthewdavid guides us through his highly intentional world of sound. Discover how the visionary musician cultivates a community focused on all-genre music exploration and transformational sonic experiences.

Produced by Mark “frosty” McNeill

Sound recording and mix by Jake Viator

Production Assistant Azul Niño

Live Video Performance for Drum & Lace’s Album Release at 2220 Arts

Friday, June 30 - 8pm

Drum & Lace celebrates the release of her new album Natura. She will be accompanied by a live video performance from Alex Pelly.

Maria BC and Hannah Lee will also be performing.

Tickets here

2220 Arts & Archives // 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057

Archive of PELLYVISION w/ Wild Wild Mike

Broadcast on DUBLAB 5.28.22 (audio archive available here)

Mix of original music at 0:03:13
Mix of selections at 0:45:11

PELLYVISION is a monthly cohesion of sound and vision. Alex Pelly synthesizes live video to accompany sounds from an artist of her choosing.

Wild Wild Mike (Michael McDowell) is a producer, composer, and writer based in Los Angeles. His music explores the homemade spirituality of New Age Music and its edges and overlaps with Ambient, Noise, and Pop Music. Using generative sequencing and a heavy use of resampling layered with aggressively processed vocals, his music touches on the alienation, play, joy, and sorrow reverberating beneath the perpetual sunset. He is a founding member of the kosmische band ON.

Archive of PELLYVISION w/ Nu Sire

Broadcast on DUBLAB 4.21.22 (audio archive available here)

Live set at 01:14
DJ set at 34:48

PELLYVISION is a monthly cohesion of sound and vision. Alex Pelly synthesizes live video to accompany sounds from an artist of her choosing. Make sure to check out the live video stream on our homepage by clicking the live video button or at twitch.tv/pellyvision!

Jason James aka Nu Sire is a noise artist based in Los Angeles, CA. His live sets and recordings combine layers of heavily processed samples and distorted synths to create dense, psychedelic drones and shifting walls of cacophonous noise. Nu Sire has released music on Skin Trade Recordings, Fantasy 1, Black Porno Cassette, and Fatt Grabbers Recordings.

Visuals for Analogue Dreams III at GrandSon

Friday, April 1, 2022

Alex will be providing visuals and a TV installation for a music showcase at entertainment agency GrandSon.

Grandson // 10000 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90232

RSVP events@gransonla.com

Solo A/V Performance and Screening at CalArts for Cinematic Voices

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Alex Pelly performed a solo A/V set and screen work for CalArts students as part of the Cinematic Voices class, taught by Mike Stoltz. Video courtesy of Josias Lopez.

Solo A/V Set at Coaxial Arts

Saturday, March 19th - 8pm

Coaxial’s first in-person show since the beginning of the pandemic.

Live A/V sets by:

• Alex Pelly

• NikNak (Australia)

• Dahlia Fae

• ON

Suggested donation $0-$10

Coaxial Arts // 1815 S Main St. Los Angeles, CA 90016

Solo A/V Set at Little Joy

Tuesday, March 8 - 8pm

Panoramic Melody presents and evening of audio-visuals performances. This will be Alex Pelly’s first solo set in front of a live audience. Dahlia Fae, Godtease and WildWildMike will also be performing.

This is a free show!

Little Joy / 477 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026

Das Bunker: Pixel Grip / Spike Hellis / Black Light Odyssey

Friday, March 4th, 2022 - 10pm - 4am

Four rooms of industrial dancing. with live sets from Pixel Grip, Spike Hellis and Black Light Odyssey. Pelly will be creating a TV installation in the Machine Club room.

Tickets available here

Archive of PELLYVISION w/ Shelley Burgon

Broadcast on DUBLAB 02.17.22 (audio archive available here)

Live set at 0:36:35

PELLYVISION is a monthly cohesion of sound and vision. Alex Pelly synthesizes live video to accompany sounds from an artist of her choosing.

Shelley Burgon is a harpist, composer and sound artist, specializing in experimental music. She has an extensive history as an improvisor and an interpreter new classical music; performing the works of composers such as Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Yoko Ono, James Tenney, Butch Morris, Berio and Earle Brown. She has had the pleasure to perform at renowned institutions such as the Whitney Museum, MoMA, Issue Project Room and Disney Concert Hall. She has recorded harp for Bjork, Anthony Braxton, Miho Hatori, Roberto Lange and for her former chamber ensemble Ne(x)tworks featuring Joan La Barbara. Her music has been commissioned by The Merce Cunningham Dance Company for the Hudson Valley Project at the Dia Museum, Ne(x)tworks, and multimedia artist Katherine Behar. Film credits include harpist on First Cow, Mission Blue and We Steal Secrets. She will be releasing her first full length record this year on Thin Wrist Recordings. Shelley received her MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College where she studied with Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher, Fred Frith and Alvin Curran.

Sana Shenai ‘Worm Farmer’ Visualizer out on Les Albums Claus

Los Angeles-based duo SANA SHENAI began in 2009 when their Dublab radio-affiliated ambient quintet Golden Hits went on hiatus. Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel, The Postal Service) and Mitchell Brown (LAFMS, Sun Araw, Sissy Spacek) have since amassed a mountain of material culled from 10 years of home recording. In late 2018 the 5-song digital EP "Forewarm" was released by Leaving Records, which now joins seven other pieces on this physical debut double LP for Les Albums Claus, "WARM FORMER".

Archive of PELLYVISION w/ Byron Westbrook

Broadcast on DUBLAB 01.20.22 (audio archive available here)

PELLYVISION is a monthly cohesion of sound and vision. Alex Pelly synthesizes live video to accompany sounds from an artist of her choosing.

Byron Westbrook is an artist and composer based in Los Angeles, CA. He works with both music performance and installation formats, with a focus on architectural qualities of sound and the potential for audio to generate visual and social spaces. Westbrook’s work has been shown internationally at institutions such as the Walker Art Center, ICA London, MoMA PS1, Rewire Festival, MaerzMusik Festival, Akousma Festival among others. He has recorded for labels including Root Strata, Hands in the Dark, Ash International, Important Records and Umor Rex. Westbrook holds an MFA from Bard College where he studied with Marina Rosenfeld, Marcus Schmickler and David Behrman. He has been in residence at Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Banff Centre for the Arts, ISSUE Project Room, Clocktower Gallery, Diapason Gallery, Wassaic Project and EMS Stockholm and has recently been visiting faculty with Pratt Institute’s Graduate Fine Arts Dept, Columbia University Sound Arts MFA, and International Center of Photography’s New Media Narratives program.

NYE Visuals at Catch One

Pelly will be doing live visuals and a TV installation for the Moony Habits Stage.

Tickets available here.

Series of Performances with Byron Westbook Across California

LA-based artists Byron Westbrook and Alex Pelly present a live Audio/Visual collaboration using electronics and modular video synth. The project expands from their online performance created earlier this year for the cathartic and damaged compositions on Distortion Hue, Westbrook’s recent LP with Hands in the Dark. This live iteration features Pelly’s colorful and dynamic audio-reactive images activated by Westbrook’s sonics made with analog and digital synthesizer, computer and processed cassette tape.

Thurs Dec 9 - Los Angeles - 2220 Arts
Friday Dec 10 - Santa Cruz - Indexical
Sat Dec 11 - San Francisco - The Lab

Trixie Mattel Grown Up Tour Visuals at The Novo DTLA

Alex Pelly created visuals for Trixie Mattel’s Grown Up Tour at the beginning of 2020. The tour was paused and then finished in 2021. Pelly created visuals for additional songs that were added to the 2021 leg of the tour.

The footage above is from Trixie Mattel’s December 4th show at The Novo in Downtown Los Angeles.

Album Visualizers for Lubelski's Happy Accidents on Dirtybird

Visualizers for all 12 tracks are out!

“DJ and modular synthesist, Lubelski recently released his Happy Accidents LP on Dirtybird Records. Written over a six week stretch of modular jam tracking and long nights of isolation, the album represents a moment in Lubelski’s career when he discarded the rule book and wrote with a renewed sense of creative freedom. This feeling is exuded at every twist and turn on the record, disregarding any preconceptions people might have had about him or the label.

Lubelski discovered visual artist Alex Pelly via her show on Dublab Radio – she uses the same modular synth gear to create visual content, which was then used to create visual representation of Lubelski’s process. Alex has created visual for each of the tracks on Lubelski’s album Happy Accidents.”

Read the full article and interview on Earmilk here.

Watch the album visualizer playlist here.

Coaxial Fundraiser at Navel

Friday, December 3 - 8pm

Coaxial’s mission is to give a platform for under-represented artists' experimental performance, media, and interdisciplinary work, workshops, artist residences, lectures and everything in-between.

The fundraising efforts go directly into operating costs, support and honorariums for next year's programming. Throughout the crisis, they have continued to curate livestream shows, artist residencies and installations. This fiscal year they have hosted over 250 artists, giving them a much-needed outlet during the pandemic. In order to continue supporting the creative practices of Los Angeles' artists, they need to raise $10,000.

Please consider making a ONE-TIME DONATION or sign up to become a MEMBER.

NAVEL / 1611 S Hope St Los Angeles, CA 90015

Archive of PELLYVISION w/ Sana Shenai

Broadcast on DUBLAB 11.18.21

Los Angeles-based duo SANA SHENAI began in 2009 when their Dublab-affiliated ambient quintet Golden Hits went on hiatus. Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel, The Postal Service) and Mitchell Brown (LAFMS, Fancy Space People, Sun Araw) have their debut double LP “Warm Former” seeing light on Les Albums Claus late 2021. Musique concrete evolves through polyglot electronics and sound-field games. Decipher and win.

Audio archive available on dublab here.