Archive of PELLYVISION w/ Smokey Emery

Broadcast live on DUBLAB 10.21.21

Since the age of seventeen, Daniel Hipólito has been capturing, fragmenting, and reconfiguring his life experiences through tape manipulation as Smokey Emery. Equipped with consumer recording devices, documenting and transforming life’s everyday chapters into vignettes of self reflective audio-journalism. By combining equally purposeful and random media, self played samples, found sound, public domain audio, homemade foley, field recordings from various locations, and hand cut reel-to-reel tape loops plucked from his own sound menagerie to be warbled, sped up, slowed down or reversed, all layered at vastly different speeds, linking displaced moments into cogent soundscapes. In this way, Smokey Emery utilizes time and substance as compositional elements that play an equal, if not dominant role in the sonic architecture.

Audio archive available on dublab here.