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.