To celebrate the release of Distortion Hue, his new LP for Hands in the Dark, Byron Westbrook presents a live streaming concert accompanied by video artist Alex Pelly. The performance from Westbrook's Los Angeles studio will feature expanded versions of album tracks and related works, performed with synthesizer, computer and processed cassette tape.
Tickets available here.
Performed Live at Coaxial Arts 1.15.21
A live A/V set with Alex Pelly on audio and video synths and Oren Kolin on heavily affected electric guitar. This was performed at Coaxial Arts Foundation as part of the UNLOCK WINTER WANTED Festival in Moscow, Russia on January 15th, 2021. The line-up also included Andorkappen, Big Debbie Productions, godtease, Smokey Emery, Teasips, The Water Tank Sessions and War Hippie.
Broadcast live on DUBLAB 1.21.21
Good people? Bad people? Witches?
Sobbing Honey is Mike Meanstreetz and Grant Capes and their boxes and voices on tape and in the air. Musique concrete not yet hardened.
Audio archive available on dublab here.
Jupiter Peaks is an audio-visual collaboration between Alex Pelly and Oren Kolin created for the Ephemeris Time stream on December 30th, 2020. Featuring dark ambient soundscapes accompanied by audio reactive analog visuals. The audio was recorded live with Alex on audio synthesizers and Oren on heavily affected electric guitar. Alex then created the visuals using modular video synthesis and feedback.
Directed by Abteen Bagheri
A branded mini-doc about Alicia Keys for Mercedes-Benz. Alex Pelly provide analog processing on shots throughout the piece.
Performed live for VIDICON 11.14.20
Alex Pelly and Mitchell Brown collaborated on synthesized ambient soundscapes with analog audio reactive synthesized visuals by Pelly.
Broadcast on DUBLAB 12.19.20
Celia Hollander audio + Alex Pelly visuals
The Art of Performance was a series of collaborative performances that aimed to create a physical and conceptual space that enriched and promotee the practice of Los Angeles musicians and visual artists. Funding from a grant received from mediaThe foundation inc, enabled both DUBLAB AND FEMMEBIT to pair six visual artists with six musicians to create 6 new collaborative audiovisual performances. Each performance consists of an original, A/V set. The performance was broadcast on Dublab’s webstream Saturday, December 19th, 2020.
Celia Hollander is an LA based composer and artist working with audio, scores, performance, installation and text. Her work critically engages ways that audio and the act of listening can shape temporal perception, question cultural infrastructures and cultivate social connection. Her work has been performed or installed in venues and institutions including MOCA, The Getty, Kunsthalle Basel, Cirrus Gallery LA, Human Resources LA and Zebulon, LA and she is a resident dj on DUBLAB Radio.
“The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new video by ANDORKAPPEN. “Utmost Grateful For Suffering” comes off the artist’s latest release, Reporting Live from Landa Pass (Stories from Red Hill), which also marks the veteran producer’s debut under the ANDORKAPPEN moniker. After more than 20 years in the Los Angeles underground, the Hungarian-born artist has been an important figure in the city’s extreme music community whether as a raw black metal drummer/founder of ex-DAIS records band Harassor or with his brvtal solo project Lord Time. Now he comes forth with a powerful release of self described “Abstract Rhythmic Outsider Electronic Music” which adds a new chapter to his storied career.
Today we premiere the excellent video by revered L.A. visual artist Alex Pelly and it takes us on a hypnotic journey through ANDORKAPPEN’s sound. Reporting Live from Landa Pass (Stories from Red Hill) is out now on digital + CD formats and you can order yours on Bandcamp. “
Article on The Brvtalist here.
Broadcast Live on DUBLAB 12.17.20
Eva Aguila is a multidisciplinary artist and organizer from Los Angeles, CA. Aguila’s artistic background includes sound, performance, video, and documentary filmmaking. In 2005 she started her solo noise project as Kevin Shields. She has toured extensively throughout Europe, the US, and Asia, and Mexico. In 2010 she decided to go by her own name Eva Aguila. In the most current iteration of sound, she has been using module synthesizers to create dynamic meditative sounds. Eva Aguila is also co-founder and Director of Coaxial Arts Foundation, an artist-run non-profit space dedicated to experimental sound, video and performance art located in downtown LA. Aguila co-created Coaxial as a way to further the community of sound and media art in LA, as well as foster the community itself. Her passion for grassroots organizing started as a need to uplift underrepresented art communities. Inspired by the in-between and structuralist techniques, her work most recently is informed by the oral histories and Mexican diaspora of rural communities of Michoacan where her parents and family are from.
Audio archive available on dublab here.
For 4 years IHEARTCOMIX has hosted an annual charity event and online auction that brings together LA’s most influential music curators, influencers and businesses called LA GIVES BACK. Focused on the region’s homeless epidemic, LAGB brings our larger community together with 100% of all proceeds raised going to benefit local charities, Downtown Women’s Center and My Friends Place.
Recap here.
CRTs in the window of Østre are displaying my work as part of Ekko Festival 2020 in Bergen, Norway from November 5th-8th.
PELLYVISION is in the program here.
Broadcast live on DUBLAB 10.15.2020
Sophie Alieninova is an LA-based performer, composer, and music educator whose project ‘godtease’ explores improvisational audio narratives centered around the decimation of her native Russian tongue and accompanied by analog circuitry and undulating rhythms. Her passionate performances explore noise as ambience as she takes from her pipe organist foundation to create an improvised hymnology which challenges the boundaries of the Russian language and the rigidity of classicism.
Audio archive available on dublab here.
Resonant Frequencies fosters a vibrant, and growing community of live electronic artists in the S.F. Bay Area through once a month live “open mic” concerts that pair video and sound artists for improvised collaborations.
Tune in live here.
Performed live at Coaxial Arts on October 3, 2020 and streamed to Zagreb, Croatia for /’fu:ba̝r/ Glitch Art Festival. Alex Pelly on audio and video synths with Oren Kolin on heavily affected electric guitar.
Broadcast live on DUBLAB 9.17.2020
Diskore grew up in the So Cal underground scene of the 1990’s and fell in love with all things RAVE at an early age. Upon befriending other members of their crew with similar aesthetics and interests, Darkmatter Soundsystem was formed; which the crew would go on to organize countless undergrounds bringing the burgeoning sound of hard experimental electronics to LA.
Steve Vasquez AKA DJ Fiend spawned from Rialto, CA in 1995 through the help of Industrial Strength Records and continued DJing until 1998 when he started to produce his own music. Fiend would go onto produce music on various labels such as Corrupt, Apocalypse, Hong Kong Violence & Rebel Scum to name a few. Today he continues his musical work through and alongside his fellow Darkmatter Soundsystem crewmates.
Audio archive available on dublab here.
In this video workshop, Pelly walks us through the basics of analog video synthesis, from thoughts about planning a modular video synth system to the functions of individual modules. She covers modules by LZX Industries and Erogenous Tones extensively, showing how they can easily become the core of a video-oriented modular system. And by providing an extended tour of her personal system and a detailed patch walkthrough, she demonstrates some tactics for harnessing feedback, audio reactivity, and hands-on control to create colorful layers of video that dynamically evolve along with music.
Article on Perfect Circuit here.
Broadcast Live on DUBLAB 8.20.20
gavcloud (Gavin Gamboa) is a Los Angeles-based artist interested in the intersections of improvised and premeditated music composition, with new technologies forming the basis of an multifaceted stylistic praxis. Born in Mérida, Yucatán, he currently composes for a variety of concert ensembles, creates film music, and has performed classical/new works internationally. He is a Creative Director of The Teaching Machine, a media arts collective with a focus on installations, visuals, and live-cinema.
Audio archive on dublab here.
Broadcast Live on DUBLAB 7.16.20
This month we explored the musical taste of Micah Vaultz, a composer and actor from Inglewood, California. Micah is inspired by water and visual orgasms. He will be sprinkling his own creations amongst a selection of music that inspires him, including tracks from friends. A theme throughout this mix will be the empowerment of womxn.
Audio archive available here.
Broadcast live on DUBLAB 5.21.20
May’s guest was Shrill, a PELLYVISION favorite. She is a founding member of LA’s Darkmatter Soundsystem and former member of Cindytalk. This was our first totally live quarantine broadcast with the audio and audio reactive visuals coming from two different homes simultaneously and broadcast in sync!
Audio archive on dublab here.
