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

Gabie Strong is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and educator exploring spatial constructions of drone and decay as a means to improvise new arrangements of self-reflexive meaning. She works with with images and sound to explore remnants of regional history and shape the space of the present. Strong teaches community art strategies through post-studio practices including photography and new genres.

She is the founder of Crystalline Morphologies community imprint dedicated to releasing unclassifiable and improvised work by underrepresented Los Angeles women, trans and gender non-conforming artists whose contributions are often overlooked in the context of avant-garde music and art. She co-lead KCHUNG Radio from 2011-2019 to promote community accessible radio broadcasting, participated in the notorious 90’s Silverlake pirate radio station KBLT, and was an original organizer of riot grrrl LA from 1992-1994.

Her work has been presented by EPOCH Gallery, The Tapeworm, LAMOA DS#3 at Commonwealth & Council, LAND AND SEA OAKLAND+BAMPFA, The UCLA Hammer Museum, MOCA, Current LA, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, Knowledges at Mount Wilson Observatory, Sierra Nevada College, Pitzer College Art Galleries, University Art Gallery UC Irvine, LAXArt, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Human Resources LA, SASSAS, LACE, High Desert Test Sites, LACMA, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, and Jabberjaw.

She has collaborated with artists and collectives including Sameer Farooq, Pamela Jorden, strom|morts, Drøne, Pauline Lay, Michael Morley (Gate, The Dead C., The Never Quartet), Christopher Reid Martin (Shelter Death, Rotary ECT, CGRSM), John Pearson, Joe Potts/LAFMS, Joseph Hammer, Anna Homler, Jorge Martin, Liz Harris/Nivhek, Ted Byrnes, Raquel Gutiérrez, Tom Watson, Jared Stanley and Matthew Hebert, Save Music in Chinatown, dublab, and KCHUNG Radio, among others.

Alex Pelly is a Canadian video artist based in LA whose work incorporates multiple generations of video technology, both analog and digital. In recent years her process has been centered on modular video synthesis. Frequently collaborative with musical accompaniment, her visuals serve as a reflection of and muse to the music simultaneously. She provides live visuals and installation work for various shows, music nights and art happenings around Los Angeles.

0:02:14 original music
1:11:08 selections from other musicians