Live set at 1:15:34

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

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.

Alex Pelly is a Canadian filmmaker and video artist. She is currently immersed in video art that blends modular synthesis, analog feedback, and digital animation. Pelly came up through dublab, beginning to develop her analog process during the years of Top Tape, dublab’s monthly night at the Hyperion Tavern, where she mixed VHS tapes to accompany music mixed on cassette tapes. She is resident visualist for music series Perpetual Dawn, and provides live visuals and installation work for various shows, music nights and art happenings around Los Angeles.