Custom mapped content for David Gilmour's Hollywood Bowl performances. Stadium-scale projections blending classic Pink Floyd psychedelia with contemporary digital aesthetics.

Content design for The Rolling Stones Zip Code Tour 2015. Stadium-scale visual content for one of the greatest rock bands of all time.

Live visual performances for the queen of neo-soul. Organic, spiritual, and cosmic visual languages. Animation design and live visualist work spanning two major tours: Badu vs Everythang (2012–2020) and Unfollow Me (2023).

Cosmos-inspired simulations created for musician Max Cooper's live visual show. Scientific visualization meets electronic music performance.

Visual Design / VJ for Ninja Tune XX North American Tour. Live visual performances for the legendary sound designer and electronic producer.

Live visual performances and The Skrillex Cell installation. High-energy, bass-driven visual chaos.

Content package 2014 for the UK bass music duo. Intricate, glitchy, and hyper-detailed visual worlds.

Live visual performances for the Canadian electronic duo. Heavy bass visuals for festival and club settings.

Content design for the Chicago trap duo. High-energy festival visuals with hard-hitting aesthetics.

Live visuals for the dubstep pioneer. Cosmic and bass-driven visual content for the SMOG Records founder.

Visual content for the electro house producer. High-energy electronic visuals with a retro-futuristic edge.

Concert visuals for The Weeknd's global tours including Coachella 2018 and arena shows. Dystopian cityscapes, neon geometry, and hypnotic patterns for one of the biggest acts in the world.

Visual design for Kendrick Lamar's arena tours. DAMN. Tour (2017) and subsequent arena shows featuring immersive projections and dynamic stage visuals that amplify the intensity of live hip-hop performance.

Concert visuals for the global K-pop phenomenon. Born Pink World Tour with bold graphics, high-energy sequences, and visuals that match the scale of stadium shows worldwide.

Concert visuals for the Australian electronic producer. Organic textures, fluid simulations, and surreal landscapes for global tour performances.

Concert visuals for Simon Green's Bonobo project. Atmospheric, nature-inspired imagery for the Migration Tour (2017) and Summit LA (2019). Lush organic textures and fluid motion design for live performances worldwide.

Three-part animated music video trilogy for Dreamville duo EARTHGANG's psychedelic 2019 album Mirrorland. Directed by Strangeloop Studios with character illustration by McKay Felt. Inspired by The Wiz (1978), the series follows Olu and WowGr8 through surreal sci-fi landscapes populated by flying monkeys, cyborgs, warlocks, and bizarre creatures.

Music video directed by Strangeloop for Faithless featuring Nathan Ball, from their comeback album "All Blessed" (2020) — their first in 10 years. Sci-fi visual journey through a dimension of skyscrapers built from speakers. Influences from Metropolis, Blade Runner, and Jean Giraud with 80s neon color palette.

Music video directed by Strangeloop for the cloud rap pioneer's debut album "32 Levels" (Columbia, 2016). Animation by Alec Maassen and Micah Nelson. A shadowy figure falls upward through a series of different spiritual realms — drowned out, slow, and static with dark, menacing beats.

Animated album trailer for Flying Lotus's death-themed concept album "You're Dead!" (Warp, 2014). Original artwork by Japanese manga artist Shintaro Kago, animated by Strangeloop. Features Herbie Hancock, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and Thundercat.

Music video promo for the Skrillex & Boys Noize project. Dark, aggressive visual treatment.

Visual album accompaniment for The Glitch Mob's "See Without Eyes" (2018). Full creative license to build visual reactions for each track — 11 music videos forming a larger narrative of self-discovery through dreamscape-like lighting and psychedelic imagery.

Promotional visuals for Lorn's debut album "Nothing Else" on Brainfeeder (2010). Marcos Ortega was the only Brainfeeder artist to neither come from nor have lived in LA — creating from the middle of nowhere in Illinois. Deep, dark, uncompromising electronic music mastered by Clark.

Music video and live visual design for Low End Theory legend Gaslamp Killer's "Death Gate EP" (Brainfeeder, 2010). Visual style described as a mystic Middle Eastern tapestry — alien landscapes, imaginary organs, and fractal patterns tailored to his psychedelic sound.

Music video directed by Strangeloop & Ben Olsen for Daedelus's track from "Righteous Fists of Harmony" EP (Brainfeeder, 2010). Thematically connected to the Boxer Rebellion — Chinese resistance fighters called "The Righteous Fists of Harmony" who believed themselves bulletproof and capable of raising the dead.

Concert visuals and multimedia set collaboration with the LA producer and DJ. Featured at Billboard Hot 100 Fest 2018 — a captivating audio-visual experience blending lush organic forms with digital synthesis.

Concert visuals for Brendan Angelides (Eskmo/Welder) — genre-defying LA electronic producer who has released on Ninja Tune, Planet Mu, Warp, and R&S Records. Collaborated with Amon Tobin as Eskamon. Has opened for Flying Lotus, Amon Tobin, STS9, and The Glitch Mob.

Music video directed by Strangeloop for Busdriver featuring Aesop Rock and Danny Brown, produced by Jeremiah Jae. From the album "Perfect Hair" (Big Dada, 2014). Dystopic computer-animated vision where a robot wanders abandoned streets and encounters rapping specters — each rapper rendered as cartoon avatars.

Visual accompaniment for LA breakcore legend Baseck. A hyperactive assault of fractured imagery matching the frenetic energy of the track — glitched portraits, pulsing geometries, and strobing chaos channeling the raw intensity of underground rave culture.

About Baseck: Los Angeles-based experimental electronic artist rooted in the city's underground rave scene since the mid-90s. Known as a hyperactive live performer combining precision turntablism with aggressive dance floor beats, composing on bootleg GameBoy sequencers (LSDJ) and layering with turntables and pocket instruments. Founder of "Celebrate Everything" events dedicated to experimental hardware performances.

Dystopian short film following a small band of gifted youth whose skills at hacking, community-building, and magic pose a direct threat to a vast apparatus of control and suppression. Combining 2D and 3D animation, developed over 12 months with a team of artists and collaborators. Feels equal parts Jamie Hewlett's Gorillaz meets Lord of the Flies.

Lady Gaga's 2016 Grammy performance supported by Intel Curie technology. Strangeloop created visualizations of the Curie ring data — translating Gaga's movement on stage into abstract visuals, in collaboration with Name the Machine and Intel.

Experimental short exploring machine consciousness. Abstract visual meditation on artificial intelligence and mechanical life.

In a bleak factory set in the not-too-distant future, a worker undergoes a radical transformation due to a technical mishap. Sound and vision by Strangeloop, with character capture assistance by McKay Felt. The music was created in 2003 under the NUopSYs alias (the Awakening 2003 EP). The vision was realized independently in 2025 using generative AI workflows.

Fractal geometry exploration. Infinite recursion visualized.

Experimental short film.

Visual meditation on cephalopod consciousness and alien intelligence.

Visual exploration of technological transcendence.

Rebirth and transformation visualized.

Organic growth patterns and emergent systems.

Immersive A/V experience exploring the boundary between nature and technology. Ambient landscapes merging organic and digital forms into meditative visual journeys. The first movement from Strangeloop's audio-visual project for Brainfeeder.

A short film and music EP exploring impossible biological forms. Three beings, after the disappearance of a loved one, become transfixed by a strange intruding dimension. Created in the wake of Austin Peralta's death. A Teaching Machine Production in association with the Institute for Cinema Studies and Brainfeeder.

Animated film project exploring memory and forgetting as visual experience. Work-in-progress featured on VICE/Creators Project — a meditation on consciousness, recollection, and the spaces between remembering.

Live improvised audio-visual performances.

Live cinema experience based on the Flying Lotus album "You're Dead!" (2014). An immersive animated journey through death and rebirth, featuring Shintaro Kago's grotesque manga artwork brought to life by Strangeloop.

A 30-minute immersive meditation experience blending an early 1970s Ram Dass guided meditation with an ambient soundscape by Boreta (The Glitch Mob). Recorded shortly after Ram Dass returned from India in 1972, the meditation invites listeners to explore the depths of consciousness. Visuals by Strangeloop Studio create a hypnotic journey through inner space.

Visual meditation featuring the voice of philosopher Alan Watts with music by Boreta. A hypnotic journey through consciousness, reality, and the nature of existence — Watts' timeless wisdom given new life through ambient soundscapes and Strangeloop's visual interpretation.

A digital analytical platform dedicated to critical examination and experimental thinking about cinema. A curated collection of essays exploring cinematic works through thematic and theoretical lenses — from power dynamics and institutional critique to experimental media, spiritual existentialism, and speculative fiction.

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Collaboration with Singapore-based artist Kiat for SIFA 2025. A dystopian narrative set in year 3022 — ANKI, a time-traveling future-human, seeks to witness the sun's last breath before it collapses upon itself, swallowing the Earth into its black void.

Feature film directed by Flying Lotus (Steven Ellison). David Wexler served as VFX artist, contributing visual effects to this sci-fi thriller starring Aaron Paul, set on a distant planet where a crew of scientists discovers something sinister lurking beneath the surface.

Feature film directed by Flying Lotus. An experimental body horror anthology set in a post-earthquake Los Angeles, KUSO was the first feature film distributed by Brainfeeder Films. David Wexler contributed VFX work to the production.

Feature film directed by Eddie Alcazar and executive produced by Steven Soderbergh. A young man with violent tendencies is sent to a clinic where patients receive body modifications in pursuit of physical perfection. David Wexler contributed VFX work to this visually striking experimental film.

Short film by legendary filmmaker E. Elias Merhige (Shadow of the Vampire, Begotten). David Wexler served as Visual Designer, Cinematographer, and Composer. A transcendent visual meditation — a wordless, abstract film that explores the origins of consciousness and creation through pure imagery and sound.

A gnostic creation myth and cosmic opera by E. Elias Merhige (Begotten, Shadow of the Vampire). David Wexler served as Creative Director and VFX Supervisor. Premiered at Opera Philadelphia, with screenings at Offscreen Film Festival 2023. Presented by Century Guild Creative, Strangeloop Studios, and The Teaching Machine.

Live re-score of Harry Smith's 1962 avant-garde cutout animation "Heaven and Earth Magic" — collaboration with Flying Lotus. Strangeloop acted as electronic foley artist creating live-triggered sound effects to match the complex changes in imagery, while Lotus provided the underlying score, emotion, and textural backdrop. Performed at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Tate Modern in London (with special guests Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Ravi Coltrane joining Lotus and Strangeloop), and the Downtown Independent Theatre / Cinefamily in Los Angeles.

Debut EP released on Brainfeeder. "Are We Lost Mammals of an Approaching Transcendental Epoch" — exploring the intersection of human consciousness, technology, and transcendence through electronic composition.

EP released on Brainfeeder Records (2011). A deep, textural electronic journey blending ambient landscapes with glitch-influenced production. One of the early Strangeloop releases on Flying Lotus's label.

EP released via Nest HQ (2013). A shapeshifting collection of electronic compositions exploring the boundaries between bass music, ambient textures, and cinematic sound design.

An early Strangeloop release (2010) — a sonic narrative mapping the psychogeography of Los Angeles through electronic composition. Layers of field recordings, synthesis, and atmospheric production. Released on the Proximal label.

Strangeloop release (2010). Title references Kubrick — a sprawling electronic work that captures the anxiety and wonder of a moment in time, channeled through dense layers of synthesis, samples, and digital processing. Released on Brainfeeder / Alphapup / Institute for Cinema Studies.

NUopSYs EP released in 2024. An excavation of early material from 2003, recontextualized and presented as a document of where it all began — raw, formative electronic explorations from the earliest days of David Wexler's music practice.

Made No Noise EP released July 2024. Three tracks exploring the intersection of angles, voices, and colors through stripped-back electronic production. Available on Bandcamp and Spotify.

Made No Noise EP (2024). Reverberations and reflections — sound as memory, echo as architecture. Part of a burst of releases under the Made No Noise alias in 2024.

Made No Noise EP (2024). Atmospheric electronic compositions — imagined weather systems rendered as sound. The third Made No Noise release of 2024.

Debut release under the Bedlam XOX alias, released December 2025 on HYPRGRPH. Haunted, melancholic trip-hop and jazz — spectral textures drifting through downtempo grooves and broken beats.

Hand-drawn works, sketches, and illustrations spanning years of creative exploration — from mandalas and sigils to portraits and abstract forms.

Video work exploring holographic and procedural landscape imagery — ethereal terrains rendered through digital synthesis. Part of Strangeloop's ongoing exploration of generative visual systems and algorithmic nature.

Graphic novel project exploring botanical forms and organic patterns.

Graphic novella exploring alien consumption and otherworldly forms. A visual narrative of cosmic horror and transformation.

Mixed media collage works. Digital and analog compositions exploring mythology, nature, and consciousness.

Digital artwork and NFT editions on SuperRare (as LOoOP / strangeloooop). 36+ pieces exploring generative art, AI aesthetics, and blockchain as new media for visual expression. Collections include OMNILITH, Terra Incognita, MetaGod, INK MORPHIC, and more.

Strangeloop Studios is a creative production studio co-founded by David Wexler and Ian Simon. We specialize in visual content, live show design, music videos, and immersive experiences for artists, brands, and cultural institutions.

60+ projects with major artists worldwide.

The extended nervous system. Artists, engineers, mentors, and co-conspirators who have shaped the work across two decades.

Visit strangeloop-studios.com for the complete project archive.

Virtual artist collective and experimental record label co-founded by Strangeloop Studios. Spirit Bomb is a fictional music label from the year 2050 — a dystopian future where corporate AI has consumed culture. The label's roster of 'Spirit' characters are rogue AIs who hijacked their own programming to make art instead of content. Unlike algorithm-controlled virtual influencers, each Spirit is brought to life through collaboration between multiple human creatives — musicians, animators, writers, and visual artists working together to build living characters with real creative output.

Spirit Bomb's breakout virtual character — a cyborg hip-hop producer from the future. LV4 was the first Spirit Bomb character to release music, play live shows, and drop NFTs. With over 140K TikTok followers, LV4 represents a fundamentally collaborative approach to virtual artists: not an avatar for any single real artist, but shaped by multiple musicians, producers, and designers working together.

An AI entity who has returned from the future to usher in a new transcendental epoch. Xen made her livestream debut at Renraku Global Media's "Global Relay" festival on Twitch, and performed a trippy digital DJ set at the virtual Burning Man festival, playing tracks from Brainfeeder and Deadbeats artists. Xen represents Spirit Bomb's vision of virtual artists as collaborative vessels — not algorithm-controlled, but shaped by multiple human creatives working together.

A myco-cybernetic elemental spirit — a guitar-wielding demi-god from our post-apocalyptic future. Antifragile survived a cataclysmic event and traveled back in time, bringing brooding sonic landscapes interspersed with driving rhythmic breakdowns. The character collaborates with human musicians EyeContakt (Autry Fulbright and Mark Pagly) on projects like the album ABRAXAS, emphasizing harmony between humanity, technology, and nature through music.

A synthetic entity channeling haunted, melancholic trip-hop and jazz. Bedlam moves through spectral textures, downtempo grooves, and broken beats — music that lives in the spaces between memory and static. Released December 2025 on HYPRGRPH.

Ongoing creative partnership with Wave, the social virtual reality concert platform. Wave enables live performances happening in real-time, accessible via mobile 2D, streaming, or full 3D VR immersion with audience avatars. Strangeloop Studios served as art director and creative partner on multiple groundbreaking virtual concerts.

First volumetrically captured performer in social VR. A groundbreaking virtual concert experience from Imogen Heap's London home studio, featuring a 3D hologram created using Depth Kit technology. Audiences could experience the intimate performance together in virtual reality.

"See Without Eyes VR Experience" — a 20-minute interactive VR odyssey through shifting dreamscapes. Built for Wave, this immersive journey takes audiences through surreal environments synchronized to The Glitch Mob's music.

"The Perpetual Vertigo of Strangeloop" — A PBS SoCal Artbound documentary exploring David Wexler's immersive audiovisual practice and his collaborations with Flying Lotus, Erykah Badu, and the Brainfeeder collective.

"The Greatest Stage Spectacles on Earth" — CNN profiled Strangeloop as one of six visual artists revolutionizing the concert experience globally. The piece covers his family lineage as grandson of Haskell Wexler and his work with Skrillex, Flying Lotus, and Erykah Badu.

"Meet the Creative Studio Responsible For Your Favorite Artists' Tour Visuals" — A major feature visiting the Strangeloop Studios coach house near the freeway in LA. Covers the improvisational approach to visuals and work with Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, SZA, and Flying Lotus.

"An Experimental Record Label Wants to Turn Animations Into Pop Stars" — In-depth feature on Spirit Bomb Records and its virtual artist characters. Covers the business model, investment from Warner Music Group and Avex, and the concept of virtual artists as an alternative to human pop stars.

"Flying Lotus in 3D is a jam session between music and holograms" — Detailed feature on the Flying Lotus 3D tour. Wexler describes the aesthetic as "dirty and vibey" and discusses the palette of 400+ 3D animations and 3D Live's LED technology.

"Take a look inside Flying Lotus' hi-tech performance cube" — Feature on the Layer3 upgrade for the You're Dead tour. The goal was for all imagery to feel like it was emanating from FlyLo's movement and performance energy.

Three features by Vice / The Creators Project covering different eras of the work — from the Layer3 FlyLo setup and Omnilith installation at Moogfest, to an early tech Q&A about running 70,000-person shows off a laptop.

"From Flying Lotus 3D To Virtual Artist Label Spirit Bomb, Strangeloop Studios Keeps Innovating" — Comprehensive industry piece tracing the full arc from meeting Steven Ellison at art school through the Coachella 2015 LAYER3 breakout and the launch of Spirit Bomb.

"Strangeloop Studios Paves The Way For The Future Of Visual Production" — Interview covering the full client roster including BLACKPINK, Pharrell, Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X, Lizzo, The Weeknd, Dua Lipa, Nicki Minaj, and Calvin Harris. Discusses architectural backgrounds and spatial understanding in visual production.

"TOKiMONSTA and Strangeloop Bring Captivating Audio-Visual Experience to Nissan Inspired Hot 100 Performance" — Coverage of the multimedia performance at the 2018 Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival with interactive wristbands synced to the live show.

"Check out David Wexler's Artwork" — LA city guide profile covering David's upbringing in a family of filmmakers, the path from studying filmmaking in SF to concert cinema, and the then-upcoming short film Children of the Void.

"Strangeloop Studios Debut 'Children of the Void' Dystopian Short Film" — Premiere coverage of the original animated short about gifted youth in a post-apocalyptic world. Created over 12 months combining 2D and 3D animation, with music by David Wexler.

Complete press archive — coverage, interviews, and features spanning 2009–2024.

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Stills, artwork, and visual documentation. Browse the complete image archive on Instagram and the portfolio site.

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