Overnight Sound: A Sonic Slumber Party

March 26 - 27, 2022 for Contemporary Art Month

Mercury Project Contemporary Art Space 538 Roosevelt Ave, San Antonio, TX 78210 RSVP only

Starts: Saturday March 26, 2022, Doors at 6pm Ends: Sunday March 27, 2022 Sound Off at 8am

Suggested Donation $0 - $20, Please register via Eventbrite at the link button below:

Overnight Sound is presented by Pamela Martinez / Teletextile and The Listener’s Gallery, UTSA’s MuTeFest run by Andrew Bergmann , Professor of Music Technology at USTA for Contemporary Art Month (CAM).  The event is an all night concert that highlights modern sonic arts from Saturday evening March 26 (6pm) until Sunday March 27 (8am) morning with the hours of 1a.m. - 6a.m. as music for sleep.  Overnight Sound will present 14 hours of continuous sound and music with the goal of creating a space where the listener can get lost in time, much like a meditation.  So that the listener’s brain readjusts to the expansiveness of time by being still and experiencing the changing environments of sound.  Similarly how a dreamer gives into a dream.  

Martinez is known for her Sound Bath Meditations throughout Brooklyn, New York and San Antonio, TX.  During a sound bath one often falls into theta brain state between wake and sleep.  Having led people to this experience one hour at a time during the sound meditations, she thought why not do it all night long and hence came the idea for Overnight Sound: A Sonic Slumber Party with a 1a.m. Sound Bath Meditation.   During Overnight Sound people can listen for as long as they’d like, some and go as they’d like as long as they don’t disturb others.  This 14-hour-long, all-night musical extravaganza is inspired by a 24 hour performance called Drone Fest (Hudson, NY) which Pamela Martinez took part in where she led a Reiki Drone during which 5 practitioners gave Reiki to over 150 people in a 24 hour period.   

The lineup of performers set to create this experience is quite extraordinary including sound artists from San Antonio, Los Angeles and Austin.  The San Antonio Ambient Orchestra will fill in the seams as the night oscillates between ambient guitarists, UTSA professors, experimental sound artists, harp, electronics and more.  It will be a rare and special occurrence and we are so excited to share it with you.  

Performances by: Andrew Bergmann, The San Antonio Ambient Orchestra, Pamela Martinez / Teletextile, Justin Boyd, Xavier Gilmore, Romantic Thriller (LA), Andrea Vocab Sanderson, Mark McCoin with Christie Blizard, Nicole Cherry, Nayatara Devi (Austin), Glenn Alexander, Joseph Hogan, Jaime Ramirez, Wesley Uchiyama-Penix, Alison Fletcher, Derick Penrod, Eric Acuña, Brad Angotti, Hilary Rochow, Zach Sokoloski, Wesley Knaupp and more.

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COVID:  The venue is an indoor ventilated space.  The building also requires all guests to wear masks.  This will be a masked event for the indoor area. There is an outdoor area for hanging out, talking and potentially sleeping.  The outdoor space is concrete not grass.

Tickets:  All guests must RSVP.  Pay what you can with $0, $10, or $20 tickets with a portion of the proceeds donated to Ukraine Aid.   We will have a strict overnight capacity. Due to the nature of this overnight event guests must be 18+ to RSVP.  Minors can be accompanied by an adult before 10pm. 

Audience:  6-8pm CAM, RSVP only for Overnight  We will have seating for those who want to come and enjoy the night for a few hours, but we also encourage guests to bring a sleeping bag, pillows, blankets and bean bags to set up for a middle school lock-in feel.

Lock-In:  The doors to Mercury Project will be closed and locked through the night, but we will have a door person who will let registered guests in and out at all times.  We want to keep people safe and give them the comfort enough to let those dose off into sleep as the night moves on.  

Quiet Zone:  Since the nature of the music is  ambient, minimal, acoustic and sleepy, we ask that people keep their conversations outside or in areas away from the performance.

Food & Alcohol: This is a UTSA  co-hosted event and therefore there will not be any alcohol sold at this event.  We will have snacks, coffee and water for all, but please bring your water bottle. There is also no smoking, vaping or open flames allowed in the building. 

Parking: Parking is very limited.  We suggest carpooling, taking public transportation or a lyft.  Otherwise, parking is on the street.  Please be mindful of local residents and signage for no parking areas.

More on Safety: Please know that we expect everyone to be respectful of other people’s personal space at this event.  You may be asked to leave if making anyone uncomfortable, so thank you for being a good guest.  Please also be mindful of your belongings.  Mercury Project is not responsible for any lost or stolen items. 

 The Listener’s Gallery

The Listeners Gallery presents sound based art and experimental performance hosted by Teletextile and its founder Pamela Martinez. At The Listener’s Gallery we aim to create an environment for intentional listening by presenting events like lectures, exhibitions and concerts that shine the light on sound art, new music, and experimental music creation and performance.  

Each session of The Listener’s Gallery spotlights a featured artist who presents a topic, performance, critical response of a works in progress, discussion about past work, talk about iconic work or any sonic related topic. Some sessions of The Listener’s Gallery may be in an online digital platform such as Zoom or Instagram. @thelistenersgallery