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
Upcoming Events
Urban Meditations featuring Veronica Anne Salinas
Saturday, May 29, 2021, 6:30 - 8p.m. San Pedro Creek Culture Park 715 Camaron St, San Antonio, TX 78204 Sliding scale $5-$20 via Venmo @teletextile
Please register via the link button below:
The Listener's Gallery presents Urban Meditations at San Pedro Creek Culture Park facilitated by Veronica Anne Salinas, sound artist and Deep Listener. Salinas is a San Antonio native who currently resides in Chicago, IL. Salinas is also former music writer for The San Antonio Current. We’ll be tuning into the body and mind in an urban environment by using different modalities such as light movement, voice, and Deep Listening. Following the meditation participants will have the opportunity to be involved in a conversation about what a sound art practice is in the cultural context of a city.
Stay tuned for updates and primers via Instagram @thelistenersgallery
Our indoor back up weather location is: Mercury Project Contemporary Art Space 538 Roosevelt Ave, San Antonio, TX 78210
About Pamela Martinez: Pamela Martinez is a reiki master, educator, multi-instrumentalist and composer who creates music and immersive experiences under the moniker Teletextile. Her “Bjork-like" sound (The Boston Globe) moves from vocal layering and “electronic wizardry” (Metronome Magazine) to “dense, stormy guitar, piano and electronics" (Time Out New York). Martinez has toured extensively in the US, Europe, the UK and Asia. As a genre-hopping performer and musician, Martinez has performed violin at Carnegie Hall with a Carnatic Indian music ensemble, sang in San Francisco's historic Fillmore Theater and takes part in performance art happenings in New York City. Her recent directing and performing credits include Whisperlodge. The New York Times dubbed Whisperlodge “an unusual mix of theater and therapy” and has been featured in BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, Netflix, Vice and more with acclaim. Martinez creates new work with the Teletextile Ritual Arts Ensemble a group of rotating collaborators that weave together a tapestry of music, movement, reiki and other healing rituals to create a mixture of performance and spiritual practice. Martinez holds a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from Berklee College of Music in Boston and specializes in creating works of deep listening, sound baths and sonic expressions and passes on the craft of music and wellbeing by teaching and leading workshops at Southtown Music Studio (SATX) located in Mercury Project Contemporary Art Space. IG: @teletextile
About Veronica Anne Salinas: Veronica Anne Salinas is a sound-based artist, writer, researcher, and listener. Her work explores Deep Listening, performance, improvisation, site specificity, acoustic ecology, and experimental narratives. She holds an MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently the managing editor of the digital archive Nameless: 20 Years of Sound, an editor at the sound-based publication, the eaves, and creator of the urban listening project, Chicago Land Sound. Presently she is studying at the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. www.veronicaannesalinas.com
In Planning
Terry Riley’s “In C” presented by Teletextile & The Listener’s Gallery
The Listener’s Gallery plans to present Terry Riley’s “In C” in late summer / early fall. This masterwork is regarded as the first minimalist classical composition. This not only a concert of the iconic work, but it is a community building performance since this relatively easy to play and read score is only one page and is for any instrumentation with an open number of players. So I’m putting out an open call to any and all who might want to perform to sign up by via this www.teletextile.org/thelistenersgallery
Depending on performance location we will have some limitations for numbers of performers, but all are welcome to register and expect a response.
Pamela Martinez leads the group as she has in a past performance at Brooklyn, NY and London, UK. Those who register will be invited to a rehearsal at Mercury Project on a date TBD as well the performance TBD in early summer.