For Feeling Tone, Martinez curated an exhibition of seven artists from around the country with the common thread of sonic connection. Credit: Courtesy Image / Susan Snipes
Sound installations can be revelatory, even therapeutic. Audium, San Francisco’s long-running theater of sound, presents music and sound in total darkness, for example, offering a potent example of the experiential capabilities of both.

Although a staple of postmodernism, sound art remains on the fringes of contemporary art practice locally, with a few
exceptions, one of them being educator, multi-instrumentalist and composer Pamela Martinez (aka Teletextile), who’s carved a niche for herself in San Antonio and beyond over the past decade.

Martinez has been busy creating and presenting sound projects, organizing concerts, sonic baths and sound therapies as well as performing violin at Carnegie Hall and singing at San Francisco’s iconic Fillmore Theater.

For Feeling Tone: An Immersive Sound & Technology Exhibition, an exhibition that opens this Friday at Mercury Project Contemporary Art Space, Martinez curated work from seven artists from around the country with the common thread of sonic connection.

Feeling Tone, which contains visual and audio works, should be a welcome aural respite during these rough and uncertain times.

Free, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. daily Friday, May 2-Friday, May 30, Mercury Project Contemporary Art Space, 538 Roosevelt Ave., (210) 395-6605, mercuryproject.net.

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This article appears in Apr 30 – May 13, 2025.