Overnight Sound: A Sonic Slumber Party
Date: Saturday March 26, 2022 - Sunday March 27, 2022
Time: 6pm - 8am
Location: Mercury Project Contemporary Art Space 538 Roosevelt, SATX 78210
A portion of each ticket sold will go to Ukraine Relief Aid
Overnight Sound highlights modern sonic arts, running all night, from Saturday evening at 6pm until Sunday morning at 8 am, with the hours from 1am - 6 am reserved for music for sleep. Overnight Sound will present 14 hours of continuous sound and music, creating a space where the listener gets lost in time, much like a meditation. Like a dreamer succumbing to a dream, the listener, immersed in changing environments of sound, readjusts their consciousness and gains a new perception into the expansiveness of time.
Overnight Sound is presented by Pamela Martinez / Teletextile and The Listener’s Gallery, UTSA’s MuTeFest, directed by Andrew Bergmann, Associate Professor in Music Technology at UTSA, for Contemporary Art Month (CAM).
Martinez is known for her Sound Bath Meditations throughout Brooklyn, New York and San Antonio, TX. During a sound bath one often falls into the 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, coming and going as long as they don’t disturb others. This 14-hour-long, all-night musical extravaganza is inspired by the internationally-famous 24-hour Drone Fest (Hudson, NY), at which Pamela Martinez recently led a memorable Reiki-infused Drone performance giving over 150 people Reiki in a 25 hour period with her team.
Overnight Sound doubles as the kick-off event for MuTeFest 5, UTSA’s yearly music technology festival. MuTe is UTSA’s student music tech organization, celebrating sonic textures and collaborative tech explorations with innovative seminars and creative interludes. Check their website for the festival details: Mutemusic.org.
This extraordinary lineup of performers includes sound artists, composers, and master instrumentalists from central Texas, California, and beyond. The San Antonio Ambient Orchestra will fill in the seams as the evening evolves through ambient instrumentals and experimental electronics. 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 poetic musings, Mark McCoin with Christie Blizard, Dr. Nicole Cherry, Nayatara Devi (Austin), Glenn Alexander, Joseph Hogan (Us and Dusk), Jaime Ramirez, Wesley S. Uchiyama-Penix, Alison Fletcher, Derick Penrod, Eric Acuña, Negative Field (Brad Angotti and Emilio Gomez Jr) - cassette, synth, samplers, Hilary Rochow, Zach Sokoloski, Wesley Knaupp and more.
Follow this link for the full lineup, links to the artists, and setlist time:: http://www.teletextile.org/overnight-sound
See more logistical details below:
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.
SETLIST
Early Evening 6-8pm
Andrew Bergmann - The Ambient Orchestra
Justin Boyd
Pamela Martinez / Teletextile
Fingers Form a Crescent (Christie Blizard and Mark McCoin)
Jaime Ramirez
Late Evening 8-10pm
Xavier Gilmore
Romantic Thriller
Us and Dusk (Joseph Hogan)
Alison Fletcher
Night 10pm-12am
Zach Sokoloski
Andrea Vocab Anderson
Derick Penrod
James Orchard
Brandon Guerra
Late Night 1-3am
Hilary Rochow
Negative Field (Brad Angotti and Emilio Gomez Jr)
Teletextile Sound Bath
Twilight 3-6am
Nayatara Devi
Nicole Cherry
Eric Acuña
Sunrise 6-8am
Glenn Alexander
The Ambient Orchestra