SPATIAL 027 x MESH :: Tommy Martinez x Jazmin Jazzy Romero
Friday, December 11, 2026
MESH_ARTS at The Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, Gallery C302
DOORS 6:30p | SHOW 7:00p
Off-Axis Listening is a collaboration between MESH_ARTS and New Ear:: SPATIAL, bringing together installations, performances, talks, and a participatory workshop that explore spatial dialogs and perception through the medium of sound. Through experimental sound practices, archival material, and idiosyncratic speaker setups, the program approaches listening as an active, spatial process through which environments are continually produced and shifted.
Distant Streams: Pacific Strands
Distant Streams: Pacific Strands is a hybrid virtual performance for two improvisors working across networked, multichannel sound environments. Performed by Tommy Martinez and Jazmin Jazzy Romero, the piece links the site at Mesh Art Center with Romero’s Los Angeles studio through a custom web application. The mix, transformed through variable latency and compression artifacts inherent to the system, traces the sonic migration of angelinos across geographic distance, networks, and technological infrastructure.
Concept, Networked/Spatial Audio Systems: Tommy Martinez
Performers: Tommy Martinez, Jazmin Jazzy Romero
About the Artists
Tommy Martinez
Tommy Martinez is a Los Angeles born artist and programmer based in New York City. His work draws upon network culture, emerging computational practices, and the excavation of new timbres through spectral transformation. He creates musical systems for the internet, custom electronics, and for multichannel speaker arrays, producing forms that mine traditions of minimalism, hard-rock, and Mexican folk music. He has performed at Roulette, Pageant, Rhizome, and Pioneer Works, with web-based work recently shown in the Sound Machines exhibit produced by Feral File and MoMA.
In 2018 Martinez began exploring sound studies through the aesthetic language of the internet; teaching “The Musical Web” at School for Poetic Computation (2023-2025), and revitalizing p5.sound.js, an open-source library for creating music in the web browser (2023-2026). Martinez has presented on virtual performance at NowNet Arts 2023 (Stonybrook University, Stanford University) and web-based spatial sound at the 2025 Web Audio Conference (IRCAM). He has been supported by residencies at CultureHub and Pioneer Works and has collaborated on musical projects with Gobby, American Artist, Okkyung Lee, and Lea Bertucci.
Jazmin Jazzy Romero
Jazmin Jazzy Romero is an artist working across performance, sound, sculpture, and moving image. Her practice uses experimentation, improvisation, and collaboration to develop alternative forms of storytelling that resist fixed form. Drawing from musical composition, she works with sound, movement, bodies, and objects as material, creating scores and performance-based worlds activated through liveness, repetition, variation, and exchange.
Romero draws from formal musical training alongside embodied and intuitive processes, using composition to translate personal and collective histories into spatial and sonic experiences. Dissonance, distance, and harmonic intervals operate as both musical and conceptual frameworks within her work.
In 2026, Romero presented Transcription and Counterpoint for the UCLA MFA New Genres thesis exhibition and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Her work has been presented at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and she has performed and collaborated on projects presented at REDCAT, MoMA, ODC Theater, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has also participated in residencies at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), ACRE, and Skowhegan.
Romero received an MFA in New Genres from UCLA in 2026 and a BA in Applied Art and Social Concerns through the Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies at Hunter College, CUNY, in 2022.
