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Boston - Last Hoorah for Summer

Teletextile in Boston Tonight

Ok it’s our last kick in the B-town for the summer. So come out because you don’t want to miss it. Plus I’ll just tell you straight out…other than playing with Sybris, Susu and Unwed Sailor, June sucked. So this is my last chance to redeem the whole month, and if there is one thing I’m good at is turning things upside down, backwards, and sideways. I will be hanging out all night ready to entertain and be entertained by the lovely bostonian culture.

We are playing at least one new song tonight called “Hero”, which brought Angela form Sybris to tears last week. So bring your hanky. I’m not sure whether the Safer Video is going to happen tonight , but don’t forget the SUPER LIGHTSHOW EXPERIMENT. Good luck Daniel Taub, it’s all in your hands.

So come hang, drink, stay out all night, and hear Teletextile, Bridget and the Squares, Mr. Sister, and Forsythe or you could wait till August like a bump on a log.

p.s. we were the boston phoenix’s mp3 of the week - Hooray for us - go download Safer 2 if you don’t already have it.

love (that’s right love) - pamela martinez

Posted in Uncategorized on June 26th, 2008 by Pamela | | 0 Comments

Laugh Together

I love quotes here is one that was passed on to me by my friend Heidi from Seattle. I have no idea who marjane satrapi is. I guess I better look her up. If you know about her send me an email at info@teletextile.com
“The use of the humor is something that was very amazing to me. Because to me, humor is the height of understanding. Anywhere in the world we cry for the same reason. We cry because our father is dead, or our mother is sick. We don’t laugh for the same reason. If we laugh together, it’s as if we’ve touched each other’s spirit.”
–marjane satrapi

Posted in Uncategorized on April 5th, 2008 by Pamela | | 0 Comments

Teletextile’s Call for Video Artists

I’m very excited about a gig we are playing at Monkey Town on May 1st in Brooklyn, NY. This is a very unique space. The musicians perform in the center as the audience surrounds them on all 4 walls of this square room. Also each of the four walls has a projected video on it. This is a great place to really listen and experience music. (See pic links below.) For this gig we are going to be playing a slightly different mood to our same songs, using more of our acoustic instruments like harp, violin, and acoustic guitar.

I will be creating a video collage from my own video, found video, and possibly your submitted work. I have some ideas already, but I’m putting the call out to any artist who maybe inspired to submit work as part of the whole. (Our set will be 40 min long, and each of our songs is typically 5-6 min long.)

Inspirations:
Ideally I’d like for the images to be ambient, beautiful, engaging, but not distracting. I really like the idea of blurry images or simply changing the color of the room. Take a look at our CD art images, website, our music videos for inspiration. Simplicity is the way to go in general. Feel free to email any questions.

Details:
This is something I am doing for fun and to meet future Teletextile collaborators. We are not going to sell your video or make any money off of it (without your permission), but i will ask you to be in agreement that we can use your video as a backdrop for performance. I will display a thank you note at the end of our music set (as well as our blog) that will include your name, but as the video is collaged I don’t want any websites / branding up on screen.

Submission:
Please submit work between 1min and 1 hour long (consideration for still images as well) by sending a link of a specific work to info@teletextile.com by April 5th (the sooner the better). Please don’t send a whole portfolio just something you think will fit Teletextile. (If you have a very long piece of work, it may end up being the whole show or another show.) Work to be displayed will be chosen based on whether it fits the mood of our music, and whether it fits well into the collage as a whole - by myself and the other members of teletextile.

Feel free to forward this on - Thank you, pamela
Monkey Town Website: http://www.monkeytownhq.com
Good Pic of Monkey Town Performance Space: http://www.equilibriarte.org/upload/places/586-1190327368.jpg

Web: www.teletextile.com
Mysp: www.myspace.com/teletextile

Posted in Uncategorized on March 11th, 2008 by Pamela | | 0 Comments

Teletext Style

Our new team of fashion designers are Stella Cheung, Rebecca Lesesne, and Yeonhee. They are inspired by the idea of creating organic, earth conscious clothing that you can wear even if you don’t have dreadlocks or wear hemp sandals. When we met with them last week the guys were instructed to each brought his favorite shirt, so they could make a pattern from it. We got together at a resturant in Union Square (nyc) to brainstorm the textile side of teletextile. We tried to think up how to translate teletextile’s sound into actual items of clothing.

Here are a list of ideas we threw around:

hand stitched details, lyrics on the clothing, bright colors, making layers (mimmicing the teletextile sound), collared shirts for the guys, a dress for the pamela, translucent fabrics (also representing the layers of teletextile’s sound), detail, detail, detail (a direct teletextile obsession).

Here are some sketches of the ideas you can see the final peices at a fashion/music show held sometime in April or May. Details TBA.

Posted in Uncategorized on March 3rd, 2008 by Pamela | | 0 Comments

Teletextile Dies Young

People are talking about a new remix Dj Die Young did of the song Heartquake off of our album Care Package. The track is not completely done yet, but that hasn’t stopped it from floating around. Check it out for yourself. Click on the Pic above.

Posted in press on December 7th, 2007 by Pamela | | 0 Comments

King Capitol Punishment

This is one of mine and brian’s favorite websites in the world. It was definitely an inspiration for our own. It’s is constantly changing.
www.kingcapitolpunishment.com
Also today I am thinking of Sandra Cisneros and of San Antonio and of all those things that means to me.
-pamela

Posted in Uncategorized on August 31st, 2007 by Pamela | | 0 Comments

radiohead

ok I came across the album the bends last week and I just don’t know what to say. I’m still shocked into disbelief how it makes me feel. I first heard it in high school, when my then band decided to cover the song high and dry, (which prob used to be my favorite song on the album, but isn’t anymore). I was the drummer! It took forever to learn that beat, to this day it think it’s the only thing I learned to play on drums.

anyway so I have a new radiohead obsession. and i want to play violin for them on a recording or a tour. (i can’t believe i’m admitting this on my own website.)

there you have it people. i’m completely paralyzed by how fucking talented they are.
ps here’s a pic, that person you can’t see, that’s me, or at least that’s what I imagined.

Posted in Uncategorized on August 8th, 2007 by Pamela | | 0 Comments

Pamela Passing it On

I’m going to start teaching private songwriting classes in New York City starting September. I’m really excited about passing this knowledge on and spending my time with other creative minds that are looking for a little support. If you are interested in find out more information please write me an email to info@teletextile.com.

Here is a brief description of what we would work on in classes:

songwriting ideas
lyric writing (phrasing/rhyming)
music theory, developing your ears
listening to other great songwriters
some arranging/music notation
forming a band / performing solo
preparing to record your songs
plus more over time

I can only have a handful of students, so please let me know soon if you are interested.

Thanks-pamela

Posted in Uncategorized on August 2nd, 2007 by Pamela | | 0 Comments

CD Release - Saturday!!!

Hi Everyone -

We are so happy to deliver our new CD ‘Care Package’ to you this week.
The celebration is this Saturday, July 14 at PIANOS. Find it in the Lower East Side at 158 Ludlow and Stanton.

We’ll be performing with a our new drummer Sean McCorrmick and guests John Somers on guitar/computer and Liz Meredith on viola. I’ll be draggin out the harp for this gig too, a rarity that’s turning into a new habit, and we wrote a new song. The first collaborative effort with Sean. It’s a new sound in the same mood, probably my favorite thing Teletextile has done so far.

If you can’t make it out to the show you can now download the Cd from itunes and many other online music stores or buy the actual disc from CD Baby.

itunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=253042926

cd baby:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/teletextile

We have also been chosen to be a PASTE Magazine Recommended artist for September which mean you will be able to find and listen to ‘Care Package’ at listening kiosks of independently owned record store throughout the nation (200 and counting).

Thanks for all you support - Pamela + Brian + Sean = Teletextile

Posted in Uncategorized, care package on July 13th, 2007 by Pamela | | 0 Comments

Sean - Our new drummer

He’s 22, from Pittsburg. His story is something like this, he went to some college pre-med then dropped out after a year and decided music was a better way of saving lives. He moved to New York City and got into a school called the Drummer’s Collective, which is some kind of 1 year intensive, drummers, drumming, drumathon, during which he was in another band, that I don’t know the name of. That band eventually fell apart right before he found us through the magic of the internet.

Posted in Uncategorized on July 5th, 2007 by Pamela | | 0 Comments

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