I created a series of interactive performances that allow the audience to direct live music by manipulating different mediums including clay, watercolor, graphic score puzzles, instant messaging, and custom scratch tickets.
I created a series of interactive performances that allow the audience to direct live music by manipulating different mediums including clay, watercolor, graphic score puzzles, instant messaging, and custom scratch tickets.
Immersive Ideal was an interactive exhibition of photographs and music documenting the Washington, DC, band Beauty Pill’s summer residency in Artisphere’s Black Box theater.
Immersive re-creates the band’s two week long summer recording session in the Black Box through an all encompassing interactive environment of imagery and sound—a hyperrealistic panorama of the creative process.
Between 2012-2016, Martinell enjoyed researching the historical layers and bringing to life the women, dances, and music of the Ragtime Era. Martinell created two an evening length works as well as a residency work for K-12 students and seniors.
‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ is an American comic opera in one act with music and libretto by Derrick Wang. The opera is inspired by opinions of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia.
Introduced at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013 by NPR’s Nina Totenberg, ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ has received national attention, including a front-page article in The Wall Street Journal, with selections from the opera presented in concert at leading musical and legal institutions.