Music as Story. Music as Gathering. Music as Place.
Four interconnected projects exploring voice, landscape, queerness, and myth.
Exquisite
Songs as artifacts. Albums as chapters.
Jess Martin’s music explores the cycles of transformation, rupture, and return. Their latest venture, Exquisite Project, is a four-song collaborative experiment inspired by the "exquisite corpse" exercise.
In this series, Jess’s original songs were handed to four Western Massachusetts-based producers—Joe “Jopey” Fitzpatrick, Erin McKeown, Nate Mondschein, and James Robinson—who were invited to not just polish the tracks, but to instinctively redirect and reshape them.
→ Listen | → Bloom Local Feature
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Literary monsters. Queer mythmaking. Visual music.
Shadow, Sound, Spectacle blends original music, shadow puppetry, video, and sound effects to create theatrical punk rock storytelling for adults and teens. Co-created with Amy J. West and Abby Hanna, this project transforms classic and contemporary texts into immersive, touring experiences.
→ Learn more | → Media Kit
Song Share Sessions
For Nonbinary, Trans & Women singer songwriters
A monthly community gathering for nonbinary, trans, and women singer-songwriters, started at Drawing Board Brewing and now hosted at Mill River Music in Northampton, MA.
→ Second Thursdays of the month @ 7 pm | → Read the story
Coming Up Next
![“Shadow, Sound, Spectacle brings a queer, creative twist to classic monster tales.” 🖤
Our final show of the 2025 Literary Monsters tour made the pages of The Heights!
“It took something familiar — these iconic monster stories — and transformed it with music, shadow puppetry, and a new way of seeing.”
Monsters, music, and metamorphosis — what a way to close the curtain.
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ABOUT JESS MARTIN
Jess Martin is a queer singer-songwriter and performance artist whose work lives at the intersection of music, theater, and community. From intimate solo sets to immersive collaborations, Jess creates story-driven performances rooted in myth, place, and queer possibility.