​​​​As a transmission and sound artist, Martín Rodríguez’s work emerges from his Chicanx upbringing along the Arizona-Mexico border. He employs performance, intervention, and installation as a process for deciphering aural histories and entangled identities.

After recovering from surgery to remove a brain tumor, a chance encounter with a radio transmission caught in the pickup coils of his guitar reoriented Rodríguez. Developing his practice from crisis, he examines radio as a transformative medium. Rooting his relationship with radio ​in healing, his artworks consider transmission as a material through which sound intertwines with affect, acting as a vessel for ulterior forms of communication.

Notably, his work has been presented by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico), Darling Foundry (Montreal), Walking Festival for Sound (United Kingdom/​Poland), Spektrum (Germany), as well as various festivals and performance venues across Canada and the United States.