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Pamela Z is a San
Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist
who works primarily with voice, live electronic
processing, and sampling technology. Processing her
live voice through MAX/MSP software on a PowerBook,
she creates solo works that combine operatic bel
canto and experimental extended vocal techniques
with found percussion objects, spoken word, and
sampled concréte sounds. These sounds are triggered
with a MIDI controller called The BodySynth™, which
allows her to manipulate sound with physical
gestures. Her performances range in scale from
small concerts in galleries to large-scale
multi-media works in flexible black-box venues and
proscenium halls.
Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including Bang On A Can at Lincoln Center in New York, the Interlink Festival in Japan, Other Minds in San Francisco, and Pina BAUSCH Tanztheater's 25 Jahre Fest in Wuppertal, Germany, and La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. |
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She has composed, recorded and performed original
scores for choreographers and for film and video
artists, and has done vocal work for other
composers (including Charles Amirkhanian, and Henry
Brant). Her large-scale, multi-media performance
works, Parts of Speech, Gaijin, and
Voci, have been presented at Theater Artaud
and ODC Theatre in San Francisco, and at The
Kitchen in New York. Her multi-media opera
Wunderkabinet – based on the Museum of
Jurassic Technology (created in collaboration with
Matthew BRUBECK and Christina McPHEE) premiered at
The LAB Gallery in September of 2005. She has had
audio works included in exhibitions at the Whitney
Museum of American Art in New York and the
Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum in Cologne, and the
Dakar Biennale in Senegal. Her work has also been
presented at the San Jose Museum of Art and El
Museo del Barrio in New York.
Pamela Z
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Ms. Z has been commissioned to compose works for new music chamber ensembles: the Bang On A Can Allstars, Ethel, the California E.A.R. Unit, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, and St. Luke's Chamber Orchestra. Since 1986 she has been producing Z Programs, an ongoing series of interdisciplinary events in which her own work has been featured along with that of other experimental artists in various genres. She is a member of the electroacoustic ensemble sensorChip (with Miya MASAOKA and Donald SWEARINGEN) and the interdisciplinary performance ensemble The Qube Chix. She has done several concerts and experimental theater pieces with Zakros New Music Theatre (including their John Cage festivals), and has performed with The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Pamela is the recipient of numerous awards, including: the Guggenheim Fellowship, the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts; the Creative Capital Fund; the ASCAP Music Award; and the NEA and Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. |
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