Gentle Gazzetta Readers, Before I start the new year by heading to Germany for a Berlin Prize Fellowship, I am crowning this year with a solo performance in celebration of San Francisco’s historic experimental arts space, The Lab. Decades of Experimentation The Lab was founded in 1984 and has been a treasure to the adventurous arts community ever since. It’s been through a number of directorships and some ups and downs, but it has always been a home for experimentation and an advocate for wild artistic expression in sound, visual art, literature, and performance. The Lab was born the same year that I moved to San Francisco, and my connection with the organization began a few years later, in 1987 when it was still located at Bush and Divisidero, and I mounted the first of my “Z Programs” interdisciplinary performance evenings. I produced, performed in, and attended many more events there and also started a CAC-funded artist residency developing my "SoundWork" series of sound and performance workshops, which continued after The Lab’s 1995 move to its current location at the Redstone Building on 16th and Capp. I continued making work there into the 2000s, 2010s, and the current decade, giving workshops, participating in The Lab’s annual art auction, giving concerts, organizing events, and even serving on their board, briefly. The Lab has been a very important organization for me and for a huge community of artists in the Bay Area and beyond. I feel honored that they chose to feature my work at the center of this momentous occasion celebrating their 40th Anniversary. (Scroll down for details about the event.) Berlin Prize I’m very much looking forward to living and working at the Hans Arnhold Center, in Berlin, as part of a cohort of 11 writers, artists, scholars, and journalists. I’ll be composing Arbeitsklang (WorkSound), a new piece incorporating sampled work-related sounds and speech fragments recorded at work places in Berlin. I’ll also give and attend fellows’ concerts, talks, and presentations, including a solo performance in the 24th edition of the new music festival MaerzMusik. I’ll be in Berlin from January through May of 2025, except for a few days in early April, when I’ll be returning briefly for the Seattle premiere a new work commissioned by the New York chamber group LOADBANG. Chix on Earth		Evicshen hacking through The Lab's upstage wall during her SFEMF set The Qube Chix (Leigh Evans, Julie Queen, Pamela Z) celebrating over dinner. PZ performing at the BEMIS Center Zeitgeist performing PZ's Closed Loop in a Wisconsin Barn Zachary Watkins + Living Earth Show at Roar Shack PZ, Danishta Rivero, and Anthony Green @ CNMAT Sarah Cahill at Catharine Clark Gallery Dana Jessen, Danishta Rivero, Jordan Glenn, Lisa Mezzacappa, and Kyle Bruckman at West Oakland Sound Series Sculpture by Eva LeWitt at the Joslyn Kara Walker's automaton delivering a fortune from her mouth at SFMOMA Trimpin's robotic cellos at Other Minds
The Qube Chix (Julie Queen, Pamela Z, and Leigh Evans) standing on the bar at Roar Shack.	On the heels of my return from Berlin, I’m happy to report that there will be a Qube Chix reunion! That’s right. The Qube Chix are teaming up with The Living Earth Show in June of 2025 at TLES’s new haunt The Roar Shack! High notes will be sung. Percussion, guitars, and voices will be delayed. Heads will be shaved. Be warned. (For those unfamiliar with The Qube Chix, allow me to offer a few choice flashbacks: Bald Boyfriend and Stich-tche-na-ko)
Non-Cellists Two separate recordings have recently been released of my 2007 work Four Movements for Violoncello and Delays. Both were released on the same label (Neuma Records) and both came out this year within a few months of each other. But neither of the two musicians involved are cellists. One of the recordings is a violin transcription originally created for Lina Bahn in 2012 and now appears on her album Axolotl. The other was adapted for saxophone by Drew Whiting for his new album All In. Four Movements was originally commissioned by St. Lukes’ Chamber Orchestra and premiered by their principal cellist, Myron Lutzke, at the DIA Center in New York. Making Seeing Hearing Since my last writing, I’ve kept a busy calendar performing, composing, concert-going, and gallery visiting. September was particularly intense. Upon my return from the mid-west, where the Minnesota-based chamber ensemble Zeitgeist premiered my new work, Closed Loop, in a Wisconsin barn, I found the Bay Area bursting at the seams with new music festivals and concerts for the entire month. Sarah Cahill gave a piano recital at the opening of an Amy Trachtenberg exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery, Theresa Wong played a shared concert with Austin Larkin at Center for New Music, and Gray Area had its annual festival, all in the same week. The following week was the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (of which I am one of the organizers) with events at The Lab and AUDIUM. The week after that was the Other Minds Festival at Brava Theater and it was also Open Studios week at my building. Then, on the last day of the month, I played a concert with Danishta Rivero and Anthony Green at CNMAT. I was exhausted by the end of the month, but also very happy to have participated in and/or attended all of these events. Bay area musicians in a Larry Polansky Tribute at The Lab October and November were a little calmer, but I still kept quite busy with more engagements, concerts, and exhibitions. I traveled east for appearances at Yale and Columbia University and gave a concert at the BEMIS Center in Omaha, NE. I attended film screenings, including Jeanne Finley’s experimental nonfiction film Red Boat Crossing and Gary Hustwit’s generative documentary on Brian Eno, concerts (including many at West Oakland Sound Series), and art exhibitions at SFMOMA and the Joslyn in Omaha. I also spent several days improvising and rehearsing with The Qube Chix and The Living Earth Show in early preparation for next June’s Qube Chix reunion. In other news, I did a bit of writing for The Wire, contributing a piece that will appear in the “Inner Sleeve” column of the upcoming January issue. Now I’m starting work on my LOADBANG commission and preparing for my Berlin journey. And I’m brushing up on some early solo work to include on my performance at The Lab. Read on for details about that and all my other upcoming events. Yours always, PZ

Photos by: Pamela Z, Ben Semisch, a Barberia Osteria waiter, Travis Andrews, and Philip Blackburn  top
gazzetta | event highlights | news travels goings-on | event details | past gazzetti | pamelaz.com upcoming event details:
40 Years of The Lab (with Pamela Z) Saturday, December 7, 2024 6pm-10pm The Lab Join us to celebrate 40 years of The Lab and honor Pamela Z’s nearly four-decade history of collaboration with the organization. In addition to Pamela Z’s decade-spanning performance program, the party features food by chef Leif Hedendal (who has cooked at Noma, Chez Panisse, Greens, among others), a pre-show open bar of natural wines and equally delicious non-alcoholic alternatives, cake by the great @vinegary_personality, and afterparty DJ sets from Brontez Purnell and others. We’ll also have selections from our poster and flyer archive on display in the back room of The Lab. Buy Tickets for 6pm entry / Cocktail Hour with food by Leif Hedendal pre-show open bar with wine & equally delicious n/a alternatives $78 reserved cocktail seating ($39 tax-deductible) Buy Tickets for 7pm entry / Honoring Pamela Z & her history with The Lab, with performance by Pamela Z $39 general admission seating Buy Tickets for 8:30pm entry / Cake & Party! with Guest DJs into the night $15 admission The Lab 2948 16th St San Francisco, CA, 941039 USA top   Pamela Z Artist Talk Monday, March 24, 2025, 7:30pm American Academy in Berlin Hans Arnhold Center
top	Composer/performer and interdisciplinary artist Pamela Z will discuss her work and her process, and will talk about the increasingly blurred lines between disciplines in her practice.  Highlighting her use of voice, processing, gesture-based MIDI controllers, video, found objects, and sampled speech sounds, she will illustrate the various directions her work has taken over the years and tie in her Berlin Prize project, Arbeitsklang.   American Academy in Berlin Am Sandwerder 17-19 14109 Berlin-Wannsee Germany
MaerzMusik presents Pamela Z on the 24th annual festival edition Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Haus der Berliner Festspiele Composer/Performer Pamela Z will give a performance of solo works for voice and electronics as part of the MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin. MAERTZMUSIK 2025 Haus der Berliner Festspiele Schaperstraße 24, 10719 Berlin Germany top
LOADBANG plays Pamela Z Wednesday, April 2, 2025 7pm Cornish College of the Arts
Cornish College of the Arts 1000 Lenora St, Seattle, WA 98121 top	New York-based chamber ensemble, loadbang, performs a newly commissioned work by Pamela Z on a shared concert with the composer as part of a multi-day residency at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle WA.
EARTH QUBE an evening with The Qube Chix + The Living Earth Show Thursday & Friday, June 19 & 20th, 2025 6:45-9:30pm ROAR SHACK LIVE! The Qube Chix are back! And they're teaming up with The Living Earth Show, who have invited them to participate in mixing things up in their Mid-Market creative laboratory, The Roar Shack. They will be reviving old favorites like Bald Boyfriend, If You Want To, and The Bloody Hands Song, as well as heating up some new mischief on the Roar Shack bunson burners. Come for sounds, strange actions, and maybe even a haircut. (Sit close at your own peril.) Roar Shack Live! 34 7th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA top
gazzetta | event highlights | news travels goings-on | event details | past gazzetti | pamelaz.com Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist making works for voice, electronics, samples, gesture activated MIDI controllers, and video. She has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. Her work has been presented at venues and exhibitions including Bang on a Can (NY), the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds (SF), MoMA (NY), the Venice Biennale, and Dakar Biennale. She has composed scores for dance, film, and chamber ensembles (including Kronos Quartet and Eighth Blackbird). Her awards include the Rome Prize, Berlin Prize, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MIT McDermott Award, the Guggenheim, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. www.pamelaz.com For professional inquiries contact Beth Beauchamp at BEAUCHAMP ARTIST SERVICES Pamela Z is fiscally sponsored by Circuit Network.To make a tax-deductible contribution to Pamela Z or Pamela Z Arts, use PayPal: ...or send a check to Circuit Network with "Pamela Z Arts" in the notation to: Circuit Network, 499 Alabama Street, Suite 203, San Francisco, CA 94110 gazzetta | event highlights | news travels goings-on | event details | past gazzetti | pamelaz.com
Pamela Z Arts | 540 Alabama Street, Studio 214 | San Francisco, CA | 94110 | tel: 415 572 6352 You received this email because you are in my database of friends, colleagues, and people who have shown interest in my activities. This little digital gazette is published only 3 to 4 times a year.

s