This page contains all current, future, and past Pamela Z-related performances and events in reverse
chronological order. For upcoming events in the immediate furture, refer to the embedded agenda at the upper right..
Pamela Z and Christina McPhee will present a three performance run of their interdisciplinary work Carbon Song Cycle at The Exploratorium in San Francisco
Carbon Song Cycle is a work for chamber ensemble and expanded cinema by composer/performer Pamela Z and media artist Christina McPhee. The work is inspired by ongoing changes and upheavals in the earth's ecosystem, and by the carbon cycle—the process through which carbon is exchanged between all terrestrial life forms and domains. It is scored for a chamber ensemble of voice & electronics, bassoon, viola, cello, and percussion and immersive, multi-screen video projections.
Pamela Z: voice & electronics
Christina McPhee: video
Dana Jessen: bassoon
Charith Premawardhana: viola
Crystal Pascucci: cello
Suki O’Kane: Percussion
Performances:
Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 8pm
Saturday August 26, 2023 at 2pm
Saturday August 26, 2023 at 7pm
THIS IMPOSSIBLE BUILDING: Pamela Z, Roomful of Teeth, The Living Earth Show
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Roomful of Teeth, The Living Earth Show, and Pamela Z will perform a workshop version of Z’s “This Impossible Building in collaboration with Roomful fo Teeth & The Living Earth Show at MASS MoCA Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art at 8pm in North Adams
This Impossible Building is an evening-length multi-media work for soloist, vocal octet, guitar, and percussion. Using live sampling, gesture control, and images of (impossible and possible) spaces, the all-star cast of musicians create, demolish, and renovate sonic and visual worlds within This Impossible Building. With her signature approach to her compositional practice, Z incorporates speech fragments—taken from interviews with architects, dwellers, workers, and the ensemble members themselves—as sonic building blocks for the harmonic and melodic motifs and the structural foundation of the piece.
Performances: August 3, 5, & 6, 2023
Installation: August 9-13, 2023
Pamela Z will present her work Simultaneous as part of MoMA’s annual Studio Residency program at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY
Pamela Z is this year’s artist for MoMA’s annual Studio Residency program. At the Museum, she will continue to develop her recent song cycle Simultaneous in the Kravis Studio. Comprising several short pieces that explore the concept of simultaneity, the work will incorporate voice, chamber ensemble (Oboe, English horn, viola, cello, and percussion), gesture control, real-time electronic processing, language, and immersive video projections that react to sound and motion.
The residency will culminate in a public premiere of Simultaneous, a public conversation with the artist, and a glimpse into an in-progress version of the work adapted for installation with new audio recorded in MoMA’s studio.
Pamela Z, voice and electronics
Kyle Bruckmann, oboe/English horn
Charlton Lee, viola
Clara Kennedy, cello
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Simultaneous Performances:
Thu, Aug 3 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Aug 5 at 8:00 pm
Sun, Aug 6 at 3:00 pm - Followed by conversation with Martha Joseph
The installation will be on view during Museum hours from Wednesday, August 9 through Sunday, August 13.
Composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z combines elements of voice, live electronics, sampled sound, and video utilizing the unique features of Studio E. at Tanglewood at 8pm in Lenox/Stockbridge USA
Tanglewood
Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning
297 West Street
Lenox, MA 01240
USA
Pamela Z performs on solo voice and electronics as part of Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes at 5pm in Oakland, CA USA
The program will feature continuous simultaneous performances by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music in different parts of the beautiful, Julia Morgan-designed building; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances. From 5pm to 9pm.
Claire Chase will perform works from her Density project at The Kitchen in New York
Density 2036 is a 24-year project begun by Claire Chase in 2013 to commission a new body of repertory for solo flute each year until the 100th anniversary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5. Her May 20 concert at The Kitchen at Westbeth will include works by Marcos Balter, Phyllis Chen, Sarah Hennies, Olga Neuwirth, and Pamela Z
Solo works for voice, electronics, and video at New Music New College at 8pm in Sarasota, FL USA
Pamela Z will return to New Music New College’s Club Sudakoff perform a program of solo works for voice, real-time electronic processing, sampled sounds, wireless gesture controllers, and interactive video.
Club Sudakoff
New Music New College
5845 General Dougher Place
Sarasota, Florida 34243
Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT Public Lecture by Pamela Z
5:00pm, MIT Compton Laboratories
Through video and audio examples, composer/performer and interdisciplinary artist Pamela Z will share her work and her process and discuss 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 the projects she’s working on now.
Free and open to the public.
Registration information will be available on starting April 1, 2023, via this link.
MIT Compton Laboratories 26-100
60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
MIT presents an evening of works by Pamela Z as part of her MIT McDermott Award residency at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, USA
Pamela Z will appear in a concert featuring a selection of her works for solo voice and electronics, along with chamber works, including Presence with Kate Stenberg (violin) and Sarah Cahill (piano), and Summons performed by an MIT chamber group, as well as a duet for gesture-controlled instruments with special guest Donald Swearingen.
Free Admission
Registration information will be available on starting April 1, 2023, via this link.
MIT Media Lab, 6th Floor
75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
USA
Ensemble for These Times: Fractured Light
E4TT plays Pamela Z's Only If It's Asked For
Saturday, April 15, 2023 7:30pm
In collaboration with SF Conservatory of Music's TAC Department
E4TT showcases three commissions by composers Juhi Bansal, inti figgis-vizueta, and Michael R. Smith, and works by Salina Fisher, David Garner, Angelica Negron, Marcus Norris, and Pamela Z (the San Francisco Premiere of her Only If It's Asked For – for vibraphone and tape).
Fractured Light
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Osher Hall
50 Oak Street
San Francisco, CA USA
Adam Tendler will perform his Inheritances program at 92nd Street Y at 7:30pm ET in New York USA
After his father’s unexpected death, acclaimed New York-based pianist Adam Tendler used his inheritance – a wad of cash received in a parking lot – to begin a commissioning project, inviting some of today’s most influential composers and sound artists to create new piano works exploring the idea of inheritance itself. Woven into an intimate program, these pieces tell a universal story of lineage, loss, and place, and result in a meditation on confronting our past while moving toward the future.
The New York premiere of Inheritance features works by Laurie Anderson, Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, Devonté Hynes, inti figgis-vizueta, Pamela Z, Ted Hearne, Angélica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Marcos Balter, Darian Donovan Thomas, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Scott Wollschleger, Mary Prescott, Timo Andres and John Glover.
92nd Street Y
1395 LEXINGTON AVE.
New York, NY 10128
USA
Pamela Z performs works for voice and electronics as part of Night of Ideas in the Koret Auditorium at San Francisco Public Library at 10pm in San Francisco
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
USA
Pamela Z gives a concert of works for solo voice and electronics as part of the Conversations in Modern Music series at 8pm at UNC Chapel Hill at 8pm in Chapel Hill USA
UNC Chapel Hill
Moeser Auditorium
145 E. Cameron Ave
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
USA
Pamela Z performs a program of solo works for voice and electronics at MMR at 7:3opm in Montréal Canada
live@CIRMMT presents a concert featuring composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z with opening act composer/trombonist Kalun Leung and choreographer/dancer Bettina Szabo.
MMR
Mcgill University
527 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC
Montréal, QC H3A 1E3
Canada
Pamela Z gives a talk on the CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture Series
Monday, January 23, 2023 5pm
Through video and audio examples, composer /performer and interdisciplinary artist Pamela Z will share her work and her process, and will discuss the increasingly blurred lines between disciplines in her practice at McGill University, Tanna Schulich Hall in Montreal Canada
Highlighting her use of voice, processing, gesture-based MIDI controllers, video, and found text, she will illustrate the various directions her work has taken over the years and tie in the projects she’s working on now.
Tanna Hall, 527 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest
527 Rue Sherbrooke O, Montréal, Quebec H3A 1E3, Canada
Pamela Z will perform solo works for voice, electronics, and video as part of the experimental music series NO HAY BANDA at La Sala Rossa at 8pm in Montréal Canada
The experimental music series NO HAY BANDA presents their first concert of 2023, featuring the legendary Pamela Z and Montreal’s YlangYlang, on January 22 at La Sala Rossa. Co-presented by Casa Del Popolo & Arts in the Margins.
Pamela Z’s Simultaneous at Space 124 in San Francisco USA
Pamela Z presents “Simultaneous”, an intermedia performance work exploring the concept of simultaneity, through voice, electronic processing, chamber ensemble (Kyle Bruckmann: English horn, Charlton Lee: viola, Theresa Wong: cello, and Kjell Nordeson: percussion), speech samples, gesture control, and projected video.
This work is the culmination Z’s Rome Prize project which began in 2019, has had iterations in the forms of a multi-channel sound installation and a fixed media radio work, but stopped short of being presented as a performance work, because of the pandemic’s interruption of her fellowship year. Now, the work will reach its fruition with the full evening performance work that was originally proposed.
Performances will take place on the 9th, 10th, and 11th of December 2022 in Space 124 at Project Artaud, in San Francisco.
This production is supported by The San Francisco Ars Commission
and an artist residency from SPACE 124 @ Project Artaud.
Pamela Z Lecture on the VOICE IN MOVING IMAGE FILM LECTURE SERIES
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022 4 - 7pm
A lecture with composer/performer and interdisciplinary artist Pamela Z at CCA California College of the Arts at 4pm in San Francisco USA
Through video and audio examples and a bit of live demonstration, composer/performer and interdisciplinary artist Pamela Z will share her work and her process, and will discuss 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 the projects she’s working on now.
Free and open to the public.
Please note, if you test positive for COVID-19 within 48 hours of attending an event on CCA’s campus, you should contact COVIDresponse@cca.edu immediately.
The San Francisco Bay Area chamber chorus, Volti, presents the in-person premiere of Pamela Z's Ink at ODC Theater in San Francisco USA
Ink is a work that unfolds in five sonically distinct movements that variously use standard notation, graphic elements, instructions, and rote transmission of sung and spoken vocal material. Speech fragments from interviews with the Volti singers make up a portion of the sonic structure and determine some of the work’s melodic and rhythmic passages. The piece premiered as a streaming video work, designed specifically for the web, on April 24, 2021.
This concert will include a re-vamped, live version of INK, as the start of the 2022-2023 season, performed by Volti under the baton of Valerie St. Agathe. Volt will also perform a new work by Pulitzer Prize winner, Caroline Shaw.
Saturday and Sunday, November 5th and 6th, 2022 Noon - 6pm
Pamela Z will participate in Open Studios at Developing Environments (P2) at 12pm-6pm in San Francisco
Pamela Z will show media work and live performance at Developing Environments (Project 2) in the North East Mission Industrial Zone of San Francisco, CA. She will give some short, live, in-studio performances and show sound and video installation work.
2022 marks the 50th Anniversary of the artist live/work community where Pamela Z has lived and worked since 1995. This year, the neighborhood's Open Studios take place during the first weekend of November.
San Francisco Girls Chorus perform Pamela Z’s PEN PAL
Friday, Oct 21, 2022 7:30 pm
San Francisco Girls Chorus will perform Pamela Z’s Pen Pal at SFJAZZ in San Francisco USA
Pamela Z’s Pen Pal will be performed by the San Francisco Girls Chorus’s GRAMMY award winning Premiere Ensemble. The concert will feature the choral premiere of Kamala’s Hope by Oakland-based composer Candace Forest. Soprano Shawnette Sulker, cellist Emil Miland, and organist Jerome Lenk perform alongside for this work based on two Vice-Presidential acceptance speeches given by then Senator Kamala Harris in August 2020. The program also includes the world premiere of I See You, I Hear You, I Believe You by American composer Ursula Kwong-Brown, written in the wake of the #MeToo movement, as well as three SFGC commissions by Angélica Negrón, Amy X Neuburg, and Pamela Z.
World Premiere of Presence for Violin/Piano Duo and Voice & Electronics
Saturday, September 24, 2022 7:30 pm
Stenberg | Cahill Duo will be joined by composer/performer Pamela Z in the performance of the world premiere of Presence at The Dresher Ensemble Studio at 7:30pm in Oakland USA
Presence, Pamela Z’s new work for violin/piano duo, voice & electronics, and video, will have its world premiere on a program alongside works by Somei Satoh and Roscoe Mitchell. Commissioned by Stenberg | Cahill Duo, the new work explores presence in its many senses – physical, incorporeal, demeanor, carriage, presence of mind – working with the three women’s physical forms, focus and stage presence. Gesture, facial expression, and physical attitude are incorporated into the score – making use of silence, slow deliberate actions, imitation, and unisons to fill the space with the ever-changing intensity of imposing, dignified, fleeting, insistent, and comforting presence.
The work employs gesture-controlled MIDI instruments, and the performers’ movements manipulate interjections of sampled audio and video projections. The acoustic instrument sounds are layered and processed in real time to create music that is sometimes open and minimal and sometimes densely layered and timbrally complex.
Pamela Z performs works for voice and electronics at First Unitarian Congregational Society at 7:30pm ET in Brooklyn USA
ISSUE will open its 2022 Fall season at First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights with an in-person performance.
Composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z will perform a set of solo works for voice, real-time electronic processing, sampled sounds, and wireless gesture controllers on a shared program with poet, theorist, critic Fred Moten (voice), improviser, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Brandon López (double bass), and Detroit-born jazz drummer Gerald Cleaver (drums). The evening also features sound artist, producer and DJ SYANIDE performing a new improvisation piece titled “8.”
Friday and Saturday, Septerber 2 & 3, 2022, 7:00 pm
On Friday September 2nd and Saturday September 3rd, Pamela Z will perform works for solo voice and electronics as part of the TWISTED SHOUT Festival at Fylkingen in Stockholm Sweden
The concerts will also feature work by Jaap Blonk, Tomomi Adachi, and Maja Jantar.
Fylkingen
Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2
118 25 Stockholm
Sweden
Pamela Z will perform solo works for voice and electronics as part of BAMPFA: Full at Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) at 7pm in Berkeley, CA USA
Pamela Z is August’s featured artist on the Sarah Cahill-curated monthly performance series that takes place on the night of each full moon at BAMPFA.
Pamela Z performs a set of solo works for voice and electronics direct from her San Francisco Studio as part of The Wire 40 x ESS: Streaming Festival at Experimental Sound Studio ESS in Chicago, IL
Pamela Z performs on solo voice and electronics as part of Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes at 5pm in Oakland, CA USA
The program will feature continuous simultaneous performances by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music in different parts of the beautiful, Julia Morgan-designed building; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances. From 5pm to 9pm.
GARDEN OF MEMORY
Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA
Pamela Z’s The Schmetterling performed at Nief-Norf Summer Festival
Saturday, June 18, 2022, 3:00 pm
Pamela Z’s The Schmetterling will be performed by a chamber ensemble as part of the Nief-Norf Summer Festival at Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall at 3pm in Knoxville, TN USA
The Schmetterling will be performed by Katie Adams, double bass; Henna Chou, cello; Brooks Clarke, electric guitar; Huijuan Ling, piano; Kevin O’Connor percussion Annick Odom, clarinet; Keri Lee Pierson voice, and Pamela Z, electronics.
The concert will also feature music by David Lang, Simon Løffler, Evan Williams, Christopher Cerrone, inti figgis-vizueta, Jordon Munson, Nathaniel Heyder, and Erin Rogers.
NIEF-NORF
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall
Natalie L. Haslam Music Center
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Pamela Z’s Work performed at Nief-Norf Summer Festival
Friday, June 17, 2022, 7:30 pm
Pamela Z performs works for solo voice and electronics,and her Twenty Answers will be performed as part of the Nief-Norf Summer Festival at Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall at 7:30pm in Knoxville, TN USA
Pamela Z’s music will be presented on a program that also includes works by Yi-TIng Lu and Kendall K. Williams. Ms. Z will perform solo works, and Twenty Answers will be performed by Adeline DeBella, flute; Armond Dorsey, electronics; Gavin Kitchen, percussion; Huijuan Ling, Piano; Annick Odom, clarinet; Alexandra Porter, voice; Jayla Tang, violin; and Pamela Z, voice and electronics.
NIEF-NORF
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall
Natalie L. Haslam Music Center
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
String orchestra arrangements of movements from Carbon Song Cycle (music by Pamela Z, video by Christina McPhee) at Roulette at 7:30pm in Brooklyn, NY USA
Returning to Brooklyn for the first time since 2019, The Next Festival of Emerging Artists presents an orchestra concert featuring world premieres to celebrate its 10th Anniversary season!
PROGRAM (all world premieres):
Liliya Ugay: New Work
Jeff Scott: Winter 1983
Jessica Meyer: In the Waves
Peter Askim: The Raw Heart of the Spinning World
Pamela Z: Suite from Carbon Song Cycle (orch. Frerer) World Premiere, version for string orchestra and percussion
Per our COVID safety protocols, all attendees will be asked to show vaccination/booster cards at the door. Attendees will also be expected to wear masks during the entirety of the performance. Masks should be worn correctly covering the mouth and nose at all times. Should events get canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no action is required to obtain a refund; we will issue the full refund to your original method of payment used at time of purchase.
The Next Festival of Emerging Artists' Orchestra featuring Pamela Z at Music Mountain at Music Mountain at 6pm in Falls Village, CT USA
The Next Festival of Emerging Artists presents an orchestra concert featuring world premieres to celebrate its 10th Anniversary season!
PROGRAM (all world premieres):
Liliya Ugay: New Work
Jeff Scott: Winter 1983
Jessica Meyer: In the Waves
Peter Askim: The Raw Heart of the Spinning World
Pamela Z: Suite from Carbon Song Cycle (orch. Frerer) World Premiere, version for string orchestra and percussion - music by Pamela Z and video by Christina McPhee
Music Mountain
225 Music Mountain Road, Falls Village, CT
Solo Performance of Works for Voice, Electronics, and Video
Saturday, May 21, 2022, 7:30pm
Pamela Z will give a concert of works for voice, live electronic processing, and projected image at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at 7:30pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Mezzo Soprano Julia Bullock sings Pamela Z’s Quilt in collaboration with San Francisco Symphony as part of History’s Persistent Voice at Davies Symphony Hall at 7:30pm in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Symphony Collaborative Partner Julia Bullock shares History’s Persistent Voice, her original and ever-developing program, which highlights the words, work, and experiences of Black American artists. In this mixed media concert, voices spanning across generations who were enslaved through the 1860s are heard alongside those who lived through years of convict leasing, share cropping, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration.
Curated and performed by Julia Bullock, with Christian Reif conducting the San Francisco Symphony, and visual art installations designed by Hana S. Kim, History’s Persistent Voice features all-new commissioned music by an esteemed roster of American women of color, including Jessie Montgomery, Carolyn Yarnell, Allison Loggins-Hull, Pamela Z, and Tania León.
Although cycles of violence, oppression, and demoralization are ongoing, for these artists it’s clear how various forms of human expression can facilitate some manifestation of liberation and freedom.
For more information, including full program notes, visit the San Francisco Symphony’s digital program book platform at sfsymphony.encoreplus.app or text “SFS Concert” to 55741.
This performance is sponsored by the Institute of the Arts and Sciences for the 2021–2022 Media and Society Lecture Series, Kresge College, and the Surge: Explorations in Afrofuturism series.
ADMISSION
This is an in person, off-campus event
Free and open to the public.
Pamela Z gives a solo performance of works for voice, electronics, and video as part of Barcelona Poesia at Jardins de la Casa de la Misericòrdia at 10pm in Barcelona Spain
Jardins de la Casa de la Misericòrdia
carrer d’ Elisbets, 8, Barcelona
Spain
Thursday - Saturday, May 5, 6, and 7, 2022, 8:00pm
Pamela Z performs an evening of solo works for voice, electronics, and video as part of The Palindrome Loop at The Merrill Theater at On The Boards at 8pm in Seattle, WA USA
In The Palindrome Loop, curated by On the Boards Artistic Director Rachel Cook, three featured artists takes the stage individually to perform?alone using their own body, sound production, and mundane objects such as a lemon, ice, ropes, and articles of clothing. There are layers of loops across each of the works comprising the project, including pulleys or ropes hung above and around the audience in Faye Driscoll’s Thank You?For Coming: Space (January 20–23); vocal sounds are live-sampled, repeated, and layered in Pamela Z’s Other Rooms (May 5–7); and physical acts of circling the audience in Dana Michel’s CUTLASS SPRING (May 19–21).
Pamela Z’s performance will take place on May 5, 6, and 7, with the Friday performance followed by an artist conversation between Pamela Z and Trimpin (moderated by composer Kaley Eaton.
The Merrill Theater at On The Boards
100 West Roy Street, Seattle, WA
On Sunday night, May 1 at 7:30 in the BAM Opera House we present an epic re-imagining of Ornette Coleman’s revolutionary 1959 album, The Shape of Jazz to Come, performed by an all-new Bang on a Can Orchestra of classical and jazz luminaries and Denardo Coleman/Ornette Expressions featuring Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Jason Moran, Lee Odom, Wallace Roney Jr. and special guest James “Blood” Ulmer—conducted by Awadagin Pratt. Commissioned by Bang on a Can and BAM, six trailblazing composers from across the musical spectrum, and curated by Denardo Coleman himself—Nick Dunston, Craig Harris, Nicole Mitchell, Carman Moore, David Sanford, and Pamela Z—come together to arrange, magnify, and honor the six profound pieces on the album that established Coleman as one of America’s most important and visionary musicians.
Brooklyn Academy of Music BAM
30 Laffayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Pamela Z Solo Concert on Bang On A Can LONG PLAY Festival
Saturday, April 30, 2022, 7:00pm
Pamela Z will perform a set of works for solo voice and electronics as part of Bang On A Can LONG PLAY Festival at Public Records at 7pm in Brooklyn, NY US
Adam Tendler plays Pamela Z’s Thank You So Much as part of Inheritances at The Parkway Theater at 8pm in Minneapolis, MN USA
New works by commissioned composers Devonté Hynes, Nico Muhly, Laurie Anderson, inti figgis-vizueta, Pamela Z, Ted Hearne, Angelica Negrón, Christopher Cerrone, Marcos Balter, Missy Mazzoli, Darian Donovan Thomas, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Scott Wollschleger, Mary Prescott, Timo Andres and John Glover
After his father’s unexpected death, pianist Adam Tendler used his inheritance, a wad of cash received in a parking lot, to begin a commissioning project inviting a broad spectrum of sound artists and composers to create new piano works exploring the idea of 'inheritance' itself. Woven into one intimate program, these pieces tell a universal story of lineage, loss, and place, and become a meditation on confronting our past while moving forward into the future.
Please note: The Parkway Theater requires proof of COVID-19 vaccination or negative test result for entry to all events.
Pamela Z, Laetitia Sonami, Brenda Hutchinson, and Sarah Cahill will perform Annea Lockwood’s Spirit Catchers in collaboration with Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music as part of Music in the Fault Zone: Experimental Music at Mills College (1939 to the present) at Mills College at 4pm in Oakland, CA USA
Four people have each been asked to bring with them an object which they have had for many years. Each performer sits in a chair with the object in their hands, and begins to remember aloud all its associations, all the events connected with it, gradually uncovering all the accessible layers of feelings and memory accumulated around the object. They talk to themselves, think aloud – becoming oblivious to everything but the memory process – as the sound mixer isolates, cross-fades, and overlaps their voices.
Mills College
Lisser Hall
5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA
An evening of Pamela Z’s works performed in the Modern Art Galleries in collaboration with Wild Up at Los Angeles County Museum of Art at 7:30pm in Los Angeles, CA
Join us for a special Art & Music performance of works by composer, performer, and media artist Pamela Z performed by the avant-garde contemporary music collective Wild Up and the composer herself, in LACMA’s newly reinstalled Modern Art Galleries.
The presentation will include a selection of Z's chamber works and roving performances using the artworks on view as graphic scores, resulting in an immersive interplay between visual art and sound.
Performers will include Pamela Z on voice and electronics, members of Wild Up (on violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet, bassoon, percussion) and Christopher Rountree, conductor and Artistic Director of Wild Up.
Presented in conjunction with LACMA’s Modern Art collection.
Pamela Z Artist Talk on Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Thursday, March 31, 2022 5:30pm
Pamela Z gives a live, in-person artist talk: Crossing Disciplines | Blurring Boundaries,
in which she discusses her work as a interdisiciplinary composer/performer and media artist.
Pamela Z with the Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble
Pamela Z and the PMCE (Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble) will perform a program of her music in collaboration with choregographer Francesca Pennini as part of the EQUILIBRIO festival at Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, RM USA
PAMELA Z in a shared Concert as part of EMDM Goes To 11!
Pamela Z will perform and have work performed on a shared concert at Hartley Bay Theater at 7:30pm in Baton Rouge, LA USA
The LSU School of Music’s Experimental Music & Digital Media program celebrates its eleventh anniversary with a special new media concert and gala event, featuring renowned composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z. The program includes experimental music and chamber works by multiple composers, including Pamela Z’s The Schmetterling, as well as a few of Z’s solo voice & electronics works.
PAMELA Z in Concert at the LSU School fo Music Experimental Music & Digital Media Center, DMC Theater.
Pamela Z will present an evening of solo works for live voice and electronics, and a multi-channel fixed media work, at the LSU Digital Media Center Theatre – an intimate venue with a 92 speaker immersive sound system.
Z will make use of the theatre's immersive system to spatialize sound in her performance.
Pamela Z will perform a solo concert of works for voice, electronics, and video, as the culminating event of a visiting artist residency at the University of Texas at Austin's Butler School of Music.
The Twentieth Biennial FESTIVAL of NEW MUSIC Featuring INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE and PAMELA Z
Saturday, February 5th, 2022, 7:30pm
ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) with Pamela Z, Burgin Quartet, and cellist Greg Sauer will perform works by Pamela Z
PROGRAMME:
Mario Diaz de Leon: Mysterium
Brittany J. Green: Intersections Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Sequences
Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Firing Squad
Pamela Z - Featured Composer: – Four Movements for Cello and Delays – Twenty Answers
– The Unraveling
FSU FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC
Opperman Music Hall
FSU College of Music
122 N. Copeland St
Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
2/4/2022 Tallahassee, FL, USA
The Twentieth Biennial FESTIVAL of NEW MUSIC
Friday, February 4th, 2022, 7:30pm
Pamela Z will perform a set of her solo works for voice and electronics on a shared program with works by FSU Composers, Liliya Ugay, and Clifton Callender
FSU FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC
Opperman Music Hall
FSU College of Music
122 N. Copeland St
Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
1/11/2022 Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pamela Z + Nathalie Joachim in LA Phil’s Green Umbrella Series
Pamela Z and Nathalie Joachim perform works and have works performed in collaboration with The LA Phil New Music Group as part of LA Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series at Walt Disney Concert Hall at 8pm PST in Los Angeles, CA USA
Artists:
Pamela Z, co-curator and performer
Nathalie Joachim, co-curator and performer
LA Phil New Music Group – Simone Menezes, conductor
Pamela Z and Nathalie Joachim co-curated a program that will include two world premieres of works they are composing for each other and the LA Phil New Music Group.
Program:
Angélica NEGRÓN: This Person
Nathalie JOACHIM: “Suite pou Dantan” from Fanm d’Ayiti
Pamela Z: The Schmetterling
Allison LOGGINS-HULL: The Pattern
Pamela Z: new work for Nathalie Joachim and ensemble (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Deborah Borda Women in the Arts Initiative)
Nathalie JOACHIM: new work for Pamela Z and ensemble (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
Nina SHEKHAR: Dear Abby
Pamela Z RECORD RELEASE Concert
ECHOLOCATION reissue
and A SECRET CODE
Sunday, December 12, 2021, 7:30pm
CENTER FOR NEW MUSIC, San Francisco
On November 5th, the Freedom to Spend label released a vinyl reissue of ECHOLOCATION, Pamela Z's 1988 solo album.
On June 18, Neuma Records released A SECRET CODE, Pamela Z's first solo CD since the 2004 release of A Delay is Better.
On Sunday, December 12, 2021, Pamela Z will give a live, in-person concert of solo works for voice & electronics including titles from both Echolocation and A Secret Code. The concert will be limited capacity, and will require mask-wearing and proof of vaccination
There will be physical copies of both Echolocation (on LP) and A Secret Code (on CD), available for purchase at the event. (Or you can purchase physical or digital copies on all the usual online streaming and download platforms.)
Pamela Z will perform solo work for voice and electronics as part of Society of Fellows SALONE at Roulette at 7pm EST in Brooklyn, NY USA
A multi-media performance event showcasing the work of renowned actors, artists, choreographers, composers, designers, who have each been awarded the prestigious Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.
Featured Performing Artists:
Jonathon Berger (music), Molissa Fenley (dance) Colin Gee (theater), Erin Gee (music), John Kelly (theater, music), Pat Oleszko (performance), Basil Twist (puppetry), Pamela Z (music)
Video Compilation by Archetects, Artists + Designers:
Erin Besler, EV Day, Matthew Geller, Phu Hoang/Rachely Rotem, Johannes Knoops, Laurel McSherry, David Reinfurt, Byrony Roberts
Pamela Z performs a short set, including live versions of some of the tracks from the album (as well as a few works from her latest CD, A Secret Code). at Commend at 4pm in New York, NY USA
Pamela Z will perform a set of solo works for voice and electronics, and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble will perform her string quartet Attention in Keiner Salle as part of the Reflektor Festival at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg at 1:30pm CET in Hamburg Germany
From the Reflektor Max Richter & Yulia Mahr website:
"Complex yet catchy, intricately structured yet atmospheric and emotional: the works of Caroline Shaw, Caleb Burhans and Pamela Z are fascinating and enchanting. Exploring the traditional genre of the string quartet from new angles, they are challenging, hypnotic and calming at the same time. The great minimal music pioneer Steve Reich affectionately calls this generation of US composers his »grandchildren«."
PERFORMERS
American Contemporary Music Ensemble
(Ben Russell: Violine, Laura Lutzke: Violine, Caleb Burhans: Viola, Clarice Jensen Violoncello
Pamela Z Live-Elektronik
Reflektor Festival
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Platz der Deutschen Einheit 4, Hamburg,
Pamela Z Multi-Channel Sound Installation
Thursday, August 12 - Monday, August 16, 2021
Pamela Z will show a new 3-D Composition in an installation of the EMPAC Wave Field Synthesis Array as part of TIME:SPANS at MARY FLAGLER CARY HALL in New York, NY USA
Ms. Z’s new work will be featured along with that of Miya Masaoka, Bora Yoon, and Nina C. Young, in the EMPAC Wave Field Synthesis Array Showcase that will be on exhibit in Mary Flagler Cary Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York.
The works will be shown from August 12 - 16th, 2021, as part of the TIME:SPANS Festival.
Co-Presented by TIME:SPANS and The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
EMPAC Showcase of commissioned works by Miya Masaoka, Bora Yoon, and Pamela Z and a new work by Nina C. Young commissioned by The Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust
A Secret Code – live-streamed Album Release Concert
Thursday, June 24, 2021at 8pm Eastern (5pm Pacific)
Pamela Z will give a freeconcert in celebration of the release of her new albume “A Secret Code” live-streamed from Haverford College at 8pm EDT in Haverford, PA USA
This performance will be streamed from Haverford College's VCAM, where Ms. Z is doing a short visiting artist residency as part of their DocuLab program.
In the concert, she will perform a set of live versions of all the album tracks that come from her concert repertoire. This will be followed by a finale of collaborative work with the DocuLab participants, after which the Zoom will be opened up for Q&A and/or discussion with you, the audience!
The event is free, but you need to register by sending email to: asecretcode@pamelaz.com
making it known that you would like to attend, in order to receive a Zoom Link for the event.
Haverford College
VCAM Screening Room
370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA
Stacey Barelos performs Z
Saturday, June 12, 2021at 9pm Central
Pianist Stacey Barelos performs Pamela Z’s Notice of Baggage Inspection in a shared streaming concert as part of The Quarantine Concerts at Experimental Sound Studio ESS at 9pm Central Time
The Quarantine Concerts: OMAHA UNDER THE RADAR PRESENTS:
Ameen Wahba / Dereck Higgins and Aaron Gum / Stacey Barelos and Amanda DeBoer Bartlett / Alex Jacobsen streaming on TWITCH.
As part of a shared set with Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, Pianist Stacey Baralos will perform Pamela Z’s Notice of Baggage Inspection a short work for solo piano, tape, metal object, and voice.
ARTIST LINE-UP & SET TIMES
8:00pm CT - Ameen Wahba
8:30pm - Dereck Higgins and Aaron Gum
9:00pm - Stacey Barelos and Amanda DeBoer Bartlett
Pamela Z in live-streamed Voice, Electronics, and Video Performance
Saturday, May 29, 2021at 9pm Pacific
Pamela Z will give a solo performance, as part of a shared evening, live-streamed and projected on the exterior walls of the museum as part of Epic Ephemera at Portland Art Museum (PAM) in Portland, OR USA
As Ms. Z performs live from her studio in San Francisco, her image and video work will be projected on the exterior walls of the Portland Art Museum and her sound will be projected through a speaker system there, for a live, outdoor audience.
The Portland Art Museum presents a series of outdoor digital installations guest-curated by Fernanda d’Agostino and Sarah Turner of the Mobile Projection Unit. Working within the precariousness of the current moment, this exhibition embraces the temporal nature of new media work in a series of one-night installations that reimagine space at an epic scale and unravel hidden mythologies.
This series concludes with a massive live video & audio experience with pioneers in interactive video, sound, and movement by Pamela Z and keyon gaskin – each performing a solo set in Breaking Ground on Saturday, May 29.
Pamela Z in live-streaming Performance
Thursday, May 6, 2021at 8pm Central (6pm Pacific, 9pm Eastern)
Pamela Z performs solo works for voice and electronics as part of Virtual @ Low End, presented by the BEMIS Center, Omaha, NE USA
LOW END is Bemis Center’s music venue and an integral part of the Sound Art + Experimental Music Program. The unique artist-designed space features free live shows by local, national, and international sound artists, composers, and experimental musicians. These performances aim to not only build greater appreciation and new audiences but also to liberate the artists to take risks and present truly avant-garde work.
Pamela Z: World Premiere of INK (for the SF Bay Area chamber chorus Volti)
Saturday, April 24, 2021at 5:30 PM Pacific time
San Francisco chamber chorus, Volti, will perform Ink, by Pamela Z, in an streaming event hosted byVolti at 5:30pm PDT.
Ink is a work that unfolds in five sonically distinct movements that variously use standard notation, graphic elements, instructions, and rote transmission of sung and spoken vocal material. Speech fragments from interviews with the Volti singers make up a portion of the sonic structure and determine some of the work's melodic and rhythmic passages.
Volti commissioned Pamela Z to compose this work specifically for their current online streaming performance series.
Pamela Z: Live-Streaming Performance
Thursday, April 1, 2021
Pamela Z will give a live-streaming performance at University of Maryland (via Zoom) at 6pm EST in Baltimore, MD USA
Pamela Z: Other Rooms
Pamela Z will perform a program consisting of short solo works for voice, real-time electronic processing, sampled sounds, wireless gesture controllers. The performance, which will combine composed works with a few improvisational pieces, will include stand-alone concert-works as well as excerpts from her larger intermedia performance works.
Online Streamed Event
presented by (via Zoom) University of Maryland
Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) Baltimore, MD
Pamela Z: Live-Streaming Lecture/Artist Talk
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Pamela Z will give a live, streaming talk at University of Maryland (via Zoom) at 4pm EST in Baltimore, MD USA
Pamela Z will share her work and her process, and will discuss 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 offer a preview of what she’s working on now
Online Streamed Event
presented by (via Zoom) University of Maryland
Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) Baltimore, MD
Pamela Z gives a Live Streaming Concert through Princeton Institute for Advance Learning
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Pamela Z will give a live-streaming solo concert of works for voice and electronics as part of the Edward T. Cone Concert Series at IAS | Institute for Advanced Study at 8pm EST in Princeton, NJ USA
Online Streamed Event
presented by (via Zoom Princeton IAS | Institute for Advanced Study College Princeton, NJ
Composers Now Presents:
2021 Composers Now Festival Opening Event Saturday January 30, 2021
Hosted by Founding Artistic Director Tania León, this event kicks off the 11th annual month-long festival with a diverse program and the annual Composers Now Visionary Award - presented, this year, to Joan Towre.
The evening also celebrates Paloma Alonso with the First Commission Award and the world premiere her new work. The First Commission Award provides pre-college composers with support aimed to encourage artistic potential and creative development.
The program continues with video of works and introductions by Anthony Cheung, inti figgis-vizueta, Donal Fox, Alba Potes and Pamela Z
A URL to the event will be included in your confirmation email after purchasing a ticket. You can also access the stream from the event page on Eventbrite.
Composers Now empowers all living composers, celebrates the diversity of their voices and honors the significance of their artistic contributions to the cultural fabric of sociey.
Online Streamed Event
Tickets and stream URL: HERE
TIMES3 (Times X Times X Times)
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Pamela Z and Geoff Sobelle will discuss and answer questions about their new collaborative sound work Time3 at PROTOTYPE Festival (via Zoom) at 5pm EST in
Composer/Performer/Sound Artist Pamela Z and theater artist Geoff Sobelle will talk about their site-specific sonic journey through Times Square – which is being presented by PROTOTYPE Festival this month.
January 9 - February 28, 2021 New York, NY & Global
TIMES3 (Times X Times X Times)
Available Saturday, January 9, 2021 through Sunday, February 28, 2021
Composer Pamela Z and theatre artist Geoff Sobelle collaborate on a site-specific sonic journey through Times Square – past, present and imagined… as part of the Prototype Festival at Times Square in New York, NY
Such strange times call for a new time signature. Is there still time to sit in the center of a city and hear the tide of traffic? To listen for a heartbeat? Times Squared is Times times Times; and Times in three dimensions? Times cubed. Times times Times times Times. Five Times. Five global extinctions. One planet. One city. 8.4 million people. Say that five times fast.
What was this place? What is this place? And how did we get here? In this work of sound and space, the listener is brought into a realm where the city and score come together and fall apart and come together again.
Take a walk in Times Square and hear a score crafted specifically for your experience. Or listen in the comfort of your home and imagine a city carved by countless hands from a place once thick with trees… which may be headed that way again. This music, created through impressions of a space, was composed for listeners to tune themselves to the forces underfoot, back in time, and down the road. It is a soundscape created for you to experience the city.
Experience the work in Times Square, New York, or in the comfort of your home
Pamela Z’s SIMULTANEOUS broadcast premiere
Friday, December 4, 2020 Midnight Central European Time Thursday, December 3, 2020 3pm Pacific StandardTime
Pamela Z’s new radiowork Simultaneous will be broadcast as part of Deutchlandfunk Kultur at Deutschlandradio at 00:05 CET in Berlin Germany
At five minutes past midnight (early Friday morning Central European Time) Deutchlandradio will premiere Pamela Z’s new sound work, Simultaneous.
Simultaneous (duration: 44’33”) is a sound work exploring many facets of the concept of simultaneity. The work, which makes use of voice – both as speech sounds and singing, was developed, in large part, during a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.
This radio work is a purely sonic iteration of a larger set of works that also includes a mutli-channel installation (Sonora Spolia at the American Academy in Rome, Spring 2020) and, ultimately, an intermedia performance work (MoMA, New York, 2021).
NOTE: The Friday midnight broadcast time in Berlin translates to Thursday afternoon and evening times in the US.
Pamela Z - Sonic Gestures | Blurred Lines
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Pamela Z will give a talk about her practice as an interdisciplinary artist and the challenges associated with preserving and documenting her work at NYU Institute of Fine Art (via Zoom) at 3:00pm EST in New York, NY USA
Through video and audio examples, composer/performer and interdisciplinary artist Pamela Z will share her work and process, and discuss the increasingly blurred lines between disciplines in her practice. Highlighting her use of voice, found objects, and sampled speech sounds, she will illustrate the various directions her work has taken over the years and address the effects of both rapid and gradual changes in technology have had on making, preserving, and documenting her work.
Pamela Z: A Secret Code—A Concert of Music for Voice and Electronics
Wednesday, Novermber 18, 2020
Pamela Z gives a live streamed solo concert for voice and electronics followed by a Q & A with the audience at Rutgers University (via Zoom) at 7:30pm EST
Rutgers University (via Zoom)
Mason Gross School of the Arts, ,
Rutgers University (via Zoom) Mason Gross School of the Arts
Solo Concert streamed by Mills Music Now Online
Thursday, October 24, 2020
Mills College will broadcast a solo concert of works for voice and electronics by Pamela Z as part of the Mills Music Now Online Series at Mills College in Oakland, CA USA
Online Streamed Event
This is a free online event, but please go to Eventbrite to register for access. Donations are accepted
Live-Streamed Talk presented by EMPAC
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Pamela Z will offer a talk about her work live-streamed by the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York at EMPAC at 6pm in Troy, NY USA
Tuesday Talks: Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
Tuesday, October 6, 2020, 6pm EDT
Pamela Z | 2020 AAR Fellow | Composer
Speaking of Music | Music of Speaking
One of the composers whose Rome Prize Fellowship year was cut short by the COVID virus, Pamela Z will present a program of pieces she worked on in Rome, and give a live performance/demo of solo work as part of Tuesday Talks at Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome at 6pm in Online Event
Principles of Non-Isolation in Audio #16
Sunday, August 30, 2020, 5pm PDT
Pamela Z and Jon Leidecker AKA Wobbly peform a duet during a live-streaming sonic program that also includes Akosuen + Cinchel and Moe! Staiano as part of PONIA Principles of Non-Isolation in Audio at soundcrack(.)net roaming radio at 5pm in
Principles of Non-Isolation in Audio is a improvisational sound performance series that streams weekly on Sunday nights at soundcrack.net and twitch.tv/sounjaerk. The focus of PONIIA is on real-time streaming improvisation and connecting artists separated by physical distance. Most streams follow the format of four artists in two duos and a quartet, though variations may occur from time to time. PONIIA is hosted/organized by bran(…)pos and J.Soliday
Tune in at:
soundcrack.net
twitch.tv/sounjaerk
YouTube.com/sounjaerk
pscp.tv/branpos
World Premiere of Pamela Z’s “And and And”
Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 2pm Eastern
Pamela Z’s “And and And” for cello, tape, and live sampling has it’s streaming world premiere as part of the 100 Years | 100 Women Celebration & Watch Party at Park Avenue Armory in New York, NY USA
Commissioned and performed by cellist Amanda Gookin for her Forward Music Project, And and And has it’s world premiere in a streaming virtual event presented by co-commissioner, the Park Avenue Armory, as part of their 100 Years | 100 Women festival.
Composed by Pamela Z for cello, sampled cello, and text, the work is presented as a fixed media work with video by Katy Tucker. (Sampled voice: Ashley Hahn)
Pamela Z Live Streaming Performance in Vox Effusis Vol. 2
Saturday, June 27, 2020, 1:30pm Pacific
(3:30pm Central / 4:30pm Eastern / 10:30pm Europe)
Pamela Z will give a solo performance of works for voice and electronics, from her studio in San Francisco on a live streaming concert as part of The Quarantine Concerts presented by Experimental Sound Studio.
Vox Effusis
curated by Lou Mallozzi
Volume 2: June 27, 2020
2:00 (CDT) Audrey Chen & Phil Minton (DE/UK)
2:30 (CDT) Alessandro Bosetti (FR)
3:00 (CDT) C. Spencer Yeh (US)
3:30 (CDT) Pamela Z (US)
Pamela Z will give a solo performance of new work for voice, electronics, and video as part of the inaugural year of programming in celebration of MoMA’s new expansion at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY, on Thursday, June 25, and Saturday, June 27, 2020.
Ms. Z will perform in MoMA’s Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, their new space for live and experimental programming.
MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY, USA
June 23, 2020 Global
Pamela Z Solo Performance during the Pamela Z Solo Performance on GRAY SOUND SESSIONS
Sunday, June 14, 2020, 3pm - 9pm EDT (noon - 6pm PDT)
Pamela Z will give a solo performance of works for solo voice and electronics, from her studio in San Francisco, on a shared evening with Nomi Epstein as part of GRAY AREA SOUND SESSIONS, a weekly music-and-sound streaming series featuring virtual concerts, happenings, experiments, a playing-around with form and platform during quarantine.
The Gray Center has launched Gray Sound Sessions, a free, streaming weekly music-and-sound series featuring concerts but also happenings and experiments with form and platform. The series showcases searching performances from some of our favorite musicians and sound-makers including Opera Povera, Seth Parker Woods, a•pe•ri•od•ic, Viola Yip and Nicola Hein, and many more.
Gray Sound Sessions take place on Tuesday evenings at 8pm Central Daylight Time on the Gray Center’s Gray Sound Sessions page and the Gray Center's Facebook page. All events are sponsored by the Gray Center and free and open to the public, but we ask listener-watchers to consider making their own donations to the featured performers. The series is the initiative of Seth Brodsky (Gray Center Director), Zachary Cahill (Gray Center Director of Programs and Projects), and Seth Parker Woods (Artist-in-Residence at the University of Chicago). Others will surely be brought into the mix. We look forward to tuning in with you, near and far.
Pamela Z Solo Performance during the BANG ON A CAN Live Online MARATHON
Sunday, June 14, 2020, 3pm - 9pm EDT (noon - 6pm PDT)
Pamela Z will give a live solo performance from her live/work studio in San Francisco as part of the Bang on a Can Live Onine Marathon, on Sunday, June 14, 2020, between 3pm and 9pm EDT (12pm and 6pm PDT). Check the Bang On A Can website for the full schedule (coming soon)
Composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe created the first BANG ON A CAN Marathon concert in 1987 in order to break down the barriers that separate musical communities. "Imagine Lollapalooza advised by the ghost of John Cage," Vanity Fair wrote. "There are other places to hear new contemporary music, but it is seldom offered with such a potent blend of intensity, authority, and abandon."
"We are all waiting for the world to heal, but until it does, we all have to do what we can. We will start by hosting a LIVE Bang on a Can Marathon. Six hours of uncompromisingly adventurous, searching music played by some of the most amazing performers on the planet. Please join us!"
– Michael Gordon, David Lang & Julia Wolfe
room: ROOM(s)
Zeno Baldi, Donald Swearingen, and Pamela Z
performing LIVE Saturday, May 23, 2020, 1pm PDT / 4pm EDT / 11pm CET
The ROOM Series is back with ROOMs (plural)!
Three composer/peformers will perform live solo works – Zeno Baldi (from a room in Verona, Italy), Donald Swearingen (from a room in Oakland, CA) and Pamela Z (from a room in San Francisco) and then finish the concert with a live, latency-washed, tutti improvisation.
Zeno Baldi (Italy)
Donald Swearingen (USA)
Pamela Z (USA)
ODC/Dance Presents:
Drinks & a Dance
Friday May 15, 2020 5:15 pm (PDT)
Instead of a night out, we propose a night in with Drinks & a Dance.
The drink:
The Pivot by mixologist H. Joseph Ehrmann of SF’s famed Elixir (delivered to you)
The dance:
Waving Not Drowning by choreographer Brenda Way, composer Pamela Z
5:15 PST
Your Zoom theater date begins with you and your friends in an informal, social chat with mixologist, H. Joseph Ehrmann, leading you in the creation of a specialty cocktail designed for the occasion.
If you live within 20 miles of SF, your ingredients can be ordered for purchase and delivery. If you live further afield or already have the ingredients, you will receive a recipe. You will receive your link to Zoom on the day of the event.
5:45 PST
Join everyone in the Zoom lobby with choreographer Brenda Way and composer Pamela Z as they chat “live” about the work, its origins, humor, and implications.
6:00 PST
Waving Not Drowning, a 30 minute dance, is a wry engaging work based on the slim volume, “A Guide to Elegance” written in the 1960’s. (This performance by the ODC dancers was captured of the world premiere in 2010 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.)
6:30 PST
Meet back in Zoom for a post-concert conversation with the artists and dancers. Or make another one of those divine cocktails.
RSVP required, limited to 50 participants
Concert complimentary/Donation welcome
RSVP Here
Info for ordering your drink from Elixer Here
Pamela Z will give a performance of solo works for voice, electronics, and video as part of the International Poetry Festival of Barcelona at Barcelona Poesia in Barcelona Spain
May 14, 2020 Global
Claire Chase: Live New Music Marathon
featuring works from DENSITY 2036 (including Pamela Z's Louder Warmer Denser)
Thursday, May 14 from 6-10pm Join CLAIRE CHASE for a wild four-hour LIVE STREAM Marathon of music from the Density 2036 project, generously hosted by Music on the Rebound in support of the New Music Solidarity Fund. Claire plays selections from Density 2036 (2013-2020) from her living room in Crown Heights, Brooklyn to raise money for the New Music Solidarity Fund. Solo flute works by Steve Reich, Marcos Balter, Mario Diaz de Leon, Felipe Lara, Nathan Davis, Suzanne Farrin, Du Yun, Dai Fujikura, Richard Beaudoin, Pauline Oliveros, Phyllis Chen, Pamela Z, as well as surprise world premieres every hour.
Pamela Z's work will appear at the top of "Set 5" at approximately 6:30pm PDT/ 9:30pm EDT.
The New Music Solidarity Fund has a goal of raising $500,000 by May 15 to make possible 1000 $500 grants to struggling artists in the new-music community. All money raised during the concert will go directly to the Fund.
Parco della Musica Chamber Ensemble play Pamela Z cancelled
The PMCE will perform a work by Pamela Z on a program of music by Rome Prize recipients at Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, RM USA
Pamela Z’s Attention (for string quartet, fixed media (video and sound), and mobile devices, will be performed on a concert that will also include works by Erin GEE, Shih-hui CHEN, Nina C. YOUNG, Shulamit RAN, and a short solo performance by Pamela Z on voice and electronics.
Auditorium Parco della Musica
Viale Pietro de Coubertin 30, Rome, RM
February 28, 2020 Florence, Italy
Pamela Z solo concert at Sala Vanni in Florence
Pamela Z will give a concert of works for voice, electronics, and video as part of Black History Month Florence at Musicus Concentus’ Sala Vanni in Florence Italy
Musicus Concentus’ Sala Vanni
Piazza Del Carmine, 14, Florence
Italia
Pamela Z will give a performance of her work for chamber orchestra, voice, and electronics in collaboration with Steven Schick and the UCSD Chember Orchestra as part of Beethoven Interpolations on Friday, February 1, 2020 at 7pm, at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall in La Jolla, CA USA
Beethoven turns 250 this year. Building on the classical notion of interpolation to shed light on Beethoven’s impact on 20th and 21st music, we will nest among the movements of Beethoven’s mercurial First Symphony (1800) newer work that contains 20th and 21st century echoes of Beethoven’s mind. Webern’s Symphony, Dallapiccola’s Una Piccola Musica Notturna, and new music by Pamela Z and Anna Thorvaldsdottir help reveal the often unseen Beethoven: his formalism, his penchant for lyricism, and his wicked sense of humor. We hope to afford insight into parallel moments of cultural and political peril. From the turn of the 19th century in post-revolutionary Europe to the volatile time between world wars in the 20th century to our early 21st century michigas, these works, taken together, demonstrate the necessity for an artist to react to her or his time.
PROGRAM:
Pamela Z - Heiligenstadt Lament
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony #1, First Movement
Anton Webern - Symphony
Beethoven - Symphony #1, Second Movement
Luigi Dallapiccola - Una Piccola Musica Notturna
Beethoven - Symphony #1, Third Movement
Beethoven - Symphony #1, Fourth Movement
Anna Thorvaldsdottir - Aequilibria
The concert will be preceded by a conversation with Steven Schick and a distinguished panel including: Pamela Z, Lilian Faderman, and Henry Torres Blanco, entitled: "How do we as artists working in different genres use (or abuse) classic works?"
Pamela Z and Alana Mailes ShopTalk at the American Academy in Rome
Rome Prize Fellows Pamela Z and Alana Mailes will give talks about their work and their projects in Rome. at American Academy in Rome at 6pm in Rome ITALY
Composer/performer Pamela Z and Renaissance scholar Alana Mailes will each give a half hour talk and then both will engage in a Q & A session with the audience in the Lecture Hall of the American Academy in Rome. The event will also be live streamed on https://livestream.com/aarome for those who cannot be present.
American Academy in Rome
Via Angelo Masina 5, Rome, Italy
Pamela Z will perform a program consisting of short solo works for voice, real-time electronic processing, sampled sounds, wireless gesture controllers, and video as part of the exhibition FRIENDSHIP | SOLIDARITY | ALLIANCES at MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome Italy
The artist will work in relationship with two human-scale columns of video which will display a wide range of images including water, sky, machinery, and multiples of the artist herself – forming a virtual ensemble.
Pamela Z will give two performances during the two-day summit at MAXXI. Her appearances will occur:
Friday, Jan 24, 2020, 4pm - 4:30pm
Saturday, January 25, 2020, 3:30pm - 4pm
MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
Via Guido Reni 4A - 00196 Rome
Pamela Z joins Eighth Blackbird in concert as part of Cal Performances, at Zellerbach Playhouse at 8pm in Berkeley, CA USA
Chicago-based Eighth Blackbird, a four-time Grammy-winning contemporary music sextet, performs with multimedia artist and composer Pamela Z. The performance includes the Bay Area premiere of Pamela Z’s Ways of Looking, a new composition exploring the musicality of speech sounds, commissioned by Eighth Blackbird, as well as a short, solo performance by Pamela Z on voice and electronics.
Parking will be a problem on campus for the Dec 14 performance due to a Cal Basketball game. Please see our Parking Alert section for more information.
Concert: Sat, Dec 14, 2019 8pm
Pre-performance Talk: 7pm
With pianists Sarah Cahill and Myra Melford, UC Berkeley Dept of Music. Free to ticket holders.
Pamela Z Pamela Z will give a concert as part of POESIA ESPANSA | Tre Incontri Prospettici Sulla Poesia Sperimentale at Palazzo delle Esposizioni at 9pm in Roma Italia.
As the closing event of POESIA ESPANSA | Tre Incontri Prospettici Sulla Poesia Sperimentale,
American composer and sound artist Pamela Z will present a program consisting of short works for solo voice, real-time electronic processing, sampled sounds, and wireless gesture controllers, including a 2018 work entitled Other Rooms, which is built around sampled speech sounds.
Chicago Premiere of Pamela Z’s work for Eighth Blackbird
EIghth Blackbird will present a concert including work by Pamela Z, in Fullerton Hall at The Art Institute of Chicago at 7:30pm in Chicago, IL USA
Chicago-based Eighth Blackbird, a four-time Grammy-winning contemporary music sextet, performs with multimedia artist and composer Pamela Z. The performance includes the regional premiere of Pamela Z’s Ways of Looking, a new composition exploring the musicality of speech sounds, commissioned by Eighth Blackbird, as well as a short, solo performance by Pamela Z on voice and electronics.
Presented with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Pamela Z will give a gallery talk at The Art Institute of Chicago at 12pm in Chicago, IL USA
Multimedia artist and composer Pamela Z discusses Robert Rauschenberg's Short Circuit.
Artists Connect is a series of in-gallery programs that highlight the creative process. Artists, poets, dancers, and musicians engage with works of art, making connections to their own practice and inspiring new ways of understanding the Art Institute’s collection.
Presented with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
Pamela Z installation at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
Pamela Z’s Suitcase, an installation from her larger work, Baggage Allowance (2010), is on view at the San Francisco Arts Commission gallery in a group exhibition entitled side by side/in the world. The exhibition will run through September 14th, 2019.
side by side/in the world, curated by Jacqueline Francis and Kathy Zarur, had it’s opening reception on July12th. The concept of "sanctuary city" has figured significantly in recent discussions about immigration, whereby sanctuary cities are framed as "pro-migrant," particularly in opposition to federal policies that seek to limit asylum seeking. San Francisco became a Sanctuary City in 1989, joining a growing movement. side by side/in the world takes inspiration from this history, and considers sanctuary relationally, both in the places we find it and the ways we make it.
Featured artists: Eddie Aparicio, Esther Elia, Sheila Ghidini, Asma Kazmi, Yoon Lee, Crystal Liu, Lisa Solomon, Lauren A. Toomer, Alberto Toscano, and Pamela Z
Pamela Z will give a performance of works for solo voice, electronics, and projected image at The LAB at 8pm, in San Francisco, CA
In connection with her participation in San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery’s side by side/in the world exhibition, Pamela Z will present “Other Rooms”, a suite of her solo works for voice and electronics performed in an environment of multi-channel, interactive video at The LAB.
Pamela Z will give a concert of solo works for voice & electronics, and receive perforrnances of two of her chamber works as part of the Bang on a Can Summer Festival at MASS MoCA Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, MA
On Friday 8/2, Pamela Z's intermedia chamber work Attention (for string quartet and video) will be performed and she'll join the Bang On A Can All Stars in a performance of her BOAC-commissioned work The Schmetterling. On Saturday 8/3, She will give a concert of solo works for voice and electronics.
Pamela Z & Donald Swearingen Duo at Bridge ArtSpace
Donald Swearingen and Pamela Z will perform solo duo works for electronics, voice, and sensor-based gesture controllers on a shared evening with Mauro Fortissimo as part of Spirit of Invention III at Bridge Storage and ArtSpace at 7pm in Richmond, CA USA
Pamela Z & Donald Swearingen INSTRUMENTARIUM: C4NM BENEFIT
Pamela Z will perform works for voice, electronics, and gesture controlled instruments in collaboration with Donald Swearingen as part of INSTRUMENTARIUM: C4NM BENEFIT at Center for New Music at 7pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Join us for a celebration of the Bay Area invented instrument community and C4NM’s Window Gallery. 5:30-7pm, Center for New Music’s Board of Directors will host a reception with new music by curators Bart Hopkin and David Samas. From 7-9pm Pamela Z and Donald Swearingen will perform alongside special guests Krys Bobrowski, Brenda Hutchinson, and the Karen Stackpole Trio. Proceeds from this special event will support C4NM’s Window Gallery, allowing us to continue presenting the most imaginative instrument inventors and artists crossing the boundaries between visual art, acoustic craftsmanship, and music.
Pamela Z performs on solo voice and electronics as part of Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes at 5pm in Oakland, CA USA
The program will feature continuous simultaneous performances by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video in different parts of the beautiful, Julia Morgan-designed building; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances. From 5pm to 9pm.
Pamela Z gives a solo peformance of works for voice, electronics, and multi-channel video as part of ASSEMBLY at The Kitchen at 6:30pm in New York, NY USA
Over three weekends in June, The Kitchen's building will contain three empty floors that will be stripped of their identity of gallery, theater, and office space; each floor will be activated sequentially through custom sound and video systems by musicians, dancers, performance artists and DJs, incorporating artists who have worked with The Kitchen over decades, as well as those new to the space. ASSEMBLY aims to promote thinking about access, collective thought, and recognizing how sound/music and the structure of certain spaces lend themselves to a nuanced and rich cultural exchange. By recasting the use of our building to more fluidly generate these ideas, The Kitchen can meditate on how non-profit institutions should represent, and be shaped by, their publics in the present day. Organized by Kevin Beasley, Lumi Tan, Tim Griffin and Nicole Kaack.
Participating artists include Suzi Analogue, King Britt presents Moksha Black, Richard Kennedy, HPrizm, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Lafawndah, Mhysa, Jason Moran, NAR, Angie Pittman, stud1nt, Logan Takahashi, David Thomson, Wetware, whoisskitzo, and Pamela Z
Tickets: $10 General / $8 Members. Children under 18 free (reservation recommended).
Pamela Z will lead one of her “prompts” from her 2011 SITE READING walk as part of the Prompts Book Release event at The Invisible Dog at 6:30pm in Brooklyn, NY USA
Elastic City: Prompts for Participatory Walks is a new book that includes instructions (aka prompts) from more than 35 artists' walks along with a section that features the insights and philosophy of EC Founder Todd Shalom, who spent 14 years presenting and refining walks.
The book features 48 prompts, walk ephemera and contributions from a eclectic roster of visual, performance and text-based artists, including: luciana achugar, Andrés Andreani, Anna Azrieli, Chiara Bernasconi, Juan Betancurth, Becca Blackwell, Michelle Boulé, Tania Bruguera & Mujeres en Movimiento, Isabella Bruno, Cristian Carracedo, Kate Colby, Jon Cotner, Jose De Diego, Karen Finley, Neil Freeman, Anthony Goicolea, Neil Goldberg, Miguel Gutierrez, Nisan Almog Haymian, Riley Hooker, Matthew Jensen, Nina Katchadourian & Andrew Zarou, Wayne Koestenbaum, Amichai Lau Lavie & Shawn Shafner, Mimi Lien, Erin Markey, Robert Mauksch, Daniel Neumann, The Office of Recuperative Strategies (featuring Christian Hawkey & Rachel Levitsky), Okwui Okpokwasili, Hayal Pozanti, Anne Percoco, Sarah Schulman, Todd Shalom, Niegel Smith, Leandro Tartaglia, Andrea Williams, Kristin Geneve Young, and Pamela Z
Pamela Z will perform a program of solo works for voice and electronics and chamber works (movements excerpted from Carbon Song Cycle) with festival participants at New Music on the Point in Lake Dunmore, VT, USA
Point CounterPoint
1361 Hooker Road Leicester, VT 05733
6/1/2019 Los Angeles, CA USA
Eighth Blackbird Performs New Work by Pamela Z
Pamela Z’s newly commissioned chamber work for Eighth Blackbird will have it’s Los Angeles premiere as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA USA
ROOM: Chamber Chorus!
featuring VOICES OF SILICON VALLEY
The ROOM Series presents an evening of choral works with the contemporary chamber chorus Voices of Silicon Valley including work-in-progress excerpts from Pamela Z’s Correspondence at The ROOM Series at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA
“Correspondence” is an exploration of the ever-evolving modes of personal communication and how the rapid changes are impacting or coloring the ways we relate to one another. The work teases apart the history of correspondence – from handwritten letters and telegraphs to electronic messaging, tweets, and video chats. Z composed the piece by interviewing people about their histories with various modes of correspondence, and using speech fragments from those interviews to weave together the structure and to derive melodic and rhythmic material for the parts.
The program will also include a suite of re-imagined Renaissance madrigals, and film scores.
Tickets are available now at Brown Paper Tickets
The ROOM Series
Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA
5/28/2019 Brooklyn. NY, USA
Pamela Z with the Bang on a Can All Stars
Pamela Z will perform The Schmetterling with the Bang on a Can All Stars as part of the Bang on a Can Benefit Dinner Party at BAM Café at 6pm-9pm in Brooklyn, NY
BAM Café
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Laffayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY
5/26/2019 Berlin. Germany
Solo Peformance & Exhibition in Berlin
Pamela Z will perform a concert of solo works for voice and electronics, and show media work in a solo exhibition at SAAVY Contemporary in Berlin Germany .
Pamela Z will appear as guest artist at San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox on Friday and Saturday, April 26th and 27th, 2019 at SF Symphony: SOUNDBOX at 9pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Members of San Francisco Symphony Orchestra will perform a program of works (including several works by guest artist/guest curator Pamela Z) with Ms. Z joining them on her Heiligenstadt Lament. Z will perform a short set of solo works as well.
A site-specific outdoor performance of a new work by Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions with an original score by Pamela Z at 1125 Market Street in San Francisco, CA
Wednesday-Friday at 8pm, Saturday 2pm and 8pm.
The Wait Room, created in partnership with Essie Justice Group, is a performance installation that exposes the physical, psychic, and emotional burden of incarceration for women with imprisoned loved ones. Via a large, rolling set designed by Sean Riley to evoke a prison visiting room, the project invokes the balancing act women have to maintain when stripped of emotional and economic support from their partners and family. Featuring an original soundscore by Pamela Z, and performance by Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, and Megan Lowe. Additional collaborators include lighting designer Jack Beuttler and costume designer Jamielyn Duggan.
1125 Market Street across from Civic Center (between 7th Street & 8th Street)
San Francisco, CA
4/11/2019 Oslo, Norway
Pamela Z solo concert in Oslo
Pamela Z will give a solo concert of works for voice & electronics with video. as part of VÅRFEST at Vega Scene at 8:30pm in Oslo Norway.
Pamela Z’s six-channel video installation, which will be on exhibit from April 7th through May 19th, 2019, will have its opening at TEKS Elektroniske Kunstsenter at 1 PM in Trondheim Norway
SONIC GESTURES 2019 is a video installation that consists of six frame-locked channels of video composed of fragmented gestural images with sound. The installation presents the audience with a virtual chorus of chattering, whispering, singing, and ever transforming sonic entities.
Sonic Gestures premiered in April 2007 at Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco. Consisting of ten frame-locked channels of HD video composed of fragmented gestural images and 16 channels of audio. This piece, which was commissioned and presented by NexMap, was designed as a site-specific piece for the immersive 360º video and sound set-up at RML. For TEKS.Studio the installation is re-configured for six screens.
The installation is part of Pamela Z’s Norwegian mini-tour to Trondheim and Oslo April 2019. During her visit Pamela Z will hold demo talks at NTNU, The Norwegian Academy of Music and UiO as well as live performances both in Trondheim and Oslo.
Apollo Chamber Players Premiere a New Work by Pamela Z
Pamela Z’s newly commissioned string quartet will be performed by the Apollo Chamber Players at Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH) in Houston, TX USA
Pamela Z will give a solo concert of works for voice and electronics, and serve on the jury for the 2019 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition as part of a Georgia Tech and Spelman College visiting artist residency at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA USA
The concert will be on Thursday, March 7, 2019, at 7:30pm in the "West Village" Concert Hall. Admission is free.
Pamela Z’s new, commissioned work for solo flute and tape will premiere as part of Claire Chase’s Density 2036 Project at The Kitchen in New York, NY USA
Claire Chase continues her 22-year project, density 2036, to commission an entirely new body of repertory for solo flute each year between 2014 and 2036, the 100th Anniversary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking flute solo, Density 21.5.
Performance and Conversation on Musical Ecologies Series
Pamela Z will give a solo concert and have an onstage conversation with Dan Joseph as part of Dan Joseph’s Musical Ecologies Series at The Old Stone House at 8pm in Brooklyn, NY USA
SFCM Chamber Orchestra to Premiere Work by Pamela Z
On Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 2pm, Pamela Z's Heiligenstadt Lament, a new work composed for voice and electronics with chamber orchestra, will open the San Francisco Conservatory’s Beethoven Interpolations Event at San Francisco Conservatory of Music in San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z will give a solo performance followed by an informal Q & A as part of Alliance for Women in Media Arts and Technology Conference at UC Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, CA
presented by: AWMAT 2019 Music Room 1125
University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106
1/10-1/26/2019 Berlin, Germeny
Pamela Z Fixed Media Work in Exhibition at SAAVY, Berlin
Pamela Z’s fixed media piece “Number 3” will be installed as part of ECOLOGIES OF DARKNESS, an exhitibion at SAAVY Contemporary at 7:00pm in Berlin Germany
Pamela Z + Christine Bonansea: The Body | The Voice | The Space
Christine Bonansea and Pamela Z join for an evening of solos and duets as part of Fresh Festival 2019 at Space 124 at 7:30pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Christine Bonansea is a US-European dancer and choreographer with 17 years of international experience in conceiving, directing/choreographing and performing movement-based works. She creates performances, installations, and films. She is the Artistic director of Christine Bonansea Company, founded in 2010.
Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, she processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers. Her solo works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, and sampled concrète sounds.
Space 124
401 Alabama Street #124, San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z will give a solo concert of works for voice and electronics as part of the Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival at University of Richmond at 7:30pm in University Of Richmond, VA USA
University of Richmond
Modlin Center for the Arts
410 Westhampton Way, University Of Richmond, VA
10/15/2018 San Francisco, CAUSA
Pamela Z, Donald Swearingen, and Eric Lyon in Concert
Composer/performers Pamela Z, Donald Swearingen, and Eric Lyon will perform composed and improvised works for gesturally controlled electronics and voice, in various combinations of solos, duos, and trios at Center for New Music at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Eric Lyon (Blacksburg, VA) is a composer and computer music researcher. Major areas of focus include computer chamber music, spatial orchestration, and articulated noise composition. Recent compositions include “Spirits”, a 43-channel electroacoustic piano composition for the ZKM Kubus,”Noise Variations” for ensemble mise-en, and “The Book of Strange Positions” for the violin duo String Noise.
Donald Swearingen (Oakland, A) is composer, performer, multimedia artist, and designer of interactive performance systems and installations. For the past 20 years, his work has revolved around the use of movement and gesture as the source of media control in an expanded, computer-assisted performance environment, leading to the design custom instruments and software for both himself and other artists, including Pamela Z, Miya Masaoka, Dohee Lee, Thea Farhadian, and Guillermo Galindo.
Pamela Z (San Francisco, CA) is a composer/performer and media artist who makes solo works combining voice with electronic processing, samples, gesture activated MIDI controllers, and video. In addition to her solo performance work, she has a growing body of commissioned chamber works (including pieces for Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can Allstars, and Claire Chase) as well as inter-media gallery works including multi-channel sound and video installations.
ECHO by Sara Shelton Mann at ODC Theater at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Pamela Z composed the music for this new dance/performance work by choreographer/writer Sara Shelton Mann. The piece will be performed by Anya Cloud and Jesse Zarritt, with composer Pamela Z performing portions of the score live.
Pamela Z performs a set of works for voice and electronics on a shared evening as part of the Resonant Bodies Festival at Roulette in Brooklyn, NY USA
Pamela Z will perform a handful of her own voice and electronics compositions, as well as a song composed by Meredith Monk on an evening that will also feature Sarah Maria Sun, and Gelsey Bell.
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY
8/26/2018 Los Angeles, CA USA
Pamela Z's And the Movement of the Tongue
Pamela Z’s And the Movement of the Tongue for String Quartet and Tape is performed on a concert hosted by New Music Hollywood and Urban First Aid as part of a program called "Summa Piano Trio and Friends".
Maiani de Silva: violin, Kate Outterbridge: violin, Jennifer Bewerse: cello, Jonathan Morgan: viola
New Music Hollywood
7510 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046, USA
8/10-12/2018 Berlin, Germany
ECHO / listening through walls
ECHO by Sara Shelton Mann as part of the Once in California Festival at DOCK 11 at 7pm in Berlin Germany
Pamela Z composed the music for this new dance/performance work by choreographer/writer Sara Shelton Mann. The piece will be performed by Anya Cloud and Jesse Zarritt, with composer Pamela Z performing portions of the score live.
BANFF SUMMER MUSIC PROGRAM (R)evolotion: Resonant Bodies Concert
Pamela Z will perform solo work for voice and electronics on a shared concert as part of (R)evolotion: Resonant Bodies at Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity at 7:30pm in Banff, AB Canada
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Rolston Recital Hall
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, AB
7/28/2018 North Adams, MA USA
Pamela Z’s ATTENTION at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival
Pamela Z’s Attention, for string quartet and fixed media, will be performed as part of the Bang on a Can Summer Festival at MASS MoCA Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, MA
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is a musical utopia for innovative musicians in the beautiful Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts. The festival is dedicated entirely to adventurous contemporary music. Composers will have their new works performed. Players will perform in ensembles sitting alongside their teachers. The Festival includes daily performances in the museum galleries, free with museum admission, and concludes with a six-hour blow-out Marathon Concert performed by the Festival ensembles and special guests.
Pamela Z will give a solo performance in a shared concert and participate in a panel discussion as part of the Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today exhibition at The St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts at 2pm-7pm in Saint Petersburg, FL USA
Pamela Z will give a solo concert of works for voice and electronics as well as the keynote address as part of NIME at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA USA
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
5/22/2018 San Francisco, CA USA
San Francisco Girls Chorus Premiere a New Work by Pamela Z
The San Francisco Girls Chorus will perform a new, commissioned choral work for 300 voices by composer-in-residence Pamela Z at Herbst Theater at 7pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Herbst Theater
San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA
5/18/2018 Boston, MA USA
Solo Performance at New Music Gathering
Pamela Z will give a solo concert of works for voice & electronics as part of New Music Gathering 2018 at Boston Conservatory at Berklee in Boston, MA USA
Boston Conservatory at Berklee
8 Fenway, Boston, MA
4/19/2018 Los Angeles, CA USA
Now Hear Ensemble plays Pamela Z
Now Hear Ensemble will perform Pamela Z’s And the Movement of the Tongue for String Quartet and Tape as part of STORYTELLING, a program focused on the power of music for storytelling at Automata in Los Angeles, CA USA
Automata
504 Chung King Court, Los Angeles, CA
4/14/2018 San Francisco, CA USA
Other Minds Festival
Pamela Z will perform a set of short works for voice and electronics including spoken and sampled text sounds as part of the Other Minds Festival at ODC Theater at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Other Minds Festival 23 (performances at the ODC Theater in San Francisco, April 9-14, 2018) is devoted to text-sound composition–work utilizing “speech” as a musical medium. The materials of sound poetry range from phonemes–the smallest units of language–to complete sentences. Sound poets manipulate syntax, spelling, expression and speech patterns to surprising effect. Much of this repertoire involves aspects of electronic manipulation in live performance.
Pamela Z performs a set of works for voice and electronics on a shared evening as part of the Resonant Bodies Festival at 7:30pm at Constellation in Chicago, IL USA
Pamela Z will perform a handful of her own voice and electronics compositions, as well as couple of songs composed by Meredith Monk and by Björk on an evening that will also feature Eighth Blackbird flautist Nathalie Joachim and composer/performer Jesse Marino.
Constellation
3111 N Western Avenue, Chicago, IL
3/28/2018 Haverford, PA USA
Performance of Solo Works for Voice & Electronics in Haverford, PA
Pamela Z will perform a program consisting of short solo works for voice, real-time electronic processing, sampled sounds, wireless gesture controllers, and interactive video, during her visiting artist residency, as part of the Center for Arts & Humanities’ Strange Truth Series at Haverford College VCAM Screening Room at 8pm in Haverford, PA USA. The evening will include some standalone works from her concert repertoire as well as excerpts from larger, more theatrical, performance works.
An informal Q & A session will follow immediately after the performance.
This event is Free and Open to the public.
Haverford College VCAM Screening Room
370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA
3/16/2018 Waltham, MA USA
Solo Concert at New Music Brandeis
Pamela Z will give a solo performance as part of New Music Brandeis at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA USA
New Music Brandeis
Brandeis University Slosberg Music Center
415 South Street, Waltham, MA
3/1/2018 Boulder, CO USA
Solo Performance at CU Boulder
Pamela Z gives a solo concert of works for voice, electronics, and video as part of the Pendulum New Music Series at Atlas Black Box Experimental Studio at 8pm in Boulder, CO USA
Atlas Black Box Experimental Studio
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2/23/2018 Berkeley, CA USA
CNMAT: Pamela Z, Paula Matthusen, Ken Ueno
Pamela Z, Ken Ueno, and Paula Matthusen will perform together and separately in an evening of works for electronics and voice at Center for New Music and Audio Technologies CNMAT at 8pm in Berkeley, CA
CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies)
1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA
2/15/2018 New York, NY USA
Bang On A Can People's Commissioning Fund Concert
Pamela Z will perform with the Bang On A Can All Stars at Merkin Concert Hall in New York, NY USA
Z will join the Bang on a Can All Stars in performing her 1998 work The Schemetterling, as they celebrate their 20th year of awarding composers through the People’s Commissioning Fund.
Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th Street, New York, NY
2/8/2018 Atlanta, GA USA
Geffen Artist-in-Residence Concert
Pamela Z will give a solo concert for voice and electronics followed by a Q & A moderated by composer and music technology lecturer Dr. Carlos Simon, as part of Geffen Artist-in-Residence Program at Spelman College at 7pm in Atlanta, GA USA
Kalavinka Resonance from an Eggshell The Third Annual LEIMAY Gala FUNDRAISER
Honoring: Meredith Monk
Special Performances by: Meredith Monk, The LEIMAY Ensemble, Pamela Z, and other Special Guests
Join us in celebrating artists Shige Moriya and Ximena Garnica, their expansive body of work and commitment to supporting other emerging artists. Since 1996, Shige and Ximena have led a variety of community programs providing affordable workspace, training and presenting opportunities for emerging artists at their home studio, CAVE, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Kalavinka will honor acclaimed composer, singer, and choreographer, Meredith Monk. The evening will bring together artists, friends, and art supporters at CAVE for an intimate seated dinner in a unique environment of installations and performances. The dinner will be followed by an after party event, offering additional guests the opportunity to meet and share with LEIMAY’s artists and ensemble at their home and workspace.
at CAVE, home of LEIMAY 58 Grand Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
12/11/2017 San Francisco, CA USA
ROOM: Tongue Teeth Lips
An evening of experimental voice featuring solos, duos, and ensemble works by Pamela Z, Aurora Josephson, Amy Foote, Lorin Benedict, Richard Mix, Amy X Neuburg, Julie Queen, and Ron Heglin as part of the ROOM Series at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA
In this, the final ROOM event of 2017, eight avant vocalists, with their combined tremendous range and arresting vocal performance techniques, will fill the ROOM with music they've composed, works by other contemporary composers, existing repertoire, and pieces composed, arranged, or improvised just for this occasion.
The ROOM Series
Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA
11/19/2017 Los Angeles, CA USA
Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra Performs Z
Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra performs Pamela Z’s And the Movement of the Tongue at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica at 2pm in Santa Monica, CA USA
Originally composed for Kronos Quartet, the work will be revised for string orchestra. The program will also include works by Krists Auznieks, Peter Shin, and Gabriella Smith. Pamela Z will also perform solo work for voice and electronics on the program.
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica
1220 2nd Street, Santa Monica, CA
11/18/2017 Los Angeles, CA USA
Z on Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight Program
Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra performs Pamela Z’s And the Movement of the Tongue as part of Los Angeles Philharmonic’s "Noon to Midnight" Program at Walt Disney Concert Hall at 10:00pm in Los Angeles, CA USA
Originally composed for Kronos Quartet, the work will be revised for string orchestra. The program will also include works by Krists Auznieks, Peter Shin, and Gabriella Smith. Pamela Z will also perform solo work for voice and electronics on the program.
Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA
10/27/2017 Williamsburg, VA USA
Solo Concert at Kimball Theatre in Williamsburg, VA
Pamela Z will give a solo performance of works for voice, electronics, and video presented by the College of William & Mary at the Kimball Theatre in Williamsburg, VA USA
Kimball Theatre
428 W Duke of Gloucester St, 23185 Williamsburg, United States
10/20/2017 San Francisco, CA USA
Pamela Z Solo Performance in San Francisco
Pamela Z will perform a set of solo works for voice & electronics as part of Adobe Books LIVE MUSIC Seiries at Adobe Books in San Francisco, CA USA in a shared evening along with T.D. Skatchit & Co and Kim Nucci.
10/20/2017, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Free and Open to the Public (Donations Encouraged)
Pamela Z: Crossing Disciplines (San Jose State University Fall Lecture Series)
Through live performance along with video and audio examples, Pamela Z will share her work and her process and will discuss the increasingly blurred lines between disciplines in her practice and that of other interdisciplinary artists. She will demonstrate her use of voice with live processing and gesture-based MIDI controllers and show examples of large-scale performance works and media installations. 10/17/17, 5pm-6pm
Pamela Z will perform a program of works for voice, electronics, and video at Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at 7pm in Providence, RI USA
This event is sponsored by the Brown Arts Initiative.
Live Score for Occupy: Stephan Koplowitz and Axis Dance
A site-based performance work in collaboration with Stephan Koplowitz and Axis Dance as part of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts in San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z composes and performs the live score for Occupy, a site-based performance work by choreographer Stephan Koplowitz, inspired by the history, design, and architecture of the Yerba Buena Gardens, and drawing on the unique movement vocabularies of AXIS Dance Company and ensemble cast members.
Yerba Buena Center For the Arts
701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
6/21/2017 Oakland, CA, USA
Garden of Memory Solstice Walk-through Concert
Pamela Z gives a solo voice and electronics performance at Chapel of the Chimes at 5pm in Oakland, CA
The program will feature continuous simultaneous performances by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video in different parts of the beautiful, Julia Morgan-designed building ; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances. From 5pm to 9pm.
Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA
Pamela Z will perform in Richard Marriott and Made Subandi’s VOYAGE as part of San Francisco International Arts Festival at Southside Theater at 9:30pm in San Francisco, CA USA
VOYAGE is a 70-minute ritual music drama, composed by Richard Marriott and Made Subandi, with Pamela Z, Carla Fabrizio and Sarah Willner, utilizing video and interactive electronics. Voyage follows the structure of a Balinese ritual called Calonarang, and is about crossing over the boundaries between nations, the crossroads between cultures, and the territory between life and death.
There will be two performances: Saturday June 3 at 9:30pm and Sunday June 4 at 2:30pm.
Southside Theater
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
5/12/2017 New York, NY USA
Pamela Z Solo Performance at the Knockdown Center
with a guest appearance by Christine Bonansea
Harvestworks presents Pamela Z in a solo concert of works for voice, electronics, and video with a special guest appearance by dancer Christine Bonansea in a duo for voice, electronics and movement as part of Creative Tech Week at The Knockdown Center at 8pm in Queens, NY USA
The Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Ave, Flushing, NY
Pamela Z and Donald Swearingen's Pascal's Triangle
Pamela Z and Donald Swearingen will perform a 3-night run of Pascal’s Triangle
at Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
A new work of electroacoustic music and live interactive media inspired by the beauty, ubiquity, and indispensability of mathematics – Pascal’s Triangle uses sampled text and sounds, voice & electronics, spatialized multi-channel audio, and interactive video. The movements of this evening-length work will employ numbers, patterns, and structures derived from mathematical principles – vignettes that evoke the poetic elegance of numbers.
Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA
Guest Appearance at CNMAT in Laura Charmichael’s “SOS Vivaldi”
Pamela Z will perform an improvisation in collaboration with Laura Carmichael, Ken Ueno, and Beryl Lee Heuermann as part of SOS Vivaldi at Center for New Music and Audio Technologies CNMAT at 8pm in Berkeley, CA
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies CNMAT
1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA
4/17/2017 San Francisco, CA USA
Splinter Reeds on the ROOM Series
Splinter Reeds, the Bay Area’s first reed quintet, give a concert as part of The ROOM Series at The Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
The quintet performs a world premiere work by Theresa Wong, alongside pieces by Eric Wubbels, Ken Ueno, and Tom Johnson featuring narration by Pamela Z, in an evening of contemporary reed music.
The ROOM Series @ Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA
4/15/2017 San Rafael, CA USA
Wild Women: Nina Wise, Pamela Z, Amy X Neuberg
An evening of solo performances by Nina Wise and two of the world’s most exciting vocalist/composers, both internationally renowned pioneers in live electronics, looping, layered extended vocals, and poetic narratives. at Showcase Theater at 8pm in San Rafael, CA USA
Talk + Sound: Terry Berlier, Bernie Lubell and Pamela Z
In an event sponsored by SFMOMA, Pamela Z, Terry Berlier, and Bernie Lubell all give performance/presentations about their work at 500 Capp Street Foundation at 7pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Organic Logic: Terry Berlier, Bernie Lubell and Pamela Z
Join us for the final segment in a series of three talks in conjunction with our inaugural exhibition in the Garage, centered on the theme of "organic logic."
For this talk, the artists will be demonstrating their sound objects and instruments!
Using a variety of materials, from cut wood, to custom electronic devices, to analog record players and their own bodies, the artists contest the performative and visceral aspects of sound and how it changes the way we view and perceive the world around us.
Terry Berlier is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is often kinetic, interactive and/or sound based and addresses themes of the environment and queer practice. Bernie Lubell makes interactive wood machines that visually construct the process of thought. Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video.
Doors at 7 p.m.; Enjoy the exhibitions in The House and in The Garage before the talk + presentations at 7:30 p.m.
$20 general admission, $15 students and seniors.
Limited capacity, advance tickets required.
500 Capp Street Foundation
500 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z performs new commissioned work at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT USA
Building on an idea conceived in the mid-1990s, when digital communication was in its infancy, Pamela Z will create Correspondence, a new work exploring modes of personal communication from hand-written letters and telegraphs to electronic messaging and video chats.
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan Station
Department of Music, Middletown, CT
2/12/17-3/10/2017 Middletown, CT USA
Creative Campus Fellowship at Wesleyan
Pamela Z will be a visiting artist in residence at Wesleyan University as part of their Creative Campus Fellowship program. She will work with students, give workshops in the music department and in a cross-disciplinary module outside the music department, and will create and perform a new commissioned work at Wesleyan.
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan Station
Department of Music, Middletown, CT
1/9/17 - 2/11/2017 Captiva, FL USA
Rauschenberg Residency
Pamela Z creates new work at Robert Rauschenberg's twenty-acre estate on Captiva Island, Florida, which was his home and studio for forty years and has been transformed into a creative center for artists from around the world to live, work, and create.
PZ will work on a number of projects including composing music and images for Pascal's Triangle, her work-in-progress collaboration with Donald Swearingen.
Musical Reflections of 2016 -Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland
New Music Bay Area and Chapel of the Chimes present Musical Reflections of 2016, a free four-hour musical community gathering in honor of those we've lost this year, including the Ghost Ship fire victims and beloved composer Pauline Oliveros.
Musicians include survivors of the Ghost Ship community who will play music for their lost friends and bandmates, and close collaborators of Pauline Oliveros, who had deep roots in the Bay Area. Musical Reflections of 2016 gives us all a chance to gather and mourn many events and loved ones from this difficult year. Several of Pauline Oliveros’ works being performed invite audience participation.
Performers are all donating their services and talents, and include Kitka, the Temple of Light Georgian Community Choir, Sharmi Basu, the William Winant Percussion Group, the Cardew Choir, Samuel Carl Adams, Ellen Fullman, Theresa Wong, Luciano Chessa, Dylan Mattingly, Pamela Z, Edward Schocker and Thingamajigs Performance Collective, Majel Connery, Katabatik, Soriah, Laura Inserra with Suellen Primost and Barbara Eramo, Gino Robair and Anne Pajunen, Diane Grubbe, Phil Gelb with Chris Brown and Tim Perkis, Sarah Cahill, Danny Clay, John Benson, Carletta Sue Kay, Gautam Tejas Ganeshan, Ramon Sender, Zina Bozzay, Maggi Payne, For Now, members of Volti, Carta, East Bay Ray, Andy Meyerson, The Gyuto Monks, Sarah Lockhart, and many more.
Performances are simultaneous and throughout the beautiful chapels and alcoves and spaces at the Julia Morgan-designed Chapel of the Chimes. Musical Reflections of 2016 offers a unique and personal musical experience to every listener as he or she wanders freely through this multilevel maze of interior gardens, alcoves, pools, and antechambers ingeniously designed by Julia Morgan.
Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, California 94611
12/9/2016 Berkeley, CA USA
Pamela Z at CNMAT (with Christine Bonansea & Jorge Bachman)
Pamela Z performs a set of solo works for voice, processing, and gesture controllers in a shared evening with dancer Christine Bonansea and electronic musician Jorge Bachmann at Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at 8pm in Berkeley, CA
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA
12/8/2016 San Francisco, CA USA
Pamela Z and Annë Paiounèn Duo Performance
Pamela Z (San Francisco) and Annë Paiounèn (Stockholm) will perform an evening of solos and duets for voices, electronics, interactive video, viola, and objects. Together they will inhabit the Center for New Music, playing site-specifically with the physical attributes of the place, and finding curious intersections between their individual sonic and performance practices.
Pamela Z gives a solo performance of works for voice and electronics, and collaborates with U of M students as part of Resonance Concert at McIntosh Theater at 8pm in Ann Arbor MI USA
Pamela Z performs a set of works from her solo voice & electronics repertoire as the centerpiece of U of M’s School of Music, Theater, and Dance’s Resonance concert. The evening will open with student works and will close with an ensemble piece with Pamela Z and the students.
McIntosh Theater
U of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance
1100 Baits Drive, Ann Arbor, MI
11/15/2016 New York, NY USA
Pamela Z performing solo works for voice & electronics followed by a conversation with Martin Daughtry
The Department of Music at NYU presents "Art in the Anthropocene", a concert and conversation with composer/performer Pamela Z including a set of short works for voice, electronics, & video, this Tuesday (11/15/16) at 5:30pm, in SILVER CENTER Room 220 (31 Washington Place) in New York.
SILVER CENTER Room 220 31 Waverly Place between Greene and Washington Square East [a.k.a. University], second floor
11/11-12/2016 San Francisco, CA USA
Tribute to Björk’s Homogenic
Pamela Z performs her arrangement of Björk’s Jóga as part of Undercover’s "Tribute to Björk’s Homogenic" at The Independant in San Francisco, CA USA
Ms. Z will perform the 2nd track of Björk’s Homogenic album in an evening of live arrangements of the 10 tracks on that iconic album. The evening will feature a broad range of bands and solo artists including Bells Atlas, Redwood Tango Ensemble, Jazz Mafia, and Zena Carlota – each performing one track from Homogenic.
The Independant
628 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA
11/10/2016 San Francisco, CA USA
Del Sol premieres Pamela Z’s Attention
Del Sol String Quartet performs the premiere of Attention, a new commissioned work by Pamela Z at The Exploratorium’s Kanbar Forum at 7:30pm in San Francisco, CA
Composed for String Quartet, tape, voices, video, and electronic devices, Attention explores the ways in which attention and focus are challenged in today’s culture.
The Exploratorium’s Kanbar Forum
Pier 15, San Francisco, CA
10/21/2016 Irvine, CA USA
Solo Concert on Gassman Electronic Music Series
Composer/performer Pamela Z performs an evening of solo works for voice, real time electronic processing, interactive video, and gesture controllers. The evening will include short works from her concert repertoire as well as excerpts from larger performance works such as Baggage Allowance and This Impossible Building as part of Gassmann Electronic Music Series at Winifred Smith Hall at 8pm in Irvine, CA USA
Winifred Smith Hall
UC Irvine 4000 Mesa Rd
Building #710, Irvine, CA
Luciano Chessa, Ben Zucker, Pamela Z, and Danny Clay, will simultaneously narrate the four sections of John Cage’s epic text, Empty Words.
In this condensed version of "Empty Words" by John Cage (1912-1992) – normally a 10-hour work for solo reader, the four 2.5 hour sections will be read simultaneously by four different readers. Starting at 3pm, we'll be done by dinner time.
John Cage’s Empty Words (1974) is a marathon text drawn from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau. This is one of Cage’s most sustained and elaborate moves toward the “demilitarization” of language, in four parts: Part I omits sentences, Part II omits phrases, and Part III omits words. Part IV, which omits syllables, leaves us nothing but a virtual lullaby of letters and sounds.
‘Quiet Time’ is a recurring afternoon concert series on the second Sunday of every month that focuses on works of long duration. at Center for New Music at 3pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Pamela Z will explore structure, spatiality, and layers in This Impossible Building, a suite of short movements for voice, processing, multi-channel sound, and interactive video (including some VR and timelapse footage from filmmaker Paul Lundahl and video artist Ian Winters), Using vocal performance, live sampling and layering, gesture control, and images of (impossible and possible) spaces, she will draft, build, demolish, and renovate a series of miniature sonic and visual worlds.
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA
7/26-27/2016 Brooklyn, NY, USA
Pamela Z participates in Elastic City's The Last Walk in Prospect Park
For the past seven years, Elastic City has produced and presented artist-led walks for the public. All of the work is participatory. The walks tend to focus less on providing factual information and more on heightening our awareness, exploring our senses and making new group rituals in dialogue with public space.
Over two days, Todd Shalom & Niegel Smith will lead participants on The Last Walk. This walk will occur seven times and feature re-performed prompts by past Elastic City walk artists. Each of the seven walks will include at least one cameo by an artist who will present their original prompt.
Walk us out
to greener pastures
Tie it tight
Your frayed shoelace
Seven walks for seven years
Prospect Park--our final resting place
Contributing artists: luciana achugar, Chiara Bernasconi, Michelle Boulé, Neil Freeman, Neil Goldberg, Wayne Koestenbaum, Erin Markey, and Pamela Z
Pamela Z Arts presents Z Program 60 (Z program Sixty) at 8pm at The Royce Gallery in San Francisco.
Come celebrate a milestone birthday for Pamela Z (and the 10th year of the ROOM Series) with an evening featuring a collage piece called "60 Minutes" in which Pamela and many of her dear friends, colleagues, and collaborators perform 60 mini-movements tightly scored to a timeclock.
Ms. Z will also present a short set of works for voice, electronics and video to open the program.
Participating artists are:
Pamela Z
Theresa Wong
Ian Winters
J Why
Donald Swearingen
Niegel Smith
Todd Shalom
Dean Santomieri
Julie Queen
Charith Premawardhana
Suki OKane
Amy X Neuburg
Hillary Maroon
Eric Lyon
Jon Leidecker
Dohee Lee
Shinichi Iova-Koga
Jeanne Finley + John Muse
Thea Farhadian
Leigh Evans
Luciano Chessa
Friday July 8 and Saturday July 9, 2006 at The Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street.
Sliding scale: 60 dimes - 60 dollars ($6.00-$60.00)
(no one turned away for lack of dimes)
Most of these artists will perform their minutes live, but a few who are filmmakers and/or live remotely will contribute fixed media works as their minutes. Come join in the celebration, and share wine and cake after the performance!
A short intermission will be flanked on one side by the precisely timed "60-minutes" and on the other by a few short works for voice & electronics by the birthday girl. Join us afterwards for wine and cake!
6/25/2016 8pm San Francisco,CA, USA
Pamela Z work performed by Amy X Neuburg and Paul Dresher Ensemble
Amy X Neuburg will sing a song composed for her by Pamela Z as part of They Will Have Been So Beautiful at Z Space in San Francisco, CA USA
They will have been so beautiful: Songs and Images of Now is a collaboration between Amy X Neuburg and The Paul Dresher Ensemble for which they have commissioned 10 diverse composers (Pamela Z, Carla Kihlstedt, Fred Frith, Guillermo Galindo, Ken Ueno, Lisa Bielawa, Jay Cloidt, Conrad Cummings, and Paul Dresher) to create a concert of photography-inspired songs.
The performance will take place June 24 and 25, 2014, at Z Space, San Francisco
Q: Why is a viola better than a violin?
A: Violist CHARLTON LEE (of Del Sol Quartet), Classical Revolution violist CHARITH PREMAWARDHANA, violist/composer NILS BULTMANN, and (a virtual appearance by) musician and technologist JHNO (John Eichenseer)
On the 2011 postcard for "ROOM: Longer Burning", I promised "No violas will be harmed in the making of this concert". Ironically, this turned out not to be true. A viola was indeed injured but, in my defense, no fire was involved.
Tonight, we bravely present another viola-centric evening. These distinguished violists will perform solo and ensemble works for viola and viola & electronics. (JHNO will make a virtual appearance.) In the tradition of Room Series events, the violists will each perform solo (and in various ensembles), and then they will be joined by composer/performer and series host Pamela Z (voice & electornics) in an ensemble finale. (And, as a dubious "bonus", you may even get to hear PZ attempt to play viola.)
The ROOM Series @ Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA, USA
6/21/2016 Oakland, CA, USA
Garden of Memory Solstice Walk-through Concert
Pamela Z gives a solo voice and electronics performance at Chapel of the Chimes at 5pm in Oakland, CA
The program will feature continuous simultaneous performances by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video in different parts of the beautiful, Julia Morgan-designed building ; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances. From 5pm to 9pm.
Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA
6/3/2016 8pm San Francisco,CA, USA
room: ROOMKEYS
The 2016 ROOM Series begins with an evening of Bay Area keyboard virtuosi playing contemporary music on a variety of black and white keys.
pianist: HADLEY McCARROLL
accordionist: ROB REICH
prepared Fender Rhodes: ERIC GLICK RIEMAN
keys & gesture controllers: DONALD SWEARINGEN
Composer/performer Pamela Z will join them on voice & electrronics for a tutti finale.
The ROOM Series @ Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA, USA
5/20/2016 7pm Irvine,CA, USA
Collaborative Concert with Pamela Z, Nicole Mitchell, and Cauleen Smith
Pamela Z will give a concert with flautist/composer Nicole Mitchell and filmmaker Cauleen Smith as part of the UC Irvine’s Arts and Humanities Symposium "Creativity, Cognition, Critique". The evening will include some solo works and culminate with a collaborative trio.
UC Irvine's xMPL Experimental Media Performance Lab
Lobby Level of the Contemporary Arts Center
Building #721 on UCI Campus Map
5/9/2016 8pm San Francisco,CA, USA
Call and Response: Kim Anno and Pamela Z
This show features painter, photographer, and film/video artist Kim Anno and her adaptation-in-progress of Dante's Purgatorio, which she is secularizing. "Dante was moving in that direction but kept to the Christianity for many reasons," Anno says. "My aim is to remove that entirely and see what there is left." Composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z responds to Anno's presentation. Both are artists who actively bridge the worlds of art and science/tech. One night only.
The Lost Church
65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA,94103 USA
4/28/2016 8pm San Francisco,CA, USA
Pamela Z's MEMORY TRACE
Pamela Z performs her intermedia perfomance work Memory Trace as part of YBCA’s New Frequencies Festival at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts at 8pm in San Francisco, CA
Memory Trace is a solo performance work exploring various aspects of memory through voice and electronics, multi-channel video, sampled text fragments, and gestural movement. This work, which grew out of an interactive media installation of the same name, was workshopped in a three-night run in the intimate Royce Gallery in summer of 2015, and now a large-scale version will be mounted at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum space in April of 2016.
"I can still remember the time in the early nineteen nineties when I first purchased memory. I delighted in the fact that I could hold it in my hand: a thin, green wafer etched with a lattice of metal lines. And I quickly noticed parallels between the computer’s memory and my own. Prone to anthropomorphism, I continue to compare and often confuse the two. I am interested in exploring how humans and computers store memory. How do they “misplace” information and how do they lose it entirely? How can we differentiate between dreams, “real” and “manufactured” memories? How do certain sounds and aromas trigger very old memories?"
Memory Trace explores these questions through a series of dreamlike sonic and visual episodes of remembering and forgetting.
Memory Trace was made possible by grants from the San Francisco Art Commission and the Center for Cultural Innovation.
Yerba Buena Center For the Arts
701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
4/20/2016 8pm San Francisco,CA, USA
New Frequencies in Conversation
On Wednesday April 20th from 6pm -7:30pm, join New Frequencies Festival artists Pamela Z, Edward Schocker, Theresa Wong and Luciano Chessa as they present their upcoming performances in Pechakucha style. Gain a concise sneak peek to the thinking behind their musical projects. Followed by a Q&A with Isabel Yrigoyen, curator of the festival and Associate Director of Performing Arts here at YBCA.
YBCA Screening Room
701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
4/10/2016 3pm Blacksburg,VA, USA
Immersive Performance in Virginia Tech’s “Cube”
Pamela Z gives a performance of works for voice & electronics with multi-channel sound and video in the CUBE at Moss Arts Center at 3pm in Blacksburg, VA USA
This performance culminates a week-long residency with the School of Performing Arts, and includes a new work designed specifically for the Cube’s unique environment in collaboration with Eric Lyon, associate professor of music technology and composition.
Composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, samples, gesture activated MIDI controllers, and video. She has toured extensively across the U.S., Europe, and Japan; created installations; and has composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship.
Presented in partnership with the School of Performing Arts
Moss Arts Center
Virginia Tech Campus, Blacksburg, VA
3/23/2016 7pm San Francisco, CA, USA
Solo Performance at the new BAM / PFA
Pamela Z will give a solo concert of works for voice and electronics as part of Full: Voice at Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive PFA at 7pm in Berkeley, CA USA
Full: Voice
An exploration of human voice wirh virtuoso singers. Explore the exhibition galleires and discover simultaneous performances throughout the building -- including Pamela Z performing works for solo voice and electronics, bass vocalist Richard Mix singing unaccompanied works by Julan Eastman, and the Cornelius Cardew Choir -- a “Deep Listening” collective.
Pamela Z at the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art's new MET BREUER
Pamela Z performs two sets of works for voice and electronics as part of "RELATION", a series curated by Met Museum Artist-in-Residence, Vijay Iyer at The Met Breuer in New York, NY USA
Pamela Z will give performances at 2:00 PM and 3:15 PM.
The Met Breuer
Madison Avenue and 75th Street, New York, NY
Le Laboratoire Cambridge
650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge, MA
3/3/2016 6-10pm San Francisco,CA, USA
Suitcase (from Baggage Allowance) in Exploratorium Extended Cinema’s Exhibition
Pamela Z’s Suitcase (a part of her Baggage Allowance installation) will be on exhibit as part of After Dark: Extended Cinemas at The Exploratorium at 6pm in San Francisco, CA
The Exploratorium
Pier 15, San Francisco, CA
3/2/2016 8pm San Francisco,CA, USA
Pamela Z solo performance on shared bill with Doe Eye
Pamela Z will give a solo concert as part of the WAM Local Sirens Series at Monarch at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Monarch
101 6th Street , San Francisco, CA
2/18-21/2016 Seattle,WA, USA
Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dance Theater Performs to Pamela Z Score
Spectrum Dance Theater performs new works by choreographer Donald Byrd including pieces set on Pamela Z’s “And the Movement of the Tongue” and “Geekspeak” as part of Rambunctious 2.0 // Making the Invisible Visible Dance Festival at Cornish Playhouse in Seattle, WA
Music on the program will be performed live by Seattle based string quartet Simple Measures and Judith Cohen and will also include original compositions by Wynton Marsalis and T.J. Anderson.
Pamela Z’s “And the Movement of the Tongue” was originally commissioned by Kronos Quartet, who premiered the piece at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
Cornish Playhouse
201 Mercer Street, Seattle, WA
2/13/2016 Statesboro,GA, USA
Pamela Z Performs and Receives SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award
Pamela Z attends the SEAMUS Conference to receive the SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award. She will give a short solo performance as part of SEAMUS National Conference 2016 at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA USA
Pamela Z, Composer/Performer/Media Artist
Morteza Gharib, Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Bioinspired Engineering, Caltech.
This series features conversations between artists and scholars on themes related to art, science, and technology. Participants include contemporary artists and scholars from different fields, from the humanities to science and technology, who deal with similar concepts through different means. At each event, the panelists give brief presentations on their own work and participate in a facilitated discussion on the evening's theme. The panels are organized to coincide with ongoing discussions in Caltech undergraduate classes and are intended to be of general interest to Caltech faculty, students, and the community at large.
The Art + Tech: Gesture Recognition panel will begin with a performance/demo by Pamela Z.
Pamela Z and Professor Gharib will then each speak about their work related to gesture recognition.
A moderated conversation between them will follow.
California Institute of Technology
Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Pamela Z in a shared evening with Viv Corringham (with Multimedia Consort)
An evening with two post-modern voice artists: the Bay Area’s Pamela Z and London/New York vocal artist Viv
Corringham as part of Double Divas of Multimedia Voice at Center for New Music at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Pamela Z performs a suite of solo works for voice & electronics including excerpts from recent works Memory Trace and Closed Loop.
Center for New Music
55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA
11/21/2015 San Francisco, CA, USA
ROOM: Combinatory Duets Pt. 2
The ROOM Series presents the first of two evenings each featuring four Bay Area contemporary/creative musicians performing improvised duets in every possible combination at The Royce Gallery at 8pm in San Francisco, CA
Crystal Pascucci
Tim Perkis
Ken Ueno
Pamela Z
All four musicians will perform duets in every combination, and then they will finish the evening with an improvised quartet.
The Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA
11/14/2015 San Francisco, CA, USA
ROOM: Combinatory Duets Pt. 1
The ROOM Series presents the first of two evenings each featuring four Bay Area contemporary/creative musicians performing improvised duets in every possible combination at The Royce Gallery at 8pm in San Francisco, CA
Jorge Bachmann
Lisa Mezzacappa
Amy X Neuburg
Teddy Rankin-Parker
(w/Pamela Z joining for the finale)
All four musicians will perform duets in every combination, and then they will finish the evening with an improvised quintet (including ROOM host Pamela Z)
The Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA
11/7/2015 San Francisco, CA, USA
Performance and Onstage Interview at Real Future Fair
Pamela Z will give a brief solo performance for voice and electronics followed by an onstage interview as part of the REAL FUTURE FAIR at The Innovation Hangar at 7pm in San Francisco, CA USA
As part of the closing evening of Fusion’s REAL FUTURE FORUM, Pamela Z will give a short live performance for voice, electronic processing, gesture controllers, and sampled sounds. She will then engage in an on stage conversation with one of the Fusion Forum Journalists.
The Innovation Hangar
Palace of Fine Arts Exhibition Hall
3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA
11/5/2015 7pm Brooklyn, NY, USA
Pamela Z Performance/Talk at Electroacoustic Music Festival
Pamela Z will give a performative lecture/demo in which she discusses her work, shows video and audio documentation, and performs live works for voice, electronics and video. as part of 28th Biannual International Electroacoustic Music Festival at Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music - CUNY at 7pm in Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music - CUNY
Studio 312, Roosevelt Extension
2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
11/4/2015 7pm Brooklyn, NY, USA
Ethel performs Pamela Z String Quartet at National Sawdust in NY
Pamela Z’s work Ethel Dreams of Temporal Disturbances for string quartet and tape will be performed by Ethel as part of Blue Dress (IN SITU: ETHEL) at National Sawdust at 7pm in Brooklyn, NY USA
The pioneering quartet ETHEL will perform Blue Dress, a new evening-length program that pays special homage to women who are making their musical mark on the 21st century, including Pulitzer-winner Julia Wolfe, Missy Mazzoli, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Lainie Fefferman, Mary Ellen Childs, Anna Clyne, Pamela Z, Paola Prestini and ETHEL’s own Dorothy Lawson. The concert features a visual montage by projection designer Grant MacDonald (Esperanza Spalding’s D+ Evolutionworld tour, Black Mountain Songs at BAM and the Barbican). The centerpiece of Blue Dress is a quartet of the same name, composed for ETHEL by Julia Wolfe.
National Sawdust
80 North 6TH Street, Brooklyn, NY
10/30/2015 8pm Brooklyn, NY, USA
Pamela Z + Miguel Frasconi at The Firehouse Space
Pamela Z and Miguel Frasconi perform an evening of solos and duets for voices, electronics, glass, and video at The Firehouse Space at 8pm in Brooklyn, NY USA
The Firehouse Space
246 Frost Street, Brooklyn, NY
10/15/2015 6pm Saint Paul, MN, USA
Pamela Z at Zeitgeist's Lowertown Listening Session
Pamela Z performs solo works for voice & electronics and presents her new work developed during her McKnight composer residency. as part of Lowertown Listening Sessions at Studio Z at 6pm in Saint Paul, MN USA
Doors open at 5:30pm for mingling, and the performance begins at 6pm. Ms. Z will give a performance of solo works for voice, live processing, gesture controllers, and projected image. She will feature her new work exploring “Farm to Table”, which will include music composed around sampled voices and sounds from farms, restaurants, and the spaces in between.
Studio Z
275 East Fourth Street, Suite 200, Saint Paul, MN
10/14/2015 7pm Saint Paul, MN, USA
Zeitgeist New Music & The New Ruckus present Composer Nights
Pamela Z gives a presentation about her new work as part of New Ruckus Composer Nights at Studio Z at 7pm in Saint Paul, MN USA
Four composers present their work, and then chat with the audience. Pamela Z will be presenting the new work she is developing during her McKnight Visiting Composers residency in Minnesota.
Studio Z
275 East Fourth Street, Suite 200, Saint Paul, MN
9/19/2015 8pm Berkeley, CA, USA
Pamela Z work performed by Violinist Lina Bahn
Pamela Z’s Four Movements for Cello and Delays will be performed transcribed for violin in a concert of recent works for solo violin and electronics featuring Lina Bahn and Steve Antosca at Center for New Music and Audio Technologies CNMAT at 8pm in Berkeley, CA
Four Movements was originally commissioned by the Orchestra of St Lukes in New York as a solo work for their principal cellist with the composer Pamela Z performing the live processing. This violin transcription will be performed by Lina Bahn with Steve Antosca doing the live processing.
Also on the program will be works by teve Antosca, John Gunther, John Drumheller, and Ken Ueno.
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies CNMAT
1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA
Pamela Z performs a 3-night run of a, multi-media performance work Memory Trace at Royce Gallery at 8pm in San Francisco, CA
Memory Trace is a new solo performance work exploring various aspects of memory through voice and electronics, multi-channel video, sampled text fragments, and gestural movement. This work, which grew out of an interactive media installation of the same name, will be workshopped in a three-night run in the intimate Royce Gallery. A large-scale version will be mounted at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in April of 2016.
"I can still remember the time in the early nineteen nineties when I first purchased memory. I delighted in the fact that I could hold it in my hand: a thin, green wafer etched with a lattice of metal lines. And I quickly noticed parallels between the computer’s memory and my own. Prone to anthropomorphism, I continue to compare and often confuse the two. I am interested in exploring how humans and computers store memory. How do they “misplace” information and how do they lose it entirely? How can we differentiate between dreams, “real” and “manufactured” memories? How do certain sounds and aromas trigger very old memories?"
Memory Trace explores these questions through a series of dreamlike sonic and visual episodes of remembering and forgetting.
Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA
Memory Trace was supported by the San Francsico Arts Commision Cultural Equity Grants Program through an Individual Artist Commission, an Investing In Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, and a New Music New College visiting artist residency.
7/24/2015 Saratoga, CA, USA
Pamela Z gives solo performance Voice Garden Sonic Pool
Pamela Z will give several short performances of Voice Garden Sonic Pool for voice and electronics with gesture controllers in the Oval Garden between 6pm and 10pm as part of Rock the Garden: Artist Residency Alumni Celebration & Performance in the Park at Montalvo Arts Center at 6pm in Saratoga, CA.
Montalvo Arts Center
15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga, CA
6/21/2015 Oakland, CA, USA
Garden of Memory Solstice Walk-through Concert
Pamela Z gives a solo voice and electronics performance at Chapel of the Chimes at 5pm in Oakland, CA
The program will feature continuous simultaneous performances by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video in different parts of the beautiful, Julia Morgan-designed building ; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances. From 5pm to 9pm.
Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA
6/11/2015 San Francisco, CA, USA
Pamela Z in a Shared Concert with Y’Reka
Pamela Z gives a solo performance of works for voice and electronics in a shared evening with Y'reka (featuring Aram Shelton and Owen Stewart-Robinson) as part the Luggage Store Creative Music Series. at Luggage Store Gallery at 8pm in San Francisco, CA
Luggage Store Gallery
998 Market Street, San Francisco, CA
5/5/2015 Ankara, Turkey
Pamela Z and Nihan Devecioglu Duo Concert in Ankara
Pamela Z and Nihan Devecioglu perform solo and duo works at Bilkent University Music Department in Ankara Turkey
In the culminating event of a CEC Artslink sponsored visiting artist residency in Turkey, composer/performer Pamela Z performs in two shared concerts in collaboration with Turkish singer Nihan Devecioglu.
Bilkent University Music Department
Ankara, Turkey
5/2/2015 Istanbul, Turkey
Pamela Z and Nihan Devecioglu Duo Concert in Istanbul
Pamela Z and Nihan Devecioglu perform solo and duo works at Istanbul Technical University MIAM ( Center for advanced Studies in Music) in Istanbul Turkey
In the culminating event of a CEC Artslink sponsored visiting artist residency in Turkey, composer/performer Pamela Z performs in two shared concerts in collaboration with Turkish singer Nihan Devecioglu.
Istanbul Technical University MIAM (Center for advanced Studies in Music)
4/3/2015 Los Altos Hills, CA, USA
Solo Performance at Foothill Electronic Music Festival
Pamela Z gives a performance of works for voice and electronics as part of the Foothill Electronic Music Festival at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA USA
Foothill College
El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA
3/27-29/2015 San Francisco, CA, USA
SPAN: a new Intermedia Chamber Work by Pamela Z and Carole Kim
Composer/performer Pamela Z and video artist Carole Kim will present SPAN at Southside Theater in San Francisco, CA USA
Span, a new multimedia electroacoustic chamber work by composer/performer Pamela Z and video artist Carole Kim explores bridges from multiple perspectives. Inspired by the many historical, structural, aesthetic, functional, and cultural concerns surrounding bridges.
Scored for a six-member chamber ensemble that includes voice, brasswinds, gongs, and low strings – all of which will be processed in real time and layered over an armature of text-sound composition, will be performed within a scrimmed set created by Carole Kim and bathed in layers of her interactive video work.
Span is being produced by Circuit Network and co-presented by Fort Mason Center Presents. It is a commission of San Francisco Electronic Music Festival in celebration of SFEMF's 15th year, with commissioning support from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and additional production support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Southside Theater
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
2/5/2015 New York, NY, USA
Joan La Barbara and Pamela Z Duo Concert at Lincoln Center
Pamela Z and Joan La Barbara will perform a concert of solo and duo works for voices and voice & electronics at Lincoln Center Atrium in New York, NY USA
61 W 62 St, New York, NY
Lincoln Center Atrium
61 W 62nd Street, New York, NY
1/17/2015 Sarasota, FL, USA
Pamela Z at New Music New College
Pamela Z will perform a new intermedia performance work as part of the 2014-15 Season at New Music New College in Sarasota, FL
New Music New College
New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL
Pamela Z will participate in the performance of Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique as part of Let's Go! A Farewell Revel –the final event at the Durant Avenue location of Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive PFA.
At approximately 4:30pm as part of the 11am-5pm farewell event, Sarah Cahill will lead a performance of Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique for 100 Metronomes. Metronome players include Pamela Z, Charles Amirkhanian, Paul Dresher, Ellen Fullman, Theresa Wong, Edmund Campion, and more.
Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive PFA
2625 Durant Avenue #2250, Berkeley, CA
12/15/2014 San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z and Shinichi Iova-Koga:
Sound | Silence | Motion | Stillness
Pamela Z and Shinichi Iova-Koga in a duo evening of improvisatory explorations of sound, movement, and image at Center for New Music at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Composer/performer Pamela Z and physical theater/dance artist Shinichi Iova-Koga will perform together in a duo evening of improvisatory explorations of sound, movement, and image. The artists will engage in sonic and visual conversations combining movement (Iova-Koga) with voice, electronics, and video (Z).
Pamela is best known for her solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, samples, gesture activated MIDI controllers, and video. Shinichi is the Artistic Director of the performance company inkBoat. He investigates body space and kinesthetic relationship, working in many forms, finding what exists outside form. The two have collaborated in various capacitiesin the past, but this will be a rare opportunity to see them work together in a shared evening of spontaneous collaborative works.
Center for New Music
55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA
12/5-6/2014 Berkeley, CA, USA
Pamela Z work performed by Amy X Neuburg and the Dresher Ensemble
Amy X Neuburg will sing a song composed for her by Pamela Z as part of They Will Have Been So Beautiful at Cal Performances in Berkeley, CA USA
They will have been so beautiful: Songs and Images of Now is a collaboration between Amy X Neuburg and The Paul Dresher Ensemble for which they have commissioned 10 diverse composers (Pamela Z, Carla Kihlstedt, Fred Frith, Guillermo Galindo, Ken Ueno, Lisa Bielawa, Jay Cloidt, Conrad Cummings, and Paul Dresher) to create a concert of new photography-inspired songs.
The premiere will take place December 5 and 6, 2014, at CalPerformances, Berkeley.
Cal Performances
the Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley, CA
11/20/2014 Düsseldorf, Germany
Pamela Z at the Approximation Festival in Düsseldorf
Pamela Z Pamela Z will perform works for voice and electronics as part of the Approximation Festival at Salon des Amateurs,Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf Germany.
Salon des Amateurs,Kunsthalle
Grabbeplatz 4, Düsseldorf, Germany
11/14/2014 Miami, FL, USA
Twelve Nights Miami: Pamela Z
Solo performance for voice and electronics at Center for Visual Communication Project Space at 8pm in Miami, FL USA
Center for Visual Communication Project Space
541 NW 27th Street, Miami, FL
11/14/2014 Miami Gardens, FL, USA
Talk at University of Miami Frost School of Music
Pamela Z will give a talk and demonstration of her work at 10:10am at University of Miami, Frost School of Music in Miami, FL USA
Frost School of Music
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL
11/12/2014 Miami Gardens, FL, USA
Solo Performance at Florida Memorial Univerity
Pamela Z will give a solo performance of works for voice and electronics from 7-9pm at Florida Memorial University Lou Rawls Theatre for the Performing Arts in Miami Gardens, FL USA
Florida Memorial University Lou Rawls Theatre for the Performing Arts
15800 NW 42nd Ave, Miami Gardens, FL
11/3/2014 Richmond, VA, USA
Solo Concert at VCU
Pamela Z gives a solo concert of works for voice and electronics at Shafer Street Playhouse at Virginia Commonwealth University at 6pm in Richmond, VA USA
Shafer Street Playhouse at Virginia Commonwealth University
221 N. Shafer Street, Richmond, VA
11/1/2014 New York, NY, USA
Pamela Z and Miya Masaoka Duo Concert
Composer/performers Pamela Z (voice & electronics) and Miya Masaoka (koto & electronics) will perform solo and duo works in a shared evening of experimental music at Spectrum Gallery at 9:30pm in New York, NY USA
Spectrum Gallery
121 Ludlow, New York, NY
10/28/2014 Indianapolis, IN, USA
Solo Performance at IUPUI
Pamela Z gives a performance of works for voice, electronics, and video at IUPUI Department of Music and Arts Technology in Indianapolis, IN USA
IUPUI Department of Music and Arts Technology
420 University Blvd, Indianapolis, IN
10/10/2014 Seattle, WA, USA
Solo concert in Seattle
Pamela Z gives a solo concert of works for voice and electronics as part of the Nonsequitur Wayward Music Series at Good Shepherd Center at 8pm in Seattle, WA USA
Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle, WA
9/28//2014 New York, NY, USA
Talk on THE PARTICIPATORY WALK AS A NEW PERFORMATIVE FRAMEWORK
Pamela Z is a panelist on a talk on participaitory walks as part of Elastic City’s Fall 2014 Season at Pratt Institute’s Higgins Hall Auditorium at 2:30pm in Brooklyn, NY USA
Artists who have led walks with Elastic City will talk about how their other work has been informed by leading a participatory walk. How does the walk function in harmony with and in contrast to the artists’ primary discipline and their ways of working? What makes for a successful walk? Is this a viable form? Hyperallergic Senior Editor Jillian Steinhauer will provide context for the walk in relation to the growing trend of participation in art.
Featuring:
luciana achugar
Miguel Gutierrez
Todd Shalom (moderator)
Jillian Steinhauer
Pamela Z
Pratt Institute’s Higgins Hall Auditorium
61 St. James Place, Brooklyn, NY
9/12-9/20/2014 San Francisco, CA, USA
Two-Week run of Outdoor Dance Work with Pamela Z Score
Choreographer Jo Kreiter’s company FLYAWAY PRODUCTIONS performs a new work suspended from an outside wall at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, CA USA
Flyaway Productions presents Multiple Mary and Invisible Jane, a work bringing attention to older homeless women as they seek refuge from the streets, with an original recorded score by composer Pamela Z in a 2-weekend run of free, out door performances. The dancers will be suspended from a wall at 333 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco.
The performance schedule is as follows:
Friday -Saturday
September 12-13: 8pm & 9pm
Wednesday-Thursday
September 17-18: Noon & 8pm
Friday-Saturday
September 19-20: 8pm & 9pm
UC Hastings College of the Law
333 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA
9/11-9/13/2014 San Francisco, CA, USA
Pamela Z & Evelyn Ficara score for Mary Armentrout Dance Theater’s FANTASIA upon a moment...
Mary Armentrout Dance Theater performs a new dance/installation work using a recorded score (including a sound/collage created by Pamela Z) at Z Space (@ Project Artaud) in San Francisco, CA USA
“Fantasia upon the moment when the woman invisible to herself and the man who isn’t sure whether he wants to exist yet or not decide to go in on an appartment together” by Mary Armenttrout Dance Theater.
Performance Schedule:
Thursday September 11, 2014: 10pm only
Friday September 12, 2014: 8pm and 10pm
Saturday September 13, 2014: 8pm and 10pm
Z Space (@ Project Artaud)
450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA
8/21/2014 San Francisco, CA, USA
MEDIATE: soundwave (6) WATER
Pamela Z performs sound and video work reflecting this year’s SoundWave theme of WATER. as part of MEDIATE’s soundwave Festival at Kanbar Forum at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA USA
Kanbar Forum at the Exploratorium
Pier 15, San Francisco, CA
The ROOM Series presents an evening of electroacoustic music by composer/performers Donald Swearingen, Jon Leidecker, Pamela Z, and Kadet Kuhne, with special guests Suki O'Kane and Giselle Eastman as part of the ROOM Series at The Royce Gallery at 8pm in San Francisco, CA
Donald Swearingen translates gesture into sound via a series of sensor-based instruments of his making. Jon Leidecker inscribes gestures on a tablet to generate sonic events. Pamela Z's hand and vocal gestures deliver and transform live and sampled sounds. Kadet Kuhne generates electroacoustic material while Suki O'Kane and Giselle Eastan's dexterous gestures excite sonorities from vibraphone, bass drum, and clarinet.
The Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street (near Harrison), San Francisco, CA
7/19/2014 San Francisco, CA, USA
Pamela Z’s work at SomArts
Pamela Z gives a solo performance for voice, electronics, and interactive video and shows installation work as part of SomArts’ 35th Anniversary event Projected Personae at SomArts Cultural Center in San Francisco, CA USA
SomArts Cultural Center
934 Brannon, San Francisco, CA
The ROOM Series presents an evening of Bay Area piano virtuosi playing contemporary music on the Royce Gallery's old Melville Clark upright piano (and Pamela Z's Schyling foetal grand) as part of the ROOM Series at The Royce Gallery at 8pm in San Francisco, CA
Pianists Sarah Cahill, Luciano, Chessa, and Joe Lasqo, will perform solos and/or works in various ensemble configurations (2 hands, 4 hands, 6 hands, and 8 hands) acoustically and processed, prepared and neat, shaken and stirred. Composer/performer Pamela Z will join them for a tutti finale.
The Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street (near Harrison), San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z Arts presents an evening of movement artists who use their voices in their work. as part of the ROOM Series at The Royce Gallery at 8pm in San Francisco, CA
Multidisciplinary performance artists Christine Bonansea, Dohee Lee, and Mary Armentrout will fill the ROOM with fancy footwork and fussy mouthwork. The artists will perform solos and/or works in various ensemble configurations, and then Pamela Z will join them for some duos and a tutti finale.
The Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street (near Harrison), San Francisco, CA
6/21/2014 San Francisco, CA, USA
GARDEN OF MEMORY annual Summer Solstice Event at Chapel of the Chimes
Pamela Z gives a solo voice and electronics performance as part of Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes at 5pm in Oakland, CA
The program will feature continuous simultaneous performances by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video in different parts of the beautiful, Julia Morgan-designed building ; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances. From 5pm to 9pm.
Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA
Pamela Z Arts presents John O’Keefe, Benjamin Kreith, and Phillip Greenlief as part of the ROOM Series at The Royce Gallery at 8pm in San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z Arts' intimate avant chamber series is proud to present an evening with playwright John O'Keefe, violinist Benjamin Kreith, and saxophonist Phillip Greenlief. The artists will perform solos and works in various ensemble configurations, and Pamela Z will join them for some duo and tutti moments.
John O’Keefe delivers his prose with such nuance and kinetic energy that his speech becomes a music in and of itself. Benjamin Kreith’s violin sings contemporary music with startling range from searing bites to warm fluidity. Phillip Greenlief’s saxophone speaks with an expansive sound vocabulary and disarming wit. Together and separately, they will fill the ROOM with sonic surprises and infuse each other’s sets with audible interventions and excited utterances.
The Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street (near Harrison), San Francisco, CA
5/8/2014 San Francisco, CA, USA
Pamela Z score and narration in SFIFF Screening
The short film “Fat Chance” by Jeanne Finley in collaboration with Mel Day, with original score and narration by Pamela Z, screens as part of the New Visions program of short films as part of San Francisco International Film Festival at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas at 5pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
540 Alabama Street, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA
5/6/2014 San Francisco, CA, USA
Pamela Z presents to students and faculty in UCSD Focus Event
Pamela Z gives a presentation and performance at UC San Diego CPMC, Recital Hall at 6pm in San Diego, CA USA
Z will discuss her work and perform solo works as well as a new work, (v)erzählen, for voice & electronics and percussion with maestro Steven Schick.
UC San Diego CPMC, Recital Hall
4/27/2014 San Francisco, CA, USA
Pamela Z score and narration in SFIFF Screening
The short film “Fat Chance” by Jeanne Finley in collaboration with Mel Day, with original score and narration by Pamela Z, screens as part of the New Visions program of short films as part of San Francisco International Film Festival at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas at 5pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
540 Alabama Street, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA
4/26/2014 San Francisco, CA, USA
Pamela Z performs new work with San Francisco Contemporary Music Players’ Steven Schick
Pamela Z performs new work for voice & electronics and percussion with percussion virtuoso and Contemporary Music Players director Steven Schick as part of Sweet Thunder: SFCMP Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music at Fort Mason Center at 7:30pm in San Francisco, CA
4/24/-4/27/2014 San Francisco, CA, USA
Pamela Z featured in Katharina Rosenberger’s Viva Voce Installation
Katharina Rosenberger’s Viva Voce, an interactive installation for electronics, large projections, and tablet featuring the music and images of Pamela Z, Shelley Hirsch, and Julianna Snapper, will be shown as part of Sweet Thunder: SFCMP Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music at Firehouse, Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA
4/8/2014 Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Pamela Z speaks on LASER Talk Series
Pamela Z will give a talk as part of the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) series of lectures and presentations on art, science and technology This installment of the LASER Series will take place at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at U.C. Santa Cruz, CA.
DIGITAL ARTS RESEARCH CENTER "DARK LAB"
Institute of the Arts and Sciences, Santa Cruz,CA
Pamela Z Arts' intimate avant chamber series is proud to present a shared evening of experimental vocal works by extended voice pioneer Joan La Barbara and composer/performer Pamela Z as the first event in the 2014 ROOM Series season.
Each will perform solo works, and the two will perform some improvised and scored duo work. Although some of Ms. Z's works will involve her signature live electronic processing and gesture-controlled sound, Ms. La Barbara's solo work and the duos they perform together will be mainly acoustic – working with the sound of the voices themselves in the room.
This concert will be the only local event in which La Barbara will focus on acoustic voice work (solo and in duo with Pamela Z) during this rare Bay Area visit.
Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA
2/7-8/2014 San Francisco, CA, USA
Pamela Z and Christina McPhee's CARBON SONG CYCLE at Joe Goode Annex (San Francisco)
Pamela Z and Christina McPhee will present their expanded cinema/chamber performance work Carbon Song Cycle at Joe Goode Annex in San Francisco, CA USA, in a two night run – February 7th & 8th, 2014.
Carbon Song Cycle is a work by Pamela Z (composer/performer) and Christina McPhee (video artist) for voice & electronics, viola, cello, bassoon, percussion, and multi-channel video projections that premiered in April of 2012 at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive as part of the BAM/PFA L@te Series.
The music will be performed by an ensemble consisting of the composer herself (voice & electronics) with Dana Jesson (bassoon), Theresa Wong (cello), and Charith Premawardhana (viola), and Suki O’Kane, (percussion). McPhee will reconfigure her multi-channel projections for the surfaces of the Joe Goode Annex space in Project Artaud.
This performance of Carbon Song Cycle is produced by Circuit Network.
Pamela Z peforms a short solo work for voice, audio, and projected video – created just for “The Hole” as part of 100 Performances for the Hole at SomArts Cultural Center at 8:42pm in San Francisco, CA
Now in its fourth iteration, 100 Performances for The Hole is a mini-marathon of time-based performance. Each performance lasts just two minutes and takes place in, around, in contradiction of, or is inspired by “The Hole,” a 100-year-old former sand casting pit in the floor of the SOMArts Main Gallery. Pamela Z’s performance takes place at 8:42pm, and the entire event runs from January 5th 5:58pm to January 6, 12:24am.
SomArts Cultural Center
934 Brannon, San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z and Christina McPhee's CARBON SONG CYCLE at Roulette NYC
Pamela Z and Christina McPhee will present their expanded cinema/chamber performance work Carbon Song Cycle at Roulette in Brooklyn, NY USA
Carbon Song Cycleis a work by Pamela Z (composer/performer) and Christina McPhee (video artist) for voice & electronics, viola, cello, bassoon, percussion, and multi-channel video projections that premiered in April of 2012 at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive as part of the BAM/PFA L@te Series.
For the November 20th New York presentation of the work, Z’s music will be performed by an ensemble consisting of the composer herself (voice & electronics) with Dana Jesson (bassoon), Marika Hughes (cello), and Charith Premawardhana (viola), and Russell Greenberg (percussion). McPhee will reconfigure her multi-channel projections for the surfaces of the beautiful Brooklyn Roulette space.
ROULETTE
509 Atlantic Ave (On the corner of Atlantic & 3rd Aves)
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN
2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains and the LIRR
11/13//2013 London, UK
Pamela Z visits Brunel University Music Department
Through video and audio examples, Pamela Z will share her work and her process, and will discuss the increasingly blurred lines between disciplines in her practice and that of other interdisciplinary artists. She will demonstrate her use of voice with live processing and gesture-based MIDI controllers, and show examples of large-scale performance works and media installations. at Brunel University MUSIC Department in London UK
University of Sussex Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre
Sussex House, Falmer
Brighton, BN1 9RH
United Kingdom
10/26-27/2013 San Francisco, CAUSA
Pamela Z Performances and Installations at Open Studio
Pamela Z performs works for voice and electronics and shows Memory Trace installation as part of DE 2014 Open Studios at Developing Environments in San Francisco, CA USA
Developing Environments (Project 2)
540 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
10/24/2013 College Park, MD, USA
Kronos Quartet plays Z
Kronos Quartet performs Pamela Z’s And the Movement of the Tongue as part of the Kronos Quartet’s 40th anniversary at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park, MD USA
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
3800 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD
10/21/2013 Cyberspace, Earth
Final Day to Donate to Pamela Z and Christina McPhee's Carbon Song Cycle Hatchfund
10/21/2013, 11:59pm PST
10/20/2013 San Francsico, CA, USA
Penultimate Day Salon
An intimate Salon at Pamela Z’s private San Francisco live/work studio on the penultimate day of the fundraiser for Pamela Z and Christina McPhee’s Carbon Song Cycle.
It is open to anyone who’s willing to enter a gift of any amount to help us reach our goal. Have some wine, cheese, and chocolate. Enjoy casual performances by Pamela Z and Dana Jessen and a bit of video by Christina McPhee. Hang out with us, and help us reach our goal on the day before our Carbon Song Cycle funding campaign ends!
To RSVP send email to Pamela Z if you'd like to attend the salon, and she'll send you the address of the studio.
10/16-11/17/2013 Bowling Green, OH, USA
Pamela Z Solo Exhibition: BAGGAGE ALLOWANCE
Pamela Z’s media installation, Baggage Allowance, will be shown in a month-long, solo exhibition at Bowling Green State University Galleries in Bowling Green, OH USA
Bowling Green State University Galleries
Fine Arts Center, Bowling Green, OH
10/16/2013 Bowling Green, OH, USA
Performance at Baggage Allowance Exhibition Opening
Pamela Z will give a solo performance on the occasion of the opening of her solo exhibition Baggage Allowance at Bowling Green State University Galleries in Bowling Green, OH USA
Bowling Green State University Galleries
Fin Arts Center, Bowling Green, OH
10/11/2013 Milwaukee, WI, USA
Kronos Quartet Plays Z
Kronos Quartet plays “And the Movement of the Tongue”, a recently commissioned work by Pamela Z as part of the Wilson Center’s Performing Arts Series at Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Milwaukee, WI
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts
19805 W Capitol Drive
Brookfield, WI 53045
9/25/2013 Chicago, IL, USA
Shared Concert at Columbia College, Chicago
Pamela Z will give a solo performance of works for voice and electronics in a shared concert with Minniapolis-based vocal performer Mankwe Ndosi as part of ROTVOSCIAME at Columbia College at 7:30pm in Chicago, IL
9/20/2013 San Francisco, CA, USA
Live Music by Richard Marriott with the Club Foot Orchestra, Featuring Pamela Z
Live music by Richard Marriott with the Club Foot Orchestra, featuring Pamela Z and film projections celebrating Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, and themes of La Dolce Vita as part of Friday Nights at the de Young 6:30-8:30pm in San Francisco, CA
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z Arts presents ROOM: labrosones, an evening of new music for brasswinds (combined with a little voice & electronics) at The Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z Arts' intimate avant chamber series continues with an evening of new music for brasswinds (combined with a little voice & electronics). Prodigious ombutures will force compressed air though meters of brass tubing to excite the bells and your ears. Pamela Z will join them to add a little voice and electronics to the labrosonic frenzy.
Tom Dambly (trumpet & electronics)
Krys Bobrowski (horn and kelp horn)
Richard Marriott (trombone)
with Pamela Z (voice & electronics)
Each will perform solo work (with some ensemble work), and then Pamela will join all of them in an ensemble finale.
Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z Arts presents ROOM: a psaltery and batterie, an evening of new music for percussion and hammered dulcimer (and a little voice & electronics) at The Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
This iteration of Pamela Z Arts' intimate avant chamber series juxtaposes the processed, percussive string sounds of experimental hammered dulcimer artist Dan Joseph with percussionist Joel Davel's virtuousic mallet work on the Buchla Marimba Lumina, and the complex vibrations of Karen Stackpole's otherworldly wall of gongs. Pamela Z joins them to add a little voice and electronics to the Psaltery & Batterie mix!
Joel Davel (marimba lumina)
Karen Stackpole (cymbols)
Dan Joseph (hammered dulcimer)
with Pamela Z (voice & electronics)
Each will perform solo work (and some possible duos), and then Pamela will join all of them in an ensemble finale.
Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA
8/4/2013 Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Kronos Quartet Plays Z
Kronos Quartet plays And the Movement of the Tongue, a recently commissioned work by Pamela Z as part of the Cabrillo Festival at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium in Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
307 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA
7/27/2013 Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Pamela Z works for Voice & Electronics in Poetry Marathon
Pamela Z performance works for voice & elelctronics as part of Small Press Traffic’s Poertry Marathon at “The Public School” in Oakland, CA USA
Pamela Z Arts presents ROOM: vox & circuitry, an evening of new music for voice and electronics at The Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z Arts' intimate avant chamber series continues with an evening of new music for voice & electronics. Vibrating vocal cords mediated circuitously through cryptic components will reverberate and richochet through the ROOM, finally resting in your earnest, expectant ears.
Pamela Z (voice & computer)
Kristin Miltner (voice & computer)
Luciano Chessa (voice and megaphone)
Dean Santomieri (voice & electronics)
Each will perform solo work (with some duos), and then they will join forces for an ensemble finale.
Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z Arts presents ROOM: Six reeds (and 18 feet of tubing), an evening of new music for double reeds – local and remote (combined with a little voice & electronics). The evening will feature Bay Area ex-pat bassoonist extraordinaire, Sara Schoenbeck in this rare San Francisco appearance, local renowned genre-bending double-reedist Kyle Bruckmann (of sfSound Group and SF Contemporary Music Players fame, and a remote appearance by virtuosic bassoonist Dana Jessen teleported into the ROOM via Skype from Oberlin. Composer/performer Pamela Z will host as usual, and contribute some voice and electronics work to the evening.
Each will do a solo set (and/or duo with Pamela Z) and then Pamela will join all of them (on voice and electronics) in an ensemble finale.
Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon)
Kyle Bruckman (oboe & english horn)
Dana Jessen (remote bassoon)
Pamela Z (voice & electronics)
Each will perform solo work (with some ensemble work), and then Pamela will join all of them in an ensemble finale.
Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z gives a solo voice and electronics performance as part of Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes at 5pm in Oakland, CA, USA
The program will feature continuous simultaneous performances by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video in different parts of the beautiful, Julia Morgan-designed building ; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances. From 5pm to 9pm.
Chapel of the Chimes
4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA
6/2/2013 Mexico City, MX, USA
Poesía en Vox Alta, Mexico City
Pamela Z performs solo works for voice, electronics, and video as part of Poesía en Vox Alta at Casa del Lago in Mexico City, Mexico
5/27/2013 Charleston, SC, USA
Solo Performance at Spoleto 2013
Pamela Z will perform a concert of works for voice and electronics as part of Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC
4/26/2013 San Francisco, CA, USA
Auroville
Pamela Z will perform solo work for voice and electronics as well as collaborative improvisation as part of Nick Hallett’s performance happening “Auroville”. at The Performance Art Institute at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Composer/performer Pamela Z and video artist Christina McPhee premiere their collaborate intermedia work “Carrbon Song Cycle” as part of BAM/PFA L@te Friday Nights at Berkeley Art Museum at 7:30pm in Berkeley, CA USA
Pamela Z & Christina McPhee join forces on a new work called CARBON SONG CYCLE for multiple channels of projected video and chamber ensemble with voice & electronics.
4/5/2013 Cambridge, MA, USA
Pamela Z at MIT / Center for Arts Science and Technology
Pamela Z performs solo work for Voice & Electronics as part of the MIT / Center for Arts Science and Technology Marathon at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA USA.
CAST Spring Concert Marathon
Multi-hour concert with guest artists: Hauschka, Pamela Z, Dewa Alit, with MIT’s Glass Lab Orchestra, Gamelan Galak Tika, Lamine Touré and Rambax
April 5 at 7:00pm | Kresge Auditorium
3/26/2013 New York, NY USA
Solo Performance at Roulette in NYC
Pamela Z will give a solo peformance for voice, electronics, and video as part of the Vital Vox Festival at Roulette Intermedium at 8pm in Brooklyn, NY USA
The festival (which was postponed from its original November 2012 date due to Hurricane Sandy) runs March 25th and 26th, 2012. Pamela’s performance will be on the 26th in a shared evening with Lisa Karrer and Sasha Bagdonowitsch.
Pamela Z will perform her solo voice & electronics arrangement of Meredith Monk’s Scared Song as part of the Other Minds Festival at Jewish Community Center of San Francisco at 8pm in USA
This arrangement, which will serve as the closing piece of Other Minds 2013, was spawned by a recorded version that Z created for Meredith Monk’s 2012 CD tribute MONK MIX: Remixes & Interpretations of Music by Merediith Monk. Ms. Z will also perform an improvisation for voice and electronics with Paula Matthusen on the same evening.
2/21-22/2013 San Francisco, CA, USA
Kronos Quartet premieres new work by Pamela Z
In a 2 evening engagement February 21-22, 2012, Kronos Quartet will premiere a new commissioned work composed for them by Pamela Z as part of their 2012-2013 Season at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts at 8pm in San Francisco, CA. The evening will also feature works by Nathaniel Stookey and Dan Becker.
1/25/2013 San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco Tape Music Festival
Pamela Z’s De-Spangled is programmed in the Friday evening event as part of the San Francisco Tape Music Festival at ODC Theater at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Pamela Z gives a solo concert for voice, electronics, and video at Art Share LA at 8pm in Los Angeles, CA USA
Pamela Z will perform an evening of works from her solo repertoire. She will invite bass clarinetist Marty Walker to join her for an improvisational duet at some point in the evening.
Katharina Rosenburger’s multi-media installation work featuring Pamela Z, Shelley Hirsch, and Julianna Snapper is on exhibit at Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) in Los Angeles, CA USA
Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA)
410 Cottage Home Street, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Performance for voice & electronics at ATLAS Black Box Theater at 7:30pm in Boulder, CO
Composer, performer and multimedia artist Pamela Z will perform an evening of works for voice with live, electronic processing, a gesture-activated MIDI controller, and interactive video. The evening will comprise existing solo works as well new work produced in collaboration with CU's Boulder Laptop Orchestra (BLOrk).
11/18 & 25/2012 Berlin, Germany
Solo Sound Exhibition in Berlin
Pamela Z’s A Piece of π will be featured as part of ohrenhoch Sundays at ohrenhoch at 2pm - 9pm in Berlin Germany A sonic study of the first 200 digits of Pi, the piece will play continuously in the sound gallery of ohrenhoch on twp Sundays the 18 and 25 November 2012, 2pm - 9pm.
ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen | Weichselstr. 49 | 12045 Berlin-Neukölln
11/16/2012 Charlotte, NC, USA
Informal Studio Performances at the McColl Center
Pamela Z will show media work, play work in progress, and give informal performances in her studio at the McColl Center for Visual Art during the Center’s exhibition opening.
As her artist residency draws to a close, Ms. Z will welcome visitors into her studio with some examples of live work, recorded work in progress, and a video installation. Featured in the McColl Center’s galleries will be works by JoAnn Sieburg-Baker, Tomoo Kitamura, and Randy Shull.
The year 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of Developing Environments – the artist live/work community where Pamela Z lives and works (along with 37 other Bay Area artists.) Artist members will celebrate with a special open studios October 27th & 28th, at Developing Environments at 11am - 6pm in San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z will return to San Francisco briefly (from her fall artist residency in NC) to give periodic live performances in the common space outside her studio on Saturday and Sunday October 27-28, and show a text-sound collage celebrating the history of the building.
10/18/2012 Salisbury, MD, USA
Pamela Z Solo Performance at Salisbury University
On Thursday, October 18, 2012, Pamela Z will give performance featuring voice, live processing, samples and interactive video with an artist talk following as part of Salisbury University’s Sonic Arts Series at Salisbury University Art Galleries at 4pm in Salisbury, MD USA
She will also give a sound and performance workshop at noon on the following day, Friday, October 19, and her single-channel video work from “Baggage Allowance” will be on exhibit October 15-31. All events will tale place in Teacher Education and Technology Center (TETC).
10/13/2012 Charlotte, NC, USA
Mini Performances in McColl Center Studio
Pamela Z will be giving two mini-performances in her studio on Saturday 10/13 at 1pm amd 3pm as a part of Community Day during her residency at the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte NC.
The 2012 Room Series continues with a Concert featuring voices including some Cage and Cage-related works.
Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Friday, August 31, 2012, 8 pm
Pamela Z Arts presents ROOM: Voice Cage, an evening featuring some of the Bay Area's most adventurous vocal artists doing their own works as well as some Cage and Cage-related works at The Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
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Luciano Chessa
Aurora Josephson
Dohee Lee
Amy X Neuburg
Julie Queen
Teresa Wong
Pamela Z
Each will perform solo work, duos and ensemble work.
Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z joins Steve Adams and John Hanes in an improvisational trio at the Berkeley Arts Festival at 8pm in Berkeley, CA Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA
SoundWORK, Pamela Z's sound and performance workshop exploring experimental music, audio art, voice, and interdisciplinary performance practices will take place in the mid July through mid August 2012.
Six Wedneday Group Sessions 6:30pm - 9:30pm (plus individually scheduled private sessions)
Where: Pamela Z's (North-East Mission) San Francisco studio
For information or enrollment visit the SoundWORK page
SoundWORK, Pamela Z's sound and performance workshop exploring experimental music, audio art, voice, and interdisciplinary performance practices will take place in the mid July through mid August 2012.
Pamela Z Arts presents ROOM: Rated R for Violins, an evening of new music for violins with and without electronics (combined with a little voice & electronics). at The Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Adria Otte (violin & electronics)
Thea Farhadian (violin & electronics)
Kate Stenberg (violin)
Pamela Z (voice & electronics)
Each will perform solo work (and/or duos with Pamela Z), and then Pamela will join all of them in an ensemble finale.
Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z hosts "Music With A View" Featuring the works of:
Fay Wang
Florent Ghys
Joo Won Park
Each Music With A View event features the works of 2-3 emerging and/or mid-career composers and each performance is followed by an open discussion between the artists and the audience, moderated by leaders in the field of new music.
5/19/2012 Stanford , CA, USA
Pamela Z at TED Conference
Pamela Z gives a short performance at the upcoming TEDx coference at Stanford. More details to come.
Stanford, CA USA
5/17/2012 San Francisco , CA, USA
Pamela Z installation: Memory Trace
Arc Studios & Gallery Project Gallery
1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Opening: Thursday, May 17, 2012 6pm-9pm
Exhibition run: Thursday May 17- June 2, 2012
5/12/2012 San Francisco , CA, USA
Pamela Z performs in ROVA’s Art of Improv event
Pamela Z performs on voice and electronics in collaboration with ROVA Quartet, Ikue Mori, and Gino Robair as part of ROVA: Art of Improv at ODC Commons in San Francisco, CA USA
ODC Dance Commons, Studio B
351 Shotwell Street SF CA 94110
4/21/2012 San Francisco , CA, USA
Pamela Z on SF Live Arts Series
Pamela Z will share a concert with "Open Box" (Jon Raskin, Carla Harryman, John Shiurba, Gino Robair, Ava Mendoza, Aurora Josephson, Roham Sheikhani) as part of SF Live Arts at Cyprian’s at St Cyprians in San Francisco, CA USA
Pamela Z will perform a set of solo works for voice and electronics in a shared concert with “Open Box”, a poetry and music project soon to be released on Tzadik.
SF Live Arts at Cyprian’s, 2097 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA
4/13/2012 Pittsburgh , PA, USA
New Music Festival in Pittsburgh
Pamela Z will perform a solo concert as part of a new music festival at Kelly StrayhornTheater at 9pm in Pittsburgh, PZ USA
4/11/2012 Santa Clara , CA, USA
Solo Concert Music @ Noon
Pamela Z will give a solo concert for voice, electronics, and video as part of the Music @ Noon Series at Santal Clara Univiersity Music Recital Hall at 12pm in Santa Clara, CA USA
3/30/2012 San Francisco , CA, USA
ROOM: Low Reed
Pamela Z Productions presents ROOM: Low Reed, an evening of new music for bass clarinets, baritone sax, and other low reeds (combined with a little voice & electronics). at The Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
In the first event of its 2012 season, Pamela Z Productions presents ROOM: Low Reed
Marty Walker (Bass Clarinet)
Jon Raskin (Baritone Saxophone)
Squonk (Bass Clarinets)
Pamela Z (Vox & Electronics)
Each will do a solo set and/or duo with Pamela Z, and then Pamela will join all of them in an ensemble finale.
Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA
3/14/2012 San Francisco , CA, USA
Pamela Z Solo at Meridian Music Series Works for voice, electronics, and video as part of Meridian Music Series at Meridian Gallery at 7:30 pm in San Francisco, CA USA
2/28/2012 Savannah , GA, USA
Pulse Art and Technology Festival in Savannah, GA
Pamela Z will give a solo performance of works for voice, electronics, and video as part of the Telfair Museums’ 2012 Pulse Art and Technology Festival at Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center at 6:00 pm in Savannah, GA USA
207 W. York St., Savannah, GA
2/21/2012 San Francisco , CA, USA
Solo performance at SmARTspace Exhibtion Opening
Pamela Z will give a solo performance of works for voice, electrronics, and video @ Knuth Hall Theater, Creative Arts Bldg, SFSU at 5pm, as part of SmARTspace, an exhibition of art and technology presented by the Poetry Center in association with the Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State University at 5:00pm in San Francisco, CA
2/19/2012 New York , NY, USA
MEREDITH MONK MIX CD Release Party
Pamela Z will perform her version of Meredith Monk’s “Scared Song” along with one of her own works for voice and electronics as part of the CD release event for MONK MIX (Remixes & Interpretations) - The Music of Meredith Monk double CD at Joe's Pub in New York, NY USA .
February 19th, 2012 is the release date for MONK MIX (Remixes & Interpretations) - The Music of Meredith Monk. Produced by Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky) this highly-anticipated double CD is a collection of tracks contributed by a diverse list of new music composers and performers, all remixing or interpreting Meredith's music. Contributing artists include Bang on a Can, Björk/Brodsky Quartet, DJ Spooky, Don Byron, Sussan Deyhim, Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto), John Hollenbeck/Theo Bleckmann, Henry Grimes, Vijay Iyer, Rubin Kodheli, Lukas Ligeti/Pyrolator, Arto Lindsay, King Britt, High Priest (Anti-Pop Consortium), Matt Marks (Alarm Will Sound), Nico Muhly, Gabriel Prokofiev, Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), DJ Rekha & RajStar, Todd Reynolds, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Scanner, Shodekeh, and Pamela Z.
Ms. Z and many of the other artists on the CD will perform live at the February 19th CD Release Party at Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette , NYC.
Pamela Z will perform solo works for voice and electronics in a shared evening with Dan Plonsey's New Monsters meet the Manufacturing of Humidifiers and ROVA Saxophone Quartet as part of Old Friends Festival (OFF) at The Berkeley Arts Festival Space at 8pm in Berkeley, CA USA
OFF highlights the best of the 1990's Bay Area creative music scene with a power packed line-up featuring: the Rova Saxophone Quartet playing a Tribute to Bay Area tenor saxophone great Glenn Spearman, local legend Ralph Carney, Pluto, Pamela Z, Gino Robair's Improvcore Orchestra 3000, Dan Plonsey's New Monsters, and a re-union of the avant jazz group The Manufacturing of Humidifiers, all in two action-packed nights. Curated by Steve Horowitz ("Super Size Me" and so much more) & part of the Berkeley Arts Festival, the OFF takes place on Friday, December 9th, and Saturday, December 10th, 8pm both nights.
Admission is sliding scale, suggested donation $10-20. The Berkeley Arts Festival space is located at
2133 University Avenue, just of f the corner of Shattuck, in beautiful Downtown Berkeley.
11/19/2011 Victoria , BC, Canada
Solo Performance at Voice++ Festival in Victoria Pamela Z gives a solo performance for voice, electronics, and video as part of the Voice++ Festival at Open Space in Victoria, BC Canada
11/11/2011 Chicago , IL, USA
Pamela Z Solo Performance at Columbia College
Pamela Z will give a solo performance of works for voice, electronics, and video as part of Columbia College Chicago's Interdisciplinary Arts Department 35th anniversary year celebration at Columbia College Chicago Raw Space at 7pm in Chicago, IL USA
The performance will be immediately followed by a Q & A session with the artist.
11/5/2011 Wellesley , MA, USA
Jewett Auditorium, Wellesley College
Pamela Z performs an evening of works for voice and electronics at Jewett Auditorium, Wellesley College at 8pm in Wellesley, MA USA
10/20/2011 Palo Alto , CA, USA
Pamela Z gives a talk and participates in a panel as part of An Interdisciplinary Tour of the Human Condition in Three Stages: Time, Life, and Mind at Stanford Geoology Corner, Braun Corner, Building 320, Room 105 in Palo Alto, CA USA
10/15/2011 Portland, OR, USA
Pamela Z performs works for voice & electronics as part of Electrogals Festival at Disjecta in Portland, OR USA
10/10/2011 Baltimore , MD, USA
Pamela Z at 14K Cabaret in Baltimore MD.
10/1/2011 Colorado Springs , CO, USA
Pamela Z at Gallery of Contemporary Art
Pamela Z will present interdisciplinary work after a residency with UCCS VAPA students as part of Peak Frequency Sonic Arts Festival at UCCS Gallery of Contemporary Art at 7pm in Colorado Springs, CO USA
9/27/2011 New York, NY, USA
Elastic City Walk A walk utilizing found scores in lower Manhattan as part of Elastic City 2011 Walks in SoHo, at 6:30pm in New York, NY , USA
Composer/performer Pamela Z will lead participants on a walk that creates musical scores from the graphic features (micro and macro) of downtown Manhattan. Participants will form a roving experimental sound and performance ensemble that will interpret and play the neighborhood's building facades, sidewalk hardware, public art and street markings to make a contrapuntal, chance-based chorus.
Elastic City Walk A walk utilizing found scores in lower Manhattan as part of Elastic City 2011 Walks in SoHo, at 6:30pm in New York, NY , USA
Composer/performer Pamela Z will lead participants on a walk that creates musical scores from the graphic features (micro and macro) of downtown Manhattan. Participants will form a roving experimental sound and performance ensemble that will interpret and play the neighborhood's building facades, sidewalk hardware, public art and street markings to make a contrapuntal, chance-based chorus.
Pamela Z performs in Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s ensemble in an open rehearsal for their new work Holding it Down at Harlem Stage at 8pm in New York, NY US
9/18/2011 New York, NY, USA
Elastic City Walk A walk utilizing found scores in lower Manhattan as part of Elastic City 2011 Walks in SoHo, at 2:30pm and 6:30pm in New York, NY , USA
Composer/performer Pamela Z will lead participants on a walk that creates musical scores from the graphic features (micro and macro) of downtown Manhattan. Participants will form a roving experimental sound and performance ensemble that will interpret and play the neighborhood's building facades, sidewalk hardware, public art and street markings to make a contrapuntal, chance-based chorus.
SoundWORK Summer 2011 (2-week sound and performance workshop) Wednesday 6-9pm and Sundays 1-5pm at Pamela Z’s Studio in San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z gives a two-week sound and performance workshop exploring experimental music, audio art, and interdisciplinary performance practices. Participants will explore experimental composition techniques, and the work and ideas of new music composers and sound art practitioners, receive hands-on instruction with tools (software, hardware etc.) and techniques for the creation of sound and performance works, and create and present works of their own.
SoundWORK will meet Wednesday evenings & Sunday afternoons August 17- August 27, 2011 with additional sign-up hands-on sessions in Pamela Z's studio. (For enrollment information, click here, or contact Pamela Z)
8/9-13/2011 New York , NY, USA
New York premiere of ODC Dance work with Pamela Z score
ODC Dance performs the New York premiere of Waving Not Drowning (A Guide to Elegance) by choreographer Brenda Way with an original score by Pamela Z at The Joyce in New York, NY USA
7/29/2011 San Francisco, CA, USA
ROOM: Poetry & Motion
an evening of sonic artists using language and movement artists dancing in close quarters as part of the ROOM Series at The Royce Gallery at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Featuring: The Atchleys, Kinji Hayashi, Dean Santomieri, Shinichi Iova Koga, Pamela Z, Leigh Evans.
7/28-9/2/2011 San Francisco, CA, USA
Weeping Steamer Trunk (from Baggage Allowoance) installation on view at BAVC
Pamela Z’s installation work “Weeping Steamer Trunk”, one of the pieces from her Baggage Allowance media installation is currently on display at Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) in San Francisco, CA USA
Weeping Steamer Trunk consists of an antique wardrobe trunk with embedded sound and video elements and miscellaneous objects in the drawers and lid. When the viewer opens and closes the drawers, objects become visible and moving image glows through the trunk’s upholstery, and fragments of baggage-related stories are audible. This physical installation work is being featured in conjunction with the launch of the permanent web-based version of BAGGAGE ALLOWANCEwww.baggageallowance.tv . Weeping Steamer Trunk will be on exhibit in the lobby of BAVC through September 2nd.
BAVC | 2727 Mariposa, Second Floor | San Francisco, CA
7/28/2011 San Francisco, CA, USA
Pamela Z’s interactive, web-based work BAGGAGE ALLOWANCE will have its public launch at Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) in San Francisco, CA
Join us from 6pm to 8pm at BAVC
The Baggage Allowance Web Portal is an online art work – a web-based version of the intermedia work Baggage Allowance. Designed specifically for the web medium, this piece contains multiple layers of content arranged in a series of spaces where the viewer can enter and explore. The Baggage Allowance web portal will have its official launch on July 28, 2011, at which point the URL will be made public and will remain active indefinitely.
More information about the project can be found at pamelaz.com/baggageallowance.html and the URL for the piece will be revealed there on July 28, 2011
7/9/2011 Oakland, CA, USA
the woman invisible to herself
the Milkbar at the Sunshine Biscuit Factory
Oakland, CA
the woman invisible to herself is Mary Armentrout's acclaimed "solo" show that explodes both the notion of self-identity and the usual proscenium model of dance theater: that means it is both a site specific performance installation in and around the old Sunshine Biscuit Factory in Oakland, and it is an autobiographical "solo" show with three other people playing also playing the title role, since this is a self that can't be kept in one piece...
since this show happens in conjunction with sundown,
SHOWTIMES ARE A LITTLE WACKY AND VERY SPECIFIC:
pre-show installations from 6:45 to 7:15
show starts promptly at 7:15
shows July 1,2,3, 8,9,10, and 15, 16, 17, 2011
Two performances (1pm and 2pm) of Sympathetic, a ten-minute, Site Specific Dance by choreographer Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions with an original score by Pamela Z at Rincon Annex Post Office 180 Steuart St (between Howard St & Mission St) at 1pm & 3pm in San Francisco, CA
On July 9th the Labor Archives and Research Center, in partnership with Flyaway Productions, Jo Kreiter , and Pamela Z (composer and musician), will premiere "Sympathetic." Known for their aerial dance performances incorporating buildings, history and a feminist lens, Flyaway will dance on the side of the historic Rincon Annex Post Office building at the corner of Steuart and Mission Streets. The Labor Archives commissioned Flyaway Productions to create this unique performance honoring labor as part of their 25th anniversary celebration.Sympatheticv explores how the funeral march on July 9, 1934 for two slain workers set off the historic 1934 San Francisco General Strike, a pivotal event in the city’s history. Between dance performances, the Labor Archives will conduct a walking tour of local labor landmarks.
Performed by Kelly Kemp, Jen Chien and Caity Beard; Rigging by Karl Gillick. Sympathetic is is part of LaborFest 2011; the peice is a 10 minute dance
7/8-7/9/2011 San Francisco, CA, USA
ROOM: Robin Cox Ensemble
The Robin Cox Ensemble is back for two evenings of works by California composers including a commissioned work by Amy X Neuburg and a work by Pamela Z as part of the ROOM Series at The Royce Gallery at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA
7/1/2011 Dublin , NH, US
Walden School Visiting Artist Concert
Pamela Z performs a concert of works for voice, electronics, and video followed by a question and answer session as part of The Walden School Visiting Artist Concert Series at Louise Shonk Kelly Recital Hall in Dublin, NH USA
6/21/2011 Oakland, CA, USA
Pamela Z gives a solo voice and electronics performance at from pm-9pm as part of Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium in Oakland, CA USA
The program will feature simultaneous performances by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video in different parts of the beautiful, Julia Morgan-designed building ; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances.
6/5/2011 San Francisco, CA, USA
ROOM: Longer Burning
An evening of violists including Kronos violist Hank Dutt, Sel Sol Violist Charlton Lee, & Jhno Eichenseer as part of the ROOM Series at The Royce Gallery at 8pm in San Francisco, CA
In an evening featuring solo work by Hank Dutt (viola), Charlton Lee (viola), and Jhno Delicateear (viola & electronics), each violist plays a solo set and/or duo with Pamela Z, and Pamela joins all of them in an ensemble finale.
5/13/2011 Barcelona , Spain
Festival Internacional de Poesia de Barcelona
Pamela Z performs a concert of works for voice & electronics as part of Festival Internacional de Poesia de Barcelona at Palau Música Catalana in Barcelona Spain
5/3/2011 San Francisco, CA, USA
The Sound is the Movement: PAMELA Z & THERESA WONG
Crossing musical concert with dance, “SOUND is the MOVEMENT” blurs the line between physicality and musicality. Curated by Yugen Orchestra member Ava Mendoza, Paige Sorvillo and Theatre of Yugen Artistic Associate Edward Schocker.
In this evening, composer/performers Pamela Z (voice, electronics, video) and Theresa Wong (cello and voice) will perform composed and improvised works together and separately on the NOHspace stage.
4/1/2011 New York , NY, USA
Disklavier Concert
Pamela Z performs solo works in a shared concert as part of The Extended Piano: Works for Disklavier at White Box in New York, NY USA
Elliott Sharp has curated an evening of old and new works for the Disklavier, displaying the instrument’s wide range of possibilities. The evening will feature Luke DuBois, Lukas Ligeti, Stefano Bassanese's Arbelos performed by Veniero Rizzardi with Jenny Lin on piano, Elliott Sharp, Miya Masaoka, and Pamela Z all performing works using the Yamaha Disklavier.
3/16/2011 San Francisco, CA, USA
ROOM: Glass Noodle
CARL STONE + PAMELA Z
Carl Stone and Pamela Z in a shared concert of tasty translucent delights.
On Wednesday, March 16th 2011, at 8pm the ROOM chamber series continues with an electronic music evening featuring Carl Stone and Pamela Z performing separately and together. The two composer/performers will serve up a plate of tangled, spicy, sonic flavors.
Royce Gallery: 2901 Mariposa St (between Harrison & Alabama Streets) San Francisco, CA
Admission $10 (at the door or through Brown Paper Tickets)
3/12/2011 La Jolla , CA, USA
Fresh Sound Series: Pamela Z
Composer/performer Pamela Z will give a concert of short works for voice, live electronics, and video including excerpts from her recent large-scale work Baggage Allowance as part of the Fresh Sounds Series at The Loft at 8pm in La Jolla, CA USA
1/4 - 3/4/2010 Saratoga, CA, USA
Montalvo Residency
Pamela Z has been awarded an artist residency along with Sandow Birk, Bill Washabaugh, Satoko Fujii (Japan), Gideon Fink Shapiro, Chico MacMurtrie, Tao Urban, and Paul Kikuchi, at Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA
Solo Performance at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Pamela Z gives a solo performance at the ContemporaryArtsMuseumHouston in conjunction with the Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us exhibiton. at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in Houston, TX USA
12/2/2010 San Francisco , CA, USA
NexMap Salon Concert Series
Pamela Z gives a solo concert of work for voice, electronics, and video in an intimate setting as part of NexMap Salon Concert Series at 6:30pm in San Francisco, CA USA
The Salon Concert Series showcases artists performing in a private home. This very intimate setting provides an pportunity to experience new works in a personal and friendly environment with like-minded audience members. Food and drinks are served. For more information or to make reservations, contact NEXMAP at contact@nexmap.org, 415 871 9992
11/3/2010 Irvine, CA, USA
Solo Concert at UC Irvine
Solo concert for voice, electronics, and video as part of the Gassmann ElectronicMusic Series at UC Irvine School of Fine Arts in Irvine, CA
10/19 - 11/18/2010 Woodside, CA, USA
Djerassi Residency
Pamela Z has been awarded a one-month residency along with poet Ronee Blakley, choreographer Shaun Boyle (UK), playwright George Brant, media artist Melissa Day, choreographer Moriah Evans, visual artist Jinnie Seo (Korea), visual artist Gustavo Villegas (Mexico), and playwright Paul David Young at Djerassi Resident Artist Program in Woodside, CA USA
9/28/2010 Long Beach, CA, USA
Solo Concert at Cal State Long Beach
Solo concert at California State University, Long Beach at 8pm in Long Beach, CA
9/24-25/2010 Santa Barbara , CA, USA
Ruckus (Shared evening at Center Stage)
Pamela Z performs solo works for voice, electronics, and video as part of Ruckus at Center Stage Theater at 8pm in Santa Barbara, CA USA
Pamela Z will perform solo works in a shared evening with Dichotomous—a dance/technology piece using wireless sensors, projections, and sounds interacting with movement, and Cloud Eye Control—a Los Angeles-based performance group combining interactive media with live performance.
9/16 to 9/19/2010 New York, NY, USA
Baggage Allowance (New York Premiere) The Kitchen presents the New York premiere of Pamela Z’s new intermedia performance work Baggage Allowance at The Kitchen in New York, NY USA
Elise Kermani and MiShinnah Productions present: Poe (and the museum of lost arts...)
Theo Bleckmann, Rinde Eckert, and Pamela Z in a film/performance hybrid event at Three Legged Dog (80 Greenwich Street, New York, NY)
Tuesday through Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2:30pm
Solo at Merkin Hall Pamela Z performs solo in a shared concert with Bora Yoon + Luke Dubois as part of the Tribeca New Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall at 8pm in New York, NY USA
5/20 to 5/23/2010 San Francisco, CA, USA
Baggage Allowance (World Premiere) Pamela Z Productions presents the world premiere of Pamela Zs new intermedia performance work Baggage Allowance in a two-week run at Z Space @ Theatre Artaud in San Francisco, CA USA
IUPUI Intermedia Festival Pamela Z will give a solo concert of works for voice, electrionics, and video as part of Intermedia Festival at the Donald Tavel Arts Technology Research Center in Indianapolis, IN USA
4/1/2010 Champaigne, IL, USA
Solo Performance at Krannert Pamela Z gives a solo performance of works for voice, electronics, and video including preview excerpts of her new intermedia work Baggage Allowance at Krannert Art Museum in Champaign, IL USA
3/30/2010 New York, New York, USA
Solo Concert at The StoneNYC, March 30, 2010
Avenue C and 2nd Street, New York, NY
Pamela Z gives a solo concert of works for voice & electronics at the end of a month of events curated by Larry Ochs at The Stone as part of Ochs' “Word + Music Series”.
3/14/2010 Berlin, Germany
Solo Performance in Berlin Festival
Pamela Z performs solo works for voice and electronics as part of Internationales Musikerinnen-Festival in Berlin Germany
2/24/2010 Berkeley, CA, USA
Lecture/Performance at CNMAT
Pamela Z gives a lecture/demo in conjunction with the VoxTAP (Voice in Theory, Art, and Practice) working group. The event is free and open to the public. at CNMAT at 4:30pm in Berkeley, CA
CNMAT 1750 Arch, Berkeley, CA
2/19/2010 San Francisco, CA, USA
ROOM: Odd Overtones an evening of clarinetists Beth Custer, Ma++ Ingalls, Cornelius Boots, w/ PZ
8:00pm at Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z Productions presents an avant-chamber music evening featuring three stellar, Bay Area clarinetists. Beth Custer: clarninets, Ma++ Ingalls: clarinet & electronics, Cornelius Boots: bass clarinet. Each artist will perform solo, and then all will perform an ensemble piece at the end of the evening with Pamela Z on voice & electronics.
Royce Gallery: 2901 Mariposa St (between Harrison & Alabama Streets) San Francisco, CA
Admission $10 (at the door or through Brown Paper Tickets)
2/10/2010 New York, NY
Harlem Stage with Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd Harlem Stage, New York, NY, February 10, 2010, 7:30pm
150 Convent Avenue at West 135TH Street, New York, NY
Pamela Z performs as part of an ensemble with Vijay Iyer, Mike Ladd, Okkyung Lee, Guillermo Brown, and Liberty Ellman performing new work by Iyer and Ladd.
2/7/2010 Milano, Italy
Milano with Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd
Teatro Manzoni, Milan Italy, February 7, 2010, 11am Matinee
via Manzoni, 42 - Milano, tel. 02 763 69 01
Pamela Z performs as part of an ensemble with Vijay Iyer, Mike Ladd, Okkyung Lee, Guillermo Brown, and Liberty Ellman performing new work by Iyer and Ladd.
Baggage Allowance (Installation) An exhibiition of Pamela Zs new intermedia installation work Baggage Allowance at Krannert Art Museum in Champaign, IL USA
1/16/2010 San Francisco, CA, USA
Seven and a half-minute Talk at SFMoMA
SFMoMA 75th Anniversary, January 16, 2010, 5:30pm
151 Third Street (Between Mission & Howard) San Francisco, CA
75 Reasons to Live:
To Celebrate their 75th Anniversary, SFMoMA invited 75 artists to each give a 7.5-minute talk about a work of their choice from the museum’s collection. Pamela Z’s talk (about a Robert Rauchenberg piece) will occur at 5:30pm on Saturday January 16th.
Electronic Media Panel Pamela Z participates in a panel on Electronic Media, Communications Technologies and Diversity at 5pm as part of ISIM Fourth Annual Conference at UCSC Recital Hall in Santa Cruz, CA USA
12/3/2009 Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Solo Concert at UCSC Pamela Z will play a solo concert of works for voice, processing, and video at 4pm at UCSC Recital Hall in Santa Cruz, CA USA.
UW Lecture/Demo Pamela Z gives a lecture/demo as part of the Writing for Their Lives series at University of Washington in Seattle, WA USA
11/14/2009 Long Beach, CA, USA,
The Architecture of Sound Pamela Z participates in the Architecture of Sound, a panel discussion on the future of sound and emergent technology in design. at 3pm at the University Theater, California State University in Long Beach
5D: The Future of Immersive Design and the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach present the Architecture of Sound, a panel discussion on the future of sound and emergent technology in design. The event will engage the potential of spatialized soundscapes within architecture, and investigate the role of sound in building new kinds of environments in all narrative media from film to interactive games to real-world experiential architecture redefining what physical space can be and the new immersive creative process that is involved in such endeavors. This event is in conjunction with the exhibition, BRIAN ENO: 77 Million Paintings currently on view at the University Art Museum, CSULB.
Hamilton College Performing Arts Series Pamela Z gives a solo multi-media performance for voice, electronics, and video as part of Hamilton Colleges Performing Arts Series at Wellin Hall in Clinton, NY USA
Concert at ARTiculate, Global Arts Festival Pamela Z will give a solo performance for voice and electronics as part of Evergreen Valley Colleges ribbon cutting ceremony for their new Performing Arts facility at Evergreen Valley College Performing Arts Center in San Jose, CA USA
9/23/2009 San Jose, CA, USA
Workshop at ARTiculate, Global Arts Festival Sound and Performance Workshop at 12:15pm as part of ARTiculate! Arts Series at Evergreem Valley Colleges new Arts Theater in San Jose, CA USA
9/19/2009 San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival Pamela Z gives a solo performance of work for voice, electronics, and video in a shared evening with
Gino Robair and Jorge Bachman at 8:30 as part of the 10th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music
Festival at Brava Theatre in San Francisco, CA USA
In celebration of its 10th Anniversary, SFEMF 2009 will feature one of the festivals founding
organizers on each of its four evenings. The entire festival will be bookended by festival founder
Miya Masaoka and founder and longest standing festival organizer. Pamela Z, who will each be presenting
excerpts from new intermedia works.
8/28/2009 Brooklyn, NY, USA
Monkey Town
Pamela Z will perform works for voice, electronics, and multi-channel video in a shared concert with violinist Todd Reynolds and media artist Luke Dubois at 8:30pm at Monkey Town in Brooklyn, NY USA. This fascinating venue sports four projection screens and 6.1 sound surrounding communal dinner seating where they serve “experimental cuisine and classic dishes from a country that doesn’t exist”.
Flyaway Productions’ THE BALLAD OF POLLY ANN featuring a score by Pamela Z at 8:00 pm at SOMArts in San Francisco, CA USA
An evening length dance celebrating women who built the Bay Area's Bridges
July 14-18 and 21-25, 2009 Tuesdays-Saturdays 8:00 PM
at SOMArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan Street, San Francisco
Anne Bluethenthal Dance’s 25 Year Celebration including a guest appearance by Pamela Z at ODC Dance Commons in San Francisco, CA USA
In Celebration of 25 years, ABD Productions is proud to announce the premiere performance of:
Pluto in Capricorn Friday/Saturday July 10/11 at 7:30pm Sunday July 12 at 5pm
ODC Dance Commons 351 Shotwell Street (17th/18th) San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z gives a solo voice and electronics performance at 5pm-9pm as part of Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium in Oakland, CA USA
The program will feature simultaneous performances by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video in different parts of the beautiful, Julia Morgan-designed building ; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances.
5/28/2009 Madrid, Spain
Pamela Z performs a solo set of works for voice and electonics as part of YUXTAPOSICIONES'09 microfestival de poesía y polipoesía at La Casa Encendida in Madrid Spain
Solo performance for voice, electronics, and video as part of Harvestworks’ LISTEN IN Festival at Roulette in New York, NY
5/1/2009 San Francisco, CA, USA
Live narration for the presentation of a new Sam Green film at 7pm at Studio for Urban Projects in San Francisco, CA USA
Pamela Z does live narration for Filmmaker Sam Green work-in-progress screening of his new film Utopia in Four Movements. The film explores the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the 21st century through several seemingly unrelated vignettes — including a history of Esperanto, a portrait of an exiled American radical, and a meditation on the world’s largest shopping mall. Green’s presentation utilizes PowerPoint and is accompanied by a live score by musician Dave Cerf.
Sam Green is acclaimed director of the documentaries The Weather Underground and Rainbow Man/John 3:16. Please join us. Space is limited. Please RSVP to info@studioforurbanprojects.org.
Suggested donation $5-$15. Please note that the doors will close after the performance begins.
Studio for Urban Projects, 3579 17th St., San Francisco, California 94110
4/25/2009 Sarasota, FL, USA
Solo multi-media peforrmance as part of New Music New College at Sainer Pavilion in Sarasota, FL
4/22/2009 San Francisco, CA, USA
Pamela Z gives a lecture-demo as part of Cycling 74s Expo74 at Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF in San Francisco, CA USA
4/14/2009 San Diego, CA, USA
Shared evening: Pamela Z and Lisle Ellis at 8pm as part of Fresh Sound Series at Sushi in San Diego, CA
4/11/2009 San Francisco, CA, USA
In the first event of its 2009 season, Pamela Z Productions presents room: TRIPLE BASS
Royce Gallery in San Francisco 8pm
SWITCHBOARD MUSIC FESTIVAL
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
(at Mission and 24th St. BART)
San Francisco, CA 94110
2/28/2009 West Oakland, CA, USA
Solo dinner concert at 7pm as part of In the Mood for Food's dinner/concert series at a private address in West Oakland, CA
In the Mood for Food's dinner/concert series, now in its third year pairs world renowned musicians with gourmet vegan cuisine
in private locations in the east bay. February 28 featuring Pamela Z - voice, electronics
Reserve your seat in advance as seating is limited. For reservations, please contact phil@philipgelb.com or 510 393 6096, myspace.com/inthemoodforfood
$50/person, limited seating for 20
menu TBA
2/27/2009 Los Angeles , CA, USA
Voice and electronics performance as part of "Quiet As Kept", a multi-artist, interdisciplinary event (producted by Ulysses Jenkins) from 6-9pm at CAAM in Los Angeles, CA
The California African American Museum invites you to this dual performance and open house for the College Art Association Conference for CAAM Members and the General Public. Featuring Matthew Thomas, Viver Brasil, Maren Hassinger, Senga Negundi, Betye Saar, Samella Lewis, Casa de Bamba, Nobuko Miyamoto of Great Leap with Chaplain Ayubbi, Calvin Keyes, The Onaje Murray Jazz Trio, Vinzula Kara, Ulysses Jenkins, Cheryl Banks-Smith, Todd Gray, L. Martina Young & David Strother, Demetrivs Wilson & Gertrude Grayson, Pamela Z
$5-$10 donation, CAAM Members Free, Refreshments.
For more information and directions call or email Michele 213.744.7678
Solo performance and collaborative performances as part of
Winter Solstice Concert at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, at 4499 Piedmont Ave.
Pamela Z will participate with solo work as well as collaborative works with Amy X Neuburg and Sarah Cahill , from 6pm - 10pm. Admission at the door is $20 general, $15 students and seniors, $5 kids under 12 (kids under 5 are free).
Purchase advance tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/50681
Shared evening with Pamela Z and Doctor Bob (avant cellist and vocalist Bob Marsh and nouveau lap steel player and film maker David Michalak) at 8pm at Capp Street Concert Hall in San Francisco, CA
Capp Street Concert Hall is located at 544 Capp Street Between 20th & 21st in San Francisco.
Tickets: $10 at the door.
10/25/2008 Brooklyn, NY, USA
Dan Joseph and Pamela Z (two solo sets) at 8:00 pm at LISTEN/SPACE in Brooklyn, NY
Pamela Z will present a set of new and existing works for voice, electronics, sampled sounds, and processed found objects. Dan Joseph presents a new work-in-progress for solo hammer dulcimer and electronics that offers a new perspective on this ancient and largely unknown instrument.
Solo performance for voice, electronics, and video
at 7:30pm at Essl Museum in Vienna/Klosterneuburg, Austria
Essl Museum is located at:
An der Donau-Au 1
3400 Klosterneuburg / Vienna
Austria / Europe
8/22/2008 San Francisco, CA, USA
room: MOUTH! at 8pm as part of ROOM at Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
The final concert of Z Programs ROOM Summer 2008 series features a room full of mouths:
All will perform solo and in various combinations.
Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA
8/8/2008 San Francisco, CA, USA
room: Low Bows at 8pm as part of ROOM at Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Z Programs ROOM Summer 2008 continues with an evening of electric and acoustic bowed strings of the bass clef persuasion:
Each will do a short solo set, and Pamela Z will join all of them in an ensemble finale.
Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA
7/25/2008 San Francisco, CA, USA
room: 117 Strings at 8pm as part of ROOM at Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Z Programs ROOM Summer 2008 continues with “101 Strings” including performances by:
Each will do a short solo set, and Pamela Z will join all of them in an ensemble finale.
Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA
7/11/2008 San Francisco, CA, USA
room: Batterie! at 8pm as part of ROOM at Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
In the first of four Summer 2008 concerts, Z Programs ROOM presents four artists:
SoundWORK Summer 08 (7-week sound and performance workshop) at 6-9pm at Royce Gallery & Pamela Z’s Studio in San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z gives a seven-week sound and performance workshop exploring experimental music, audio art, and interdisciplinary performance practices. Participants will explore experimental composition techniques, and the work and ideas of new music composers and sound art practitioners, receive hands-on instruction with tools (software, hardware etc.) and techniques for the creation of sound and performance works, and create and present works of their own.
SoundWORK will meet Tuesday nights July 1- August 12, 2008 at Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street (with additional sign-up hands-on sessions in Pamela Zís nearby studio.) For enrollment information, contact Pamela Z Productions.
6/27-29/2008 San Francisco, CA, USA
The Pendulum at 8pm at the Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z performs her new work The Pendulum – a song cycle/performance work exploring binaries of “Yes and No” through voice, electronics, projected video and manipulation of objects.
Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z gives a solo voice and electronic performance 5pm-9pm as part of Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium in Oakland, CA
The program will feature simultaneous performances by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video in different parts of the beautiful, Julia Morgan-designed building ; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances.
5/31/2008 to 6/1/2008 New York, NY, USA
Pamela Z performs a work for voice and electronicsas part of the Bang On A Can Marathon at the World Financial Center Winter Garden in New York, NY
5/30/2008 New York, NY, USA
Pamela Z presents works for voice, electronics, and video at 9pm as part of Optisonic Tea at Experimental Intermedia in New York, NY
5/12/2008 Stony Brook, NY, USA
Pamela Z performs solo in a shared concert as part of the Sonic Residues Festival at 8pm at SUNY College in Stony Brook, NY
5/08/2008 Boulder, CO, USA
Pamela Z visits her Alma Mater to accept the Alumna of the Year Award from the College of Music as part of the University of Colorado 2008 Commencement Cermemonies at University of Colorado in Boulder, CO
Pamela Z in a shared evening of performances with and without video at 8:30pm as part of MilkBar Salon at the Sunshine Biscuit Factory Complex in Oakland, CA
Pamela Z performs solo and in collaboration with Mary Armentrout.
2/13/2008 Salt Lake City , UT, USA
Pamela Z will perform solo works for voice and electronics -- with Canyonlands performing chamber works -- as part of the Maurice Abravanel Visiting Distinguished Composers Series. At the School of Music, University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT. There will also be two lectures on the following day.
7:30 at Dumke Recital Hall, 1375 E. President's Circle in Salt Lake City
2/9/2008 San Francisco , CA, USA
Pamela Z gives a solo performance for voice and electronics at 2pm as part of the Bang On A Can Marathon at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum in San Francisco, CA. All performances free.
Schedule:
At the FORUM:
12P – 2P BOAC All-Stars, Lisa Moore, Njuton, Carla Kildstedt & Necessary Monsters
2:P – 4P BOAC All-Stars, Pamela Z, Ernesto Diaz Infante, Edmund Welles: The Bass Clarinet Quintet
4P-5:30P BOAC All-Stars, Cheb I Sabbah & Friends
At the GALLERY:
12P – 2P Carlos Oliveira
2P-4P Dore Stein, DJ “Tangents”
6:00P-6:30P Amy X Neuburg
In the GRAND LOBBY:
6:30P-7pm Student Body Presents Arts & Sciences
7:15P-7:45pm The Toids
SoundWORK: A sound and performance course with award-winning composer/performer Pamela Z exploring experimental music, audio art, and interdisciplinary performance practices. Participants will be exposed to the work and ideas of new music composers and sound art practitioners, receive hands-on instruction with tools (software, hardware etc.) and techniques for the creation of sound and performance works, and create and present works of their own.
SoundWORK meets Monday nights in February 2008 at Intersection For The Arts upstairs gallery, 446 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA. For information, consult: http://theintersection.org
A collaboration between composer-pianist Vijay Iyer, poet/librettist/performer Mike Ladd, and conceptual artist/theater director Ibrahim Quraishi, Still Life with Commentator is a lyrical, darkly comic transmedia performance/opera examining the role of the audience and the media in modern warfare. Also featuring experimental vocal artist Pamela Z, electronic percussionist/vocalist Guillermo E. Brown, cellist Okkyung Lee, guitarist Liberty Ellman, and actors Palina Jonsdottir and Masa Nakanishi. Set design by Robert Pyzocha & lighting design by Stephen Arnold.
1/13/2008 Davis , CA, USA
Empyrean Ensemble in tHe sPirIt oF CAGE at 7pm at UC Davis Department of Music in Davis, CA
The Empyrean Ensemble will present an eclectic program of compositions inspired by John Cage, a frequent Merce Cunningham collaborator, along with Cage’s Music Circus. The program will include premieres of new pieces by Pamela Z and Craig Walsh, as well as Luciano Chessa’s piece for wireless flying blimp, musical saw, and chamber ensemble, and Kardex, an interactive installation by Robin Hill with Samuel Nichols.
Pamela Z will give a talk and demonstration of her work at 4:30pm as part of Princeton University's Composition Colloquium Series at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ
12/5/2007 New York, NY, USA
Pamela Z performs a solo set at 8pm and a collaborative set at 10pm at the Stone in New York, NY
8 pm: Pamela Z Solo (voice, electronics, video)
Pamela Z performs a set of works—new, old, composed, and improvised–processing her voice through a Max MSP patch on her Powerbook and triggering sampled sounds with gesture controlled MIDI instruments. http://www.pamelaz.com
10pm: Pamela Z (Voice & Electronics), Okkyung Lee (Cello), Sarah Schoenbeck (Bassoon)
The three artists trade solos and improvised duets and trios.
The Stone is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street in New York City.
Pamela Z presents an evening of works for voice, electronic processing,
video, and found text, including "The Pendulum" a new work exploring binaries of Yes and No.
9/22/2007 London, UK
Pamela Z performs solo and in duos on a shared performance at 1pm - 5pm in collaboration with Carol Morgan (piano) and Karlheinz Essl (computer) as part of Colourscape Music Festival in London, UK
Compositions and improvisations for piano, computer, and Voice & Electronics
Carol Morgan: piano
Pamela Z: voice, electronics
Karlheinz Essl: computer
9/20/2007 London, UK
Pamela Z and Alexander Balanescu play a set of works for voice & electronics and violin at 8:30pm at The Romanian Restaurant, 32 Old Bailey, London, UK
7/28/2007 Oakland, CA, USA
Panel discussion at 3pm at 21 Grand Gallery in Oakland, CA
This Music Defies Categorization
Moderated by Greg Scharpen (KALX FM)
with Merlin Coleman, Peter Martin (Eddie the Rat), Jake Rodriguez (The Bran… POS), and Pamela Z
Artists reflect on individual strategies, and the challenges, for creating work from multiple traditions of music, theater and movement. 21 Grand is located at 416 25th St. @ Broadway Oakland
6/26/2007 Venezia, Italia
Solo set in a concert of New Music as part of Musica+Videoarte+ Convegno (forse mostre) at Isola di San Servolo in Venice, Italy
Pamela Z in a performance at a Private event in collaboration with Karsh Kale in Las Vegas, NV
6/17/2007 Beacon, NY, USA
Performance of Four Movements for Cello and Delays commissioned by the Ochestra of St. Lukes at 2pm as part of Notable Women: A Celebration of Women Composers at The DIA:Beacon in Beacon, NY
Cellist Myron Lutzke performs Pamela Z’s work “Four Movements with Delays” (with the composer processing him live on Laptop).
The concert features works by Erin Watson, Joan LaBarbara, Julia Wolfe, Pamela Z, and Eve Beglarian. Concert is at 3pm with 4:30pm Q & A.
DIA:BEACON, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
Tickets and Information: 212.594.6100, or visit notablewomen.org
6/16/2007 New York, NY, USA
Performance of Four Movements for Cello and Delays commissioned by the Ochestra of St. Lukes at 2pm as part of Notable Women: A Celebration of Women Composers at Chelsea Art Museum, NY
Cellist Myron Lutzke performs Pamela Z’s work “Four Movements with Delays” (with the composer processing him live on Laptop).
The concert features works by Erin Watson, Joan LaBarbara, Julia Wolfe, Pamela Z, and Eve Beglarian. Concert is at 2pm with 3pm Q & A and 4pm reception.
Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street @ 11th Avenue, NYC
Tickets and Information: 212.594.6100, or visit notablewomen.org
5/27/2007 New Orleans, LA
Solo set in a benefit concert for Katrina victims at 9 p.m in collaboration with the Future of Music and Air Traffic Control as part of Musicians Bringing Home Musicians II at Tipitina’s Uptown in New Orleans, LA
The Line-up includes: Indigo Girls, OK GO’s Damian Kulash, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Matt Nathanson, San Francisco-based artist Mike Relm, performance artist Pamela Z, Bonerama, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson
Tipitina’s Uptown, 501 Napoleon Avenue
Doors open at 8 p.m. Music starts at 9 p.m.
Tickets: $20 before the show and $25 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at www.ticketweb.com.
5/18/2007 Oakland, CA
Pamela Z in a Duo imrovisational set with Italian saxophonist Gianni Gebbia at 21 Grand at 8pm in Oakland, CA.
Three sets:
Jon Raskin/Henry Kaiser/Weasel Walter +
Steve Adams/Damon Smith +
Gianni Gebbia/Pamela Z
Performance run of Pamela Z’s Voci (Voices), a evening length, solo, multi-media performance work by Pamela Z exploring the sonic, cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the human voice (featuring video work by Jeanne Finley and John Muse) as part of Washington Performing Arts Society 2006-07 Season at GALA Theatre-Tivoli, 3333 14th St., NW in Washington, DC
For tickets, call 202-785-9727.
Pamela Z appears as part of the ensemble performing a concert version of Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s “Still Life with Commentator” along with Palina Jonsdottir, Liberty Ellman, and Okkyung Lee.
4/14/2007 10pm San Francisco, CA, USA
Pamela Z Performs “Sonic Gestures” and other works at 10pm at Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco, CA
Combining fragmented gestural images with live vocal sounds processed and spatialized in real time using MAX MSP software and custom gesture controllers, Pamela Z will surround the audience with a virtual chorus of chattering, whispering, singing, and ever transforming entities. This event is presented by NexMap.
$20, $10 (students/seniors)
At 7pm, NexMap will host a pre-concert catered reception including a conversation and presentation with Pamela Z and NexMap’s artistic director Linda Bouchard. Limited tickets for this exclusive NexMap benefit are available for $50.
RML is located at 763 Brannan Street (btwn 6th & 7th Streets) in San Francisco
3/23-24/2007 8pm San Francisco , CA, USA
Pamela Z hosts the second event in the Z Programs: ROOM series– LA's Robin Cox Ensemble in an evening of contemporary works (including several by Bay Area Composers at the Royce Gallery in San Francisco.
In this rare Bay Area appearance, Robin Cox Ensemble will perform an evening of contemporary works, including several by Bay Area composers. In addition to three works by Robin Cox (Faster Than That, Drive, and Square Feet) the ensemble will be performing a work Outerborough by New York violinist/composer Todd Reynolds featuring video by award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison, and two works by bay area composers– Big Dig by Ryan Brown and Dust by Belinda Reynolds. And Pamela Z will join the ensemble in the performance of a third Bay Area work– Six Degrees of Non-Sequiturization– a structured improvisational piece she created for the ensemble in 2006. The Robin Cox Ensemble is: Robin Cox (violinist/composer/director), Erik Leckrone (percussionist), Eric Mellencamp (percussionist), Maggie Parkins (cellist), Marty Walker, (clarinetist), and Nic Chaffee (audio engineer).
Pamela Z performs works for voice and electronics including “Declaratives in the First Person” as part of The American Modern Ensemble’s Musical Mavericks Series at Tenri Cultural Institute in New York, NY
The Musical Mavericks Series is a shared concert that features multiple composer/performers including Stuart Dempster, Todd Reynolds, and Robert Dick. The Tenri Center is located at 43A West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011
3/2/2007 8pm Durham, NC, USA
Pamela Z performs Metal/Vox/Water at 8pm as part of Duke Performances at Nasher Museum Auditorium in Durham, NC.
Experimental vocalist and composer Pamela Z’s “Metal/Vox/Water” is a collage of short solo works and excerpts from her large-scale multi-media works, with sculptural elements and video projections. Ms. Z digitally processes her voice in real time to create layers of sound and triggers sampled sounds with the BodySynth MIDI controller. Cosponsored with the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Department of Music’s Encounters with the Music of Our Time series.
Tickets: $18 General Admission
2/18/2007 3pm San Francisco, CA, USA
The string quartet ETHEL performs a concert of works including Pamela Z's "Ethel Dreams of Temporal Disturbances" as part of the Morrison Artists Series at the San Francisco State University School of Music & Dance at 3:00 p.m. Admission: Free
McKenna Theatre, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94110
2/14/2007 Richmond, IN, USA
Pamela Z appears as a guest lecturer as part of Earlham College Artist and Lecture Series at Goddard Auditorium, Carpenter Hall in Richmond, Indiana
Ms. Z will discuss and demsonstrate her work with voice and technology.
2/9/2007 Paris , France
Pamela Z performs with Vijay Iyer, Mike Ladd, and Guillermo Brown in a concert performance of the music from Iyer and Ladd’s “Still Life with Commentator” at Théâtre Paul Eluard (4 avenue de Villeneuve-St-Georges -Choisy-le-Roias) as part of Sons d'Hiver Festival in Paris, France.
2/1/2007 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pamela Z performs solo works for voice and electronics at 8:30pm at STEIM in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
STEIM concert featuring three artists: Pamela Z (US), Tarek Atoui (LB/FR), and Keir Neuringer (US/NL)
Location: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam, Time: 20:30, Entrance: €5
Reservations and more info: email knock@steim.nl or call 020 6228690
More information on concerts: www.steim.org/steim/activity.php
1/30/2007 Paris , France
Pamela Z performs solo works for voice and electronics at Les 7 Lézards at 21hr in Paris, France.
Les 7 Lézards
10 rue des Rosiers /75004 Paris
tel: 01 48 87 08 97
métro Saint-Paul
1/25/2007 New York, NY, USA
Pamela Z gives a talk entitled "A Delay is Better: Art, Technology, and Time" as part of the Colloquium Series at New York University Music Department in New York, NY.
Thursday, January 25 at 5:30 pm
100 Washington Square East, Silver Center, Room 220, NYU, New York, NY
Pamela Z performs on voice and electronics as part of Vijay Iyer, Mike Ladd, and Ibrahim Quraishi's production Still Life with Commentator as part of the BAM Next Wave Festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York
A collaboration between composer-pianist Vijay Iyer, poet/librettist/performer Mike Ladd, and conceptual artist/theater director Ibrahim Quraishi, Still Life with Commentator is a lyrical, darkly comic transmedia performance/opera examining the role of the audience and the media in modern warfare. Also featuring experimental vocal artist Pamela Z, electronic percussionist/vocalist Guillermo E. Brown, cellist Okkyung Lee, guitarist Liberty Ellman, and actors Palina Jonsdottir and Masa Nakanishi. Set design by Robert Pyzocha & lighting design by Stephen Arnold.
11/26/2006 Brooklyn, NY, USA
Pamela Z performs with Vijay Iyer, Mike Ladd, and Guillermo Brown in set of pieces as part of a “Still Life With Commentator” listening party and preview at 9:30pm at Galapagos in Brooklyn, NY
During an informal listening party, members of the cast of Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s “Still Life with Commentator” will perform live excerpts from the oratorio (which has it’s NY premiere at BAM in December).
11/10/2006 San Francisco, CA, USA
Pamela Z Productions presents the first installment of the Z Programs "Room" chamber music series featuring:
Joëlle Léandre and Pamela Z in an evening of composed and improvised works for contrabasse, voice, and electronics. 8pm at the Royce Gallery,
2901 Mariposa Street (between Harrison & Alabama), San Francisco.
11/5/2006 Chicago, IL , USA
Performance of Pamela Z’s Voci (Voices), a evening length, solo, multi-media performance work by Pamela Z exploring the sonic, cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the human voice (featuring video work by Jeanne Finley and John Muse) at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art Theatre. (As part of the Chicago Humanities Festival.)
Pamela Z performs solo works for voice and electronics as part of the APOSITSIA Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia
Confirmed artists for this year’s APosition Festival include J.G.Thirlwell (aka Foetus, Wiseblood, Clint Ruin) (USA), Markus Stockhausen & Tara Bouman (Germany/Great Britain), Pamela Z (USA), David Cossin’s project (USA), Nikolai Galen (Turkey/Great Britain), Fuul Guitar Orchestra (Russia).
9/27-29/2006 Moscow, Russia
Pamela Z performs solo works for voice and electronics as part of the Long Arms Festival in Moscow.
9/11/2006 Berkeley, CA, USA
Pamela Z gives a talk as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium at UC Berkeley's Center for New Media in Berkeley, CA.
Solo performance for voice, electronic process, and video at 8pm as part of the 2006 Edgetone Music Summit at the Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market Street @ 6th in San Francisco, CA
7/21/2006
Brooklyn, NY , USA
Pamela Z performs an evening of works for voice and electronics at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY
7/13-14/2006 San Francisco, CA, USA
Pamela Z Productions presents Z Program 50 (Z program Fifty) at 8pm at The Royce Gallery in San Francisco.
Come celebrate Pamela Z's birthday with an evening featuring a collage piece called "50 Minutes" in which Pamela and some of her colleagues and collaborators perform 50 mini-movements tightly scored to a timeclock. Ms. Z will also present a short set of works for voice, electronics and video to fill out the program.
Thursday July 13 and Friday July 14, 2006 at The Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street.
Sliding scale: 50 quarters - 50 dollars ($12.50 - $50.00)
(no one turned away for lack of quarters)
Z Program Fifty will take place in a new, intimate Royce Gallery. One half of the program will be filled by "50 Minutes", the lively rollercoaster ride of a collage piece made up of performances and video by a delightful list of artists familiar to anyone who has attended past Z Programs. (See Z Programs History.) The carefully timed piece will include sounds and images from sensor artist Donald Swearingen, singer (and Qube Chic) Julie Queen, electro-diva Amy X Neuburg, avant-rock and jazz artist (and real-life sibling of Ms. Z) Hillary Maroon, Butoh artist Kinji Hayashi, video artist and 2-headed-monster Jeanne Finley + John Muse, movement artist (and Qube Chic) Leigh Evans, performance artist Mary Armentrout, and composer/performer (and birthday girl) Pamela Z.
A short intermission will be flanked on one side by the precisely timed "50-minutes" and on the other by a short set of works for voice & electronics by the birthday girl (with a few duets thrown in). Join us afterwards for wine and cake!
6/21/2006 Oakland, CA, USA
Solo performance 5-9pm as part of the annual Garden of Memory: a Columbarium Walk-Through Event atChapel of the Chimes, a Julia Morgan-designed columbarium and mausoleum with gardens, fountains, and stained-glass skylights at 4499 Piedmont Ave., next to Mountain View Cemetery at Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium in Oakland, CA
The program will feature simultaneous performances in different parts of the building by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances.
6/20/2006 San Francisco, CA, USA
Barbara Hammer’s new documentary film“Lover/Other” about surrealist artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore with a score composed by Pamela Z at 2:15pm as part of Frameline Film Festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, CA
6/16/2006 Salzburg, Austria
Pamela Z performs on voice and electronics as part of Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s production Still Life with Commentator at Republic in Salzburg, Vienna
A collaboration between composer-pianist Vijay Iyer, poet/librettist/performer Mike Ladd, and conceptual artist/theater director Ibrahim Quraishi, Still Life with Commentator is a lyrical, darkly comic transmedia performance/opera examining the role of the audience and the media in modern warfare. Also featuring experimental vocal artist Pamela Z, electronic percussionist/vocalist Guillermo E. Brown, cellist Okkyung Lee, guitarist Liberty Ellman, and actors Palina Jonsdottir and Masa Nakanishi. Set design by Robert Pyzocha & lighting design by Stephen Arnold.
Pamela Z plays with an ensemble performing a structured impovisational work by Lisle Ellis at 8:00pm at The Stone in New York, NY
Audible Means:
Pamela Z, voice/electronics
Rudresh Mahanthappa, saxophone
Kathy Supove, piano
Lisle Ellis, bass/circuitry
Guillermo E. Brown, percussion/electronics
5/1/2006 New York, NY , USA
Pamela Z performs a half hour of solo works for voice and electronics at 8pm as part of a benefit for the American Music Center at The Cutting Room (19 West 24th Street) in New York, NY
8:00: Matthew Shipp
8:45: Meridian Arts Ensemble
9:30: Pamela Z
4/27/2006 Juanajuato, Mexico
Pamela Z performs her solo, multi-media evening “Metal/Vox/Water” at Instituto Cultural de León in Guanajuato, Mexico
4/6/2006 New York, NY , USA
Solo performance and discussion as part of “New Strategies with DJ Spooky” an event exploring new compositional techniques. DJ Spooky (That Subliminal Kid) has assembled a group of composers that will perform and discuss their compositional strategies and methods. at Symphony Space in New York, NY
3/24/2006 Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Pamela Z performs on voice and electronics as part of Vijay Iyer’s production Still Life with Commentator in collaboration with Mike Ladd (text) and Vijay Iyar (piano & composition), with Okkyung Lee (cello) and Guillermo E. Brown (e-percussion) at UNC Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC
8pm Lisle Ellis's Seven Fold Project - Jenny Scheinman (violin) Tomas Ulrich (cello) Holly Hofmann (flute) Pamela Z (voice, electronics) Mike Wofford (piano) Lisle Ellis (bass & circuitry) Susie Ibarra (drums, percussion) A rare convergence of exceptional
improvisors.
10pm Settings for Bass and Circuitry - Lisle Ellis (bass & circuitry) Tom Hamilton (electronics) Pamela Z (voice, electronics) Tomas Ulrich (cello) Lisle Ellis in Solo, Duo, Trio and Quartet enviroments.
3/12/2006
Pamela Z participates in a Lecture/Panel Discussion at 4pm as part of The Voices on the Edge (Fifth Annual Women in New Music Festival) at Performing Arts Center at Cal State Fullerton, 800 N. State College Blvd in Fullerton CA
3/11/2006
The string quartet Ethel performs Ethel Dreams of Temporal Disturbances, a new work for string quartet and "tape" by Pamela Z at 8pm as part of The Voices on the Edge (Fifth Annual Women in New Music Festival) at Performing Arts Center at Cal State Fullerton, 800 N. State College Blvd in Fullerton CA
3/10/2006
Solo performance of works for voice, electronics, and video at 8pm as part of The Voices on the Edge (Fifth Annual Women in New Music Festival) at Performing Arts Center at Cal State Fullerton, 800 N. State College Blvd in Fullerton CA
2/27/2006 to 3/3/2006
Week-long artist residency with Vijay Iyer’s “Still Life With Commentator” production at Das Arts in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2/23/2006
Performance of Pamela Z’s Voci (Voices), a evening length, solo, multi-media performance work by Pamela Z exploring the sonic, cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the human voice (featuring video work by Jeanne Finley and John Muse). at Trafo, House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest, Hungary
Solo performance for voice and electronics as part of the All Frontiers Festival in Monfalcone, Italy
10/29/2005
Opening reception for Pamela Z's "Elevator Music 6", a 5.1 surround sound installation for the elevator at Tang Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY
10/29/2005
Solo performance for voice and electronics at Tang Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY
The string quartet Ethel performs the premiere of Ethel Dreams of Temporal Disturbances, a new work for string quartet and "tape" by Pamela Z in Champagne-Urbana, IL
Pamela Z performs in collaboration with Vijay Iyer as part of the “Cooler in the Shade” Series at Lotus Arts in New York, NY
8/11/2005
Pamela Z performs solo works for voice, electronics, and video at BMOCA (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art) in Boulder, CO.
8/9/2005
Pamela Z performs solo works for voice and electronics at The Stone in New York, NY
7/24/2005 San Francisco, CA, USA
Solo performance of works for voice, electronics, and video at 9pm as part of Bayennale 2005 at Mickey T’s Drum Machine Museum in San Francisco, CA
6/21/2005
Solo performance as part of Garden of Memory: a Columbarium Walk-Through Event at Chapel of the Chimes, a Julia Morgan-designed columbarium and mausoleum with gardens, fountains, and stained-glass skylights at 4499 Piedmont Ave., next to Mountain View Cemetery at Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium in Oakland, CA
The program will feature simultaneous performances in different parts of the building by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances.
6/9-11 & 6/16-18/2005
Jo Kreiter/Flyaway Productions' premiere of the dance work "Whose Seeds These Are" with music by Pamela Z at ZACCHO Studio, 1777 Yosemite Ave. #330 (at 3rd) in San Francisco. Also on the evening are excerpts from several other dance works with Pamela Z Scores. 415.647.2822 info/tix through Brava Box Office.
4/16/2005
Solo performance of Syrinx/Birdvoice and participation on a panel on birdsong.
The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU and New York City Audubon Present a Symposium including performances, talks, and discussion on “Why Birds Sing”. Presenters include David Rothenberg, Pamela Z, Eric Salzman, Don Kroodsma, Ofer Tchernichovski, Frederic Venal, Lang Elliot, Alan Verdy, Breyten Breytenbach, and Michael Pestel.
Event runs from 4-7 pm at NYU Hemmerdinger Hall.
100 Washington Square East, New York. For Info: 212.998.2100
4/8/2005
Solo peformance of new work for voice, electrtronics, and video. at The LAB in San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z joins with artists from STEIM/Amsterdam. Pamela will perform work in which she uses Max MSP and Jitter to control video with her voice and process her voice in real time.
Michel Waisvisz and Robert van Heumen of STEIM will offer a free demonstration of LiSa X, STEIM's software that enables users to extensively control live-sampled and pre-recorded sounds, and junXion, which maps Human Interface Devices such as joysticks to MIDI. There will be a Q&A following the demo for those with specific inquiries.
Michel Waisvisz, Joel Ryan and Robert van Heumen from STEIM/Amsterdam will team up with longtime STEIM collaborator Laetitia Sonami and SF resident Roddy Schrock to present an evening of electro-instrumental improvised music. Expect different duo/trio combinations of Michel's instrument The Hands, Laetitia's Lady's Glove, Robert's Sexy Controllers, and Roddy's SuperCollider wizardry all guided by Joel Ryan behind the mixing desk.
LiSa X and junXion v2 demo at 6 PM; Pamela Z and STEIM 8 PM
2/18/2005
Friday, February 18, 2005: Solo performance of works for voice and electronics at 6pm-9pm as part of the Opening Reception for the Art of Artsist Statement Exhibition at the Hellenic the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center in Chicago, IL
Pamela Z will perform at the opening of an exhibition in which she also has a mutli-channel sound installation work entitoled “Delclaratives in the First Person”. In one of the pieces, she will use sampled text sounds from “Declaratives”.
2/18/2005-4/2/2005
“Declaratives in the First Person”, a six-channel audio installation work as part of the Art of Artist Statement Exhibition at the Hellenic the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center in Chicago, IL
1/22/2005
Solo performance of works for voice and electronics at 10pm at GASP Gallery in Boston, MA
Off-Market Theater
965 Mission at Fifth Street
San Francisco
Five Bay Area composers present works written for the Yamaha Disklavier, a modern-day player piano capable of interfacing with a computer. Composers include Pamela Z, Jaron Lanier, Dennis Aman, Vytautas Germanavicius, and True Rosaschi presenting works for solo Disklavier as well as pieces accompanied by voice & live electronics, flute, Virtual Reality Environment, saxophone, and more.
Z Program Ten: CD release Event for Pamela Z’s new CD “A Delay is Better” at 8pm at The LAB Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Ten artists appear in celebration of the release of Pamela Z’s new Starkland recording “A Delay is Better”.
Pamela Z gives a Solo Performance of works for voice & electronics Celebrating the release of her new CD "A Delay is Better" at 9pm at The Knitting Factory in New York, NY
Also appearing is vocal trio Muna Zul from Mexico (8pm).
10/28/2004-10/30/2004
New York premiere of Voci (Voices), a evening length, solo, multi-media performance work by Pamela
Z exploring the sonic, cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the
human voice (featuring video work by Jeanne Finley and John Muse).
Lecture-demo at 1:30 PM as part of Brooklyn College Composers' Forum and the Center for Computer Music Seminars. at Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music - CUNY in 249 Gershwin in Brooklyn, NY
10/4/2004
Solo performance of excerpts from Voci, Gaijin, and Parts of Speech at 7:30pm as part of the City of Women Festival at Kosovel Hall in Ljubljana, Slovenia
9/9/2004
Solo performance at 7:30pm as part of the “Don’t Call it Performance/No lo Llames Performance” Exhibition at El Museo del Barrio in New York, NY
7/21/2004
Solo performance as part
of San Francisco Treasures Series at The
Marsh in San Francisco, CA
5/28/2004
Solo performance as part
of the Subtle
Technologies Festival in Toronto, Canada
10pm Latvian House, 491 College
Street, Toronto, Canada
5/7/2004
- 5/14/2004
Solo performance and site
specific installation as part of La Biennale de l'art africain contemporain
Đ DAK'ART 2004 in Dakar, Senigal
4/24/2004
Solo performance for voice,
electronics, and video. at 6pm as part of The Harvestworks Mixing it Up! Festival at The
Apple Store, SOHO in New York, NY
Pamela Z gives a performance
using MAX MSP and ProTools software on a Mac G5 in the auditorium at
the SOHO Apple Store at 103 Prince Street, NYC
Soundworks by thirteen composers
played through sound art pioneer Charlie Morrow's Sound Cube –
a multi-channel playback environment providing a 3D audio experience.
Works by Olivia Block, Shelley Hirsch, Miya Masaoka, Steve McCaffrey,
Charlie Morrow, Phill Niblock, Michael J. Schumacher, Scanner, Stephen
Vitiello, Martyn Ware, and Pamela Z
3/24/2004
- 4/15/2004
Four channel sound work by
Pamela Z on exhibit as part of Sound Migration: An Exhibit of Sound
Art and Music at Pacific
Design Center, Media Lounge in Los Angeles, CA
Participants include Bernie
Krause, Pauline Oliveros, Stephen Vitiello, Fred Frith, Marina Rosenfeld,
and Pamela Z, among others. 8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood
2/25/2004
Solo performance and collaboration
with Donald Swearingen as part of The LAB 20th Anniversary Series at The LAB in San Francisco,
CA
2/14/2004
Solo Performance/Lecture-Demo/Workshop
at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York. 1pm (as part of ELECTRONIC
MUSIC FOUNDATION's Arts Electric Introductions Series)
Chelsea Art Museum 556 West
22nd Street, New York, NY 10011
1/29/2004-2/2/2004
Sound installation, Performance,
and Workshops as part of Powering Up/Powering Down at Center for Research
in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) in San Diego, CA
1/8/2004
Solo performance as part
of the Sound Generation Benefit at Experimental Intermedia in New York,
NY. 8pm
Pamela Z gives a solo performance
in an evening of electronic music, sound art and video, Also appearing:
Gregory Whitehead, Annea Lockwood & Paul Ryan, Tobias Van Veen, Claudio
Chea, Ken Mongomery, Larry 7, Marc McNulty, AND Greyg Filistine. Tickets
for the Sound Generation benefit are $10. EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA 224
Centre St. @ Grand St.Ę 212.431.5127
Artist talk at 4:00pm in
collaboration with Salah Hassan, Cheryl Finley, and Maria Magdalena
Campos-Pons at the American Center Auditorium in Dakar, Senégal
Pamela Z will give a talk
during a site visit in preperation for the 2004 Dakar Biennale.
11/17/2003
Solo concert of works for
voice, electronics and video at University of Maryland in Baltimore,
MD
11/8/2003
Solo performance at 8pm at 21 Grand in Oakland,
CA
Pamela Z will perform an
evening of works for voice, electronics and video. (With an appearance
by special guest Kinji
Hayashi.) 21 Grand is located at 449B 23rd Street in Oakland.
10/25/2003
Solo performance with voice,
electronics, and video at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina (MNCARS)
in Madrid, Spain
10/16/2003
Solo performance in conjunction
with the closing of the Jeanne Finley and John Muse resptrospective
exhibition (presented by New Langton Arts) at The Exploratorium.
The
Exploratorium, 3601 Lyon Street (in the Marina) San Francisco, CA
9/24-26/2003
Jo Kreiter and Flyaway
Productions perform "How To Be A Citizen", a dance work
honoring 100 years of protest in San Francsico, with an original sound
score by Pamela Z
Embarcadero Plaza at the
foot of Market street in front of the Ferry Building. 12:30pm and 5:30pm
Wed & Thu, 1:30pm and 5:30pm Friday.
9/21/2003
Solo
Concert at 6pm as part of La
Biennale di Venezia 2003 at Teatro Piccolo Arsenale in Venice, Italy
Note, this is an early show.
The evening will begin with a duo set by Ikue Mori and Marina Rosenfeld,
followed by a solo set by Amy X Neuburg, a solo set by Pamela Z, and
ending with an improvised performance by all four artists.
8/1/2003
Solo performance as part
of a festival of female voice and performance at ExB Associazione Culturale
in Bologna, Italy
6/21/2003
Solo performance as part
of New Music
Bay Area and Chapel of the Chimes' magical summer solstice celebration Garden of Memory: a Columbarium Walk-Through Event at Chapel
of the Chimes, a labyrinthine Julia Morgan-designed columbarium and
mausoleum replete with gardens, fountains, and stained-glass skylights.
4499 Piedmont Avenue, next
to Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Saturday, June 21 from 5 to
8 pm.Ę
6/7/2003
Premiere of Pamela Z's Four
Movements for Violoncello and Delays, a new chamber work commissioned
by the Ochestra of St. Lukes. The piece will be performed by Myron Lutzke,
the Orchestra's principal cellist, with Pamela Z doing the live proceessing.
The Dia
Center (Chelsea) in New York, 548 West 22nd Street, New York. 2pm
5/8/2003
Solo
evening of performance at 10:30pm as part of the Open
Ears Festival of Music and Sound in Kitchener, ON Canada
5/2/2003
Solo
Performance as part of Spring
Reverb at La Antigua Bodega de Papel in Tijuana, Mexico
5/1/2003
Solo
Performance as part of Spring Reverb at the Museum of Contempoary Art in San Diego, CA
3/27/2003-4/5/2003
Voci (Voices), a evening length, solo, multi-media performance work by Pamela
Z exploring the sonic, cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the
human voice (featuring video work by Jeanne Finley and John Muse).
Solo
Performance as part of An evening of Vocal Delights curated by Kathy
Kennedy at Tuva Space - 3192 Adeline @ MLK(Near Ashby BART) in Berkeley,
CA Pamela Z will perform an in-progress excerpt for solo voice and electroncis
from her upcoming performance work Voci. The evening includes performances
by the Cornelius
Cardew Choir, Kathy Kennedy, Kattt Sammon (w/ Peggy DeCoursey & Andrew
Harkins), Pamela Z
Solo performance at approximately
6:45pm as part of San Francisco "In The Street" Festival at
Cohen Alley (the 500 block of Ellis) in San Francisco, CA
The Luggage Store / 509 Cultural
Center presents the 8th Annual IN THE STREET Festival. Friday's event
includes performances by Pamela Z, Miya Masaoka, inkBoat, Nao Bustamante
and Mads Lynnerup, Krissy Keefer and Dance Brigade, Mark Growden, and
Vile Jelly with MC Kevin Caulfield.
Pamela Z gives a concert
of solo performance works for voice, electronics, and video as part
of the ŇRace in Digital SpaceÓ conference. The MOCA is located at 250
South Grand Ave in Los Angeles.
Solo Performance on a shared
concert with Chris Brown and David Slusser at Mills
College in Oakland, CA.
9/14,15,21,/22/2002
Score for Jo Kreiter and
Flyaway Productions' "Mission
Wall Dances", Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm and 4pm on a 3 storey
mural wall at Harrison and Alameda Streets. in San Francisco, CA.
9/8/2002-9/10/2002
Live Performances and participation
in the Klangpark in "Open Air, a Radiotopia" as part of Ars
Electronica in Linz, Austria.
Solo performance as part
of Beyond Music Sound Festival VI at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA
Beyond Music runs August
1-4, 2002 and includes works by Pamela Z, Yasunao Tone, Stephen Vitiello,
Christof Migone, Jeph Jerman, Olivia Block, Eliza Slavet, and Brandon
LaBelle.
7/27/2002
Pamela Z and Joan Jeanreneaud
in a shared evening of solo works and duets on the Noe
Valley Music Series at Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez Street
in San Francisco, CA
Cellist Joan
Jeanreneaud (formerly of the Kronos Quartet) and composer/performer
Pamela Z perform solo works and duets for processsed Cello and for Voice
and electronics.
7/26/2002
Pamela Z performs a 10 minute
work in progress as part of Inter-actions, a summer showing
of works-in-progress premiering at ODC
Theater later in the year.
8pm ODC Theater 3153 17th
Street @ Shotwell, San Francisco
Box Office: 415.863.9834
6/27/2002
- 6/29/2002
Pamela Z hosts the second
weekend of concerts in Electric Words at Venue 9 in San Francisco, CA
(See entries below for dates on which Pamela Z actually performs.)
Thursday-Saturday June 20-22
(hosted by Amy X Neuburg) and 27-29 (hosted by Pamela Z) at Venue 9
in San Francisco.
6/28/2002
Solo performance
on a shared evening with Wobbly and Hmmm... as part of Electric
Words at Venue 9 in San Francisco, CA
6/22/2002
Solo performance
on a shared evening with Laetitia Sonami and Kyle Gann as part of Electric
Words at Venue 9 in San Francisco, CA
6/21/2002
Solo performance as part
of Garden of Memory: a Columbarium Walk-Through Event at Chapel of the
Chimes, a Julia Morgan-designed columbarium and mausoleum with gardens,
fountains, and stained-glass skylights at 4499 Piedmont Ave., next to
Mountain View Cemetery, in Oakland, CA
The program will feature
simultaneous performances in different parts of the building by Bay
Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety
of acoustic and electronic music and video; the audience is free to
move throughout the building during the performances.
Solo performance
as part of the opening of the "Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California
1950-2000" exhibition. Thursday, 8pm at The
San José Museum of Art in San José, CA
6/14/2002
Solo performance in a shared
evening with Laetitia Sonami as part of Composing
a Career: A Career Development Symposium for Women Composers at
Dominican University in San Rafael, CA. (Sponsored by the Women's
Philharmonic.)
6/12/2002
A Fifteen minute solo performance
as part of Grotto Nights at San Francisco Public Library in San Francisco,
CA.
6/4//2002
A shared evening with contrabassist
Peter Kowald at Tonic in New York, NY (8pm)
Pamela Z and Peter Kowald
will each play solo sets as well as a set of improvised duets. Tonic is located at 107 Norfolk Street between Delancey and Rivington Streets
in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
5/11//2002
Solo performance as part
of SF
Alt Festival at 21 Grand in Oakland, CA
21
Grand is no longer located at 21 Grand Street. Their new address
is 449B 23rd Street in Oakland. Saturday evening's program includes
Pamela Z, The Wind Trio of Alphaville, and Eddie Gale. Event starts
at 8pm.
Solo performance as part
of NewTown's Sonic Gallery in Pasadena, CA
Sonic Gallery,
an adventure in peripheral listening, brings together a large handful
of California's most fascinating electronic and electro-acoustic musicians
for an evening of simultaneous performances in The Armory's spacious
Fair Oaks gallery. The audience, free to roam from artist to artist,
will create their own personal "re-mix" through their proximity
to chosen performers. The evening promises to be, in turn, ethereal,
raucous, exuberant and overwhelming. Artists include: Pamela Z, Carl
Stone, Eric Barber & Art Jarvinen, Grisha Coleman & Friends, and Scott
Fraser. 7:45pm (Gallery opens at 7pm)
5/3//2002
Solo performance at 8pm (in
a shared program with Stephen Vitiello) and participation in a discussion
at 1:30pm. as part of "Remixing: sound/body/performance"
CRCA (Center for Research in Computing and the Arts), UCSD in San Diego.
4/20-21/2002
Solo performance in a shared
concert with Rick Walker and Robert Dick as part of the Santa Cruz Festival
of Performance.
Solo performance and panel
participation in the Bay Area Women's Symposium.
Performances by Pamela Z
and Amy X Neuburg.
Panelists: Pamela Z, Amy
X Neuberg, Elinor Armer, Linda Bouchard, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Belinda
Reynolds, moderated by Sarah Cahill at the San Francisco Performing
Arts Library & Museum in San Francisco, CA
3/14/2002
Screening of Language
Lessons, a collaboration with Jeanne Finley & John Muse, as
part of The New Generation: A Celebration of Recent Film & Video
at Cinemateque at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, CA
This new short film was developed
in large part from material used in Pamela Z’s performance work Gaijin.
3/13/2002
Sound and Video Performance/Installation Forensic Art as part of Sight Unseen/2nd Wednesdays Series at
The Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z will perform her
new work exploring physical identity, perception, and the act of spontaneous
verbal description. People will be invited to either sit one minute
for a camera, or to describe in detail (as if for a police artist) a
face that appears on a video monitor. Pamela Z will perform with voice,
samples and real time processing- mixing and layering video "headshots"
of people accompanied by one-minute verbal descriptions of their faces..
3/4/2002
“Listen In” Presentation
at Harvestworks in New York, NY
596 Broadway Suite 602 (phone contact: 212.431.1130)
Composer/Performer Pamela
Z discusses her performance works and recorded works, and performs pieces
for voice, MAX MSP, and the BodySynth gesture controller. The evening
includes a performance of "Metal/Vox/Water", a work for live
performance and video which she created during her artist residency
at Tryon Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC, and which includes
some of the MAX patches she developed during her August 2001 Harvestworks
residency.
2/8/2002
Online Web Performance as
part of HTMlles Festival at CCRMA, Stanford, CA /Société des Arts Technologiques, Montréal,
QC Canada
Pamela Z will do a live,
solo performance at Stanford’s CCRMA “Ballroom” which
will be transmitted live over the internet to the HTMlles Festival at
Société des Arts Technologiques in Montréal.
1/12/2002
Solo performance
as part of the CalArts CEAIT Festival at Roy O. Disney Hall in Valencia,
CA
Lecture/Demo as
part of Charle’s Boone’s Sound Art class at The San Francisco
Art Institute in San Francisco, CA
11/10/2001
“3”,
a performance of works in progress at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center
in Charlotte, NC
The evening includes one work each by Pamela Z, John W. Love Jr., and
April Jones
10/29/2001
Solo Performance
and Presentation as part of ASCAP “Thru the Walls” Showcase
at The Cutting Room in New York, NY
The evening includes the work of composers Pamela Z, Jed Distler, and
Brandon Ross.
10/1/2001
Performance of
a new commissioned work, Persistence for the Left Coast Chamber
Ensemble as part of San Francisco Inventions Series at The Green Room
in the War Memorial Arts Center in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Inventions includes commissioned works by Pamela Z, Beth
Custer, and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez.
9/28/2001
to 9/30/2001
Premiere of a new commissioned
work Persistance for the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble at Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Inventions includes commissioned works by Pamela Z, Beth
Custer, and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez.
Panel Discussion
in collaboration with Elliott Sharp, DJ Spooky, Marina Rosenfeld, &
John Hudak as part of Modulations: Experimental Sound in a Digital Age
at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY
4/20/2001
Solo Perfomance
and Workshop at Oroville State Theater in Oroville, CA
4/12/2001
to 4/13/2001
Solo Performance
and Talk as part of the Art and Technology Festival at The Juilliard School
in New York, NY
4/10/2001
Solo Performance
at Oberlin Conservatory in Oberlin, OH
3/22/2001
to 6/10/2001
Audio installation
as part of the Bitstreams Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American
Art in New York, NY
2/21/2001
Solo Performance as part
of the Music at Noon series at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara,
CA
Solo Performance
in the Courtyard as part of the "Avant Yard" Series at Zeum
in San Francisco, CA
6/23/2000
Solo Performance
and workshop at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, CA
6/1/2000
Original score
for "Copra Dock Dances" in collaboration with Jo KreiterFlyaway
Productions at Pier 84 in San Francisco, CA
5/8/2000
to 5/12/2000
Visiting Artist
Residency at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH
5/8/2000
Performance with
Eric Lyon at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH
5/7/2000
Performance with sensorChip
(Miya Masaoka, Donald Swearingen, & Pamela Z) as part of the First
Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival at Cellspace in San Francisco,
CA
Solo Performance
as part of the First Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival at
Cellspace in San Francisco, CA
4/27/2000
Improvisational
works with contabassist Peter Kowald (Germany) and bass saxphonist Tony
Bevan (U.K.) at The Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco, CA
4/12/2000
to 10/25/2000
Sound installation
“...and on your left...” as part of The "Walkmen"
Sound exhibit at the Diözesanmuseum in Köln, Germany
4/12/2000
Solo Performance at the Diözesanmuseum
in Köln, Germany
3/24/2000
Solo performmance
at Columbia College in Chicago, IL
3/10/2000
Solo and collaboarative
perfromances with Donald Swearingen, Miya Masaoka, Amy X Neuburg and Sarah
Cahill in the "Shuffle Show", a benefit for the Common Sense
Composers' Collective Opus 415 Marathon. at Theater Artaud in San Francisco,
CA
1/16/2000
Recorded work
as part of the exhibition "I Am Sitting In A Room: Sound Works by
American Artists: 1950-2000" at Whitney Museum of American Art in
New York, NY
An evening of women in experimental
music with Laetitia Sonami, Zipperspy, and Pamela Z at Diego Rivera
Theatre, City College Phelan Campus in San Francisco
11/10/99
to 11/13/99
Solo performance
of excerpts from "Gaijin" as part of NewOp 8 Festival at Le
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in Montréal
10/23/99
Solo Performance
and discussion at CellSpace, BurningArt Presents at Cell in San Francisco
10/2/99
Dance performance
on a 75-foot high Crane with original music by Pamela ZJo Kreiter and
Flyaway Productions at the Copra Crane at Pier 86 in San Francisco
9/3/99
Solo Performance,
An Edge Gallery/Bug Theatre co-production at The Bug Theatre in Denver,
CO.
Performance of
Experimental Electro-acoustic music and Traditional Japanese Gagauku in
collaboration with TONO Tamami at Kenchouji Temple in Kamakura, Japan
6/28/99
Solo and Collaborative
works in collaboration with ADACHI Tomomi (Voice, Electronics, Selfmade
instrument), and Yuko Nexus6 (Macintosh, Voice) at MANDA-LA2 in Kichijoji,
Japan
6/25/99
Solo performance
on a bill with Wiggle and The Ruins at Milk in Ebisu, Tokyo
5/17/99
An evening of
solo performance & lecture/demo (with Japanese Translation by Christopher
Blasdel) at the International House in Tokyo
5/6/99
to 5/7/99
Original live
music Maureen Freehill's BRIDGE at Sphere Mex in Tokyo
3/27/99
Performance of
The Schmetterling (Other featured composers on this program will be Meredith
Monk, Julia Wolfe, Steve Martland and Gavin Bryars.) in collaboration
with Bang On A Can Allstars at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center in New
York, NY
3/20/99
Solo performance
as part of Expanding Your Horizons Conference at Mills College in Oakland,
CA
3/15/99
to 3/16/99
Solo performance
and a shared talk with in collaboration with Akio Suzuki as part of SoundCulture
'99 Festival at Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium in Auckland, New Zealand
1/11/99
to 7/10/99
Six Month Residency on a
Fellowship from the US/Japan Friendship Commission and the NEA in Tokyo
Solo Performance
of Parts of Speech at Theater Artuad in San Francisco
11/7/98
Performances with Charles
Amirikhanian, Henry Brant, and sensorChip as part of the Opus 415 Composer's
Marathon at Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco
10/28/98
Solo Performance
at The University of California in Irvine
10/28/98
Solo concert at
UC Irvine Concert Hall in Irvine CA.
10/26/98
to 10/31/98
Visiting artist
residency at at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA
10/21/98
Performance of "The
Schmetterling" in collaboration with The Bang on a Can Allstars
as part of Other Minds Series at Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena
Gardens in San Francisco, CA
Solo Concert as
part of Pina Bausch's Festival 25th Anniversary Festival at Pavillon in
Wuppertal, Germany
9/13/98
Performance of
"The Schmetterling" in collaboration with the Bang on a Can
Allstars as part of The People's Commissioning Project Benefit at Angel
Oresanz Foundation Center for the Arts in New York, NY
8/12/98
to 8/12/98
XYZ w/ Amy X Neuburg
and J Y at Venue 9 in San Francisco
5/29/98
Solo performance
and in collaboration with The Screaming Horns of Terror Funtime Orchestra
in the Gallery 8 Late Night Series at The Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis,
MN
5/17/98
Premiere performance of "The
Schmetterling" in collaboration with the Bang on a Can Allstars
at The Knitting Factory in New York, NY
1/14/98
Premiere of "Shifting
Conditions in the Southland" in in collaboration with California
E.A.R. Unit at LA County Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles, CA
Solo performance
as part of "Tage für Live-Elektronik Musik" at Musik-Akademie
der Stadt in Basel, Switzerland
11/10/97
Solo & Collaborative
performances with Donald Swearingen, Laetitia Sonami, and the Japanese
media ensemble Visual Brains as part of the "Other Minds" Festival
at Cowell Theatre in San Francisco, CA
9/6/97
Solo performance
in Theater Artaud's Annual
Performance Marathon.
8/17/97
Solo Concert as
part of “Palermo di Scena” at Santa Maria allo Spasimo in Palermo,
Italy
7/28/97
to 8/8/97
Solo and collaborative
performances as part of the "Six Exquisites" Sound Art Festival
in Tacoma, Spokane, and Seattle WA
July 1997
Shared evening
with Lukas Ligeti at Alte Schmiede in Vienna, Austria
July 1997
Live soundscores
for animated short films in in collaboration with the Sprocket Ensemble
at Venue 9 in San Francisco, CA
May 1997
Solo Performance
in C.U. as part of the Modern Chamber Players' New Music Festival at University
College of Music Theatre in Boulder, CO
March 1997
Solo works in a shared evening
at Studio 4 in Oakland, CA
Solo works and
in collaboration with Lukas Ligeti at The LAB in San Francisco, CA
January 1997
Performed narration to a
live score for the German film Orlac's Hände in in collaboration
with the Club Foot Orchestra at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco,
CA
Four-city tour
of Japan in in collaboration with Donald Swearingen, Laetitia Sonami,
and Japanese Media duo Visual Brains as part of the Interlink ‘96
Festival in Tokyo, Kyoto, Kobe, and Sapporo
7/12/96
to 7/13/96
Z Program 40 at
The LAB in San Francisco, CA
July 1996
Solo performance
as part of the Bang on a Can Festival at Lincoln Center in New York, NY
June 1996
Solo performance
as part of the Festival of Improvisers at Footwork in San Francisco, CA
June 1996
Solo concert as
part of The Utah Arts Festival in Salt Lake City, UT
May 1996
Solo performance
and in collaboration with Kotoist/Composer Miya Masaoka as part of the
Ventura Chamber Music Festival in Ventura, CA
April 1996
Solo Performance
of "Parts of Speech" as part of the SoundCulture '96 Festival
at New Langton Arts in San Francisco, CA
January 1996
Solo performance at the San
Francisco Art Commission Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Performed a work
by Louis Andriessen with visuals by Peter Greenaway in in collaboration
with The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players at Center for the Arts
at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, CA
October 1995
Solo performance
at the San Jose Tech Museum in San Jose, CA
September 1995
Solo performance
and in collaboration with David Van Tiegham, Craig Harris, and Dan Senn
as part of the “Sonic Circuits” Festival of Electronic Arts
at The Red Eye Theatre in Minneapolis, MN
July 1995
DUETS in in collaboration
with various Bay Area performers and composers at The LAB in San Francisco,
CA
June 1995
Solo concert and
a performance of “Correspondence” in in collaboration with 77hz
at LACE in Los Angeles, CA
April 1995
Solo performance
as part of the CRCA Interarts Festival at the Center for Research in Computer
Arts in San Diego, CA
April 1995
Solo performance
as part of The LAB’s "Utopia Dystopia" Conference at Center
for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, CA
1/17/95
to 2/10/95
Appeared in the opera “A
Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil” by Erling Wold based on
a Max Ernst picture novel in in collaboration with a cast including
Laurie Amat and members of the Club Foot Orchestra at Intersection for
the Arts in San Francisco, CA
Solo performance of ReSounding
as part of Secession Gallery’s “Site as Sound” series
at Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, CA
September 1994
Solo and collaborative
performances in the John Cage Memorial Concert in collaboration with New
Music Theatre as part of “CageFest ‘94” at Fort Mason Center
in San Francisco, CA
July 1994
Solo Performance as part
of the DICE Festival at The Knitting Factory in New York, NY
Performed the
roles of Dorabella and Fiordigli in K. Atchley’s “Cosi Fan Tutti”
in in collaboration with K. Atchley and Barney Jones at New Langton Arts
in San Francisco, CA
September 1992
Solo concert at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY
September 1992
Solo concert at
CBGB's Gallery 313 in New York, NY
September 1992
Solo and collaborative
performances in in collaboration with New Music Theatre as part of “CageFest
‘92” at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA
September 1992
Solo concert at
Bucknell University in Bucknell, PA
Solo performance
on the bill with Jim Carroll at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco,
CA
December 1991
Stich-Tche-Na-Ko
in in collaboration with The Qube Chix at Theater Artaud in San Francisco,
CA
July 1991
Solo performance
as part of the Composer to Composer Festival at the Opera House in Telluride,
CO
July 1991
Solo performance
as part of the “Lollapalooza” festival at the Shoreline Amphitheater
in Oakland, CA
June 1991
Performed roles
in String of Pearls mini-operas in collaboration with J. Raoul Brody and
members of the Club Foot Orchestra at Life on the Water in San Francisco,
CA
May 1991
Appeared in the interdiciplinary
production “Ace Taboo” in in collaboration with SOON 3 at
the Cowell Theatre in San Francisco, CA
Multimedia performance
in in collaboration with Richard Zvonar and David Ziccarelli as part of
The Deep Listening Series at Life on the Water in San Francisco, CA
March 1991
Presented by the
Colorado New Music Association at The Mercury Café in Denver, CO
January 1991
“Z program 3 or 4”
at The Lab in San Francisco, CA
Onstage conversation
in in collaboration with Brian Eno as part of the Deep Listening Festival
at Life on the Water in San Francisco, CA
July 1990
Solo concert at
Penny Lane in Boulder, CO
July 1990
Solo concert at
the Art Department Gallery in Denver, CO
May 1990
Solo Concert at 8:00pm at New Langton Arts in San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z performs works for voice and electronics on a evening shared with Oluyemi Thomas’ Positive Knowlege.
May 1990
Performed in Stockhausen's
“Originale” in in collaboration with New Music Theatre at Theatre
Artaud in San Francisco, CA
April 1990
Solo performance
of Invisible Site in collaboration with George Coates Performance Works
and Composer Marc Ream at George Coates Performance Works in San Francisco,
CA
February 1990
Performed live original score
of “Z Songs”Gary Palmer Dance Company at Theater Artaud in
San Francisco, CA
Performed on the
bill with Nina Hagen at Club DV8 in San Francisco, CA
November 1986
Vocal performance
in collaboration with John Melcher and Philip Aaberg at New Langton Arts
in San Francisco, CA
July 1986
Solo performance
and in collaboration with Barney Jones and Liza Kitchell as part of the
IMPACT New Music Series at Club 9 in San Francisco, CA
9/27/1885
Pamela Z in a shared evening with Dega Ray, Jungle Book, and Spider Box at Mabuhay Gardens on Broadway at 9pm - 1pm in San Francisco, CA USA
Pamela Z performs solo works for voice, delays, and found objects in a shared concert with Dega Ray, Junglebook, and Spider Box at the iconic punk club Mabuhay Gardens on Broadway (AKA The Fab Mab) in North Beach, San Francisco.
9/8/1885
Pamela Z with Love Club at the 16th Note
Solo performance of works for voice, delays, and objects at The 16th Note in San Francisco, CA USA
10/31/84
to 7/1/86
Solo Performances
at various Bay Area Clubs, Performance Galleries, and Coffeehouses including:
Media in SF, The Paradise Lounge in SF, The Sweetwater in Mill Valley,
The Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, Goat Hill Pizza in San Francisco, and The BayBrick in San Francisco
1978
to October 1984
Solo concerts
in clubs, coffeehouses, theatre spaces, and busking (under the name "Pam
Brooks") in the Denver/Boulder Area, CO
(after moving to San Francisco, her name was legally changed to Pamela
Z)
page contains all current, future, and past Pamela Z-related performances and events in reverse
chronological order. For upcoming events in the immediate furture, refer to the embedded agenda at the upper right..
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