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Guest Artist Pamela Z Presents Concert
April 10
by Charity Johnson '99
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Composer/performer Pamela Z will present a free, public concert featuring works for voice and electronics, and interdisciplinary performance, Tuesday, April 10 at 9:00 p.m. in Warner Concert Hall.
Based in San Francisco, Pamela Z works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, and sampling technology. Her layered works combine operatic "bel canto" style and experimental extended vocal techniques with delays and other computer processing, found percussion objects, spoken word, and sampled sounds triggered with a MIDI controller called The "BodySynth," which allows her to manipulate sound with physical gestures.
Pamela Z has performed in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1984, and has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals, including Bang On A Can at Lincoln Center in New York, the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, Pina Bausch's 25th Anniversary Festival in Wuppertal, Germany, and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Hamburg, Germany. Ms. Z has composed, recorded and performed original scores for choreographers and for film and video artists, and has done live and recorded vocal work for numerous composers, including Charles Amirkhanian and Henry Brant.
She has received commissions from new music chamber ensembles including the California E.A.R. Unit (L.A.,) and the Bang On A Can Allstars (N.Y.) Her collaborations include work with cellist Joan Jeanreneau, kotoist/composer Miya Masaoka, Zakros New Music Theatre (including their John Cage festivals,) and contrabassist Peter Kowald.
Pamela Z’s work is currently being exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, as part of their "BitStreams" exhibition. She is a recipient of the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts, and spent the first six months of 1999 in Japan on a residency awarded by the NEA and the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission.
Pamela Z holds a music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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