Pamela Z
"With the dramatic changes that came about in my music due to the use of digital delays, my hands and my body were freed up for gesture and movement, and I became more focused on the performance aspect of my work. I came to see the sound I was making, and my physical behavior while making it, as an integrated whole ... performance itself was a discipline ..."
Pamela Z is a composer, performer and audio artist.
She performs and composes primarily with voice, live electronic processing, and sampling technology. In performance, she creates layered works combining operatic bel canto and experimental extended vocal techniques with a battery of digital delays, found percussion objects, and sampled sounds triggered with a MIDI controller called The BodySynthTM, which allows her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. She has performed at Bang on a Can (New York), Interlink(Japan), Other Minds (San Francisco), Pina Bausch's 25th Anniversary Festival (Wuppertal, Germany), Words and Voices (Heidelberg, Germany), Whitney Museum of American Art, Dartmouth College, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival at Cellspace, Kenchouji Temple (Kamakura, Japan), Mills College ... Collaborators have included Charles Amirkhanian, Henry Brant, Donald Swearingen, New Music Theatre ... She has received commissions and grants from New American Radio, California E.A.R. Unit, Bang On A Can Allstars, San Francisco Art Commission, American Composers Forum, CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts, NEA, Japan / U.S. Friendship Commission ...
Pamela Z lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She produces Z Programs, an ongoing series of interdisciplinary events. She is a member of sensorChip, an electronic music ensemble, and The Qube Chix, an interdisciplinary performance ensemble. She performs and travels extensively.
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