selected collaborative projects:
Cage Recording |
Performed and vocal parts on Postcard From Heaven, a John Cage work for harps and voices with harpist Victoria Jordanova. |
Wunderkabinet |
Co-composed with Matthew Brubeck, Wunderkabinet is a one-act opera with a libretto based on The Museum of Jurassic Technology and with projected video designed by Christina McPhee. |
Language Lessons |
Co-created Language Lessons with Jeanne Finley + John Muse(a short film). Also created sound scores for various films and installation works. |
Bang on a Can |
Performances of Pamela Z’s The Schmetterling at Lincoln Center & The Knitting Factory in NY, & Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF. (Commissioned by the Bang On A Can People's Commissioning Fund.) |
sensorChip Formed 1998 |
Electro-acoustic performance trio (with Composer/Kotoist Miya Masaoka and Composer/Synthesist Donald Swearingen). |
California E.A.R Unit |
Premiere of Pamela Z’s Shifting Conditions in the Southland with the California E.A.R. Unit at the L.A. County Museum of Art. |
Club Foot Orchestra 1997 |
Live narration for the performance of their original score for "Orlac's Hände" at the Castro Theatre (San Francisco) |
Sprocket Ensemble 1997 |
Live soundscores for animated short films at Venue 9. |
Laetitia Sonami, Donald Swearingen, and Visual Brains 1996/1997 |
Co-creation of Mona Lisa for the Interlink '96 Festival in Japan (October/November 1996) and presented again at the "Other Minds" Festival at the Cowell Theatre in San Francisco (November 1997) |
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players December 1995 |
Vocal soloist in a Performance of a M by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen with visuals by Peter Greenaway at Center for the Arts |
77 Hz |
Correspondence, a performance work premiered LACE (Los Angeles) |
Erling Wold 1995 |
Soloist in his opera A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil based on a Max Ernst picture novel at Intersection for the Arts. (San Francisco) |
The Qube Chix Formed 1992 |
Interdisciplinary performance ensemble (with dancer/butoh artist Leigh Evans and opera singer/performance artist Julie Queen) |
K. Atchley's |
Soloist in his Cosi Fan Tutti at New Langton Arts (San Francisco) |
Soon 3 1991 |
Perfomance in the production Ace Taboo (Cowell Theatre, SF) |
Zakros Interarts/ |
Dream Encoding: a multi-media performance work disguised as a sales presentation in a boothe at Mac Expo. (1993) • CageFests (1992 and 1993) and John Cage Memorial Concert (1994) at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco • Stockhausen's Originale (Theatre Artaud, S.F. 1990) |
George Coates Performance Works 1990 |
Solo performance of Invisible Site with music by Marc Ream to open the new GCPW space (San Francisco) |
Brian Eno 1990 |
A live on stage dialog with Brian Eno as part of the Deep Listening Series presented by Zakros Interarts. |
Z Programs |
Ongoing series of multi-media, multi artist performance events produced by Pamela Z (since 1987) featuring the live work of a many of Bay Area artists doing adventurous work in a variety of disciplines |