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Pamela Z
composer/performer/media artist
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Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist who works with voice, live electronic processing, sampling technology, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, she creates solo works integrating experimental extended voice, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. In addition to her solo work, she has composed and recorded commissioned scores for dance, theatre, film, and new music chamber ensembles including New York's Bang on a Can All-stars, Ethel (the NY-based string quartet), St Luke's Chamber Orchestra, choreographer Brenda Way of ODC Dance, and experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer. Her large-scale multi-media works have been presented at venues including Theater Artaud and ODC in San Francisco, The Kitchen in New York, and REDCAT in Los Angeles, and her media installation works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum (NY), the Diözesanmuseum (Cologne), and the Krannert Art Museum (IL). In 2005, she was one of three artists comprising the American presence at Dak'ART, the Dakar Biennale (Senégal) for which she was commissioned to make a site-specific sound installation on Gorée Island. Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including Bang on a Can at Lincoln Center (New York), Interlink (Japan), Other Minds (San Francisco), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Festival (Wuppertal, Germany). She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts, The MAP Fund, the ASCAP Music Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention, and the NEA and Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship.
Education
| Bachelor of Music (1978) in vocal music and education at the University of Colorado at Boulder, voice with John Paton |
Selected Advanced Study
2009 |
Moving Image Media Artist workshop at 3LD (New York) |
2004 |
MAX MSP & Jitter at CNMAT (Berkeley, CA) |
1999 |
Butoh with Kazuo OHNO and Yoshito OHNO (Yokohama) |
Languages Studied
| French, Japanese, Italian |
Performance History
2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990 | 1980s
2011 |
Festival Internacional de Poesia de Barcelona, Spain • White Box Gallery, NY • Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA • Fresh Sound Series, San Diego CA • ROOM Series, San Francisco • NOH Space, Sound is the Movement Series, San Francsico |
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2010 |
The Kitchen (NYC): Baggage Allowance • International Musikerinnen Festival, Berlin • Merkin Hall, New York: works for voice, electronics, & video •| Theater Artaud (San Francisco, CA): Baggage Allowance world premiere • IUPUI Intermedia Festival, Indianapolis IN • Krannert Arts Center, Champaign IL: solo concert including excerpts from Baggage Allowance • CNMAT, Berkeley: solo concert • UC Irvine, Gassmann Electronic Music Series. Irvine, CA • Cal State Long Beach, solo concert • Centre Stage Theater, shared concert, Santa Barbara, CA • 3LD, New York • Garden of Memory, Oakland • The Stone, NYC: solo concert • Royce Gallery, ROOM Series, San Francisco • Harlem Stage, NY: with Vijay Iyer • Teatro Manzoni, Milan Italy: with Vijay Iyer • California Institute of Integral Studios, San Francisco: solo concert • SFMoMA, San Francisco: performance/talk on Rauchenberg |
| Xuxtaposiciones Festival, Madrid Spain • UCSC Recital Hall, Santa Cruz, CA: solo concert • Seattle Film Forum: solo concert • Roulette, NY • Hamilton College Performance Arts Series • Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY • Wismer Theater, Chico CA • Evergreen Valley College, San Jose CA • San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, SF • MonkeyTown, NY • Alliance Française, San Francisco, CA • ODC Dance Commons, San Francisco, CA • Garden of Memory, Oakland • • Royce Gallery, San Francisco, CA: ROOM Series "Pipes" • HarvestWorks LISTEN IN festival at Roulette, NY • New Music New College, Sainer Pavilion, Sarasota, FL • Sushi, San Diego CA: Fresh Sounds Series • Switchboard New Music Festival, San Francisco • In the Mood for Food experimental dinner/concert series, Oakland, CA • California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA • Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY: works for voice & electronics • The Juilliard School, NYC: Pamela Z's Four Movements for Violoncello and Delays | |
Bang on a Can Marathons at YBCA, SF and World Financial Center, NY • Experimental Intermedia NY • Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria: solo concert • Essl Museum, Linz Austria: solo concert • Digital Diaspora Conference, College Park, MD • University of Utah, SLC, UT: solo works for voice and electronics – and Canyonlands performing PZ's 20 Answers -- as part of the Maurice Abravanel Visiting Distinguished Composers Series • Chapel of the Chimes Winter Solstice Concert, San Francisco, CA • Capp Street Concert Hall, San Francisco, CA • Listen/Space, Brooklyn, NY • Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY • • The Pendulum Royce Gallery, San Francisco, CA • Royce Gallery, San Francisco: ROOM Summer 2008 Series • Garden of Memory, Oakland • Sonic Residues Festival, SUNY Stony Brook, NY • Milkbar, Oakland, CA • Stanford Lively Arts, Palo Alto, CA: performance with Vijay and Mike Ladd • Twenty Answers performed by Empyrean Ensemble, UC Davis, CA • Weisiger Theatre, Danville, KY |
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2007 |
Sons d'Hiver Festival in Paris, France. • Steim, Amsterdam • The Stone, NY • The Pendulum, Third Coast Audio Festival, Chicago IL • Colourscape Festival, London, UK • The Romanian, London, UK: concert with Alexander Balanescu • Isola di San Servolo, Venice, Italy • Musica+Videoarte+Convegno, Rome, Italy • The DIA: Beacon, NY: performance of Four Movements for Cello and Delays as part of Notable Women: A Celebration of Women Composers • Chelsea Art Museum, NY • Tipitina's, New Orleans LA • 21 Grand, Oakland, CA • Voci at Washington Performing Arts Society, DC • Wunderkabinet, Open Ears Festival in Canada • Sonic Gestures Recombinant Media Labs, San Francisco • Royce Gallery, San Francisco: ROOM Series • The Tenri Center, New York • Earlham College Goddard Auditorium, Carpenter Hall in Richmond, Indiana • Les Sept Lézards, Paris FR • Metal/Vox/Water Duke Performances Nasher Auditorium, Durham NC • Ethel Dreams of Temporal Disturbances performed by the string quartet ETHEL, Morrison Artists Series at the San Francisco State University |
| 2006 | APOSITSIA Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia • Long Arms Festival, Moscow, Russia • Vijay Iyer's Still Life with Commentator BAM Next Wave Festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York • Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY • Royce Gallery, Room Series with Joëlle Léandre, San Francisco, CA • Edgetone Music Summit, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA • Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY • Z Program 50, Royce Gallery, San Francisco, CA, • Garden of Memory, Oakland • Republic, Salzburg, Vienna • Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, CA • The Stone, NY • Benefit for the American Music Center, The Cutting Room, NY • Metal/Vox/Water, Instituto Cultural Leon, Mexico • Symphony Space, NYC • UNC Chapel Hill with Vijay Iyer, Chapel Hill, NC • Voices on the Edge Festival, Fullerton CA • Voci, Trafo House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest Hungary |
Performance History 2006-2010 | 2000-2005| 1995-1999| 1980-1994 | 1980s | Full CV |
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| 2005 | Metal/Vox/Water, University of Pittsburgh Spectrum Series, Bradford, PA • premiere of Ethel Dreams of Temporal Disturbances, performed by the string quartet Ethel, Krannert Arts Center, Champagne-Urbana, IL • Premiere of Wunderkabinet, The LAB, San Francisco, CA • Les 7 Lézards with Joëlle Léandre, Paris, France • All Frontiers Festival, Monfalcone, Italy • Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY • "Cooler in the Shade" Series at Lotus Arts in New York, NY with Vijay Iyer • Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO • The Stone, New York, NY • Bayennale, Drum Machine Museum in San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA, USA • Garden of Memory: at Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA • The LAB in San Francisco, CA • Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center in Chicago, IL • GASP Gallery in Boston, MA • Off-Market Theater, concert of works for Disklavier, San Francisco, CA |
| 2004 | Z Program Ten: CD release Event for Pamela Z's "A Delay is Better", The LAB Gallery, San Francisco, CA • The Knitting Factory East coast CD Release for "A Delay is Better", New York, NY • New York premiere of Voci (Voices), The Kitchen, New York • City of Women Festival. Kosovel Hall, Ljubljana, Slovenia • El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY • The Marsh in San Francisco, CA • Subtle Technologies Festival, Toronto, Canada • La Biennale de l'art africain contemporain DAK'ART 2004, Dakar, Senigal • Harvestworks Mixing it Up! Festival, The Apple Store, SOHO, New York, NY • The LAB's 20th Anniversary Series, San Francisco, CA • Chelsea Art Museum, New York • Powering Up/Powering Down Festival, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), San Diego, CA • Experimental Intermedia, New York, NY |
| 2003 | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina, Madrid, Spain • La Biennale di Venezia, Teatro Piccolo Arsenale , Venice, Italy • University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD • 21 Grand, Oakland, CA • The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA • Northsix, Brooklyn, NY • ExB Associazione Culturale, Bologna, Italy • Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA • Premiere of Four Movements for Violoncello and Delays, The Dia Center, New York, NY • Open Ears Festival, Kitchener, ON Canada • Spring Reverb Festival, La Antigua Bodega de Papel, Tijuana, Mexico • Museum of Contempoary Art, San Diego, CA • Premiere of Voci (Voices), a ODC Theater, San Francisco • Tuva Space, Berkeley with the Cornelius Cardew Choir, Oakland, CA |
| 2002 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. • Mills College, Oakland, CA. • Klangpark, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria • 21 Grand, Oakland, CA • Beyond Music Sound Festival VI, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA • shared evening with Joan Jeanreneaud, Noe Valley Music Series, San Francisco, CA • ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA • Electric Words Festival, Venue 9, San Francisco, CA • Garden of Memory, Oakland, CA • San José Museum of Art, San José, CA • Dominican University in San Rafael, CA. (Sponsored by the Women's Philharmonic.) • San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA • Tonic with Peter Kowald, New York, NY • SF Alt Festival, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA • NewTown's Sonic Gallery, Pasadena, CA • "Remixing: sound/body/performance", CRCA (Center for Research in Computing and the Arts), UC San Diego, Santa Cruz Festival of Performance (with Robert Dick), Santa Cruz, CA • Music on the Hill series with The Qube Chix, San Francisco • San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum, San Francisco, CA • Performance/Installation Forensic Art, The Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA • Harvestworks, New York, NY • Online Web Performance as part of HTMlles Festival, CCRMA, Stanford, CA /Société des Arts Technologiques, Montréal, QC Canada • CalArts CEAIT Festival, Roy O. Disney Hall, Valencia, CA |
| 2001 | Art and Technology Festival, The Juilliard School in New York, NY • Oberlin Conservatory in Oberlin, OH • Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA • Bruno's, San Francisco, CA • Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte, NC • ASCAP "Thru the Walls", The Cutting Room in New York, NY • Premiere of Persistence for Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA • Persistence performed by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, War Memorial Arts Center, San Francisco, CA • The Knitting Factory, New York, NY • Banff New Media Institute in Alberta, Canada • The LAB in San Francisco, CA • McCallum Theatre, Palm Desert, CA • Gaijin, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA • Oroville State Theater, Oroville, CA • |
| 2000 | The Juilliard School, New York, NY • Bang On A Can Marathon, Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, Brooklyn, NY • "Words and Voices" Festival, DAI, Heidelberg, Germany • collaboration with cellist Joan Jeanrenaud, Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA • Z Program 8 (Infinity), Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA • Galerie Epikur with Peter Kowald, Wuppertal, Germany • Bone Music at Bang On A Can, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Kampenagel, Hamburg, Germany • 848 Space, San Francisco, CA • "Avant Yard" Series, Zeum, San Francisco, CA • McCallum Theatre, Palm Desert, CA • Dartmouth College with Eric Lyon, Hanover, NH • San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Cellspace • The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA • Diözesanmuseum, Köln, Germany • Columbia College, Chicago, IL • Common Sense Composers' Collective "Shuffle Show", Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA |
Performance History 2006-2010 | 2000-2005| 1995-1999| 1980-1994 | 1980s | Full CV |
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| 1999 | Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center The Schmetterling with Bang On A Can Allstars at in New York, NY • SoundCulture '99 Festival, Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium, Auckland, New Zealand • Diego Rivera Theatre, City College, San Francisco • excerpts from Gaijin, NewOp 8 Festival, Le Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada • CellSpace, BurningArt, San Francisco • Mills College in Oakland, CA • Edge Gallery/Bug Theatre, Denver, CO • Kenchouji Temple with TONO Tamami, Kamakura, Japan • MANDA-LA2 with ADACHI Tomomi and Yuko Nexus6, Kichijoji, Japan • Milk, Ebisu, Tokyo • International House,Tokyo • Live score for Bridge (Hatchi) Sphere Mex, Tokyo |
| 1998 | Premiere performance of The Schmetterling with the Bang on a Can Allstars, The Knitting Factory, New York, NY • The Schmetterling with The Bang on a Can Allstars, Other Minds Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco • Pina Bausch's Festival 25th Anniversary Festival, Pavillon, Wuppertal, Germany • Parts of Speech, Theater Artuad, San Francisco • Opus 415 Composer's Marathon, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco • University of California Irvine, CA • California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA • The Schmetterling with the Bang on a Can Allstars, Angel Oresanz Foundation Center for the Arts, New York, NY • XYZ w/ Amy X Neuburg and J Y, Venue 9, San Francisco • Gallery 8 Late Night Series, The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN • Shifting Conditions in the Southland with California E.A.R. Unit, LA County Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1997 | Tage für Live-Elektronik Musik, Musik-Akademie der Stadt, Basel, Switzerland • Other Minds Festival with Laeititia Sonami, Donald Swearingen, and Visual Brains, Cowell Theatre, San Francisco, CA • Theater Artaud's Annual Performance Marathon., San Franciso, CA • Palermo di Scena" Festival, Santa Maria allo Spasimo, Palermo, Italy • "Six Exquisites" Sound Art Festival, Tacoma, Spokane, and Seattle WA • Shared evening with Lukas Ligeti, Alte Schmiede, Vienna, Austria • Live soundscores for animated short films with Sprocket Ensemble, Venue 9, San Francisco, CA • Modern Chamber Players' New Music Festival, University College of Music Theatre , Boulder, CO • Studio 4, Oakland, CA • The LAB with Lukas Ligeti, San Francisco, CA • Castro Theatre with Club Foot Orchestra, San Francisco, CA |
| 1996 | Bang on a Can Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY • Japan Interlink Festival in Tokyo, Kyoto, Kobe, and Sapporo, Japan • Z Program 40, The LAB, San Francisco, CA • Festival of Improvisers, Footwork, San Francisco, CA • The Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City, UT • Ventura Chamber Music Festival with Kotoist/Composer Miya Masaoka, Ventura, CA • Parts of Speech, SoundCulture '96 Festival, New Langton Arts San Francisco, CA • San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1995 | Performed 'M' by Louis Andriessen with visuals by Peter Greenaway with The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA • San Jose Tech Museum in San Jose, CA • Sonic Circuits Festival of Electronic Arts The Red Eye Theatre in Minneapolis, MN • DUETS, The LAB, San Francisco, CA • Correspondence with 77hz, LACE, Los Angeles, CA • CRCA Interarts Festival at the Center for Research in Computer Arts in San Diego, CA, The LAB's "Utopia Dystopia" Conference at at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco, CA • performed A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil by Erling Wold, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
Performance History 2006-2010 | 2000-2005| 1995-1999| 1980-1994 | 1980s | Full CV |
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| 1994 | ReSounding, Secession Gallery's "Site as Sound" series, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA • John Cage Memorial Concert in collaboration with New Music Theatre, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA • DICE Festival, The Knitting Factory, New York, NY |
| 1993 | COCA Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA • New Music Theatre "CageFest '93", Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA • CBGB'S "Gallery 313" with the Qube Chix, New York, NY • Renova Gallery, Warren, CT • Parts of Speech, The Marsh, San Francisco, CA • The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO • Dream Encoding, New Music Theatre, the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA • Circle of Bone with The Qube Chix, University of Nebraska Theater, Omaha, NB • The LAB, San Francisco, CA • New Music Theatre, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA |
| 1992 | Performed the roles of Dorabella and Fiordigli, K. Atchley's Cosi Fan Tutti, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY • CBGB's Gallery 313, New York, NY • "CageFest '92", Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA • Bucknell University, Bucknell, PA • CBGB's Gallery, New York, NY • EDGE Gallery, Denver, CO • Outdoors in Oakland, Ellen Webb Dance Company, Oakland, CA • New Music Café, New York, NY • Z program V, Life on the Water, San Francisco, CA • SonicWorks Festival, DiversWorks, Houston, TX |
| 1991 | Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA • Stich-Tche-Na-Ko in with The Qube Chix, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA • Composer to Composer, Telluride, CO • Lollapalooza festival, Shoreline Amphitheater, Oakland, CA • String of Pearls mini-operas • Life on the Water in San Francisco, CA • SOON 3's Ace Taboo, Cowell Theatre, San Francisco, CA • The Deep Listening Series with Richard Zvonar and David Ziccarelli • Colorado New Music Association, The Mercury Café, Denver, CO • "Z program 3 or 4", The Lab, San Francisco, CA |
| 1990 | Roulette, New York, NY • A conversation with Brian Eno as part of the Deep Listening Festival, Life on the Water, San Francisco, CA • Penny Lane, Boulder, CO • the Art Department Gallery, Denver, CO • New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA • Stockhausen's Originale, New Music Theatre, Theatre Artaud, San Francisco, CA • Invisible Site, George Coates Performance Works, San Francisco, CA • Z Songs, Gary Palmer Dance Company, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA |
| 1980s | Great American Music Hall with Negativland, San Francisco, CA • Z program 2.5, Studio Four, San Francisco, CA • Penny Lane, Boulder, CO • Z program II, New Performance Gallery, San Francisco, CA • Pirate Gallery, Denver, CO • Z program ONE, The LAB, San Francisco, CA • Club DV8 with Nina Hagen, San Francisco, CA • New Langton Arts with John Melcher and Philip Aaberg, San Francisco, CA • IMPACT New Music Series, Club 9, San Francisco, CA • Media, San Francisco, CA • Paradise Lounge, San Francisco, CA • The Sweetwater, Mill Valley, CA • Freight & Salvage, Berkeley • The BayBrick, San Francisco, CA |
Krannert Art Museum: Baggage Allowance (January-April 2010)
Chico University Art Gallery: Parts of Speech (Oct-Nov 2009)
Recombinant Media Labs: Metal/Voice (2006) and Sonic Gestures (2007)
Tang Museum sound installation: Lift (Saratoga Springs, NY 2005)
Hellenic Museum Art of Artist Statement exhibition Declaratives in the First Person (Chicago 2005)
The Kitchen: New Sound New York Morrow Cube Sound Syrinx (New York 2004)
La Biennale de l'art africain contemporain DAK'ART Just Dust (Dakar, Senigal 2004)
The Design Center Sound Migrations Syrinx four-channel version (Los Angeles, CA 2004)
The LAB Gallery Annual Art Auction sound works (San Francisco, CA 2004, 2003, 2002)
San Jose Museum of Art Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California Gallery screening of performance works, (San Jose, CA 2002)
CCA Gallery CCA Fall Faculty Exhibition Geekspeak, 2-channel sound work (Oakland 2002) List Visual Art Center, MIT Race in Digital Space Regular Verbs 2-channel sound installation (Cambridge, MA 2001)
Whitney Museum of American Art Bitstreams Geekspeak (New York 2001) Tryon Center for Visual Art (now McColl), Resident Artists Exhibition gallery screening of performance works (Charlotte, NC 2001)
Whitney Museum of American Art I am sitting in a room Geekspeak (New York 2000) Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum "Walkmen" Exhibition And on Your Left… (Cologne, Germany 2000)
Grants and Awards
United States Artists Projects, Crowd-funding for Baggage Allowance interactive web-based art work. |
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2010 |
San Francisco Art Commission for Memory Trace |
| 2000-10 | ASCAP Music Awards |
| 2009 | MAP Fund for Baggage Allowance |
| 2008 | University of Colorado Boulder, CO, College of Music Alumna of the Year
Creative Work Fund with BAVC, San Francisco, CA for Baggage Allowance American Composer's Forum Subito Grant for Baggage Allowance Prixars Electronica, Linz Austria, Honorable Mention in Digital Musics Category |
| 2007 | Zellerbach Family Foundation project and artist support |
| 2006 | San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Grant for The Pendulum |
| 2005 | NEA and Irvine Foundation Support for Wunderkabinet American Composer's Forum Subito Grant for Metal/Vox/Water |
| 2004 | Guggenheim Fellowship Zellerbach Family Foundation project and artist support |
| 2000-04 | California Arts Council Touring Artists Initiative Grant |
| 2002 | Creative Capital Grant for Voci San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Commission Grant Zellerbach Family Foundation project and artist support |
| 2001 | Tryon/McColl Center for Visual Art (Charlotte, NC) Artist Fellowship
CAC Artist Residencies for SoundWork workshops at The LAB |
| 1999 | San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Commission Grants |
| 1994-98 | CAC Artist Residencies for SoundWork workshops at The LAB |
| 1998 | CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts for Music
Japan-US Friendship Commission/NEA Fellowship (6 months in Tokyo) San Francisco Bay Guardian "Goldie" Award LEF Foundation Support for Parts of Speech McKnight/American Composer's Forum Visiting Composer Fellowship |
| 1993-99 | California Arts Council Touring Artists Initiative Grant
Meet the Composer Grants for appearances throughout the US |
| 1997 | San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Commission Grant |
| 1995 | Minnesota (now American) Composer's Forum grant for Correspondence at LACE
Xerox PARC PAIR (PARC Artist In Residence) program |
| 1994 | San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Commission Grant |
| 1992 | New Langton Arts Artist Projects Grant to develop Parts of Speech |
| 1991 | Zellerbach Family Foundation project and artist support
LEF Foundation Support for Z Program V |
Commissions
CHAMBER ENSEMBLES & SOLO WORKS |
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Twenty Answers, 2008
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Empyrean Ensemble, premiered UC Davis, CA |
Wunderkabinet 2005
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The LAB, premiered at The LAB, San Francisco, CA |
| Ethel Dreams of Sonic Disturbances 2005
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Ethel (string quartet), premiered Krannert Arts Center, IL |
Four Movements for Cello & Delays 2003 |
Orchestra of St. Luke's, premiered DIA Center, NY |
Persistence 2001 |
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, premiered Yerba Buena Center, San Francsico, CA |
Parts of Speech 1995 |
San Francisco Arts Commission, premiered Theatere Artaud, San Francsico, CA |
The Schmetterling 1998 |
Bang On A Can People's Commissioning Fund, Premiered Knitting Factory, NY |
Shifting Conditions in the Southland 1998 |
California E.A.R. Unit, Premiered LACMA, Los Angeles, CA |
Mona Lisa 1996 |
Japan Interlink Festival, joint commission w/ Laetitia Sonami, Donald Swearingen, premiered Sogetsu Hall, Tokyo |
Layers 1997 |
Mrs. Ralph I. Dorfmann, joint commission w/ Lukas Ligeti. Premiered The LAB, San Francisco, CA |
Correspondence 1995 |
The American Composer's Forum joint commission with 77Hz. Premiered at LACE, Los Angeles, CA |
DANCE SCORES |
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Waving Not Drowning 2009 |
Brenda Way, ODC Dance, premiered Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
The Ballad of PollyAnn 2008 |
Jo Kreiter, Flyaway Productions, premiered SomArts, San Francisco, CA |
How To Be A Citizen 2003 |
Jo Kreiter, Flyaway Productions, a dance work honoring 100 years of protest in San Francisco, Ferry Building Plaza, San Francisco, CA |
Mission Wall Dances 2002 |
Jo Kreiter, Flyaway Productions, three-storey mural wall at Harrison and Alameda Streets. San Francisco, CA |
The Economics of Place 2001 |
Jo Kreiter, Flyaway Productions, premiered 418 Project, Santa Cruz, CA |
Hashi (Bridge) 1999 |
Maureen Freehill Butoh, Sphere Mex, Tokyo |
Copra Dock Dances 1999 |
Jo Kreiter. Flyaway Productions, Islais Creek crane, San Francisco, CA |
Batman, No Robin 1996 |
High Risk Group, premiered The LAB, San Francisco, CA |
The Quivering Mass 1996 |
Ann Bluethenthal and Dancers, premiered ODC Performance Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Outdoors in Oakland 1992 | Ellen Webb Dance Company, Downtown Oakland, CA |
Z Songs 1990 |
Gary Palmer Dance Company, Theater Artaud, San Francisco |
FILM AND VIDEO SCORES |
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| Lover/Other 2005 | Barbara Hammer |
| Language Lessons 2002 | Jeanne Finley + John Muse |
| O Night Without Objects 1997 | Jeanne Finley + John Muse |
| Tender Fictions 1995 | Barbara Hammer |
| San Francisco Arts All Over the Map 1993 | Searchlight Films |
| Diese Jugen 1984 | Elena-María Bey |
Sound and Media Works |
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| Sonic Gestures 2007 | NexMap, premiered Recombinant Media Labs |
| Lift 2005 | The Tang Museum, sound installation for the Elevator Music Series |
| Just Dust 2004 | Dak'Art (Dakar Biennale), sound installation for the Maison des Esclaves, Gorée Island |
| Parts of Speech 1995 | New American Radio/ San Francisco Arts Commission |
| Trying to Reach You 1989 | New American Radio |
Discography
Crosstalk Declaratives in the First Person (Z), Bridge CD (2008)
Lisle Ellis: Sucker Punch Requiem (Pamela Z: voice & electronics, Oliver Lake: saxophones, George Lewis: trombone, Holly Hoffman: flutes, Mike Wofford: piano, Susie Ibarra: drums & percussion, Lisle Ellis: bass), Arpaviva CD 001(2006)
John Cage: Postcard From Heaven (Victoria Jordanova: harps, Pamela Z: voices), Arpaviva CD 001(2006)
Ethel: Light Ethel Dreams of Temporal Disturbances (Z), Cantelope CD CA20137 (2006)
Deep Wireless 2 Pop Titles 'You' (Z) New Adventures in Sound Art CD (2005)
Pamela Z: A Delay is Better (solo album) Starkland, CD ST-213 (2004)
Peter Kowald: Global Village Trio Mvts I, II, & III (Kowald, Gottschalk, and Z), Free Elephant CD 001(2004)
Bitstreams Sound works from the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Geekspeak (Z) Whitney CD (2001)
Visions No. 3 (Z), Emit Series, Emit Series, CD (2002)
Homo Sonorus 50 for Charles Amirkhanian (Z), Kunstradio CD (2001)
Immersion Live/Work (Z), Starkland DVD-audio (5.1 surround) ST-2010 (2000)
Emergency Music Caught (Z), CRI CD 770 (1998)
Sonic Circuits IV Geegspeak (Z), Innova CD 113 (1996)
Dice 2 Parts (Z) and Questions (Trip) (Z), Isthar CD 002 (1996)
From A to Z In Tymes of Olde (Z), and Obsession, Addiction, and the Aristotelian (Z and Imhoff) Starkland CD ST-203 (1993)
Dice The Qube Chix: Bald Boyfriend (Z) Isthar CD 001 (1993)
State of the Union State (Z) Arrest CD AR 003 (1992)
Komotion International Vol. 11 Pearls, the Gem of the Sea (Z) Spirit Records LP, CD, CS (1991)
Pamela Z: Echolocation (solo album) ZED, CS (1987)
Narration/Voice-Over Work (for audio samples, click here.)
FILM |
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2006
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Spectropia Voice of talking gun (feature film by Toni Dove) |
1999
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The Weather Underground Narration (feature documentary by Sam Green) |
1999 |
O Night Without Objects On-screen narration (documentary film by Jeanne Finley + John Muse |
| 2004 | Alive in Limbo Narration (feature documentary film by Erica Marcus and Hrabba Gunnarsdottir) |
| 1999 | The Weather Underground Narration (feature documentary by Sam Green) |
| 1999 | O Night Without Objects On-screen narration (documentary film by Jeanne Finley + John Muse) |
| 1998 | The Adventures of Blacky Narration (film by Jeanne Finley + John Muse) |
| TELEVISION | |
| 2003-2006 | Spark! Series Narration (Weekly Arts Series on KQED TV, San Francisco) |
| 1995-1996 | San Francisco Arts: All Over the Map Narration (SF Art Commission/Hotel Tax Fund-sponsored tourist promo spots, San Francisco) |
| MISC. NARRATION | Contemporary Art Center of Virginia Narration for Magna Carta exhibition audio tour (Antenna Audio) |
| Eragon (video game) Vocal during dragon fight (Stormfront Audio) |
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| Adobe Evolve Narration for Adobe software promo (eMotion Studios) |
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| Adobe Youth Voices Narration for Adobe youth program promo (eMotion Studios) |
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| Getty Museum Tours Narration for painting exhibition (Antenna Audio) |
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| Sonoma County Wine Country Narration for Wine Country tour (Antenna Audio) |
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| Steelcase Office furniture promotion (eMotion Studios) |
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| HWB Hard Drives Narration for hard drive promotion (eMotion Studios) |
Residencies
| 2011 | Montalvo Artist Center Lucas Artists Program two-month composer residency |
| 2010 | Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA, one-month composer residency |
| 2001 | Tryon (now McColl) Center for Visual Art for three-month artist residency |
| Harvestworks (NY) residency for recording and developing interactive performance technlology. | |
| 2000 | Dartmouth College, Visiting Artist Residency, Hanover, NH |
| California Arts Council Artist In Residence Program for 2000-2001 SoundWORK Workshops | |
| 1998 | Japan-US Friendship Commission/NEA Fellowship for a 1999 six month residency in Tokyo |
| 1997 | The American Composer's Forum McKnight Visiting Composer Fellowship for a 1998 two-month residency in the Twin Cities |
| 1996 | California Arts Council Artist in Residency Grant for Sound and Performance Workshops at The LAB |
| 1995 | California Arts Council Artist in Residency Grant for Sound and Performance Workshops at The LAB |
| 1994 | California Arts Council Artist in Residency Grant for Sound and Performance Workshops at The LAB |
| Xerox PARC for PAIR (PARC Artist In Residence) Program, Palo Alto, CA | |
| 1993 | Yellow Springs Institute, Chester Spgs. PA for a two-week artist residency with The Qube Chix |
| University of Nebraska, Omaha for The Qube Chix performance residency to develop Circle of Bone | |
| 1992 | Yellow Springs Institute, Chester Springs, PA for a solo artist residency |
| 1989 | The Exploratorium Artist in Residency Program for the development of Pamela Z Plays the Exploratorium, Literally |
Teaching Experience
COLLEGE COURSES AND SEMINARS 2008 Centre College, Danville, KY "CentreTerm" visiting artist seminar in alternative composition techniques 2002 California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA, graduate fine arts seminar Sound, Performance, and Alternative Composition 2002 San Francisco State University Department of Conceptual and Information Arts: Edge City sound, performance, and alternative composition course 2001 San Francisco State University Art Department, Experimental Music undergraduate seminar 1997-1998 San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Department, Sound Art and Audio Production 1997 San Francisco State University Department of Conceptual and Information Arts, Sound, Performance, and Alternative Composition 1993 California College of the Arts (CCA), Oakland, CA: The Extended Performer graduate seminar WORKSHOPS
2009 Evergreen Valley College, San Jose, CA sound workshop for students and local residents 2008 Royce Gallery, San Francisco, SoundWork eight-week sound, performance, and alternative composition workshop Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, SoundWork four-week sound, performance, and alternative composition workshop 2006 Das Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, one-week visiting artist residency in collaboration with Vijay Iyer, Mike Ladd, and Ibrahim Qureshi 1994-2008 Compasspoint Non-Profit Services, San Francisco, CA, technology workshops 1994-2002 Media Alliance, San Francisco, technology workshops 2001 Oroville State Theater, Oroville, CA, sound, performance, and alternative composition workshop 1994-2001 The LAB Gallery (through a CAC residency), San Francisco, multiple SoundWork eight-week sound, performance, and alternative composition workshops 2000 McCallum Theater, Palm Desert, CA, sound workshop for students and local residents 1998 Interact Center, Minneapolis, MN, SoundWork eight-week sound, performance, and alternative composition workshop 1993 & 96 Mountain View School System, Mountain View, CA: Music in Action performance/workshops in elementary schools 1994 The Exploratorium, San Francisco: interactive sound workshops (participants of all ages) 1993 The Clayton School, Denver, CO: vocal workshop with grammar school students in the "Visiting Artist" program 1991 MacAteer Performing Arts High School, San Francisco: workshop in alternative composition techniques PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1980-81 Denver Public Schools, Denver, CO: full-time Music Teacher (K-6) 1979-80 Denver Public Schools, Boulder Valley School District, Jefferson County Schools (CO), substitute teaching, all subjects, K-12
Guest Lectures and Panels
2010 CNMAT, Berkeley, CA: lecture in conjunction with the VoxTAP (Voice in Theory, Art, and Practice) working group. California Institute of the Arts (CALARTS): lecture in HyperOpera class University of California, Irvine CA: lecture as part of the Gassmann Electronic Music Series Cal State Long Beach, CA: lecture on multimedia performance and sound art Orange County High School of the Arts, Santa Ana, CA: lecture for music students California Institute of Integral Studios, San Francisco: lecture/demonstration Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF in San Francisco, CA: lecture on personalized use of MaxMSP in performance, Cycling 74's Expo74 2009 University of Washington, Seattle, WA: lecture as part of the "Writing for their Lives" program UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA: panel on Electronic Media and Diversity as part of ISIM Fourth Annual Conference California State University Long Beach, CA: "Architecture of Sound" panel on the future of sound and emergent technology in design Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY: guest lecture for Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening class California State University Chico, CA: lecture on sound and performance Evergreen Valley College, San Jose, CA, lecture at ARTiculate Global Arts Festival Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF San Francisco, CA, lecture-demo as part of Cycling 74's Expo74 at USA 2008 University of Colorado, Boulder, College of Music: commencement address 2007 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Composition Colloquium Series 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, CA: panel "This Music Defies Categorization" Earlham College Carpenter Hall, Richmond, Indiana Artist and Lecture Series at Goddard Auditorium: lecture top of section | Full CV 2004 Lecture-demo, Brooklyn College Composers' Forum and the Center for Computer Music Seminars. at Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music – CUNY, Brooklyn, NY Performance/Demonstration using MAX MSP and ProTools software in the auditorium at the SOHO Apple Store, NYC Lecture-Demo, Chelsea Art Museum, New York. (ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION's Arts Electric Introductions Series) Lecture/Demonstration at Powering Up/Powering Down, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), San Diego, CA 2003 Artist talk with Salah Hassan, Cheryl Finley, and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, the American Center Auditorium, Dakar, Senégal 2002 Panel discussion, Bay Area Women's Symposium, San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum in San Francisco, CA 2001 Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, OH, Digital Media and Sound Art (lectures and individual student mentoring) Talk as part of the Art and Technology Festival, The Juilliard School , New York, NY Lecture/Demo, San Francisco State University Art Department, San Francisco, CA Lecture/Demo, Charles Boone's Sound Art class, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Presentation at Human Voice/Computer Vox Conference, Banff New Media Institute, Alberta, Canada Lecture/Demo, The Juilliard School, New York, NY 2000 Shared Talk with Akio Suzuki, SoundCulture '99, Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium, Auckland, New Zealand Panel presented by BurningArt, CellSpace, San Francisco 1999 Lecture/demo (with Japanese Translation by Christopher Blasdel), International House, Tokyo 1998 California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA, visiting guest lecturer and individual student mentoring
Bibliography
By Pamela Z
Pamela Z "A Tool is Tool" Women in New Media, edited by Judy Malloy, MIT Press, Cambridge MA/London England, 2003
Pamela Z "Talking Music at Davies Hall: American Mavericks/Maverick Icons" 21st Century Music, July 2000
Pamela Z "Audible Image/Visible Sound: Donald Swearingen's Living Off The List" 21st Century Music, Vol. 8, No. 1
Michael Black, David Levy, and Pamela Z "Artscience Sciencart" by Art and Innovation, edited by Craig Harris, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA/London, England, page 210-247, 1999
Pamela Z "Brian Eno: Ambiguity, Yams, & Ju-Ju Spacejazz" Mondo 2000, Issue No. 4, page 114-119, 1991
About Pamela Z
Cathy Lane "Pamela Z interview" Playing with Words, The spoken word in artistic practice ISBN 978 0 955 8273 3 4 CRISAP, RGAP Distributed in the U.K. and Europe by Cornerhouse Publications, pages 34-36, 2008
George Varga "Earthly Musical Musings" Union-Tribune San Diego April 9, 2009
Naomi Perley "California Dreaming at Juilliard" CUNY Graduate Advocate February, 2009
Jaime Robles "Fascinating Pamela Z Performance at Royce Gallery" Piedmont Post July 2008
George Lewis "The Virtual Discourses of Pamela Z" Journal of the Society for American Music, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge MA, Volume 1, Number 1, pages 57-77, February 2007
Stephen Brookes The Washington Post "Pamela Z at the Tivoli" May 2007
Francis-Marie Uitti "Pamela Z" by Contemporary Music Review: IMPROVISATION, Routledge (Taylor & Francis), Edinburgh, pages 587-589, Vol. 25, Nos 5/6, October/December 2006
Jade Chang "How Does a Museum Become a Performance?" Urban Journal December 2006
Josef Woodard "Wunderkabinet Plays with the Facts" Los Angeles Times October 2006
Ellen Pearlman "Ze Cat's Meow: Pamela Z: New Strategies with DJ Spooky at Symphony Space The Brooklyn Rail September 2006
Josef Woodard "The Lighter Side of Serious" Santa Barbara News-Press June 5, 2006
Josef Woodard "Plugging In Sounding Off" Santa Barbara News-Press May 26, 2006 Los Angeles Times "All the Ingredients except the Audience" March 2006
Brian Morton "Pamela Z, A Delay is Better" The Wire May 2005
Anne Midgette The New York Times "Pamela Z's Voci, An Encyclopedia of Voices, Human and Otherwise" October 30, 2004
The New Yorker "Pamela Z: Voci" November 1, 2004
Alicia Zuckermaan "Pamela Z" New York Magazine November 1, 2004
Molly Sheridan New York Press "Voci" October 27, 2004
Andrew Gilbert "Pamela Z" San Jose Mercury News June 18, 2002
Stephen Wilson "Gesture: Pamela Z" Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA/ London, England, pages 745-746, 2002, 1st edition November 30, 2001
Dmitry Bulatov "Pamela Z, USA", Homo Sonorus, An International Anthology of Sound Poetry, The National Center for Contemporary Art (Kaliningrad Branch, Russia) 2001
Richard Elen "Immersion" audiorevolution.com November, 2001
Jules Langert "The New and Unusual Two Times Around" San Francisco Classical Voice September 28, 2001
Brad Rosenstein "Other voices, sonic booms" San Francisco Bay Guardian May 23, 2001
Yafonne "Pamela Z's Gaijin Unites Outsiders" Asian Week May 25-31, 2001
Von Hartmut Sassenhausen "Faszinierende Klänge mit elektronischen Geräten" Westdeutsche Zeitung August 17, 2000
Tom Sellar "Parts of Speech, Pamela Z interviewed" Theater, Volume 30, Number 2, page 59, Spring 2000
Kathy Kennedy "A few facets of Pamela Z" Musicworks, Number 76, page 5, Spring 2000
Ken Durling "The Electronic Avant-Garde, Hearing Anew, Moving Ahead" San Francisco Classical Voice May 6, 2000
Julainne Sumich "Sound Culture '99 Footnotes in Folie FX and Eliptical Fields" Art New Zealand, Number 91, Winter 1999
Irene Borger "Pamela Z Interview: June 28, 1998" The Force of Curiousity, Published by California Institute of the Arts and the Alpert Award, page 299-323, 1999
Von Hartmut Sassenhausen "Technisch unt mit der Stimme erzeugte Klänge" Westdeutsche Zeitung October16, 1998
J.H. Tompkins "Goldies '98, 10th Annual Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery Awards: Pamela Z MUSIC" San Francisco Bay Guardian Sept. 23-29, 1998
Kyle Gann "Bang on a Can All-Stars: Knitting Factory" The Village VOICE June 2, 1998
Kyle Gann "Pamela Z" American Music in the Twentieth Century, ISBN-10: 002864655X, Schirmer Books, page 383, 1997
John Weber, Curator of Education & Public Programs SFMOMA "Witness Pamela Z" WEST, A publication of the San Francisco Art Institute, page 9, Winter 1996/97
Bean "Tech" (article on Pamela Z's use of interactive controllers) Electronic Musician, September 1997
Simonetta Travoto "Voci e note elettronciche Pamela Z allo Spasimo" Giornale di Sicilia August 17, 1997
Joshua Kosman "Contemporary Players Tackle Andriessen's 'M'" San Francisco Chronicle Dec 13, 1995
Joshua Kosman "Surrealist Ernst Novel Inspires Dreamy Opera" San Francisco Chronicle Jan 28, 1995
Charles Boone "3 Vanguard Composers in San Francisco" by P Form, #33, page 21, Fall 1994
David Morgenstern "Mac Performance Art" MicroTimes June 28, 1993
Charles Ward "What's the sound of plastic unrolling?" Houston Chronicle Feb 4, 1992
Jas Morgan & Sarah Drew "Pamela Z" Mondo 2000, Issue No. 4, page 98, 1991
Nancy Clegg Art: "Z Whiz" Westword July 18-24, 1990
Professional Associations
Harvestworks Digital Media Center Board 2009 - Present Pamela Z Productions ROOM Series Presenter, Curator, Producer (2006-present) San Francisco Electronic Music Festival Co-Founder (1999) Steering Committee/ Curatorial Committee (1999-present) ASCAP Member 1997 - present Pamela Z Productions: Z Programs Presenter, Curator, Producer (1987-present) American Music Center Board Member 2003-2009 Theater Artaud Board Member 2000-2002 The LAB Gallery Board Member 1997-2003 Djerassi Resident Artist Program Board Member 1996-1999