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(all the gnus)Fall 2017 [pz gazzetta xxxii]
Pamela Z Arts' Quarterly Newsletter (view online)
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Upcoming: October 20, 2017: San Francisco, CA October 27, 2017: Williamsburg, VA November 18-19, 2017: Los Angeles, CA December 11, 2017: San Francisco, CA December 12, 2017: New York, NY January 29, 2018: Memphis, TN Febuary 15, 2018: New York, NY
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Art as Remedy |
Gentle Gazzetta Readers, Autumn is here. So many changes. The kind of change I’d prefer would be in the temperature and the color of the foliage which, alas, was about to turn just as I left the East Coast after a brief northeast tour. As I write this, the scent of burning wood hangs in the air. It is not from a fireplace or bonfire. It is the smoke-filled air wafting across the Bay from the Wine Country, where wildfires are raging. We are living through some seriously distressing times with one disaster (human-made and otherwise) striking after another. Violent storms, shootings, fires, earthquakes, and dangerously erratic executive decisions are shaking the whole world relentlessly. I must confess, I’m feeling inclined to retreat from the news and instead bury myself in my own art-making and take solace in the abundance of power and beauty in the work of other artists. On the East Coast... I attended a performance called Frantic Beauty by the intermedia Butoh company, LEIMAY, also at BAM. The piece was graced by a moving score by television composer Jeff Beal, and an otherworldly visual design by LEIMAY’s Shige Moriya, who uses projectors as lighting instruments to remarkable effect. Late in my trip, I saw a third BAM production featuring Kronos Quartet, Vân Ánh Võ, and the inimitable Rinde Eckert in a work based on the My Lai massacre. And on my last night, I took in the first five hours of a 19-hour performance of Satie’s Vexations at the Guggenheim. The event echoed the 1963 John Cage-curated concert, with 20 pianists faithfully repeating the short work in 20-minute shifts, and featured some of the same performers including Christian Wolfe and Joshua Rifkin. Back and Forth and Back Again
And then, after yet another coast-to-coast hop, I continued my interlaced art-making and art-viewing – alternating concert-going (sometimes 2 in a day!) with long hours in my studio recording and mixing tracks for my next record. I performed at the 45th Anniversary celebration of Developing Environments (AKA Project 2), the building where I live and work, attended concerts at BAM/PFA (Scott Amendola’s Orchestra di Pazzi) and Herbst Hall (Kronos Quartet with the Living Earth Show and Youth Speaks), and attended screenings including films by Lynn Sachs, Sandra Davis, Lynn Kirby, and Cauleen Smith at the Mill Valley Film Festival and Pacific Film Archive. I was absolutely floored by a masterpiece of 360º cinema by Vicki Bennett (AKA People Like Us) with surround sound by Jon Leidecker (AKA Wobbly) in the Cinechamber during the Recombinant Festival at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. More Work and More Travel Ahead Love, PZ
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Photos: Pamela Z, Marianna McMurdock, Julie Queen, and Keith Butler. top |
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gazzetta | event highlights | news travels goings-on | event details | past gazzetti | pamelaz.com upcoming event details: Pamela Z Solo at Adobe Books Music Series |
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Pamela Z will perform a set of solo works as a part of Adobe Books LIVE MUSIC series in a shared evening with T.D. Skatchit & Co and Kim Nucci. Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist who processes her voice to create complex sonic layers. She combines experimental vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, and sampled sounds – using custom MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound and image with physical gestures. T.D. Skatchit & Company features Tom Nunn & David Michalak playing skatchboxes with guests from over 20 collaborators known as the Company. Tonight Tom Djll guests on trumpet and electronics for some ELECTRIC SKATCH. A free T.D. Skatchit & Co. CD featuring Tom is included with admission. Kim Nucci is an Oakland-based multimedia artist/composer and improviser. She plays woodwinds and various homemade circuit and acoustic instruments. She likes making big things and very tiny things. Kim claims to be the Pope of facebook and worships dollar slice pizza as the one true god, while living in the god(pizza)less land of California. Free and Open to the Public Adobe Books
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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. FREE & Open to the Public Kimball Theatre Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra Plays Z
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 works for voice and electronics on the November 19th program. |
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Saturday November 18, 2017, 10pm |
Sunday November 19, 2017, 2pm First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica 1220 2nd Street, Santa Monica, CA |
ROOM: Teeth Tongue Lips The ROOM Series presents an evening of experimental voice featuring solos, duos, and ensemble works performd by eight Bay Area experimental voice (and voice & electronics) artists on Monday, December 11, 2017 at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA Pamela Z Get Tickets Now through Brown Paper Tickets. The ROOM Series @ Royce Gallery LEIMAY Kalavinka Benefit Gala Honoring Meredith Monk |
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Honoraree Chair: Marina Abramovic' Benefit Co-Chairs: Benefit Committee: |
Pamela Z Performance and Lecture/Demonstration Monday, January 29, 2018 |
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photo: Charles Smith |
Pamela Z will give a performance of works for voice, electronics, and video and a lecture/demonstration as part of Springfield Lecture Series at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN Rhodes College |
Bang On A Can People's Commissioning Fund Concert |
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Merkin Concert Hall |
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gazzetta | event highlights | news travels goings-on | event details | past gazzetti | pamelaz.com Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist whose solo works combine a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, samples, video, and gesture activated MIDI controllers. Ms. Z has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. Her work has been presented at venues and exhibitions including Bang on a Can (NY), the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds (SF), the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. She's created installation works and composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship a Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship. www.pamelaz.com Pamela Z is represented and fiscally sponsored by Circuit Network. If you wish to make a tax-deductible contribution to Pamela Z or Pamela Z Arts, you can make a donation via PayPal:
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