(all the gnus)Spring 2019 [pz gazzetta xxxv]
Pamela Z Arts' Quarterly Newsletter (view online)
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Upcoming: April 7-May 19, 2019: Trondheim, Norway April 24-27, 2019: San Francisco, CA April 26 & 27, 2019: San Francisco CA May 5, 2019: San Francisco CA May 16, 2019: Hanover, NH May 26, 2019: Berlin, Germany May 28, 2019: Brooklyn, NY May 30, 2019: San Francisco, CA June 1, 2019: Los Angeles, CA June 8, 2019: Leicester, VT
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Gentle Gazzetta Readers, I started writing this from my tray table on the return flight from Norway, where I just did an extremely tightly-booked tour of Trondheim and Oslo during which I gave three concerts (a solo, a duo with Tone Åse, and a trio with Tone and Sten Sandell), two workshops, two talks, and adapted and installed a 6-channel gallery installation at Trondheim Elektroniske Kunstsenter. Busy Busy Busy I’ve raised the concept of "busy" to a new level, even by my standards, and one somewhat positive side-effect to this has been the chance to check out from the ever-disturbing stream of national and world news. I simply have not had the bandwidth to absorb much of it. Since we last connected, I’ve had three commissions premiere – Heiligenstadt Lament for the San Francisco Conservatory Chamber Orchestra, Louder, Warmer, Denser for Claire Chase at the Kitchen in New York, and The Unraveling for Apollo Chamber Players in Houston. And I’ve been working like the devil to complete a score for The Wait Room, a new dance work by choreographer Jo Kreiter’s Flyaway Productions, and to finish Ways of Looking, my new chamber work for Eighth Blackbird, in time for its June 1 premiere. As I tie up the loose ends on all this composing, I've been planning and preparing for SF Symphony's latest installment of SoundBox, which is happening this coming weekend. Dance Dance Dance Rome Prize!
meals and ideas with brilliant scholars and artists, and developing a new interdisciplinary solo performance work called Simultaneous for voice, live electronics, and moving image. Meanwhile, I have some exciting things close on the horizon – including a stint as guest artist/guest curator for this month’s SoundBox with members of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, a ROOM Series concert featuring Voices of Silicon Valley performing a work-in-progress version of my Correspondence, and the premiere of my newly composed work for Eighth Blackbird at the LA Phil’s Noon to Midnight festival at Disney Hall. See the summary above, or scroll down for the details. I hope to see you and some of these upcoming events. Baci a tutti, Pamela
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Photos: Pamela Z, Jon Leidecker, Tone Åse, Espen Gangvik, Karen Chester and Juliane Schütz. top |
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gazzetta | event highlights | news travels goings-on | event details | past gazzetti | pamelaz.com upcoming event details: Pamela Z's SONIC GESTURES Installation at Pamela Z’s six-channel video installation, Sonic Gestues, is on exhibit from April 7th through May 19th, 2019 at TEKS Elektroniske Kunstsenter in Trondheim Norway. |
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Sonic Gestures, which premiered in April 2007 at Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco, was commissioned and presented by NexMap. With ten frame-locked channels of HD video composed of fragmented gestural images and 16 channels of audio, Sonic Gestures was designed as a site-specific work for the immersive 360º video and sound set-up at RML's Cinechamber. For TEKS.Studio the installation is re-configured for six screens. SONIC GESTURES presents the audience with a virtual chorus of chattering, whispering, singing, and ever transforming sonic entities. TEKS Elektroniske Kunstsenter |
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SF Symphony SoundBox: SYNTAX
Pamela Z will appear at San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox on Friday and Saturday, April 26th and 27th, 2019 at 9pm. Members of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra will perform a program (including several works by guest artist/guest curator Pamela Z) with Ms. Z joining them on her Heiligenstadt Lament. Z will also perform a short set of solo works. SoundBox Jo Kreiter/Flyaway Productions THE WAIT ROOM A site-specific outdoor performance of a new work by Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions with an original score by Pamela Z at 1125 Market Street in San Francisco, CA. Wednesday-Friday 8pm, Saturday 2pm & 8pm
FREE OUTDOOR PERFORMANCES. Please dress warmly! The Wait Room, created in partnership with Essie Justice Group, is a performance installation that exposes the physical, psychic, and emotional burden of incarceration for women with imprisoned loved ones. Via a large, rolling set designed by Sean Rileyto evoke a prison visiting room, the project invokes the balancing act women have to maintain when stripped of emotional and economic support from their partners and family. Featuring an original soundscore by Pamela Z, and performance by Bianca Cabrera, Clarissa Dyas, Laura Elaine Ellis, Sonsherée Giles, MaryStarr Hope, and Megan Lowe. Additional collaborators include lighting designer Jack Beuttler and costume designer Jamielyn Duggan. 1125 Market Street (the lot next to the Strand Theater) Pamela Z Solo Concert at Dartmouth |
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Festival of New Music presents compser/performer Pamela Z in a solo concert of her works for voice and electronics at 8pm at Faulkner Recital Hall at Dartmouth College. Ms Z will also perform a new work composed for her by Dartmouth student Clara Allison. Faulkner Recital Hall |
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Inn-fest 2019: Innova Label Bay Area Artist Showcase |
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Pamela Z will give a solo performance as part of Inn-fest, the annual innova label showcase. The afternoon concert at Center for New Music will have a varied program of regional artists including: Center for New Music |
Solo Performance and Exhibition in Berlin Pamela Z will give a solo performance on May 26, 2019, at 8pm at Savvy Contemporary in Berlin, Germany. She will also have a solo exhibition of media and sound works in the gallery, with an opening on May 23rd, 2019. Thursday, May 23, 2019, 6pm: Exhibition Opening Savvy Contemporary |
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Pamela Z will perform The Schmetterling with the Bang on a Can All Stars as part of the Bang on a Can Benefit Dinner Party at BAM Café at 6pm-9pm in Brooklyn, NY BAM Café |
ROOM: Chamber Chorus! |
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The ROOM Series presents an evening of choral works with the contemporary chamber chorus Voices of Silicon Valley at 8pm in San Francisco, CA USA Voices of Silicon Valley will perform work-in-progress excerpts from Pamela Z’s Correspondence arranged for 12 voices and Z’s solo voice & electronics. The program will also include a suite of re-imagined Renaissance madrigals, and film scores. The ROOM Series
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Eighth Blackbird premiere
Ways of Looking, Pamela Z’s newly commissioned chamber work for Eighth Blackbird will have its world premiere as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA. The work, which is in four movements, is built on the speech cadences of the members of the ensemble. The performance of Ways of Looking is scheduled to occur at approximately 3:45pm during the 12-hour festival at Disney Hall. Walt Disney Concert Hall
New Music on the Point Festival
Pamela Z will perform a program of solo works for voice and electronics and chamber works (movements excerpted from Carbon Song Cycle) with festival participants at New Music on the Point in Lake Dunmore, VT, USA. Point Counterpoint
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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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