Z Programs is presenting a new chambre music series called Room. The concerts take place in the the Royce Gallery, an intimate performance gallery in San Francisco's North East Mission Industrial Zone (NEMIZ!). In these concerts, composer/performer Pamela Z will host evenings with a variety of virtuosic, solo new music instrumentalists and chamber groups playing composed music of their own, that of other composers, as well as improvised music
	The Z Programs Chambre Series: :: ROOM :: • THE ROYCE GALLERY 2901 Mariposa Street (between Harrison & Alabama), San Francisco.

ROOM Summer 2008 Series

Z Programs ROOM presents 4 Friday concerts in the summer of 2008.

July 11 - room: BATTERIE!
July 25 - room: 117 Strings
August 8 - room: Low Bows
August 22 - room: MOUTH!

All performances are at 8 pm. Tickets $10 at the door, or PayPal (coming soon)

room: BATTERIE!

room: Batterie! at 8pm as part of ROOM at Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
In the first of four Summer 2008 concerts, Z Programs ROOM presents four artists:

Suki O'Kane (percussion)
Moe! Staiano (percussion)
Matt Davignon (drum machine)
Amy X Neuburg (MIDI percussion and Voice)

Each will do a short solo set, and Pamela Z will join all of them in an ensemble finale

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room: 117 Strings

room: 117 Strings at 8pm as part of ROOM at Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Z Programs ROOM Summer 2008 continues with “101 Strings” including performances by:

Barbara Imhoff (harp)
Donald Swearingen (laser harp)
Dan Joseph (hammer dulcimer & electronics)
Miya Masaoka (koto & electronics)

Each will do a short solo set, and Pamela Z will join all of them in an ensemble finale.

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room: Low Bows

room: Low Bows at 8pm as part of ROOM at Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Z Programs ROOM Summer 2008 continues with an evening of electric and acoustic bowed strings of the bass clef persuasion:

Zoë Keating (cello & electronics)
Alex Kelly (cello & electronics)
Damon Smith (contrabass)
TBA (cello, electric cello, or bass)

Each will do a short solo set, and Pamela Z will join all of them in an ensemble finale.

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room: MOUTH!

room: MOUTH! at 8pm as part of ROOM at Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
The final concert of Z Programs ROOM Summer 2008 series features a room full of mouths:

Pamela Z (voice & electronics)
Amy X Neuburg (voice)
Julie Queen (voice)
Dina Emerson (voice)
Randall Wong (voice)
Aurora (voice)
Kattt Sammon (voice)

All will perform solo and in various combinations.

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Past room events:

March 2007
Room II: Robin Cox Ensemble (from LA)

In this rare Bay Area appearance, Robin Cox Ensemble will perform an evening of contemporary works, including several by Bay Area composers. In addition to three works by Robin Cox (Faster Than That, Drive, and Square Feet) the ensemble will be performing a work Outerborough by New York violinist/composer Todd Reynolds featuring video by award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison, and two works by bay area composers– Big Dig by Ryan Brown and Dust by Belinda Reynolds.  And Pamela Z will join the ensemble in the performance of a third Bay Area work– Six Degrees of Non-Sequiturization– a structured improvisational piece she created for the ensemble in 2006.

The Robin Cox Ensemble is: Robin Cox (violinist/composer/director), Erik Leckrone (percussionist), Eric Mellencamp (percussionist), Maggie Parkins (cellist), Marty Walker, (clarinetist), and Nic Chaffee (audio engineer).

The Robin Cox Ensemble's ROOM appearance was supported by Meet the Composer.

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November 2006
Room I: Joëlle Léandre and Pamela Z

Joëlle Léandre (Paris) and Pamela Z (San Francisco/New York) will perform together and separately in an evening of composed and improvised works for contrabasse, voice, and electronics.

(photo: Celine Cote )

(photo: Lori Eanes)

An intense, virtuosic, charismatic, and versatile performer, French bassist Joëlle Léandre has firmly established herself as one of the primary innovators on the double bass . She is well known as an interpreter of contemporary composers such as: Monton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, Earl Brown, and John Cage (who wrote music specifically for her). Léandre is also a huge presence in the world of improvised music, having played with the most important names in that community inclucing: Derek Bailey, George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, Maggie Nicols, Fred van hove, Irene Schweizer, Fred Frith, Bill Dixon, Evan Parker, William Parker  Misha Mengelberg, Pauline Oliveros, Barre Philips, India Cooke, Paul Lovens, Carlos Zingaro, Yuji Takahashi, Lauren Newton, and Steve Lacy.

Hailed by WIRE as “the most gifted and enterprising vocalist/composer/audio artist in the US since the heyday of Joan La Barbara and Mededith Monk,” Pamela Z makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, sampled sounds, and The BodySynth™ gesture controller. She has also composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her work has been presented throughout the US, Europe, and Japan in concerts, festivals, and exhibitions including Bang on a Can, the Venice Biennale, the Japan Interlink Festival, and Other Minds. Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Captipal Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship.