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Pamela Z

complete calendar of performances & events
This page contains all current, future, and past performances in reverse chronological order. For a list of only upcoming performances, visit myspace.com/pamelazcomposer.

2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990 | 1980s

 
8/27/2008
Klosterneuburg/Vienna , Austria

Solo performance for voice, electronics, and video
at 7:30pm at Essl Museum in Vienna/Klosterneuburg, Austria

Essl Museum is located at:
An der Donau-Au 1
3400 Klosterneuburg / Vienna
Austria / Europe

8/22/2008
San Francisco, CA, USA

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.

Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA

8/8/2008
San Francisco, CA, USA

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)
Merlin Coleman (cello & voice)

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

Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA

7/25/2008
San Francisco, CA, USA

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.

Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA

7/11/2008
San Francisco, CA, USA

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.

Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA

7/1 to 8/12/2008
San Francisco, CA, USA

SoundWORK Summer 08 (7-week sound and performance workshop) at 6-9pm at Royce Gallery & Pamela Z’s Studio in San Francisco, CA

Pamela Z gives a seven-week sound and performance workshop exploring experimental music, audio art, and interdisciplinary performance practices. Participants will explore experimental composition techniques, and the work and ideas of new music composers and sound art practitioners, receive hands-on instruction with tools (software, hardware etc.) and techniques for the creation of sound and performance works, and create and present works of their own.

SoundWORK will meet Tuesday nights July 1- August 12, 2008 at Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street (with additional sign-up hands-on sessions in Pamela Zís nearby studio.) For enrollment information, email soundwork@pamelaz.com.

6/27-29/2008
San Francisco, CA, USA

The Pendulum at 8pm at the Royce Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Pamela Z performs her new work The Pendulum – a song cycle/performance work exploring binaries of “Yes and No” through voice, electronics, projected video and manipulation of objects.
Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA

All performances $10 at the door or in advance: Tickets available now.

6/21/2008
O
akland, CA, USA

Pamela Z gives a solo voice and electronic performance 5pm-9pm as part of Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium in Oakland, CA

The program will feature simultaneous performances by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video in different parts of the beautiful, Julia Morgan-designed building ; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances.

5/12/2008
Stony Brook, NY, USA

Pamela Z performs solo in a shared concert as part of the Sonic Residues Festival at 8pm at SUNY College in Stony Brook, NY

5/08/2008
Boulder, CO, USA

Pamela Z visits her Alma Mater to accept the Alumna of the Year Award from the College of Music as part of the University of Colorado 2008 Commencement Cermemonies at University of Colorado in Boulder, CO

5/02/2008
College Park, MD, USA

Solo performance and installation by Pamela Z at 5pm as part of Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies Conference at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD

4/25/2008
Oakland, CA, USA

Pamela Z in a shared evening of performances with and without video at 8:30pm as part of MilkBar Salon at the Sunshine Biscuit Factory Complex in Oakland, CA

Pamela Z performs solo and in collaboration with Mary Armentrout.

2/13/2008
Salt Lake City , UT, USA

Pamela Z will perform solo works for voice and electronics -- with Canyonlands performing chamber works -- as part of the Maurice Abravanel Visiting Distinguished Composers Series. At the School of Music, University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT. There will also be two lectures on the following day.

7:30 at Dumke Recital Hall, 1375 E. President's Circle in Salt Lake City

2/9/2008
San Francisco , CA, USA

Pamela Z gives a solo performance for voice and electronics at 2pm as part of the Bang On A Can Marathon at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum in San Francisco, CA. All performances free.

Schedule:

At the FORUM:
12P – 2P BOAC All-Stars, Lisa Moore, Njuton, Carla Kildstedt & Necessary Monsters
2:P – 4P BOAC All-Stars, Pamela Z, Ernesto Diaz Infante, Edmund Welles: The Bass Clarinet Quintet
4P-5:30P BOAC All-Stars, Cheb I Sabbah & Friends

At the GALLERY:
12P – 2P Carlos Oliveira
2P-4P Dore Stein, DJ “Tangents”
6:00P-6:30P Amy X Neuburg

In the GRAND LOBBY:
6:30P-7pm Student Body Presents Arts & Sciences
7:15P-7:45pm The Toids


2/4/2008 to 2/25/2008
San Francisco , CA, USA

Pamela Z gives a four-evening workshop at 6pm-9pm at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, CA

SoundWORK: A sound and performance course with award-winning composer/performer Pamela Z exploring experimental music, audio art, and interdisciplinary performance practices. Participants will be exposed to the work and ideas of new music composers and sound art practitioners, receive hands-on instruction with tools (software, hardware etc.) and techniques for the creation of sound and performance works, and create and present works of their own.

SoundWORK meets Monday nights in February 2008 at Intersection For The Arts upstairs gallery, 446 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA. For information, consult: http://theintersection.org

1/16/2008 to 1/17/2008
Palo Alto , CA, USA
Pamela Z performs on voice and electronics as part of Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s production Still Life with Commentator at Stanford Lively Arts in Palo Alto, CA

A collaboration between composer-pianist Vijay Iyer, poet/librettist/performer Mike Ladd, and conceptual artist/theater director Ibrahim Quraishi, Still Life with Commentator is a lyrical, darkly comic transmedia performance/opera examining the role of the audience and the media in modern warfare. Also featuring experimental vocal artist Pamela Z, electronic percussionist/vocalist Guillermo E. Brown, cellist Okkyung Lee, guitarist Liberty Ellman, and actors Palina Jonsdottir and Masa Nakanishi. Set design by Robert Pyzocha & lighting design by Stephen Arnold.
1/13/2008
Davis , CA, USA
Empyrean Ensemble in tHe sPirIt oF CAGE at 7pm at UC Davis Department of Music in Davis, CA

The Empyrean Ensemble will present an eclectic program of compositions inspired by John Cage, a frequent Merce Cunningham collaborator, along with Cage’s Music Circus. The program will include premieres of new pieces by Pamela Z and Craig Walsh, as well as Luciano Chessa’s piece for wireless flying blimp, musical saw, and chamber ensemble, and Kardex, an interactive installation by Robin Hill with Samuel Nichols.
1/9/2008
Danville , KY, USA
Pamela Z performs a solo evening of works for voice and electronics. at Centre College’s Weisiger Theatre in Danville, KY
 
12/6/2007
Princeton, NJ, USA
Pamela Z will give a talk and demonstration of her work at 4:30pm as part of Princeton University's Composition Colloquium Series at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ
12/5/2007
New York, NY, USA

Pamela Z performs a solo set at 8pm and a collaborative set at 10pm at the Stone in New York, NY

8 pm: Pamela Z Solo (voice, electronics, video)
Pamela Z performs a set of works—new, old, composed, and improvised–processing her voice through a Max MSP patch on her Powerbook and triggering sampled sounds with gesture controlled MIDI instruments. http://www.pamelaz.com

10pm: Pamela Z (Voice & Electronics), Okkyung Lee (Cello), Sarah Schoenbeck (Bassoon)
The three artists trade solos and improvised duets and trios.

The Stone is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street in New York City.

11/2/2007
Chicago, IL, USA

Pamela Z performs “The Pendulum and Other Works” at 8pm as part of the Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago, IL

Pamela Z presents an evening of works for voice, electronic processing,
video, and found text, including "The Pendulum" a new work exploring binaries of Yes and No.

9/22/2007
London, UK

Pamela Z performs solo and in duos on a shared performance at 1pm - 5pm in collaboration with Carol Morgan (piano) and Karlheinz Essl (computer) as part of Colourscape Music Festival in London, UK
Compositions and improvisations for piano, computer, and Voice & Electronics

Carol Morgan: piano
Pamela Z: voice, electronics
Karlheinz Essl: computer

9/20/2007
London, UK

Pamela Z and Alexander Balanescu play a set of works for voice & electronics and violin at 8:30pm at The Romanian Restaurant, 32 Old Bailey, London, UK

7/28/2007
Oakland, CA, USA
Panel discussion at 3pm at 21 Grand Gallery in Oakland, CA
This Music Defies Categorization
Moderated by Greg Scharpen (KALX FM)
with Merlin Coleman, Peter Martin (Eddie the Rat), Jake Rodriguez (The Bran… POS), and Pamela Z

Artists reflect on individual strategies, and the challenges, for creating work from multiple traditions of music, theater and movement. 21 Grand is located at 416 25th St. @ Broadway Oakland

6/26/2007
Venezia, Italia

Solo set in a concert of New Music as part of Musica+Videoarte+ Convegno (forse mostre) at Isola di San Servolo in Venice, Italy

6/20/2007
Roma, Italy

Solo set in a concert of New Music as part of Musica+Videoarte at Auditorium Parco della Musica in Roma, Italia

6/19/2007
Las Vegas, NV USA
Pamela Z in a performance at a Private event in collaboration with Karsh Kale in Las Vegas, NV
6/17/2007
Beacon, NY, USA

Performance of Four Movements for Cello and Delays commissioned by the Ochestra of St. Lukes at 2pm as part of Notable Women: A Celebration of Women Composers at The DIA:Beacon in Beacon, NY

Cellist Myron Lutzke performs Pamela Z’s work “Four Movements with Delays” (with the composer processing him live on Laptop).

The concert features works by Erin Watson, Joan LaBarbara, Julia Wolfe, Pamela Z, and Eve Beglarian. Concert is at 3pm with 4:30pm Q & A.
DIA:BEACON, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508
Tickets and Information: 212.594.6100, or visit notablewomen.org

6/16/2007
New York, NY, USA

Performance of Four Movements for Cello and Delays commissioned by the Ochestra of St. Lukes at 2pm as part of Notable Women: A Celebration of Women Composers at Chelsea Art Museum, NY

Cellist Myron Lutzke performs Pamela Z’s work “Four Movements with Delays” (with the composer processing him live on Laptop).

The concert features works by Erin Watson, Joan LaBarbara, Julia Wolfe, Pamela Z, and Eve Beglarian. Concert is at 2pm with 3pm Q & A and 4pm reception.
Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street @ 11th Avenue, NYC
Tickets and Information: 212.594.6100, or visit notablewomen.org

5/27/2007
New Orleans, LA

Solo set in a benefit concert for Katrina victims at 9 p.m in collaboration with the Future of Music and Air Traffic Control as part of Musicians Bringing Home Musicians II at Tipitina’s Uptown in New Orleans, LA


The Line-up includes: Indigo Girls, OK GO’s Damian Kulash, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Matt Nathanson, San Francisco-based artist Mike Relm, performance artist Pamela Z, Bonerama, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson

Tipitina’s Uptown, 501 Napoleon Avenue
Doors open at 8 p.m. Music starts at 9 p.m.
Tickets: $20 before the show and $25 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at www.ticketweb.com.

5/18/2007
Oakland, CA

Pamela Z in a Duo imrovisational set with Italian saxophonist Gianni Gebbia at 21 Grand at 8pm in Oakland, CA.

Three sets:

Jon Raskin/Henry Kaiser/Weasel Walter +
Steve Adams/Damon Smith +
Gianni Gebbia/Pamela Z

(order to be determined)

21 Grand, 416 25th Street, Oakland, CA 94612 tel: 510 444 7263

5/11/2007 to 5/13/2007
Washington, DC, USA
Performance run of Pamela Z’s Voci (Voices), a evening length, solo, multi-media performance work by Pamela Z exploring the sonic, cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the human voice (featuring video work by Jeanne Finley and John Muse) as part of Washington Performing Arts Society 2006-07 Season at GALA Theatre-Tivoli, 3333 14th St., NW in Washington, DC
For tickets, call 202-785-9727.
4/27/07
Kitchener, ONT, Canada

Wunderkabinet, a performance work inspired by The Museum of Jurassic Technology in collaboration with cellist Matthew Brubeck and video installation artist Christina McPhee as part of Open Ears Festival at King Street Theatre Centre in Kitchener, ONT, Canada

4/20/2007
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Performance of “Still Life with Commentator” in collaboration with Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd at UCLA in Los Angeles

Pamela Z appears as part of the ensemble performing a concert version of Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s “Still Life with Commentator” along with Palina Jonsdottir, Liberty Ellman, and Okkyung Lee.

4/14/2007 10pm
San Francisco, CA, USA

Pamela Z Performs “Sonic Gestures” and other works at 10pm at Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco, CA

Combining fragmented gestural images with live vocal sounds processed and spatialized in real time using MAX MSP software and custom gesture controllers, Pamela Z will surround the audience with a virtual chorus of chattering, whispering, singing, and ever transforming entities. This event is presented by NexMap.
$20, $10 (students/seniors)

At 7pm, NexMap will host a pre-concert catered reception including a conversation and presentation with Pamela Z and NexMap’s artistic director Linda Bouchard. Limited tickets for this exclusive NexMap benefit are available for $50.

RML is located at 763 Brannan Street (btwn 6th & 7th Streets) in San Francisco

3/23-24/2007 8pm
San Francisco , CA, USA

Pamela Z hosts the second event in the Z Programs: ROOM series– LA's Robin Cox Ensemble in an evening of contemporary works (including several by Bay Area Composers at the Royce Gallery in San Francisco.

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).

Tickets are $10 at the door or through PayPal.

3/3-4/2007 8pm
New York, NY, USA
Pamela Z performs works for voice and electronics including “Declaratives in the First Person” as part of The American Modern Ensemble’s Musical Mavericks Series at Tenri Cultural Institute in New York, NY
The Musical Mavericks Series is a shared concert that features multiple composer/performers including Stuart Dempster, Todd Reynolds, and Robert Dick. The Tenri Center is located at 43A West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011
3/2/2007 8pm
Durham, NC, USA

Pamela Z performs Metal/Vox/Water at 8pm as part of Duke Performances at Nasher Museum Auditorium in Durham, NC.

Experimental vocalist and composer Pamela Z’s “Metal/Vox/Water” is a collage of short solo works and excerpts from her large-scale multi-media works, with sculptural elements and video projections. Ms. Z digitally processes her voice in real time to create layers of sound and triggers sampled sounds with the BodySynth MIDI controller. Cosponsored with the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Department of Music’s Encounters with the Music of Our Time series.
Tickets: $18 General Admission

2/18/2007 3pm
San Francisco, CA, USA

The string quartet ETHEL performs a concert of works including Pamela Z's "Ethel Dreams of Temporal Disturbances" as part of the Morrison Artists Series at the San Francisco State University School of Music & Dance at 3:00 p.m. Admission: Free

McKenna Theatre, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94110

2/14/2007
Richmond, IN, USA
Pamela Z appears as a guest lecturer as part of Earlham College Artist and Lecture Series at Goddard Auditorium, Carpenter Hall in Richmond, Indiana
Ms. Z will discuss and demsonstrate her work with voice and technology.
2/9/2007
Paris , France
Pamela Z performs with Vijay Iyer, Mike Ladd, and Guillermo Brown in a concert performance of the music from Iyer and Ladd’s “Still Life with Commentator” at Théâtre Paul Eluard (4 avenue de Villeneuve-St-Georges -Choisy-le-Roias) as part of Sons d'Hiver Festival in Paris, France.
2/1/2007
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Pamela Z performs solo works for voice and electronics at 8:30pm at STEIM in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

STEIM concert featuring three artists: Pamela Z (US), Tarek Atoui (LB/FR), and Keir Neuringer (US/NL)
Location: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam, Time: 20:30, Entrance: €5
Reservations and more info: email knock@steim.nl or call 020 6228690
More information on concerts: www.steim.org/steim/activity.php


1/30/2007
Paris , France

Pamela Z performs solo works for voice and electronics at Les 7 Lézards at 21hr in Paris, France.

Les 7 Lézards
10 rue des Rosiers /75004 Paris
tel: 01 48 87 08 97
métro Saint-Paul

1/25/2007
New York, NY, USA

Pamela Z gives a talk entitled "A Delay is Better: Art, Technology, and Time" as part of the Colloquium Series at New York University Music Department in New York, NY.
Thursday, January 25 at 5:30 pm
100 Washington Square East, Silver Center, Room 220, NYU, New York, NY

12/6/2006 to 12/10/2006
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Pamela Z performs on voice and electronics as part of Vijay Iyer, Mike Ladd, and Ibrahim Quraishi's production Still Life with Commentator as part of the BAM Next Wave Festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York

A collaboration between composer-pianist Vijay Iyer, poet/librettist/performer Mike Ladd, and conceptual artist/theater director Ibrahim Quraishi, Still Life with Commentator is a lyrical, darkly comic transmedia performance/opera examining the role of the audience and the media in modern warfare. Also featuring experimental vocal artist Pamela Z, electronic percussionist/vocalist Guillermo E. Brown, cellist Okkyung Lee, guitarist Liberty Ellman, and actors Palina Jonsdottir and Masa Nakanishi. Set design by Robert Pyzocha & lighting design by Stephen Arnold.
11/26/2006
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Pamela Z performs with Vijay Iyer, Mike Ladd, and Guillermo Brown in set of pieces as part of a “Still Life With Commentator” listening party and preview at 9:30pm at Galapagos in Brooklyn, NY

During an informal listening party, members of the cast of Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s “Still Life with Commentator” will perform live excerpts from the oratorio (which has it’s NY premiere at BAM in December).

11/10/2006
San Francisco, CA, USA

Pamela Z Productions presents the first installment of the Z Programs "Room" chamber music series featuring:

Joëlle Léandre and Pamela Z in an evening of composed and improvised works for contrabasse, voice, and electronics. 8pm at the Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street (between Harrison & Alabama), San Francisco.

11/5/2006
Chicago, IL , USA
Performance of Pamela Z’s Voci (Voices), a evening length, solo, multi-media performance work by Pamela Z exploring the sonic, cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the human voice (featuring video work by Jeanne Finley and John Muse) at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art Theatre. (As part of the Chicago Humanities Festival.)
10/12-15/2006
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Wunderkabinet, a performance work inspired by The Museum of Jurassic Technology in collaboration with cellist Matthew Brubeck and video installation artist Christina McPhee at RedCat Theater 631 West 2nd Street, in Los Angeles, CA

9/29-10/1/2006
Saint Petersburg, Russia

Pamela Z performs solo works for voice and electronics as part of the APOSITSIA Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia

Confirmed artists for this year’s APosition Festival include J.G.Thirlwell (aka Foetus, Wiseblood, Clint Ruin) (USA), Markus Stockhausen & Tara Bouman (Germany/Great Britain), Pamela Z (USA), David Cossin’s project (USA), Nikolai Galen (Turkey/Great Britain), Fuul Guitar Orchestra (Russia).

9/27-29/2006
Moscow, Russia

Pamela Z performs solo works for voice and electronics as part of the Long Arms Festival in Moscow.

9/11/2006
Berkeley, CA, USA

Pamela Z gives a talk as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium at UC Berkeley's Center for New Media in Berkeley, CA.

For updated information, please see: http://atc.berkeley.edu, email goldberg@ieor.berkeley.edu or phone 510-643-9565.

7/27/2006
San Francisco, CA, USA

Solo performance for voice, electronic process, and video at 8pm as part of the 2006 Edgetone Music Summit at the Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market Street @ 6th in San Francisco, CA

7/21/2006
Brooklyn, NY
, USA

Pamela Z performs an evening of works for voice and electronics at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY

7/13-14/2006
San Francisco, CA, USA

Pamela Z Productions presents Z Program 50 (Z program Fifty) at 8pm at The Royce Gallery in San Francisco.

Come celebrate Pamela Z's birthday with an evening featuring a collage piece called "50 Minutes" in which Pamela and some of her colleagues and collaborators perform 50 mini-movements tightly scored to a timeclock. Ms. Z will also present a short set of works for voice, electronics and video to fill out the program.

Thursday July 13 and Friday July 14, 2006 at The Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street.
Sliding scale: 50 quarters - 50 dollars ($12.50 - $50.00)
(no one turned away for lack of quarters)

Z Program Fifty will take place in a new, intimate Royce Gallery. One half of the program will be filled by "50 Minutes", the lively rollercoaster ride of a collage piece made up of performances and video by a delightful list of artists familiar to anyone who has attended past Z Programs. (See Z Programs History.) The carefully timed piece will include sounds and images from sensor artist Donald Swearingen, singer (and Qube Chic) Julie Queen, electro-diva Amy X Neuburg, avant-rock and jazz artist (and real-life sibling of Ms. Z) Hillary Maroon, Butoh artist Kinji Hayashi, video artist and 2-headed-monster Jeanne Finley + John Muse, movement artist (and Qube Chic) Leigh Evans, performance artist Mary Armentrout, and composer/performer (and birthday girl) Pamela Z.

A short intermission will be flanked on one side by the precisely timed "50-minutes" and on the other by a short set of works for voice & electronics by the birthday girl (with a few duets thrown in). Join us afterwards for wine and cake!

6/21/2006
Oakland, CA, USA
Solo performance 5-9pm as part of the annual Garden of Memory: a Columbarium Walk-Through Event at Chapel of the Chimes, a Julia Morgan-designed columbarium and mausoleum with gardens, fountains, and stained-glass skylights at 4499 Piedmont Ave., next to Mountain View Cemetery at Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium in Oakland, CA
The program will feature simultaneous performances in different parts of the building by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances.
6/20/2006
San Francisco, CA, USA
Barbara Hammer’s new documentary film“Lover/Other” about surrealist artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore with a score composed by Pamela Z at 2:15pm as part of Frameline Film Festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, CA
6/16/2006
Salzburg, Austria

Pamela Z performs on voice and electronics as part of Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s production Still Life with Commentator at Republic in Salzburg, Vienna

A collaboration between composer-pianist Vijay Iyer, poet/librettist/performer Mike Ladd, and conceptual artist/theater director Ibrahim Quraishi, Still Life with Commentator is a lyrical, darkly comic transmedia performance/opera examining the role of the audience and the media in modern warfare. Also featuring experimental vocal artist Pamela Z, electronic percussionist/vocalist Guillermo E. Brown, cellist Okkyung Lee, guitarist Liberty Ellman, and actors Palina Jonsdottir and Masa Nakanishi. Set design by Robert Pyzocha & lighting design by Stephen Arnold.

6/2-3/2006
Santa Barbara , CA, USA
Solo performance for voice, electronics, and video on a shared evening with the Robin Cox Ensemble as part of the Iridian Arts Music Series at the Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbara, CA
5/11/2006
New York, NY , USA

Pamela Z plays with an ensemble performing a structured impovisational work by Lisle Ellis at 8:00pm at The Stone in New York, NY

Audible Means:
Pamela Z, voice/electronics
Rudresh Mahanthappa, saxophone
Kathy Supove, piano
Lisle Ellis, bass/circuitry
Guillermo E. Brown, percussion/electronics

5/1/2006
New York, NY , USA
Pamela Z performs a half hour of solo works for voice and electronics at 8pm as part of a benefit for the American Music Center at The Cutting Room (19 West 24th Street) in New York, NY

8:00: Matthew Shipp
8:45: Meridian Arts Ensemble
9:30: Pamela Z
4/27/2006
Juanajuato, Mexico
Pamela Z performs her solo, multi-media evening “Metal/Vox/Water” at Instituto Cultural de León in Guanajuato, Mexico
4/6/2006
New York, NY , USA
Solo performance and discussion as part of “New Strategies with DJ Spooky” an event exploring new compositional techniques. DJ Spooky (That Subliminal Kid) has assembled a group of composers that will perform and discuss their compositional strategies and methods. at Symphony Space in New York, NY
3/24/2006
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Pamela Z performs on voice and electronics as part of Vijay Iyer’s production Still Life with Commentator in collaboration with Mike Ladd (text) and Vijay Iyar (piano & composition), with Okkyung Lee (cello) and Guillermo E. Brown (e-percussion) at UNC Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC
3/16/2006

Performances with Lisle Ellis. at The Stone in New York, NY

8pm Lisle Ellis's Seven Fold Project - Jenny Scheinman (violin) Tomas Ulrich (cello) Holly Hofmann (flute) Pamela Z (voice, electronics) Mike Wofford (piano) Lisle Ellis (bass & circuitry) Susie Ibarra (drums, percussion) A rare convergence of exceptional
improvisors.

10pm Settings for Bass and Circuitry - Lisle Ellis (bass & circuitry) Tom Hamilton (electronics) Pamela Z (voice, electronics) Tomas Ulrich (cello) Lisle Ellis in Solo, Duo, Trio and Quartet enviroments.

3/12/2006
Pamela Z participates in a Lecture/Panel Discussion at 4pm as part of The Voices on the Edge (Fifth Annual Women in New Music Festival) at Performing Arts Center at Cal State Fullerton, 800 N. State College Blvd in Fullerton CA
3/11/2006
The string quartet Ethel performs Ethel Dreams of Temporal Disturbances, a new work for string quartet and "tape" by Pamela Z at 8pm as part of The Voices on the Edge (Fifth Annual Women in New Music Festival) at Performing Arts Center at Cal State Fullerton, 800 N. State College Blvd in Fullerton CA
3/10/2006
Solo performance of works for voice, electronics, and video at 8pm as part of The Voices on the Edge (Fifth Annual Women in New Music Festival) at Performing Arts Center at Cal State Fullerton, 800 N. State College Blvd in Fullerton CA
2/27/2006 to 3/3/2006
Week-long artist residency with Vijay Iyer’s “Still Life With Commentator” production at Das Arts in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2/23/2006
Performance of Pamela Z’s Voci (Voices), a evening length, solo, multi-media performance work by Pamela Z exploring the sonic, cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the human voice (featuring video work by Jeanne Finley and John Muse). at Trafo, House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest, Hungary
12/2/2005
Pamela Z performs a duo set with Joëlle Léandre at Les 7 Lézards in Paris, France
11/27/2005
Solo performance for voice and electronics as part of the All Frontiers Festival in Monfalcone, Italy
10/29/2005
Opening reception for Pamela Z's "Elevator Music 6", a 5.1 surround sound installation for the elevator at Tang Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY
10/29/2005
Solo performance for voice and electronics at Tang Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY
10/26/2005
Pamela Z performs Metal/Vox/Water, an evening of solo performance works for voice, electronics, and video as part of the Spectrum Series at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, PA
10/21/2005
Pamela Z appears on a panel called "Voice with a Capital V" at the Third Coast International Audio Art Festival, in Chicago, IL
10/20-23/2005
The string quartet Ethel performs the premiere of Ethel Dreams of Temporal Disturbances, a new work for string quartet and "tape" by Pamela Z in Champagne-Urbana, IL
9/8-10 & 9/15-17/2005

Premiere performance run of Wunderkabinet, a performance work inspired by The Museum of Jurassic Technology in collaboration with cellist Matthew Brubeck and video installation artist Christina McPhee at The LAB in San Francisco, CA

8/26/2005
Pamela Z performs in collaboration with Vijay Iyer as part of the “Cooler in the Shade” Series at Lotus Arts in New York, NY
8/11/2005
Pamela Z performs solo works for voice, electronics, and video at BMOCA (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art) in Boulder, CO.
8/9/2005
Pamela Z performs solo works for voice and electronics at The Stone in New York, NY
7/24/2005
San Francisco, CA, USA
Solo performance of works for voice, electronics, and video at 9pm as part of Bayennale 2005 at Mickey T’s Drum Machine Museum in San Francisco, CA
6/21/2005

Solo performance as part of Garden of Memory: a Columbarium Walk-Through Event at Chapel of the Chimes, a Julia Morgan-designed columbarium and mausoleum with gardens, fountains, and stained-glass skylights at 4499 Piedmont Ave., next to Mountain View Cemetery at Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium in Oakland, CA


The program will feature simultaneous performances in different parts of the building by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances.

6/9-11 & 6/16-18/2005
Jo Kreiter/Flyaway Productions' premiere of the dance work "Whose Seeds These Are" with music by Pamela Z at ZACCHO Studio, 1777 Yosemite Ave. #330 (at 3rd) in San Francisco. Also on the evening are excerpts from several other dance works with Pamela Z Scores. 415.647.2822 info/tix through Brava Box Office.
4/16/2005

Solo performance of Syrinx/Birdvoice and participation on a panel on birdsong.

The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU and New York City Audubon Present a Symposium including performances, talks, and discussion on “Why Birds Sing”. Presenters include David Rothenberg, Pamela Z, Eric Salzman, Don Kroodsma, Ofer Tchernichovski, Frederic Venal, Lang Elliot, Alan Verdy, Breyten Breytenbach, and Michael Pestel.

Event runs from 4-7 pm at NYU Hemmerdinger Hall.
100 Washington Square East, New York. For Info: 212.998.2100

4/8/2005
Solo peformance of new work for voice, electrtronics, and video. at The LAB in San Francisco, CA

Pamela Z joins with artists from STEIM/Amsterdam. Pamela will perform work in which she uses Max MSP and Jitter to control video with her voice and process her voice in real time.

Michel Waisvisz and Robert van Heumen of STEIM will offer a free demonstration of LiSa X, STEIM's software that enables users to extensively control live-sampled and pre-recorded sounds, and junXion, which maps Human Interface Devices such as joysticks to MIDI. There will be a Q&A following the demo for those with specific inquiries.

Michel Waisvisz, Joel Ryan and Robert van Heumen from STEIM/Amsterdam will team up with longtime STEIM collaborator Laetitia Sonami and SF resident Roddy Schrock to present an evening of electro-instrumental improvised music. Expect different duo/trio combinations of Michel's instrument The Hands, Laetitia's Lady's Glove, Robert's Sexy Controllers, and Roddy's SuperCollider wizardry all guided by Joel Ryan behind the mixing desk.

LiSa X and junXion v2 demo at 6 PM; Pamela Z and STEIM 8 PM

2/18/2005

Friday, February 18, 2005: Solo performance of works for voice and electronics at 6pm-9pm as part of the Opening Reception for the Art of Artsist Statement Exhibition at the Hellenic the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center in Chicago, IL

Pamela Z will perform at the opening of an exhibition in which she also has a mutli-channel sound installation work entitoled “Delclaratives in the First Person”. In one of the pieces, she will use sampled text sounds from “Declaratives”.

2/18/2005-4/2/2005

“Declaratives in the First Person”, a six-channel audio installation work as part of the Art of Artist Statement Exhibition at the Hellenic the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center in Chicago, IL

1/22/2005

Solo performance of works for voice and electronics at 10pm at GASP Gallery in Boston, MA

1/8/2005

C.A.F.E. presents "Off-Market Disklavier" at 8pm

Off-Market Theater
965 Mission at Fifth Street
San Francisco

Five Bay Area composers present works written for the Yamaha Disklavier, a modern-day player piano capable of interfacing with a computer. Composers include Pamela Z, Jaron Lanier, Dennis Aman, Vytautas Germanavicius, and True Rosaschi presenting works for solo Disklavier as well as pieces accompanied by voice & live electronics, flute, Virtual Reality Environment, saxophone, and more.

Tickets available at Ticketweb.com

12/11/2004

West coast CD Release Event for Pamela Z's “A Delay is Better”:

Z Program Ten: CD release Event for Pamela Z’s new CD “A Delay is Better” at 8pm at The LAB Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Ten artists appear in celebration of the release of Pamela Z’s new Starkland recording “A Delay is Better”.

Beth Custer, Kinji Hayashi, Barbara Imhoff, Carla Kihlstedt, Amy X Neuburg, Julie Queen, Donald Swearingen, Wobbly, and Pamela Z will perform various works including covers of works from Pamela Z’s new CD.

11/26/2004

East coast CD Release Event for Pamela Z's “A Delay is Better”:

Pamela Z gives a Solo Performance of works for voice & electronics Celebrating the release of her new CD "A Delay is Better" at 9pm at The Knitting Factory in New York, NY

Also appearing is vocal trio Muna Zul from Mexico (8pm).

10/28/2004-10/30/2004

New York premiere of Voci (Voices), a evening length, solo, multi-media performance work by Pamela Z exploring the sonic, cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the human voice (featuring video work by Jeanne Finley and John Muse).

The Kitchen, New York

10/19/2004

Lecture-demo at 1:30 PM as part of Brooklyn College Composers' Forum and the Center for Computer Music Seminars. at Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music - CUNY in 249 Gershwin in Brooklyn, NY

10/4/2004
Solo performance of excerpts from Voci, Gaijin, and Parts of Speech at 7:30pm as part of the City of Women Festival at Kosovel Hall in Ljubljana, Slovenia
9/9/2004
Solo performance at 7:30pm as part of the “Don’t Call it Performance/No lo Llames Performance” Exhibition at El Museo del Barrio in New York, NY
7/21/2004

Solo performance as part of San Francisco Treasures Series at The Marsh in San Francisco, CA

5/28/2004

Solo performance as part of the Subtle Technologies Festival in Toronto, Canada

10pm Latvian House, 491 College Street, Toronto, Canada

5/7/2004 - 5/14/2004

Solo performance and site specific installation as part of La Biennale de l'art africain contemporain Ð DAK'ART 2004 in Dakar, Senigal

4/24/2004

Solo performance for voice, electronics, and video. at 6pm as part of The Harvestworks Mixing it Up! Festival at The Apple Store, SOHO in New York, NY

Pamela Z gives a performance using MAX MSP and ProTools software on a Mac G5 in the auditorium at the SOHO Apple Store at 103 Prince Street, NYC

3/30/2004 - 5/1/2004

Eight-channel version of Pamela Z's Syrinx on exhibit as part of the New Sound New York Festival at The Kitchen Gallery in New York, NY

Soundworks by thirteen composers played through sound art pioneer Charlie Morrow's Sound Cube – a multi-channel playback environment providing a 3D audio experience. Works by Olivia Block, Shelley Hirsch, Miya Masaoka, Steve McCaffrey, Charlie Morrow, Phill Niblock, Michael J. Schumacher, Scanner, Stephen Vitiello, Martyn Ware, and Pamela Z

3/24/2004 - 4/15/2004

Four channel sound work by Pamela Z on exhibit as part of Sound Migration: An Exhibit of Sound Art and Music at Pacific Design Center, Media Lounge in Los Angeles, CA

Participants include Bernie Krause, Pauline Oliveros, Stephen Vitiello, Fred Frith, Marina Rosenfeld, and Pamela Z, among others. 8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood

2/25/2004

Solo performance and collaboration with Donald Swearingen as part of The LAB 20th Anniversary Series at The LAB in San Francisco, CA

2/14/2004

Solo Performance/Lecture-Demo/Workshop at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York. 1pm (as part of ELECTRONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION's Arts Electric Introductions Series)

Chelsea Art Museum 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011

 

1/29/2004-2/2/2004

Sound installation, Performance, and Workshops as part of Powering Up/Powering Down at Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) in San Diego, CA

1/8/2004

Solo performance as part of the Sound Generation Benefit at Experimental Intermedia in New York, NY. 8pm

Pamela Z gives a solo performance in an evening of electronic music, sound art and video, Also appearing: Gregory Whitehead, Annea Lockwood & Paul Ryan, Tobias Van Veen, Claudio Chea, Ken Mongomery, Larry 7, Marc McNulty, AND Greyg Filistine. Tickets for the Sound Generation benefit are $10. EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA 224 Centre St. @ Grand St.Ê 212.431.5127

12/19/2003

Artist talk at 4:00pm in collaboration with Salah Hassan, Cheryl Finley, and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons at the American Center Auditorium in Dakar, Senégal

Pamela Z will give a talk during a site visit in preperation for the 2004 Dakar Biennale.

11/17/2003

Solo concert of works for voice, electronics and video at University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD

11/8/2003

Solo performance at 8pm at 21 Grand in Oakland, CA

Pamela Z will perform an evening of works for voice, electronics and video. (With an appearance by special guest Kinji Hayashi.) 21 Grand is located at 449B 23rd Street in Oakland.

10/25/2003

Solo performance with voice, electronics, and video at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina (MNCARS) in Madrid, Spain

10/16/2003

Solo performance in conjunction with the closing of the Jeanne Finley and John Muse resptrospective exhibition (presented by New Langton Arts) at The Exploratorium.

The Exploratorium, 3601 Lyon Street (in the Marina) San Francisco, CA

9/24-26/2003

Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions perform "How To Be A Citizen", a dance work honoring 100 years of protest in San Francsico, with an original sound score by Pamela Z

Embarcadero Plaza at the foot of Market street in front of the Ferry Building. 12:30pm and 5:30pm Wed & Thu, 1:30pm and 5:30pm Friday.

9/21/2003
Solo Concert at 6pm as part of La Biennale di Venezia 2003 at Teatro Piccolo Arsenale in Venice, Italy
9/13/2003

Solo and collaborative works by Pamela Z, Amy X Neuburg, Ikue Mori, and Marina Rosenfeld at Northsix, (66 North 6th Street) Brooklyn, NY 7pm-10pm

Note, this is an early show. The evening will begin with a duo set by Ikue Mori and Marina Rosenfeld, followed by a solo set by Amy X Neuburg, a solo set by Pamela Z, and ending with an improvised performance by all four artists.

8/1/2003

Solo performance as part of a festival of female voice and performance at ExB Associazione Culturale in Bologna, Italy

6/21/2003

Solo performance as part of New Music Bay Area and Chapel of the Chimes' magical summer solstice celebration Garden of Memory: a Columbarium Walk-Through Event at Chapel of the Chimes, a labyrinthine Julia Morgan-designed columbarium and mausoleum replete with gardens, fountains, and stained-glass skylights.

4499 Piedmont Avenue, next to Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Saturday, June 21 from 5 to 8 pm.Ê

6/7/2003

Premiere of Pamela Z's Four Movements for Violoncello and Delays, a new chamber work commissioned by the Ochestra of St. Lukes. The piece will be performed by Myron Lutzke, the Orchestra's principal cellist, with Pamela Z doing the live proceessing. The Dia Center (Chelsea) in New York, 548 West 22nd Street, New York. 2pm

5/8/2003
Solo evening of performance at 10:30pm as part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound in Kitchener, ON Canada
5/2/2003
Solo Performance as part of Spring Reverb at La Antigua Bodega de Papel in Tijuana, Mexico
5/1/2003
Solo Performance as part of Spring Reverb at the Museum of Contempoary Art in San Diego, CA
3/27/2003-4/5/2003

Voci (Voices), a evening length, solo, multi-media performance work by Pamela Z exploring the sonic, cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the human voice (featuring video work by Jeanne Finley and John Muse).

ODC Theater, San Francisco

1/26/2003
Solo Performance as part of An evening of Vocal Delights curated by Kathy Kennedy at Tuva Space - 3192 Adeline @ MLK(Near Ashby BART) in Berkeley, CA Pamela Z will perform an in-progress excerpt for solo voice and electroncis from her upcoming performance work Voci. The evening includes performances by the Cornelius Cardew Choir, Kathy Kennedy, Kattt Sammon (w/ Peggy DeCoursey & Andrew Harkins), Pamela Z
11/22/2002

Performance in an evening dedicated to the late contrabassist, Peter Kowald at 21 Grand in Oakland, CA

The artists performing include: Marco Eneidi, Philip Gelb, Miya Masaoka, Gino Robair, Damon Smith, Pamela Z, and others.

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10/18/2002

Solo performance at approximately 6:45pm as part of San Francisco "In The Street" Festival at Cohen Alley (the 500 block of Ellis) in San Francisco, CA

The Luggage Store / 509 Cultural Center presents the 8th Annual IN THE STREET Festival. Friday's event includes performances by Pamela Z, Miya Masaoka, inkBoat, Nao Bustamante and Mads Lynnerup, Krissy Keefer and Dance Brigade, Mark Growden, and Vile Jelly with MC Kevin Caulfield.

10/11/2002

Solo Performance at 7:30pm at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Pamela Z gives a concert of solo performance works for voice, electronics, and video as part of the ÒRace in Digital SpaceÓ conference. The MOCA is located at 250 South Grand Ave in Los Angeles.

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9/21/2002

Solo Performance on a shared concert with Chris Brown and David Slusser at Mills College in Oakland, CA.

9/14,15,21,/22/2002

Score for Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions' "Mission Wall Dances", Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm and 4pm on a 3 storey mural wall at Harrison and Alameda Streets. in San Francisco, CA.

9/8/2002-9/10/2002

 

Live Performances and participation in the Klangpark in "Open Air, a Radiotopia" as part of Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.

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8/2/2002

Solo performance as part of Beyond Music Sound Festival VI at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA

Beyond Music runs August 1-4, 2002 and includes works by Pamela Z, Yasunao Tone, Stephen Vitiello, Christof Migone, Jeph Jerman, Olivia Block, Eliza Slavet, and Brandon LaBelle.

7/27/2002

Pamela Z and Joan Jeanreneaud in a shared evening of solo works and duets on the Noe Valley Music Series at Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez Street in San Francisco, CA

Cellist Joan Jeanreneaud (formerly of the Kronos Quartet) and composer/performer Pamela Z perform solo works and duets for processsed Cello and for Voice and electronics.

7/26/2002

Pamela Z performs a 10 minute work in progress as part of Inter-actions, a summer showing of works-in-progress premiering at ODC Theater later in the year.

8pm ODC Theater 3153 17th Street @ Shotwell, San Francisco
Box Office: 415.863.9834

6/27/2002 - 6/29/2002

Pamela Z hosts the second weekend of concerts in Electric Words at Venue 9 in San Francisco, CA (See entries below for dates on which Pamela Z actually performs.)

The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival and Footloose present ELECTRIC WORDS A festival of Voice, Text, and Electronic Music Hosted and curated by Amy X Neuburg and Pamela Z

Thursday-Saturday June 20-22 (hosted by Amy X Neuburg) and 27-29 (hosted by Pamela Z) at Venue 9 in San Francisco.

6/28/2002
Solo performance on a shared evening with Wobbly and Hmmm... as part of Electric Words at Venue 9 in San Francisco, CA
6/22/2002
Solo performance on a shared evening with Laetitia Sonami and Kyle Gann as part of Electric Words at Venue 9 in San Francisco, CA
6/21/2002

Solo performance as part of Garden of Memory: a Columbarium Walk-Through Event at Chapel of the Chimes, a Julia Morgan-designed columbarium and mausoleum with gardens, fountains, and stained-glass skylights at 4499 Piedmont Ave., next to Mountain View Cemetery, in Oakland, CA

The program will feature simultaneous performances in different parts of the building by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music and video; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances.

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6/20/2002
Solo performance as part of the opening of the "Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California 1950-2000" exhibition. Thursday, 8pm at The San José Museum of Art in San José, CA
6/14/2002

Solo performance in a shared evening with Laetitia Sonami as part of Composing a Career: A Career Development Symposium for Women Composers at Dominican University in San Rafael, CA. (Sponsored by the Women's Philharmonic.)

6/12/2002

A Fifteen minute solo performance as part of Grotto Nights at San Francisco Public Library in San Francisco, CA.

6/4//2002

A shared evening with contrabassist Peter Kowald at Tonic in New York, NY (8pm)

Pamela Z and Peter Kowald will each play solo sets as well as a set of improvised duets. Tonic is located at 107 Norfolk Street between Delancey and Rivington Streets in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

5/11//2002

Solo performance as part of SF Alt Festival at 21 Grand in Oakland, CA

21 Grand is no longer located at 21 Grand Street. Their new address is 449B 23rd Street in Oakland. Saturday evening's program includes Pamela Z, The Wind Trio of Alphaville, and Eddie Gale. Event starts at 8pm.

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5/10//2002

Solo performance as part of NewTown's Sonic Gallery in Pasadena, CA

Sonic Gallery, an adventure in peripheral listening, brings together a large handful of California's most fascinating electronic and electro-acoustic musicians for an evening of simultaneous performances in The Armory's spacious Fair Oaks gallery. The audience, free to roam from artist to artist, will create their own personal "re-mix" through their proximity to chosen performers. The evening promises to be, in turn, ethereal, raucous, exuberant and overwhelming. Artists include: Pamela Z, Carl Stone, Eric Barber & Art Jarvinen, Grisha Coleman & Friends, and Scott Fraser. 7:45pm (Gallery opens at 7pm)

5/3//2002

Solo performance at 8pm (in a shared program with Stephen Vitiello) and participation in a discussion at 1:30pm. as part of "Remixing: sound/body/performance"

CRCA (Center for Research in Computing and the Arts), UCSD in San Diego.

4/20-21/2002

Solo performance in a shared concert with Rick Walker and Robert Dick as part of the Santa Cruz Festival of Performance.

The 418 Project, Santa Cruz, CA

 

4/7/2002

The Qube Chix (Pamela Z, Julie Queen, and Leigh Evans) perform a concert as part of the Music on the Hill series.

St. Kevin's Church, 704 Cortland, San Francisco

 

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3/16/2002

Solo performance and panel participation in the Bay Area Women's Symposium.

Performances by Pamela Z and Amy X Neuburg.

Panelists: Pamela Z, Amy X Neuberg, Elinor Armer, Linda Bouchard, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Belinda Reynolds, moderated by Sarah Cahill at the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum in San Francisco, CA

3/14/2002

Screening of Language Lessons, a collaboration with Jeanne Finley & John Muse, as part of The New Generation: A Celebration of Recent Film & Video at Cinemateque at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, CA

This new short film was developed in large part from material used in Pamela Z’s performance work Gaijin.

3/13/2002

Sound and Video Performance/Installation Forensic Art as part of Sight Unseen/2nd Wednesdays Series at The Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA

Pamela Z will perform her new work exploring physical identity, perception, and the act of spontaneous verbal description. People will be invited to either sit one minute for a camera, or to describe in detail (as if for a police artist) a face that appears on a video monitor. Pamela Z will perform with voice, samples and real time processing- mixing and layering video "headshots" of people accompanied by one-minute verbal descriptions of their faces..

3/4/2002

“Listen In” Presentation at Harvestworks in New York, NY
596 Broadway Suite 602 (phone contact: 212.431.1130)

Composer/Performer Pamela Z discusses her performance works and recorded works, and performs pieces for voice, MAX MSP, and the BodySynth gesture controller. The evening includes a performance of "Metal/Vox/Water", a work for live performance and video which she created during her artist residency at Tryon Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC, and which includes some of the MAX patches she developed during her August 2001 Harvestworks residency.

2/8/2002

Online Web Performance as part of HTMlles Festival at CCRMA, Stanford, CA /Société des Arts Technologiques, Montréal, QC Canada

Pamela Z will do a live, solo performance at Stanford’s CCRMA “Ballroom” which will be transmitted live over the internet to the HTMlles Festival at Société des Arts Technologiques in Montréal.

1/12/2002
Solo performance as part of the CalArts CEAIT Festival at Roy O. Disney Hall in Valencia, CA
12/8/2001 to 12/9/2001

Visiting Artist Seminar at San Francisco State Univerity Art Department
in San Francisco, CA

 

12/6/2001

Lecture/Demo at San Francisco State University Art Department
in San Francisco, CA

11/28/2001
Performance by Pamela Z, Kathy Kennedy, and Katt Sammon of a short vocal trio at Bruno's in San Francisco, CA
11/27/2001
Lecture/Demo as part of Charle’s Boone’s Sound Art class at The San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA
11/10/2001
“3”, a performance of works in progress at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte, NC
The evening includes one work each by Pamela Z, John W. Love Jr., and April Jones
10/29/2001
Solo Performance and Presentation as part of ASCAP “Thru the Walls” Showcase at The Cutting Room in New York, NY
The evening includes the work of composers Pamela Z, Jed Distler, and Brandon Ross.
10/1/2001
Performance of a new commissioned work, Persistence for the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble as part of San Francisco Inventions Series at The Green Room in the War Memorial Arts Center in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Inventions includes commissioned works by Pamela Z, Beth Custer, and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez.
9/28/2001 to 9/30/2001

Premiere of a new commissioned work Persistance for the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Inventions includes commissioned works by Pamela Z, Beth Custer, and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez.

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9/4/2001 to 11/19/2001