Friday through Sunday, July 31, Aug 1, & Aug 2, 2015, 8:00 pm
MEMORY TRACE
a performance work exploring memory and forgetting composed and performed by
Pamela Z"I can still remember the time in the early nineteen nineties when I first purchased memory. I delighted in the fact that I could hold it in my hand: a thin, green wafer etched with a lattice of metal lines. And I quickly noticed parallels between the computer's memory and my own. Prone to anthropomorphism, I continue to compare and often confuse the two. I am interested in exploring how humans and computers store memory. How do they "misplace" information and how do they lose it entirely? How can we differentiate between dreams, "real" and "manufactured" memories? How do certain sounds and aromas trigger very old memories?"
Memory Trace unfolds in a series of dreamlike sonic and visual episodes of remembering and forgetting.
Tickets are available now through Brown Paper Tickets
Click here for tickets$13 general admission, $10 students/low income, $20 patron
(sliding scale option available online)
NOTE: Seating is limited – advanced tickets advised
Memory Trace was made possible by grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Center for Cultural Innovation, and support from New Music New College.
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
BREATHING is a movement from Carbon Song Cycle (a inter-media chamber work by composer/performer Pamela Z and visual artist Christina McPhee). The work was originally written for voice & electronics, bassoon, viola, cello, percussion, and tape. This is a solo version performed by the composer (with just voice, processing, and tape), recorded at a 3/13/2014 duo concert with Joan La Barbara as part of the 2014 ROOM Series. Pamela Z is using a gesture controller (designed and built by Donald Swearingen). © 2013 Last Letter Music (ASCAP)