ROOM: Chamber Chorus! featuring VOICES OF SILICON VALLEY
This Thursday, the ROOM Series features the contemporary chamber chorus Voices of Silicon Valley in an evening of choral works including work-in-progress excerpts from
Pamela Z’s Correspondence.
Correspondence is an exploration of the ever-evolving modes of personal communication and how the rapid changes are impacting or coloring the ways we relate to one another. The work teases apart the history of correspondence – from handwritten letters and telegraphs to electronic messaging, tweets, and video chats. Z composed the piece by interviewing people about their histories with various modes of correspondence, and using speech fragments from those interviews to weave together the structure and to derive melodic and rhythmic material for the parts.
Voices of Silicon Valley will perform excerpts from Correspondence arranged for 12 voices (with Z making a small cameo on voice & electronics for the final movement). This ROOM Series program will also include Voices of Silicon Valley performing a suite of re-imagined Renaissance madrigals, and a selection from a Hans Zimmer's Gladiator score.
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)