Pamela Z processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers that combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, and sampled concrète sounds. This performance uses voice to reorient systems and structures, challenging the way we perceive the world around us.
Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist based in San Francisco. She has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Japan, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize, among many other awards.
This is the eighth event in our year-long season dedicated to thinking about our contemporary moment through the lens of Lorraine O’Grady's work.
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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)