[photo courtesy of Ars Electronica, Linz] Pamela Z solo concert :: March 30, 2010; 8:00 pm :: The Stone, Avenue C and 2nd Street, New York City .

Pamela Z performs a concert of short solo works for voice and electronics as part of the “Word + Music” series curated by Larry Ochs. The concert will consist of a selection of works involving language, including some excerpts from her work “Parts of Speech”, some new pieces, and a few tape pieces.

Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, and sampling technology. She creates solo works combining experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. In addition to her solo work, she has composed and recorded scores for dance, theatre, film, and new music chamber ensembles.

Pamela Z is currently working on a project called “Baggage Allowance” involving a combination of media installation works and a live multi-media performance. Her solo exhibition is now showing at the Krannert Art Museum in Illinois. The bi-coastal premiere of the performance work will have a one-week run at Theatre Artaud in San Francisco (May 20-23, 2010) and at the Kitchen in New York (September 16-19, 2010).

Her previous large-scale multi-media works such as Voci, Gaijin, and her multi-media opera Wunderkabinet – based on the Museum of Jurassic Technology have been presented at venues including Theater Artaud (San Francisco), The Kitchen (New York), REDCAT (Disney Hall, Los Angeles), and Open Ears Festival (Toronto). Her media works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum (New York), the Dakar Biennale (Sénégal), the Krannert Art Museum (IL), and the Diözesanmuseum (Cologne). Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including Bang on a Can at Lincoln Center (New York), Interlink (Japan), Other Minds (San Francisco), Pina Bausch Tanztheater Festival (Wuppertal, Germany), and La Biennale di Venezia (Italy). She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts, the ASCAP Music Award, the NEA and Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship, and the MAP Fund. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

For more info about Pamela Z, visit pamelaz.com.