Pamela Z composed this piece as part of the score for Reveries and Elegies, Mary Armentrout’s site specific performance project – a shifting, wandering, accumulating, de-accumulating installation that explores change, loss, and dislocation.  The track is composed entirely of samples of Armentrout's speaking voice, which Z has layered, stretched, squeezed, and dissected. In the performance, Z's soundtrack was paired with a time-lapse film by Ian Winters layered on a live dance by Mary Armentrout.

Strange

An eccentric and very cool band who asked me to produce their demo, this group was formed around the lead duo of guitarist Dagen Julty and vocalist Ramey Owen. 

Red Pajamas by Dega-Ray (a song I produced!)

Composed by Eric Lyon

for Solo Violin
Pauline Kim Harris, violin

LIVE recording from the String Noise show at the Bowery Electric (NYC)

February 13, 2013


Variations on "Psycho Killer"

Pamela Z & Kate Tempest jamming at San Ángel

My first String Trio, composed for a Tenth Intervention concert at Spectrum, NYC

Performed by:

Hajnal Pivnick, violin
Sam Kelder, viola
Alexandra Jones, cello

String Trio no. 1

released on the b-side of a ten inch by san francisco label "hobo jungle" in may 2009

Parallels (10" version)

Parallels-beaner rmx

PAMELA Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and media artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, sampling technology, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, 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 been commissioned to compose scores for dance, theatre, film, and new music chamber ensembles including Kronos Quartet and the Bang on a Can Allstars. Her large-scale multi-media works have been presented at venues including Theater Artaud and ODC in SanFrancisco, and The Kitchen in New York, and her media works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum (NY) , the Diözesanmuseum (Cologne), and the Krannert Art Museum (IL). Her multi-media opera Wunderkabinet – inspired by the Museum of Jurassic Technology (co-composed with Matthew Brubeck) has been presented at The LAB Gallery (San Francisco), REDCAT (Disney Hall, Los Angeles), and Open Ears Festival, Toronto. 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), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Festival (Wuppertal, Germany). She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts, The MAP Fund, the ASCAP Music Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention, and the NEA and Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. For more information visit www.pamelaz.com

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