The Failed States is a creative project based in an aged care facility in the leafy suburb of Wantirna, Melbourne Australia. 

Initially a recreational outlet, allowing residents to express themselves through music, poetry and sitting still, The Failed States has since taken on a life of it own. 

Anguished songs about other residents' grandchildren being too loud at the table tennis table, or jeremiads of lukewarm, semi-set puddings were gradually replaced by powerful pieces about climate change, urban decay, relationship breakdown and missing dentures.

There are no permanent members of The Failed States, we live on, as age, petty rivalries, and forgetfulness takes us all.

The Failed States tries to perform in the common room on the second Tuesday of every month, after lunch.

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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March 2, 2024 - Dupl Dipd - (Live Ambient Set) -￼ Industry Lab - Cambridge, MA 

Sept. 22, 2023 - ASC - (Ambient Set) - Masary Studios - Boston, MA

Feb 18, 2023 - Cake Factory # 40 - (Techno Set) - Cantab Lounge - Cambridge, MA

Oct. 30, 2022 - Cake Factory # 39 - (Techno Set) - Cantab Lounge - Cambridge, MA

April 25, 2020 - Cake Factory # 34 - (Techno Set) - Dorchester Art Project - Boston, MA

[[Cancelled]] March 21, 2020 - Rave Cycle - (Ambient Set) - Boston, MA

Feb. 1, 2020 - Cake Factory # 31 - (Techno Set) - Dorchester Art Project - Boston, MA

Jan. 24, 2020 - Media_rins & Sysex.club Night - (Ambient Set) - [Secret Location] - Boston, MA

Nov. 30, 2019 - Cake Factory # 30 - Dorchester Art Project - Boston, MA

Oct. 26, 2019 - Cake Factory # 29 - Dorchester Art Project - Boston, MA

Oct. 19, 2019 - Wiederkunft Open Air 003 - [Secret Location] - Boston, MA

Sept. 28, 2019 - Cake Factory # 28 - Dorchester Art Project - Boston, MA

Sept. 21, 2019 - Wiederkunft Open Air 002 - [Secret Location] - Boston, MA 

Sept. 07, 2019 - MIMO Festival - Dorchester Art Project - Boston, MA

Aug. 31, 2019 - Wiederkunft Open Air 001 - [Secret Location] - Boston, MA 

May 25, 2019 - Cake Factory # 25 - Dorchester Art Project - Boston, MA

March 30, 2019 - Cake Factory # 23 - Dorchester Art Project - Boston, MA

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