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Featured Event: November 20, 2013 Carbon Song Cycle @ Roulette Brooklyn, NY USA Also Upcoming: October 16-November 17, 2013 Baggage Allowance Exhibition BGSU Fine Arts Center Bowling Green, OH USA November 8, 2013 University of Sussex CROMT Sussex, UK November 12, 2013 City University London Performance Space London, UK November 13, 2013 Brunel University Music Department London, UK February 7-8, 2014 Carbon Song Cycle @ Joe Goode Annex San Francisco, CA USA March 6, 2014 ROOM: LaBarbara + Z Joan LaBarbara & Pamela Z duo event San Francisco, CA USA April 26, 2014 SFCMP Pamela Z and Steve Schick Fort Mason Center San Francisco, CA US

Carbon Song Cycle will be presented at ROULETTE in Brooklyn on November 20, 2013.

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Gentle Gazzetta Readers, A little lag between Gazzettas, right? Last one was in June, so it’s been a bit longer than the customary quarter. This is not to say that you’ve been without communications from me, by any means. You’ve all suffered through all of my fund-raising missives and last-minute gig announcements in the interim. But finally, as I fly over the pond for some UK activity, I’m finding a brief moment to pen a final 2013 Gazzetta for you. And, just in time to let you know about exciting upcoming events including the New York and San Francisco premieres of the inter-media chamber work Carbon Song Cycle! Details of those and all my other upcoming events can be found below the digital fold. Busy Busy Busy! I didn’t do much traveling during summer of 2013. I remained land-locked in San Francisco producing a curious and diverse set of ROOM Series concerts, and working with my colleagues on the SFEMF steering committee to mount San Francisco Electronic Music Festival 2013. But I’ve been making up for that throughout the fall with September and October travels to Chicago and Bowling Green Ohio, and my impending and in-progress November travels to New York, London, Venice, and Denver. With late summer and early autumn came one of the painfully persistent parts of life as a working artist – an intensive focus on raising funds for current and future projects. There was an insane period of grant deadlines of all kinds, in the midst of which my Carbon Song Cycle collaborator Christina McPhee and I also mounted a successful (thanks to many of you!) crowd-funding campaign through Hatchfund – the foundation formerly known as “USArtists Projects”. (See below for an exhaustive list of thank-yous for that). For those of you who regret missing out on the fun, the site is still accepting donations for our project until November 20th, even though we have already surpassed our modest goal. Additional funds go toward the recording of the work. Exhibitions My work as an installation artist seems to be taking more of a front seat of late. I currently have work in an exhibition at Bowling Green State University’s Fine Art Museum. I’m sharing a show with the inimitable George Lewis. My Baggage Allowance installation is on exhibit in a large gallery there, and George has a multi-channel interactive audio and video work in the adjacent gallery. The works will be on exhibit through November 17th in case any of you happen to be in that part of the world between now and then. I also showed an expanded version of my installation Memory Trace as part of Fall Open Studios in my San Francisco Live/Work Building (Project 2/Developing Environments) last month. If you missed that weekend and would like to see it, I’ll be showing it by appointment during the first half of December. Shoot me an email and we can arrange for you to come by and have a look. Carbon Footprints After our April Berkeley Art Museum premiere Christina and I are delighted to be able to continue making waves with Carbon Song Cycle. We’re looking forward to bringing the work to New York with our November 20, 2013 Roulette concert, as well as performing it with the original ensemble in San Francisco at Joe Goode Annex in February 2014. I also have recording sessions scheduled immediately following the San Francisco performance run, so you can look forward to a CD release of the piece in the not-too-distant future. And I have to say it’s been a joy working with such fine musicians on this piece. I spend so much of my musical life working solo. I feel really honored and invigorated by writing music for and working with the likes of Theresa Wong, Dana Jessen, Suki O’Kane, and Charith Premawardhana. And the Roulette event will afford me the chance to play with Marika Hughes and Russell Greenberg (who will be taking Theresa and Suki’s parts on cello and percussion for that gig.) Hearting NY... In the three days I spent in NY before hopping on this jet to London, I managed to see two fantastic new music concerts and spend a very rewarding day at MoMA. The MoMA visit included a viewing of the much-maligned “Soundings” exhibition which I (unlike many of my colleagues) actually liked. Highlights for me were Tristan Perich’s Microtonal Wall (my favorite in fact), Christine Sun Kim’s sound drawings, and Camille Norment's wonderfully minimal and conceptual piece involving a light bulb inside a vintage microphone cage – casting an enormous, evocative shadow. But I was also really drawn to much of the other work in that show. I wondered if other people would have been more receptive to the show had it not been MoMA’s first sound art exhibition. Perhaps people went into it with the impossible set of expectations one might carry to such a strangely delayed event – almost as if it were not only the first, but the last chance for this rich field of work to be given its due at an institution like MoMA. I saw the exhibition on its closing day. I also saw, in a 2nd floor gallery, a delightful performance work called Flip Book presented as part of MoMA's performance program. The choreographer Boris Charmatz used a five-decade Merce Cunningham catalogue as a score for a dance in which the company hit and transitioned between every pose pictured in the book. It was both a playful and rigorous performance portait of the Cunningham company’s long history. On the two days flanking my MoMA visit, I attended an extended voice concert with Joan LaBarbara, Maja Ratkje, and The M6 (performing Meredith Monk's Tablet), and a Carl Stone concert with Elliott Sharp and Shoko Nagai. Both events were stellar. The three days were a reminder of how densely packed New York can be with stimulating arts events. ... & SF These days, the San Francisco Bay Area is no slouch in that department either. There seems to be a hearty upsurge of new music venues and a vibrant gallery scene. Between the Exploratorium's new Kanbar Forum, the little performance room at Duende Oakland, and all the other new galleries and performance spaces popping up on both sides of the Bay, there's rarely a dark night for new work. The addition of the Center for New Music has gone a long way to liven things up. In the past few months, I’ve attended more events there than I can shake the proverbial stick at. With a seemingly endless stream of performances by the likes of Sarah Cahill, Luciano Chessa, sfSound Group, etc, there seems to be something to attend nearly every night of every week. I would probably be attending an event there tonight, were it not for the fact that I’m away for a string of East Coast and UK activity. Read on for the details of these away events as well as some nice Bay Area activity I have planned in the early part of the coming year... Love, PZ     One of the Sonic Suitcases from Baggage Allowance at BGSU

Tristan and PZ with Microtonal Wall Suitcase at BG Fine Art Gallery Installing Tape Loops (part of PZ's Baggage Allowance) Bag X-Ray (from Baggage Allowance) Dana Jessen Skypes in her performance with PZ on the ROOM Series Sarah Cahill at the Center for New Music PZ makes a new friend in Chicago PZ with Mankwe Ndosi in Chicago (Man on the street: "Are you sisters?") The majestic Joan LaBarbara circular-singing.. She'll share a ROOM night with PZ in 2014 PZ & Steve Schick take a coffee near the C4NM Donald Swearingen with a Lion at the Cal Academy of Sciences (SFEMF opening night) Carl Stone at Roulette Camille Norment's work casting a big shadow Mind the gap, but more importantly Mind Your Head

Photos by Pamela Z, Donald Swearingen, Silvia Matheus, George Lewis

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upcoming event details: Baggage Allowance Exhibition Fine Art Galleries Bowling Green State University, Fine Arts Center, Bowling Green, OH, USA October 16 - November 17, 2013 Pamela Z’s media installation, Baggage Allowance, is currently on view in a month-long exhibition in the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery. The exhibition, titled "New Art & Sound", includes Z's work as well as George Lewis' Information Station No.1 in an adjacent gallery. This exhibition opened in conjunction with this year’s New Music and Art Festival weekend at Bowling Green. Bowling Green State University Galleries in Bowling Green, OH USA. top University of Sussex CROMT November 8, 2013 Friday, November 8, 6pm Performance with Voice, Electronics, & Video In a visiting artist residency at the University of Sussex Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre, Pamela Z will perform, offer a workshop, and participate in a panel discussion moderated by Cathy Lane. University of Sussex Creativity Zone University of Sussex Sussex, Uk top City University London Performance Space Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 7pm Pamela Z will perform solo works for voice and electronics on a shared concert with composer/performer Lauren Hayes at City University London at 7:00pm in London UK PERFORMANCE SPACE College Building City University London St John Street EC1V 4PB London     top Brunel University, London Wednesday, November 13, 2013 Pamela Z performance presentation at Brunel University Music Department Through live performance as well as video and audio examples, Pamela Z will share her work and her process, and will discuss the increasingly blurred lines between disciplines in her practice and that of other interdisciplinary artists.  She will demonstrate her use of voice with live processing and gesture-based MIDI controllers, and show examples of large-scale performance works and media installations at Brunel University MUSIC Department in London UK. Brunel University Music Department London UK   top CARBON SONG CYCLE NEW YORK PREMIERE ROULETTE 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains and the LIRR USA Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 8 pm Pamela Z (composer/performer) and Christina McPhee (video artist) will present their expanded cinema/chamber performance work Carbon Song Cycle at Roulette in Brooklyn, NY USA. Carbon Song Cycle is a work for voice & electronics, viola, cello, bassoon, percussion, and multi-channel video projections that premiered in April of 2012 at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive as part of the BAM/PFA L@te Series. For the November 20th New York presentation of the work, Z’s music will be performed by an ensemble consisting of the composer herself (voice & electronics) with Dana Jesson (bassoon), Marika Hughes (cello), and Charith Premawardhana (viola), and Russell Greenberg (percussion). McPhee will reconfigure her multi-channel projections for the surfaces of the beautiful Brooklyn Roulette space. ROULETTE 509 Atlantic Ave (On the corner of Atlantic & 3rd Aves) DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN 2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains and the LIRR USA Carbon Song Cycle is commissioned by New Music Bay Area and is made possible in part by grants from the MAP Fund and New Music USA's Commissioning Music USA program.  The New York Premiere was made possible by generous donations from individual supporters through Hatchfund/USArtists Projects. top CARBON SONG CYCLE in SAN FRANCISCO JOE GOODE ANNEX 401 Alabama Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 USA Friday and Saturday, February 7-8, 2014, 8 pm Pamela Z (composer/performer) and Christina McPhee (video artist) will present their expanded cinema/chamber performance work Carbon Song Cycle at Joe Goode Performance Annex in San Francisco, CA USA Carbon Song Cycle is a work for voice & electronics, viola, cello, bassoon, percussion, and multi-channel video projections that premiered in April of 2012 at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive as part of the BAM/PFA L@te Series. The music will be performed by an ensemble consisting of the composer herself (voice & electronics) with Dana Jesson (bassoon), Theresa Wong (cello), and Charith Premawardhana (viola), and Suki O’Kane, (percussion). McPhee will reconfigure her multi-channel projections for the surfaces of the Joe Goode Annex space in Project Artaud. Joe Goode Performance Annex 401 Alabama Street (at 17th and Alabama), San Francisco, CA 94110 USA The Annex is a 10 minute walk from the 16th Street BART station or accessible from the 33, 27, 22 MUNI lines. Carbon Song Cycle is commissioned by New Music Bay Area and is made possible in part by grants from the MAP Fund and New Music USA's Commissioning Music USA program.  The San Francisco performance was also supported by the Zellerbach Family Foundation's Community Arts Grant program. top   ROOM: Joan LaBarbara and Pamela Z A shared evening of extended voice & electronics Thursday March 6, 2014, 8pm Pamela Z Arts' intimate avant chamber series is proud to present a shared evening of experimental vocal works by Joan LaBarbara and Pamela Z as the first event in the 2014 ROOM Series season. Each will perform solo works, and the two will perform an improvised duo work. The ROOM SERIES Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA top Pamela Z and Steve Schick on 2014 SFCMP Festival San Francisco Contemporary Music Players' SWEET THUNDER Festival Fort Mason Center San Francisco, CA, USA Saturday, April 26, 2014, 7:30pm San Francisco Contemporary Music Players will present guest performers in a journey through the history of electro-acoustic music including a special performance by SFCMP Artistic Director Steven Schick with Pamela Z of a new work composed by Z for percussion and voice & electronics. top Special Thanks to the Supporters of CARBON SONG CYCLE on Hatchfund/USArtists Projects Thank you: The New York Premiere and the upcoming recording of Carbon Song Cycle are being made possible by generous donations from Anonymous, Jesse Bear, Linda Bouchard, Ky Boyd, Seth Brenzel, Laura Carmichael, Terri Cohn, Nikola Colendich, Nicholas Croft, Elise de Jong, John Drumheller, Elizabeth Dungan, Hank Dutt, Dina Emerson, Anne and Peter Esmonde, Thea Farhadian, Frank Ferraro, Evelyn Ficarra, Jeanne C. Finley, Scott Francis (Francis Foundation), Joshua Fried’s RADIO WONDERLAND, Ellen Fullman, Andrew Gilbert, Sam Green, Donna Hill, Lyn Horton, GH Hovagimyan, Brenda Hutchinson, Liz Keim, Kathy Ketman, Kevin Killian, David King, Chris Komater, Joe Lasqo, Dohee Lee, John Lehnert, Sue LeSeure, Scott Lines, Arel Lucas, David Luebke, Frederick C. Luebke, Hugo Martinez, Miya Masaoka, David Mather, Silvia Matheus, Christina McPhee, Ian McPhee, Thomas Miller, Suki O'Kane, Adria Otte, Carol Palmer, Robert Paterson, John Glenn Paton & Joan Thompson, Jean Piché, Marco Pinter, Mark Pritchard, Stephen Prutsman, Julie Queen & Paul Lundahl, Steven Rabinowitz, Robin Richardson, Gary Schilling, Marianne Kary Schulman, Claude Shade, Todd Shalom, Karen Shunk, Jessica Silverman, Thomas Steenland, Graham Stewart, Ronald Thompson, Beth Warshafsky, Damien Weldon, Bonnie Wright, Pamela Zoline & John Lifton.   gazzetta | event highlights | news travels goings-on | event details | past gazzetti | pamelaz.com Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist whose solo works combine a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, samples, video, and gesture activated MIDI controllers. Ms. Z has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. Her work has been presented at venues and exhibitions including Bang on a Can (NY), the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds (SF), the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. She's created installation works and composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship. www.pamelaz.com Pamela Z is represented and fiscally sponsored by Circuit Network. If you wish to make a tax-deductible contribution to Pamela Z or Pamela Z Productions, you can make a donation via PayPal: or you can write a check to Circuit Network with "Pamela Z Productions" in the notation and send it to: Circuit Network, 499 Alabama Street, Suite 203, San Francisco, CA 94110 For booking inquiries contact Elisabeth Beiard at Circuit: 415 863 2441 or info@circuitnetwork.com gazzetta | event highlights | news travels goings-on | event details | past gazzetti | pamelaz.com