Events Archive

2024

2023

November 12December 17, 2023

Soundgallery ‘Ohrenhoch Sundays’ Presents Pamela Z’s Strange


Weichselstr. 49 , Berlin-Neukölln, Germany

Sunday 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2023,
continuously from 2 pm to 9 pm

Pamela Z on her sound work ‘Strange’ (7’30”, in loop mode):

‘Strange’ – originally commissioned by Mary Armentrout Dance Theater – is a stereo sound work that involves a dense collage of time-expanded and time-compressed speech sounds. 

Pamela Z composed ‘Strange’ 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.

‘Strange’ is the third work by Pamela Z presented at the Sound Gallery ‘ohrenhoch’ in Berlin.  In October/November 2023 ohrenhoch presented her work ‘Lift’, in 2012 her work ‘A Piece of Pi’(world premiere).

2022

Saturday, April 23, 20224:00pm

Annea Lockwood’s SPIRIT CATCHERS

Mills College
Lisser Hall 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613-1301 map

Pamela Z, Laetitia Sonami, Brenda Hutchinson, and Sarah Cahill will perform Annea Lockwood’s Spirit Catchers in collaboration with Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music as part of Music in the Fault Zone: Experimental Music at Mills College (1939 to the present) at Mills College

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2020

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Pamela Z Solo Performance on GRAY SOUND SESSIONS


929 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 map

Pamela Z will give a solo performance of works for solo voice and electronics, from her studio in San Francisco, on a shared evening with Nomi Epstein as part of GRAY AREA SOUND SESSIONS, a weekly music-and-sound streaming series featuring virtual concerts, happenings, experiments, a playing-around with form and platform during quarantine. at Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry

Tuesday, October 6, 20206:00pm

Tuesday Talks: Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome

Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
Online Event

Pamela Z | 2020 Fellow | Composer Speaking of Music | Music of Speaking One of the composers whose Rome Prize Fellowship year was cut short by the COVID virus, Pamela Z will present a program of pieces she worked on in Rome, and give a live performance/demo of solo work as part of Tuesday Talks at Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome

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Thursday, March 13, 20148:00pm

ROOM: LaBarbara + Z

The ROOM Series
Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 map

Pamela Z Arts’ intimate avant chamber series presents a shared evening of experimental vocal works by extended voice pioneer Joan La Barbara and composer/performer Pamela Z as the first event in the 2014 ROOM Series season at The ROOM Series

ROOM: LaBarbara + Z

2013

Friday, July 5, 20138:00pm

ROOM: Six Reeds (and 18 feet of tubing)

The Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco, CA 94110 map

Pamela Z Arts presents ROOM: Six reeds (and 18 feet of tubing), an evening of new music for double reeds – local and remote (combined with a little voice & electronics). The evening features Bay Area ex-pat bassoonist extraordinaire, Sara Schoenbeck in this rare San Francisco appearance, local renowned genre-bending double-reedist Kyle Bruckmann (of sfSound Group and SF Contemporary Music Players fame), and a remote appearance by virtuosic bassoonist Dana Jessen teleported into the ROOM via Skype from Oberlin. Composer/performer Pamela Z hosts and contributes some voice and electronics work to the evening at The Royce Gallery

ROOM: Six Reeds (and 18 feet of tubing)

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2011

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Panel on Time

Stanford Geoology Corner, Braun Corner, Building 320, Room 105
Palo Alto, CA

Pamela Z gives a talk and sits on a panel as part of An Interdisciplinary Tour of the Human Condition in Three Stages: Time, Life, and Mind at Stanford Geoology Corner, Braun Corner, Building 320, Room 105

2010

October 19November 18, 2010

Djerassi Resident Artist Program
2325 Bear Gulch Rd, Woodside, CA map

Pamela Z has been awarded a one-month residency along with poet Ronee Blakley, choreographer Shaun Boyle (UK), playwright George Brant, media artist Melissa Day, choreographer Moriah Evans, visual artist Jinnie Seo (Korea), visual artist Gustavo Villegas (Mexico), and playwright Paul David Young at Djerassi Resident Artist Program

2009

2008

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

University of California at Santa Cruz Art Department
Santa Cruz, CA

Pamela Z gives a talk as part of Visiting Artist Lecture Series at University of California at Santa Cruz Art Department

Thursday, May 8, 2008

University of Colorado
Boulder, CO

Pamela Z visits her Alma Mater to accept the Alumna of the Year Award from the College of Music as part of the University of Colorado 2008 Commencement Cermemonies at University of Colorado

2007

May 10May 12, 2007

Voci in DC

GALA Theatre-Tivoli
3333 14th St., NW, Washington, DC

Performance run of Pamela Z’s Voci, a solo performance work with video by Jeanne Finley and John Muse as part of Washington Performing Arts 2006-07 Season at GALA Theatre-Tivoli

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March 27April 5, 2003

Voci

ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA

Voci (Voices), a solo, multi-media performance work exploring the sonic, cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the human voice (with video work by Jeanne Finley and John Muse). at ODC Theater

2002

Friday, May 3, 2002

CRCA

CRCA (Center for Research in Computing and the Arts), UCSD
San Diego, CA

Solo performance and discussion (in a shared program with Stephen Vitiello) as part of Remixing: sound/body/performance at CRCA (Center for Research in Computing and the Arts), UCSD

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October 31July 1, 1986

San Francisco, CA

Solo Performances at various Bay Area Clubs, Performance Galleries, and Coffeehouses including: Media in SF, The Paradise Lounge in SF, The Sweetwater in Mill Valley, The Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, and The BayBrick

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