A Secret Code
He Says Yes (2018) 4'
Voice, electronics, samples
Other Rooms (2018) 7'
voice with processing, samples, gesture controller, tape
Site Four (2017) 7'
(from Occupy)
voice, processing, sampled sounds
commissioned by Stephan Koplowitz as part of the score for his 2017 dance work "Occupy" with Axis Dance
Quatre Couches (2015) 4'
voice with processing, gesture controllers
A Piece of π (2012) 4'
sampled voice
Flare Stains (2010) 5'
voice with processing, found objects, samples, gesture controller
Unknown Person (2010) 5'
voice with processing, gesture controller, video
Timepiece Triptych (2008) 16'
fixed media (multi-channel sound with layed sampled voice and bird songs)
Typewriter (1995) 3'
speaking voice, typewriter samples, gesture controller
From sonic trifles to complex numbers, the works on A Secret Code span two decades of redefining song.
Composer Annea Lockwood writes in the liner notes:
“I have long treasured Pamela Z’s work for its vigor, inexhaustible ideas, fluid intricacy of texture, and for its sheer joyousness. An infectious, often surreal humor runs through the whole album, brilliantly upending everyday experience. The letter she is typing disintegrates, flare stains on a road become animate, and in Unknown Person even the TSA’s mundane but weighted questions are subverted, and disintegrate in the hilarious list of packed garments and hopes which follows. Voice, the most intimate of instruments, is a shape-shifter in her hands, transformed by gestural control and electronics in her performances and mutating, time-stretched and compressed as Timepiece Triptych, and throughout her work, with a dazzling compositional virtuosity.”
Neuma 143