Gentle Gazzetta Readers, Greetings from Berlin! It’s hard to believe that my fellowship time here is nearly half over. Earlier this year I was relieved to be leaving the US before January 20th. But I, along with others in my Berlin Prize cohort, quickly began wishing our stay could be four years instead of a mere four months! It’s been a daily struggle vacillating between wanting to keep up with and wanting to shield our eyes from the news of home. And there’s been a lot of (half) joking about trying not to seem American when meeting people here. Extraordinary Cohort That said, it’s truly a joy sharing meals with this cohort, even though the topic of conversation lingers too often on the disastrous state of current politics and the terrible toll it’s taking on everyone. The quality of our time here in Berlin is augmented by the beautiful meals we are served during the week. The Academy’s capable kitchen staff prepares and serves delicious, healthful, and artfully-presented cuisine. I’ve developed a very warm and familial relationship with the fellows (and their partners and kids), and we’ve all learned a lot from conversing every day, and from attending each other’s Academy talks and events. I’m in the good company of truly brilliant authors, historians, public health professionals, foreign policy scholars, filmmakers, and journalists. Stateside for Five Minutes After making it through a packed week in which I gave my talk at the American Academy and had a solo concert on the MaerzMusik Festival at Haus der Berliner Festspiele, I’m actually popping back across the pond, very briefly, for the premiere of a new work I composed for the ensemble loadbang. I’m a bit nervous due to stories I’ve heard about bizarre treatment of people – even US citizens – trying to enter the country (including rumors of phones being scanned and seized). But I’m crossing my fingers that my re-entry will be smooth and uneventful. It’s ironic that I’m actually less worried about getting back into Germany, next week, when I return for the last few months of my fellowship. Loving Berlin I plan to do much more exploration of Berlin, in the coming months, but I’ve already attended several outstanding concerts, exhibitions, and guided tours here. In January, I saw Trisha Brown Dance Company performing classic works at Berliner Festspiele, and I went on a very informative walking tour through the city. In February, I attended a number of films presented by the Berlinale International Film Festival including a beautiful new Meredith Monk documentary. I went to concerts in small independent experimental music and performance venues, among which was “Unstumm”, an evening with sound by Nicola L. Hein and live performative projections by Claudia Schmitz. And I visited the Hamburger Bahnhof Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, a stunning contemporary art museum built in a former railway station. There, I saw a concert of music by Iannis Xenakis and Alvin Lucier, and strolled through exhibitions in  the expansive galleries including a solo Mark Bradford show, and the museum’s permanent collection of works by Joseph Beuys.		PZ performing at Berliner Festspiele as part of MaerzMusic 2025 Trisha Brown Dance Company's curtain call at Berliner Festspiele Street signs for Mohrenstrasse are often stickered or graffittied in protest of out-dated or racist associations. Heinrich Zille memorial in Kölnischer Park. Main hall at Hamburger Bahnhof Joseph Bueys room at Hamburger Bahnhof PZ in Mark Bradford's Keep Walking installation PZ in her Berlin atelier Yarn/Wire at MaerzMusik
The S-Bahn platform at Wannsee Station	I attended a screening of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis with the original score performed live by Babylon Orchester Berlin (echoes of SF’s Club Foot Orchestra!) and I went on a tour of the Wannsee Conference House that was both enlightening and deeply disturbing.
In March, I saw Craig Taborn in concert, took in an evening of Janáček, Beethoven, and Bartok at the Berliner Philharmonie, and attended many talks, panel discussions, and meals including events with Academy guest and editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg (of Signal-gate fame). And I had the pleasure of hearing several MaerzMusik artists including Yarn/Wire, Steve Schick with Les Percussions de Strasbourg (performing Poetica by composer Chaya Czernowin), and Joan La Barbara. Making Work and Performing I’ve actually managed to complete some work while here, including the loadbang commission. And I’m getting started on my project Arbeitsklang, which I hope to make more headway on in the next two months. And, I have some upcoming performances – including a new collaboration with choreographer and dancer Christine Bonansea in Berlin, and a Qube Chix reunion with the Living Earth Show following my return stateside. Scroll down for more details on those. The American Acacemy in Berlin Spring 2025 Cohort I look forward to seeing some of you on one side of the pond or the other! Love as always, PZ

Photos by: Annette Hornischer, MaerzMusik Presse, Pamela Z, Ken Krimstein  top
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LOADBANG plays Pamela Z Wednesday, April 2, 2025 7pm Cornish College of the Arts
Cornish College of the Arts 1000 Lenora St, Seattle, WA 98121 top	New York-based chamber ensemble, loadbang, performs a program featuring four student works alongside the world premiere of Things Thing, a new work by Pamela Z, as well as a solo set by Pamela Z at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle WA.
Led By Breath: meter matter moment Pamela Z and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs in an on-stage conversation led by S*an D. Henry-Smith Saturday, April 11, 2025 Metro54
top	In connection with rea(l)m, a SNAPSHOTS exhibition by S*an D. Henry-Smith, the artist will host Led By Breath: meter matter moment, a conversation with Pamela Z and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs. In this gathering they will delve into their practices, lyricism, breath, composition, & poetics. Metro 54 Westerdoksdijk 597, 1013 BX Amsterdam, NL
INTRICACY a new collaborative work by Christine Saulut Bonansea + Pamela Z Friday - Sunday, May 2 - 4, 2025 7:30pm DOCK 11, Berlin Composer Pamela Z and choreographer Christine Saulut Bonansea reunite at DOCK11 to present their latest collaborative creation, Intricacy. This work emerges from their continued artistic dialogue following their collaboration at San Francisco's Fresh Festival in 2019. Drawing inspiration from quantum entanglement—the phenomenon where particles become inextricably linked regardless of the distance separating them—Intricacy explores the profound interconnectedness of sound, movement, and technology. The work transcends conventional performance boundaries by investigating body multiplicity and transformation through interactive performance systems. DOCK 11 Kastanienallee 79 10435 Berlin Germany top
Pamela Z at the Boulanger Initiative's WoCo Fest 2025 co-presented by Strathmore Saturday, May 31, 2025 The Mansion
The second day of WoCo Fest 2025: Uplift features concerts, composer workshops, and educational workshops with the Boulanger Initiative team. Pamela Z will close out the festival with a performance or solo works for voice, electronic processing, and video. WoCo Fest at The Mansion 10701 Rockville Pike North Bethesda, MD 20852 top
EARTH QUBE an evening with The Qube Chix + The Living Earth Show Thursday & Friday, June 19 & 20th, 2025 6:45-9:30pm ROAR SHACK LIVE! The Qube Chix are back! And they're teaming up with The Living Earth Show, who have invited them to participate in mixing things up in their Mid-Market creative laboratory, The Roar Shack. They will be reviving old favorites like Bald Boyfriend, If You Want To, and The Bloody Hands Song, as well as heating up some new mischief on the Roar Shack bunson burners. Come for sounds, strange actions, and maybe even a haircut. (Sit close at your own peril.) Roar Shack Live! 34 7th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA top
Garden of Memory annual Summer Solstice Event at Chapel of the Chimes
Saturday June 21, 2025 5-9 pm Pamela Z gives solo voice and electronics performances as part of Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, CA Garden of Memory features continuous simultaneous performances by Bay Area composers and musicians presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music in a walk-through concert in different parts of the beautiful, Julia Morgan-designed building. The audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances. From 5pm to 9pm. Chapel of the Chimes 4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA, USA top
Fuse Ensemble with Pamela Z Friday, June 27th, 2025 8pm Roulette
Roulette 509 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217	Fuse Ensemble, a concept-based electroacoustic chamber ensemble that collaborates with all manner of analog and digital artists, presents Speech and Silence, a set that brings to the fore two ways of listening. In an alternating series of live music works (many with spoken word) and the reflective short films created for the season by artist Edgar Endress, Fuse gathers in these two realms and explore the deep possibilities that lie within, and outside of, the auditory sphere. The concert includes works by Nicole Mitchell, Brittany J. Green, Gina Biver, and Pamela Z, who will join the ensemble for a rare performance of her Ways of Looking. top
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