Gentle Gazzetta Readers, As we spring forward, I am just over halfway through my artist residency at AUDIUM, San Francisco’s 176-loudspeaker “theater of sound”. I spent the month of February working in the space, learning the theater’s complex system, and composing a work on it. I completed the new piece and mounted the premiere during the first weekend of March, and I will continue performing the work every weekend for the rest of this month. Sculpting Sound Audium has been in operation at its current location since the 1970s, and I’ve been attending shows there since the ‘80s, when the only works being presented were still composed by Stan Shaff, the venue’s founder. During my occasional visits to Audium, I used to wish other composer’s works could also be experienced in there. Fast forward several decades to the 2020s and Stan’s son, Dave, has now developed an artist residency program for exactly that. It was kind of a dream come true (for me and, I’m sure, for many other sound artists). It’s been a great pleasure, during the past few years, to experience new works in that space, and to re-experience some of Stan Shaff’s sound sculptures as well. And now I’m enjoying my first opportunity to make my own work in the space. The material I used to construct this piece, which is called Arbeitsklang (WorkSound), was gathered during my Berlin Prize Fellowship last year. I went into a variety of work spaces in Berlin – including kitchens, a factory, a sewing establishment, and a letterpress with Gutenberg movable type presses. I recorded the sounds of the machines and the work environments, and I recorded interviews with many of the workers.		PZ composing in Audium's theater space AUDIUM's 2026 artists in residence w/Dave Shaff PZ, in mandatory hardhat, recording at the BAYER factory in Berlin. The Liiving Earth Show + Mark Applebaum Andy Meyerson & Myles Thatcher performing a Raven Chacon piece. James Casebere sculptures Cast of What to Wear taking curtain call Splinter Reeds at The Lab Theresa Wong performing at The Lab Moe! conducting Music for Eight Guitars
rare glimpse of AUDIUM with the lights on	The finished piece includes multiple fixed tracks, which I manually move through the speaker arrays, combined with live voice and processing. The audience experiences all of this in total darkness, insuring that their sensory input is completely sonic.
Largely Local (for a change!) On the heels of my Audium run, April is bursting at the seams with performances – most of them also in San Francisco. Ensemble for These Times is premiering From, a recently completed work they commissioned, and I’m giving solo performances at San Francisco Public Library (for Night of Ideas) and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In the midst of all that, I’ll be traveling to Cincinnati, where Musica Nova will give a portrait concert (RAISE: The Music of Pamela Z) at UC Cincinatti College Conservatory of Music. My busy performance schedule continues into May and June with a guest appearance in a new work by Inkboat at Z Space and performances with The Living Earth Show at ROAR SHACK in downtown San Francisco. Between all of those gigs, I’ll also be getting started composing several commissioned works for the likes of Lorelei Ensemble, Sarah Cahill, Peninsula Women’s Chorus, and Tom Dambly. And on it goes! Art as Sustenance Someone recently asked me how I manage to go to so many shows when I’m so busy. No matter how frenetic my composing and performing activity is, I always give in to my penchant for attending concerts, exhibitions, and screenings. For me, art is food, and consuming it helps me to sustain myself. All of the events I attended in recent weeks served to infuse me with the inspiration and impetus I needed to keep making my own work. Among the inspiring events I experienced, since last I wrote, was a wild edition of SF Perfromances’ PIVOT Festival curated by The Living Earth Show and bursting with delightful and theatrical works by composers like Mark Appelbaum and Raven Chacon and dance work by Babatunji and Myles Thatcher. I also saw an extraordinary San Francisco Opera production of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking. While in Cologne, I took in the expansive contemporary collection at the Museum Ludwig and, in New York, I saw James Casebere’s solo exhibition The Spatial Unconscious, at the Williamsburg Biannual, and Michael Gordon’s absurdist opera What to Wear at BAM. I was deeply moved by a couple of events I attended at The LAB's newly expanded space in San Francisco – a beautiful performance by Theresa Wong and an electronic media-themed concert of intriguing works performed by Splinter Reeds. I saw so many great shows at West Oakland Sound Series – like Moe! Staiano’s Music for Eight Guitars – and at venues large and small – from SF Symphony's SoundBox to Artists' Television Access – that I dare not attempt to list them all here. Oakland Reductionist Orchestra @ West Oakland Sound Series (Paul Dresher Studio) I feel so lucky to be part of this local and global arts community. We’re all navigating treacherous and turbulent world conditions, as we spring forward. And it seems that the best I can do is to try to keep going and keep contributing the only thing I have to offer the world. For me, that amounts to continuing to make and experience art. I have a very full slate of events in the coming months, gentle Gazzetta-readers. (Scroll down for all the details!) Yours always, PZ

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Pamela Z ARBEITSKLANG/WORKSOUND a spatialized sound work at AUDIUM Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, March 5 - 28, 2026 8pm (doors 7:30) AUDIUM Theater of Sound
As the culmination of Pamela Z’s artist residency, AUDIUM presents Arbeitsklang, a new sound work composed from sampled work-related sounds and speech fragments she recorded last year in Berlin. The work will feature sounds sourced from a wide range of Berlin workspaces (including factories, kitchens, industrial sewing shops, and printing presses) combined with fragments of interview text and Z’s own vocal sounds, woven into the fabric of a complex, spatialized, and multi-layered music of voices and noises. AUDIUM is a custom-built, one-of-a-kind sound theatre with 176 speakers that surround listeners with sounds that move past, over, and under them. Composers perform their sound sculptures live in total darkness.
Arbeitsklang, will be performed Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays each weekend of March 2026 at 8pm. Doors at 7:30pm; all shows at 8:00pm. Buy Tickets Online AUDIUM Theater 1616 Bush St. (@ Franklin), San Francisco, CA 94109
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Pamela Z works for Solo Voice & Electronics @ YBCA Thursday, April 2, 2026, 7:30pm Yerba Buena Center for the Arts FORUM
	At YBCA, Pamela Z presents a performance that draws on her pioneering practice as a composer, performer, and media artist to process her voice in real time, building dense and intricate sonic layers through live digital looping. Blending experimental extended vocal techniques with sampled concrète sounds, she uses the voice as both material and system; reorienting perceptual structures and inviting listeners to reconsider how sound, language, and technology shape the way we experience our immediate environment.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts The Forum 701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 top
Sonic Illuminations @ NIGHT OF IDEAS
Saturday, April 11, 2026, 7:30 - 9pm San Francisco Public Library Pamela Z will host and give a short performance in Sonic Illuminations, a program of live electronic music featuring Amanda Chaudhary, Leyya Mona Tawil, Héloïse Garry, and Z, as part of NIGHT OF IDEAS at the San Francisco Public Library. Free registration form San Francisco Public Library Steve Silver Music Library, 4th floor 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco CA 94102 top
Ensemble for These Times plays Z Friday, April 17 2026, 7:30pm San Francisco Conservatory of Music Cha Chi Ming Recital Hall
E4tT in partnership with SFCM TAC presents Women Crossing/Liminality, a program that includes the newly commissioned work From by Pamela Z, along with other world premieres and addional works. Pre-concert talk at 7 PM with composers Vivian Fung and Pamela Z Reserve a seat Cha Chi Ming Recital Hall, The Bowes Center 200 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102 USA top	Program: Fields of Sorrow, for soprano, cello, and piano, setting landay (women's poetry from Afghanistan) Say It in Your Heart, Say It in Your Sleep for piano by Leilehua Lanzilotti Liminal/ity by Sofia Jem Ouyang for cello New music by Vivian Fung for bass flute and found object percussion From for violin, cello, found-object percussion, tape, voice, and electronics by Pamela Z Performed by Ensemble for These Times cellist Megan Chartier and pianist Margaret Halbig, joined by percussionist Haruka Fujii, violinist Lylia Guion, soprano Bryana Marrero, flutist Stacey Pelinka, and composer-performer Pamela Z on voice & electronics.
RAISE: The Music of Pamela Z Tuesday, April 21, 2026 7:30pm University of Cincinatti Corbett Center for the Performing Arts Pamela Z joins Ensemble Musica Nova in a portrait concert of her music, featuring Ways of Looking (2019), Raise (2024) as well as a suite of solo voice and electronics works, in the Cohen Family Studio Theater. University of Cincinatti Conservatory of Music Corbett Center for the Performing Arts 2600 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA top   inkboat's CLOUDS FROM A CRUMBLING GIANT our wild shining days April 30 - May 3, 2026 Z Space’s Steindler Stage
Pamela Z makes an appearance in a new inkBoat production. Clouds from a Crumbling Giant: our wild shining days, breathes in the spaces of time between human incarnations. Broken yet boundless bodies enter the waiting room of the afterlife. As they re-enact their corporeal memories, consciousness folds in upon itself. 496 moons rise and fall. The band plays “Hazy Shade of Winter.” inkBoat, founded in 1998, continually invites in the collaborative voices of artists who meet in uncertain territories. The company brings together disperate backgrounds in Noh Theater, Coporeal Mime, Butoh Dance, Physical Theater, and unconventional orchestrations involving acoustic instruments, sound design and nostalgic wonderment.  Presented by San Francisco International Arts Festival Tickets Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA top	Shinichi Iova-Koga directs this rumination on being and non-being in collaboration with Dana Iova-Koga, Jubilith Moore, Dan Cantrell, Elke Luyten, Cass Tunick, Adria Otte, Mari Osanai, Allen Willner and KT Nelson. Additional collaborators include Pamela Z, Khatchadour Khatchadourian, Suki O’Kane, Shahzad Ismaily, Kaori Yamashita, Edward Schocker, Brian Collentine, Jon Raskin, Ann Dragich, Eileen Housteau, Erin Carper, Joy Cosculluela, Mary Parks, Carla Kihlstedt, Crow Nishimura, Joshua Kohl, Jackson Kao, Maia, Elizabeth Pasquale, Jim Koester and members of EMBODIMENT PROJECT!
Pamela Z with The Living Earth Show at Roar Shack Thursday and Friday, June 18 & 19, 2026, 6:45pm ROAR SHACK LIVE!
	Pamela Z joins The Living Earth Show for an evening of surprises in works for voice and electroincs, percussion, guitar, video, and strange behavior. Tickets Roar Shack Live! 34 7th Street San Francisco, CA USA
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gazzetta | event highlights | news travels goings-on | event details | past gazzette | pamelaz.com Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist making works for voice, electronics, samples, gesture activated MIDI controllers, and video. She has toured 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), MoMA (NY), the Venice Biennale, and Dakar Biennale. She has composed scores for dance, film, and chamber ensembles (including Kronos Quartet and Eighth Blackbird). Her awards include the Rome Prize, Berlin Prize, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MIT McDermott Award, the Guggenheim, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. www.pamelaz.com For professional inquiries contact Beth Beauchamp at BEAUCHAMP ARTIST SERVICES Pamela Z is fiscally sponsored by Circuit Network.To make a tax-deductible contribution to Pamela Z or Pamela Z Arts, use PayPal: ...or send a check to Circuit Network with "Pamela Z Arts" in the notation to: Circuit Network, 499 Alabama Street, Suite 203, San Francisco, CA 94110 gazzetta | event highlights | news travels goings-on | event details | past gazzette | pamelaz.com
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