Gentle Gazzetta Readers, Since last I wrote, I wrapped up the final month of my Berlin Prize Fellowship with a flurry of activities. I visited many Berlin work-places to make recordings of their sounds, attended a number of concerts and exhibitions – including a remarkable performance by the avant garde vocal ensemble Maulwerker, collaborated on a performance work with choreographer Christine Bonansea, and traveled to Essen, Lübeck, and Amsterdam to give concerts and talks. Following my spring in Germany, I returned to the US for an intensely busy summer. The fullness of my schedule was almost enough (though, sadly, not entirely) to distract me from the constantly troubling news cycle. Still, it seems like the only thing some of us know how to do, in this climate, is to keep going – keep making work and seeing work, and endeavoring to keep art alive at a time when it is so sorely needed. Coast to Coast Engagements... I had a slew of performances and visiting artist residencies on the east coast and in LA – giving solo concerts and having my works performed by loadbang, Fuse Ensemble, and Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra. A particularly high point of the summer was the long-awaited reunion of The Qube Chix (Leigh Evans, Julie Queen, and yours truly) – instigated by The Living Earth Show as the closing event of their “Roar Shack Live!” season in Downtown San Francisco.		Christine Bonansea and Pamela Z performing Intricacy at Dock 11, Berlin Maulwerker at Hošek Contemporary on Motor Ship Heimatland, Berlin Yoko Ono Wish Tree outside the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. The Qube Chix pose with newly shorn "Bald Boyfriend, Mo! loadbang rehearsing Things Thing. Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra Still Simon Steen-Anderson's Black Box
The Qube Chix performing in 1992 (Pamela Z, Leigh Evans, Julie Queen)	We had a blast performing two sold-out evenings – each of which included, among other things, the on-stage head-shaving of a “bald boyfriend” (something we hadn't done since the mid-1990s)!
Taking in So Much Art During these summer months, I availed myself of many opportunities to see great art on both coasts. I attended the Ruth Asawa retrospective at SFMOMA, visited the galleries of MoCA in LA, and had a private tour of digital artist Taezoo Park’s “Radio Row”, in Manhattan. I attended numerous concerts on the West Oakland Sound Series – including an evening with the inimitable Splinter Reeds, and I saw some extraordinary concerts on the Time:Spans Festival in New York where I was introduced to the surprising works of Simon Steen-Anderson – written for chamber players and video. Simultaneous Sound Installations My fall months will be equally busy with travel, concerts, and exhibitions around the globe. I'll actually have several sound installations showing during overlapping dates in multiple locations. Harvestworks is presenting an eight-channel version of Syrinx on Governor’s Island in New York, while the Göteborg International Biennial in Sweden is showing Breathing in two channels. And as those two exhibitions continue, I will be mounting my 21-channel sound installation, Simultaneous, as part of the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco. Three Simultaneous Versions of Simultaneous While the sound installation is on exhibit at Brava Theater, the live performance version of Simultaneous will open the Other Minds festival on the main stage. And the festival week will also mark the release (both on vinyl and CD) of my Simultaneous radio work on the Other Minds Label. Fuse Ensemble with PZ performing Ways of Looking at Roulette I have many more performances scheduled – solo and with ensembles – in venues from Chicago to Melbourne to Cologne to New York. (Scroll down for all the details!) Meanwhile, gentle Gazzetta-readers, let's try to keep our chins up through all the abominable domestic and global developments, try to somehow find ways to help turn things around, and try to keep making and experiencing art... Love PZ

Photos by: Harriet Meyer, Pamela Z,  Paul Lundahl, Ted Helminski, Carlin Ma, Roulette Intermedium   top
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Harvestworks Presents Syrinx multi-channel sound installation by Pamela Z Saturday, August 30- Sunday October 26, 2025 11am -5pm Harvestworks Art and Technology Program on Governor's Island
Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park Governor’s Island, Building 10a New York, NY top	Pamela Z’s multi-channel sound installation, Syrinx, will be presented on Governors Island as part of the Art and Tech Exhibition – From Nature at Harvestworks Art and Technology Program in New York, NY Syrinx is a multi-channel sound installation named for the avian vocal organ. The piece is made from multiple layers of the various time-expanded and time-compressed permutations of birdsong and the human interpretation of it. To create this work, the artist took a short birdsong and slowed it down until its individual pitches and complex melodic material were revealed. She learned to sing the melody and sped her voice up until it was the same length and pitch as the original birdsong.
Pamela Z with The Living Earth Show at Roar Shack Gala Thursday, September 11, 2025, 6:45pm Roar Shack Live!
top	Pamela Z joins The Living Earth Show in a short performance as part of Living Earth Day: A Fundraiser Gala at Roar Shack Live! at 6:45pm in San Francisco, CA Tickets Roar Shack Live! 34 7th Street San Francisco, CA USA
Pamela Z’s Breathing Installation @ Göteborg International Biennial
Saturday, Septeber 20 - Sunday, November 30, 2025 DOCK 11, Berlin Pamela Z’s Breathing is being played in an exhibition as part of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art #13 at Röda Sten Konsthall in Göteborg The title of the biennial’s 13th edition, a hand that is all our hands combined*, originates in a line from a poem by Solmaz Sharif, and stands as a reminder of the collective responsibility that we all share towards the present, past and future, on both individual and societal levels. GIBCA, Röda Sten Konsthall Röda Sten 1, Gothenburg, Sweden, 414 51 top	The exhibition will feature works by Noor Abed, Basma al-Sharif, Patricia L. Boyd, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Raven Chacon, Moki Cherry, Siri Derkert, Hans Haacke, Hanni Kamaly, Rosalind Nashashibi, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi & Dalena Tran & Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Christian Nyampeta, Lydia Ourahmane, Olivia Plender, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Lala Rukh, Georgia Sagri, Helena Uambembe, Jonelle Twum, and at the invitation of Black Archives Sweden – Kiluanji Kia Henda, Tiago Mena Abrantes, and Pamela Z
Pamela Z meets Musikfabrik Monday, September 21, 2025 2:00 pm Cellebroederskapel Maastricht, Netherlands Ensemble Musikfabrik welcomes Pamela Z in a concert featuring her solo and chamber works along with other works as part of 2×60 Festival. Pamela Z – And the Movement of the Tongue  (2012/25) German premiere of the new version for flute, trumpet, trombone and double bass Pamela Z – The Schmetterling (1998/25) German premiere of the new version for voice, flute, trumpet, trombone and double bass and other works Pamela Z, special guest Helen Bledsoe, flute and curator Marco Blaauw, trumpet and curator Ensemble Musikfabrik Cellebroederskapel Maastricht Cellebroedersstraat 4 , Maastricht 6211 PG, Netherlands top
Pamela Z meets Musikfabrik Monday, September 22, 2025 8:00 pm Studio of the Ensemble Musikfabrik Ensemble Musikfabrik welcomes Pamela Z in a concert featuring her solo and chamber works along with other works as part of 2×60 Festival. Pamela Z – And the Movement of the Tongue  (2012/25) German premiere of the new version for flute, trumpet, trombone and double bass Pamela Z – The Schmetterling (1998/25) German premiere of the new version for voice, flute, trumpet, trombone and double bass and other works Pamela Z, special guest Helen Bledsoe, flute and curator Marco Blaauw, trumpet and curator Ensemble Musikfabrik Studio of ENSEMBLE MUSIKFABRIK Im Mediapark 7, 50670 Köln Germany top
Pamela Z performs within Torkwase Dyson's AKUA Installation presented by Public Art Fund Saturday, September 27, 2025, 6pm – 7pm Brooklyn Bridge Park Bridgeview Lawn
Akua is a large, open pavilion with an immersive multi-channel soundscape. During the  exhibition period of May 6, 2025 – Mar 8, 2026, visitors may enter and experience Dyson’s eight-channel fixed media sound work featuring layered conversations from Black archives, nature field recordings, and electronic sounds. On Saturday, September 27, at 6pm, the artist has invited composer/performer Pamela Z to activate the installation by performing her own voice & electronics work live on site through Akua’s eight speakers. Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 Bridgeview Lawn, Brooklyn, NY top
Solo Concert for Voice, Electronics, and Video Thursday, Ocotober 2, 2025 7pm Prior Performing Arts Center Luth Concert Hall
top	Pamela Z gives a concert of solo works for voice, electronics, and video as part of a Distinguished Visiting Practitioner Residency at Prior Performing Arts Center Luth Concert Hall in Worcester, MA Prior Performing Arts Center Luth Concert Hall College of the Holy Cross 1 College Street Worcester, MA 01610 USA
Pamela Z's Simultaneous opens the 2025 Other Minds Festival Thursday October 16, 2025 8pm Brava Theater Pamela Z performs her intermedia chamber work, Simultaneous, on the opening night of the 2025 Other Minds Festival. Pre-concert panel discussion 7pm, concert starts at 8pm. Composed for voice & electronics, oboe/English horn, viola, cello, percussion, and multiple channels of projected video, this performance features Pamela Z, Kyle Bruckmann, Charlton Lee, Monica Scott, and Divesh Karachandani. This work, which began its development in 2019 as Z’s Rome Prize project and was presented at The Museum of Mondern Art (MoMA), NY in 2023, explores many facets of the concept of simultaneity – from the act of simultaneous translation to surprising episodes of synchronicity. Other Minds Brava Theater 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94110 USA top
Pamela Z performing in Linda May Han Oh's INVISIBLE THREADS Saturday, October 25th, 2025 7:30 pm Melbourne Recital Centre
Pamela Z performs in Linda May Han Oh’s new work Invisible Threads as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival at Melbourne Recital Centre at 7:30pm Linda May Han Oh – bass Pamela Z – voice and electronics Mat Jodrell – trumpet Steve Magnusson – guitar Anrea Keller – piano Ben Vanderwal – drums TICKETS Melbourne International Jazz Festival Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt Street  Southbank, VIC 3006, Australia top
mycelium new music presents Pamela Z's WAYS OF LOOKING Sunday, Novemver 23, 2025 8:30 pm Constellation
Chicago-based ensemble mycelium new music joins forces with composer-performer Pamela Z to present her chamber work Ways of Looking and other works at Constellation at 8:30pm in Chicago, IL	In her first Chicago show since the pandemic, Z will perform a solo set which blends voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video, before joining mycelium in a performance of her piece with Pierrot sextet, Ways of Looking (which was commissioned by and originally premiered by Eighth Blackbird). TICKETS Constellation 3111 N Western Avenue Chicago, IL 60618 USA top
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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