Gentle Gazzetta Readers, Can we all agree this has been a strange year? Just when we thought 2020 took the prize, 2021 has managed to confound us in subtler and more elaborate ways – taking us down a treacherously uneven road that seems to lead toward a return to “normalcy” but then takes hairpin curves back toward danger and restriction, with plenty of political insanity, climate crises, and social upheaval along the way. If you’re anything like me, you’ve also begun inching your way back into some social interaction – sharing meals in “parklets” or on patios, and seeing art exhibitions and performances with limited audiences in masks. I’ve even been traveling to participate in and attend live, in-person engagements. But, mostly, I’ve been getting a lot of work done in my studio, and I’m happy to report about some of the fruits of that labor. New Releases! This year, after a decade and a half of recording drought, I have not one, but two solo album releases – plus, a recording of one of my string quartets. In June, Neuma Records released my new album A Secret Code on CD as well as on streaming and download platforms. On November 5th, the Freedom to Spend label is re-issuing my 1988 album Echolocation – and on vinyl, no less! And, last month, Apollo Chamber Players released an album called “With Malice Toward None” that includes my four-movement work, The Unraveling. I’m in very good company on that CD, with other wonderful composers including Eve Beglarian. All three releases are available for online purchase in physical and digital formats. Or, if you’re in the Bay Area, you can pick up your copies at a limited-capacity album release concert in December. (See this for the deets.) More new work... Since I last wrote you, I’ve completed several new works, including a multi-channel fixed-media sound work called Sonant Topography. In August, I had the pleasure of showing that work in a shared exhibition of spatialized sound with Miya Masaoka, Bora Yoon, and Nina Young, as part of the Time:SPANS Festival, at the DiMenna Music Center in New York. Commissioned and co-presented by EMPAC, all four of us composed fixed media works for their Wave Field Synthesis Loudspeaker Array – which allowed us to position sounds in very specific locations throughout the hall. The audiences (which were limited to 25 at a time) could experience the works from stationary seated positions, or wandering about among the sounds, in the room. The EMPAC Wave Field Synthesis Loudspeaker Array as it was installed at the DiMenna Center for the Time:SPANS Festival I’ve also recently completed short chamber works for Eighth Blackbird, Del Sol Quartet, and pianist Sugar Vendil. And I’m now making headway on commissioned works for soprano Julia Bullock (with members of the San Francisco Symphony), and pianist Nadia Shpachenko. And, I’m very excited about getting started on a work for Nathalie Joachim with the LA Phil New Music Group, and learning the piece that Nathalie is composing for me. These will both be premiered at Disney Hall, in January, on a concert that Nathalie and I co-curated. Traveling again! This summer, I made my first voyages since my March 2020 return from Rome. In June, I did a short visiting artist residency in Pennsylvania, with Haverford College’s summer DocuLab program, and spent most of August in New York, mounting and presenting my sound installation, and attending all the other concerts on the Time:SPANS Festival. And now I'm headed for Germany to perform, and to have my string quartet, Attention, performed by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, on Max Richter’s Reflektor Festival, at the Elbphilharmonie. Next month, I’ll be back to New York for a performance at Roulette, as part of the Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome’s SALONE. And the first quarter of 2022 holds many more journeys, including a return to Rome for a small taste of my truncated Rome Prize Fellowship. After more than a year of staying in one place, it seems strange to be back to my usual dense traveling schedule, but I must confess that I’ve really missed it. Seeing Art (in person) I’ve also missed my habitual frequent attendance of concerts and art exhibitions. So it’s been a delight to be physically present for all the work I’ve recently had the pleasure of seeing. I attended eleven exceptional concerts of contemporary music in New York, visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art and attended a performance installation by Tiona Nekkia McClodden with Courtney Bryan in Philly, saw gallery exhibitions featuring work by John Sanborn, Amy Trachtenberg, Ramekon O’Arwisters, and Amy X Neuburg, in San Francisco, and saw ODC Dance at a gala in Petaluma.		A Secret Code CD cover art Echolocation LP Cover Art Audience listening to the Wave Field at Time:SPANS Festival PZ having a NY sidewalk lunch at Epistrophy, with Elizabeth Rodini (AAR Interim Director) 2019-20 AAR Fellows reunite at a sidewalk cafe in New York Ashley Hahn and PZ through the Large Glass at the PMA Courtney Bryan plays in Tiona Nekkia McClodden's installation in Philadelphia Digital pianos retuned for Taylor Brooks' work at Time:SPANS Festival Tony Arnold and Jack Quartet at Time:SPANS Festival
Claire chase taking a bow with Spektral Quartet at Time:SPANS Festival	Even though we have to be masked and keep our distance, there’s nothing like the feeling of experiencing art in person, and in the presence of others.
As you gently approach these in-person events and reacquaint yourself with live, non-virtual gatherings, let me offer you some possible morsels to choose from. (Scroll down for details.) Maybe I’ll see you at some of these, and recognize you smizing from behind your mask! Love, PZ

Photos by: Elena Dorfman, Pamela Z, John Suvannavejh, and an Epistropy waiter. top
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Max Richter & Yulia Mahr's REFLEKTOR FESTIVAL The composer and the film producer curate four days at the Elbphilharmonie Sunday October 10th, 2021 1:30pm Central European Time Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
Pamela Z will perform a set of solo works for voice and electronics, and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) will perform her string quartet Attention in Keiner Salle as part of the Reflektor Festival at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg at 1:30pm CET in Hamburg Germany	PROGRAMME Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte Caleb Burhans: Contritus Pamela Z: Attention Pamela Z: works for voice & electronics
From the Reflektor Max Richter & Yulia Mahr website: "Complex yet catchy, intricately structured yet atmospheric and emotional: the works of Caroline Shaw, Caleb Burhans and Pamela Z are fascinating and enchanting. Exploring the traditional genre of the string quartet from new angles, they are challenging, hypnotic and calming at the same time. The great minimal music pioneer Steve Reich affectionately calls this generation of US composers his »grandchildren«." PERFORMERS American Contemporary Music Ensemble (Ben Russell: Violine, Laura Lutzke: Violine, Caleb Burhans: Viola, Clarice Jensen Violoncello Pamela Z Live-Elektronik Reflektor Festival Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Platz der Deutschen Einheit 4, Hamburg Germany Tickets top
Charles Amirkhanian and Pamela Z co-host the Live Stream of OTHER MINDS 25 Thurday-Sunday October 14-17, 2021 8pm PDT (4pm on Sunday) Pre-concert panel 7pm PDT (3pm Sunday) Live and Live-Streamed from TAUBE ATRIUM THEATER, San Francisco
Click HERE to purchase OM25 Tickets Click HERE to OM25 Streaming Tickets.	Other Minds Festival 25: “Moment’s Notice” will bring to the stage twenty-six of the greatest living artists working in the field of improvised music. Across four nights, OM 25 features a rare convergence of pioneering icons of free improvised music side-by-side with the emerging artists whose work is at once a continuance and an expansion of the jazz avant-garde. The festival will be both live and live-streamed. Pamela Z will be co-hosting the live stream alongside Other Minds artistic and executive director, Charles Amirkhanian. .
Other Minds 25: Moments Notice Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater, SF CA top
Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome: SALONE Featuring the works of past AAR Fellows. Monday November 8, 2021 7pm EST ROULETTE, New York
Pamela Z will perform solo work for voice and electronics as part of Society of Fellows SALONE at Roulette at 7pm EST in Brooklyn, NY USA A multi-media performance event showcasing the work of renowned actors, artists, choreographers, composers, designers, who have each been awarded the prestigious Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Featured Performing Artists: Jonathon Berger (music), Molissa Fenley (dance) Colin Gee (theater), Erin Gee (music), John Kelly (theater, music), Pat Oleszko (performance), Basil Twist (puppetry), Pamela Z (music)
Video Compilation by Archetects, Artists + Designers: Erin Besler, EV Day, Matthew Geller, Phu Hoang/Rachely Rotem, Johannes Knoops, Laurel McSherry, David Reinfurt, Byrony Roberts Tickets available on EVENTBRITE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/salone-tickets-76100950993 Roulette 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY top
Pamela Z RECORD RELEASE Concert ECHOLOCATION reissue and A SECRET CODE Sunday, December 12, 2021 7:30pm PST CENTER FOR NEW MUSIC, San Francisco Recently, the Freedom to Spend label released a vinyl reissue of ECHOLOCATION, Pamela Z's 1988 solo album. Earlier this year, Neuma Records released A SECRET CODE, Pamela Z's first solo CD since the 2004 release of A Delay is Better. On Sunday, December 12, 2021, at 7:30pm Pamela Z will give a live, in-person concert of solo works for voice & electronics including titles from both Echolocation and A Secret Code. The concert will be limited capacity, and will require mask-wearing and proof of vaccination.
There will be physical copies of both Echolocation (on LP) and A Secret Code (on CD), available for purchase at the event. (Or you can purchase physical or digital copies on all the usual online streaming and download platforms.) Tickets for the concert available soon at centerfornewmusic.com Online availablity: A Secret Code CDs: https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/pamela-z-a-secret-code Digital Formats: https://neuma143-pamelaz.hearnow.com/a-secret-code Echolocation LPs: https://shop.igetrvng.com/products/pamela-z-echolocation/ Digital Formats: https://pamela-z.bandcamp.com/album/echolocation Center for New Music 55 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA 94102 top
Pamela Z + Nathalie Joachim at LA Phil LA Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series Tuesday, January 11, 2022 Walt Disney Hall, Los Angeles, CA Pamela Z and Nathalie Joachim perform works and have works performed in collaboration with The LA Phil New Music Group as part of LA Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series at Walt Disney Concert Hall at 8pm PST in Los Angeles, CA USA Artists: Pamela Z, co-curator and performer Nathalie Joachim, co-curator and performer LA Phil New Music Group – Simone Menezes, conductor Pamela Z and Nathalie Joachim co-curated a program that will include two world premieres of works they are composing for each other and the LA Phil New Music Group. Program: Angélica NEGRÓN: This Person Nathalie JOACHIM: “Suite pou Dantan” from Fanm d’Ayiti Pamela Z: The Schmetterling Allison LOGGINS-HULL: The Pattern Pamela Z: new work for Nathalie Joachim and ensemble (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Deborah Borda Women in the Arts Initiative) Nathalie JOACHIM: new work for Pamela Z and ensemble (world premiere, LA Phil commission) Nina SHEKHAR: Dear Abby Tickets: https://my.laphil.com/en/syos2/performance/6591 Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA top Pamela Z with Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble Saturday and Sunday, Februar 26-27, 2022 Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome Pamela Z and the PMCE (Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble) will perform a program of Z's music in collaboration with choreographer Francesca Pennini as part of the EQUILIBRIO festival at Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, RM USA Auditorium Parco della Musica Viale Pietro de Coubertin 30, Rome, RM top
gazzetta | event highlights | news travels goings-on | event details | past gazzetti | pamelaz.com Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist whose solo works combine a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, samples, video, and gesture activated MIDI controllers. Ms. Z has toured extensively 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), the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. She's created installation works and composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her numerous awards include the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, United States Artists, a Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, the Creative Capital Fund, the Herb Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship. 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 gazzetti | pamelaz.com
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