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(all the gnus)Summer 2017 [pz gazzetta xxxi]
Pamela Z Arts' Quarterly Newsletter (view online)
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Upcoming: July 1-2, 2017: San Francisco, CA July 8, 2017: New York, NY September 29, 2017: Providence, RI October 27, 2017: Williamsburg, VA
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New Work, New Work, and New Work |
Gentle Gazzetta Readers, For me, the first half of 2017 has been one continuous stream of composing deadlines. With the completion and mounting of each new work, it was necessary to immediately launch into making the next one. In March, I completed and staged Correspondence – a work for voice & electronics, video, a chamber ensemble, a 20-voice chamber choir, and a typewriter-wielding laptop ensemble at Wesleyan University. In early May, Donald Swearingen and I staged our new work, Pascal’s Triangle, for voice, electronics, keyboard, samples, video, violin, and cello, at Royce Gallery in San Francisco. This coming weekend marks the culmination of the third large work I’ve completed this year. I composed the score for Occupy, a site specific dance work by choreographer Stephan Koplowitz for Axis Dance Company. The production will take place throughout Yerba Buena Gardens in downtown San Francisco on the afternoons of July 1st and 2nd. Stephan has choreographed and directed a truly exceptional work, and I’m feeling quite proud of the music I composed for it. Scroll or jump down for all the details… Concertizing amidst Non-stop Composing... ... and Concert-going
Another such opportunity was the Don Buchla Memorial Festival at Gray Area Foundation in San Francisco. This packed weekend featured performances by a seemingly endless succession of Buchla’s friends, colleagues, and admirers – including Laetita Sonami, Joel Davel, Amy X Neuburg, and Morton Subotnick. I also attended an Innova Recordings showcase at National Sawdust in New York, which included works by Miya Masaoka, Mari Kimura, and Neil Rolnick. And I attended concerts on the Berkeley installment of this year’s Ojai Festival – featuring new work by Vijay Iyer, an ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, and an opera by George Lewis. I managed to visit SFMOMA the day before the closing of the Mattisse/Diebenkorn show as well, and I made it to the New York Metropolitan Museum's Comme des Garçons exhibition. It was a challenge to fit in all of this activity at such a busy time, but I truly rely on seeing great art as fuel to propel my own art-making. Let the Recording Begin And the deadlines certainly will return sooner than I can catch my breath. Looking forward, I have a commission for the San Francisco Girls Chorus in the coming year, and I’ve been asked to compose music for a new work by Sara Shelton Mann in 2018. But, for now, I’m going to take a big breath, release a grand sigh, and welcome a change of pace. Love, PZ
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Photos: Charles Smith, Pamela Z, and Donald Swearingen. top |
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gazzetta | event highlights | news travels goings-on | event details | past gazzetti | pamelaz.com upcoming event details: Original Pamela Z score for OCCUPY
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Pamela Z will perform a program of works for voice, electronics, and video at Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at 7pm in Providence, RI USA Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
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Pamela Z Solo Concert at William & Mary Friday October 27, 2017, 8pm |
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Pamela Z will give a solo performance of works for voice, electronics, and video at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA USA The College of William & Mary |
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 a Guggenheim Fellowship a Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship. www.pamelaz.com Pamela Z is represented and fiscally sponsored by Circuit Network. If you wish to make a tax-deductible contribution to Pamela Z or Pamela Z Arts, you can make a donation via PayPal:
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