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(all the gnus)Spring 2020 [pz gazzetta xxxviii]
Pamela Z Arts' Quarterly Newsletter (view online)
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Upcoming: May 14, 2020: Global May 15, 2020: Global May 23, 2020: Global June 14, 2020: Global June 23, 2020: Global
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di ritorno da Roma! |
Gentle Gazzetta Readers, A few short (actually extremely long) months ago, I was preparing to send you a much belated Gazzetta issue when, all of a sudden, the world turned upside down. I had a long list of upcoming events – including a Rome installment of the ROOM Series in the Salone at the American Academy, a performance of my string quartet Attention at Parco della Musica in Rome, a solo concert at the Barcelona Poesia Festival in Spain, a premiere of a newly commissioned work for cellist Amanda Gookin at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, and a performance of my Rome Prize fellowship project Simultaneous as part of the Studio Sound Series at New York's MoMA. Fellows in exile |
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At the beginning of March, I still thought I’d be finishing out the second half of my year in Rome but, by the end of March, the entire cohort of fellows was sent packing, and we were all disheartened to return Stateside straight into two-weeks of self-quarantine followed by the same lockdown that everyone else was sentenced to. |
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Needless to say, all of my live events were canceled or postponed, and I found myself facing this strange new reality – simultaneously isolated while in the very good company of all of you – making contact with the world via flat displays and headphones. Fortunata I do have some upcoming events – lockdown style – including a live installment of the Room Series – ROOMs plural! (featuring Italian composer Zeno Baldi, my longtime collaborator and partner in crime Donald Swearingen, and yours truly). Also, Claire Chase will be performing works from her Density 2036 project including my Louder Warmer Denser in a live streaming concert in support of the New Music Solidarity Fund, and ODC will be hosting an online dance and drinks event featuring cocktail delivery, a screening of Waving Not Drowning, and a live conversation between Brenda Way (the choreographer), and me (the composer). And I'll be appearing solo in two online festivals: The Bang on a Can Marathon and the Gray Sound Sessions. Scroll down for details on these events. Buone Esperienze I also created and exhibited (as part of the Cinque Mostre Exhibiton) a 21-channel sound installation that will serve as the foundation for a larger work, using speech fragments taken from interviews I did with all the fellows. I created a solo performance for voice, electronics, and four channels of video for Rome’s Museo Nationale delle Arti dell XXI Secolo (MAXXI) and gave a solo concert at Sala Vanni in Florence. I explored Rome – though not nearly as thoroughly as I had planned – and I visited other locations from Tuscany to Veneto (attending la Biennale di Venezia during an extreme alta acqua period), and also made a few quick trips back to the US for engagements with Eighth Blackbird in Chicago and San Francisco, Steve Schick in San Diego, and a visit with Laurie Anderson's spatial-sound class at Princeton. For six short months, I enjoyed countless beautiful meals lovingly crafted by the Rome Sustainable Food Project – our kitchen staff at the Academy, and at Roman bars and restaurants on Gianicolo hill, in Trastevere and beyond. I attended contemporary music concerts, operas, museum and gallery openings, and I did some studio visits at ateliers of local artists. And I participated in well-curated walking tours of monuments, churches, ancient landmarks, and archives. I truly hope, some day after this all blows over, I’ll be able to return and spend more time in Roma, but no one knows, at this point, what the future holds. Meanwhile, I hope you are all keeping safe and well in your respective lock-down abodes! Bacioni a tutti, PZ |
Photos: Pamela Z, Eugenia Carabba Tettamanti, and a kind tourist top |
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gazzetta | event highlights | news travels goings-on | event details | past gazzetti | pamelaz.com upcoming event details: Claire Chase: Live New Music Marathon Claire Chase, flutes Thursday, May 14, 6-10pm EDT (3-7pm PDT) Thursday, May 14 from 6-10pm ET , join CLAIRE CHASE for a wild four-hour LIVE STREAM Marathon of music from the Density 2036 project, generously hosted by Music on the Rebound in support of the New Music Solidarity Fund. Claire plays selections from Density 2036 (2013-2020) from her living room in Crown Heights, Brooklyn to raise money for the New Music Solidarity Fund. Solo flute works by Steve Reich, Marcos Balter, Mario Diaz de Leon, Felipe Lara, Nathan Davis, Suzanne Farrin, Du Yun, Dai Fujikura, Richard Beaudoin, Pauline Oliveros, Phyllis Chen, Pamela Z, as well as surprise world premieres every hour. The New Music Solidarity Fund has a goal of raising $500,000 by May 15 to make possible 1000 $500 grants to struggling artists in the new-music community. All money raised during the concert will go directly to the Fund. . Schedule: 6:00-6:45 pm (EDT) / 3.00-3:45 pm (PDT) 7:00-7:45 pm (EDT) / 4.00-4:45 pm (PDT) 8:00-8:30 pm (EDT) / 5.00-5:30 pm (PDT) 8:45-9:15 pm (EDT) / 5.45-6:15 pm (PDT) 9:30-10 pm (EDT) / 6:30-7 pm (PDT) Claire Chase Live (from her living room) MUSIC ON THE REBOUND
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ODC/Dance Presents: Friday May 15, 2020 Instead of a night out, we propose a night in with The drink: |
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room: ROOM(s) The ROOM Series is back with ROOMs (plural)! Three composer/peformers will perform live solo works – Zeno Baldi (from a room in Verona, Italy), Donald Swearingen (from a room in Oakland, CA) and Pamela Z (from a room in San Francisco) and then finish the concert with a live, latency-washed, tutti improvisation. Zeno Baldi (Italy) This concert is free, but you're welcome to donate any amount to support the artists: (RSVP Here to receive the Zoom Link) ROOM(s) Series Pamela Z Solo Performance during the BANG ON A CAN Live Online MARATHON Sunday, June 14, 2020, 3pm - 9pm EDT (noon - 6pm PDT)
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Pamela Z will give a live solo performance from her live/work studio in San Francisco as part of the Bang on a Can Live Onine Marathon, on Sunday, June 14, 2020, between 3pm and 9pm EDT (12pm and 6pm PDT). Check the Bang On A Can website for the full schedule (coming soon) Composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe created the first BANG ON A CAN Marathon concert in 1987 in order to break down the barriers that separate musical communities. "Imagine Lollapalooza advised by the ghost of John Cage," Vanity Fair wrote. "There are other places to hear new contemporary music, but it is seldom offered with such a potent blend of intensity, authority, and abandon." We are all waiting for the world to heal, but until it does, we all have to do what we can. We will start by hosting a LIVE Bang on a Can Marathon. Six hours of uncompromisingly adventurous, searching music played by some of the most amazing performers on the planet. Please join us! |
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Pamela Z Solo Performance on Pamela Z will give a solo performance of works for solo voice and electronics, from her studio in San Francisco, on a shared evening with Nomi Epstein as part of GRAY SOUND SESSIONS, a weekly music-and-sound streaming series featuring virtual concerts, happenings, experiments, a playing-around with form and platform during quarantine.
The Gray Center has launched Gray Sound Sessions, a free, streaming weekly music-and-sound series featuring concerts but also happenings and experiments with form and platform. The series showcases searching performances from some of our favorite musicians and sound-makers including Opera Povera, Seth Parker Woods, a•pe•ri•od•ic, Viola Yip and Nicola Hein, and many more. Gray Sound Sessions take place on Tuesday evenings at 8pm Central Daylight Time on the Gray Center’s Gray Sound Sessions page and the Gray Center's Facebook page. All events are sponsored by the Gray Center and free and open to the public, but we ask listener-watchers to consider making their own donations to the featured performers. The series is the initiative of Seth Brodsky (Gray Center Director), Zachary Cahill (Gray Center Director of Programs and Projects), and Seth Parker Woods (Artist-in-Residence at the University of Chicago). Others will surely be brought into the mix. We look forward to tuning in with you, near and far. GRAY CENTER FOR ARTS AND INQUIRY
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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, 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 Pamela Z is 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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