Pamela Z
Pamela Z is an American composer, performer and media artist, born in 1956 in Buffalo, New York, and based in San Francisco since 1984. She works with voice and live electronics, processing and looping her voice in real time and mixing bel canto singing, extended techniques, spoken word and sampled sounds, often with video and gesture-controlled sensors on stage. Pamela Z studied classical voice at the University of Colorado Boulder and performed as a singer-songwriter in Colorado before moving to California.
Musicworks 76 - Changing The Score (CD+magazine)
One of the best magazines of experimental music / sound art, founded by John Oswald and published since 1978. Includes feaurures, essays, interviews, reviews, etc., and comes with a CD with (often exclusive) music/sound in relation to the contents of…
Simultaneous
Simultaneous reveals Pamela Z’s fascination with the intersection of speech and music, blending voice, electronics, chamber ensemble, and video into an immersive, multi-layered exploration. Through looping, gesture control, and narrative fragments, t…
A Secret Code
*2022 stock.* Everyday experience is never far from Pamela Z’s musical world. Whether it be a typewriter, birdcall, checking in at the airport, or a mess on the street, her creatively quirky imagination transforms it into a moment of profound questio…
Echolocation
**Natural vinyl with exclusive RISO reproductions of Pamela Z posters from the 1980s / 1990s. Print set includes four 8.5x11" prints in a stamped envelope, hand-assembled in Brooklyn** "Echolocation is the debut album by Pamela Z, the pioneering Bay …
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