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 the magazine.In this issue: David Tudor / Jhn Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Warren Burt, Ana-Maria Avram, Rolf Gehlhaar, Pamela Z, etc.
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, the piece meditates on simultaneity—how overlapping events and speech form new harmonies and meaning.
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 questioning and wonder. From sonic trifles to complex numbers, the works on A Secret Code – only her third solo album after Echolocation (1988), and A Delay is Better (2004) – span two decades of redefining song. As fellow composer Annea Lockwood writes in …
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 Area intermedia composer and performance artist. Written and recorded over three years, and self-released and distributed on cassette in 1988, Echolocation is a genre-defying document of Z’s earliest experiments with live voice and delay, and the imp…
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