Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and media artist who makes performance works involving voice, live electronic processing, sampling technology, and video.
A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, her solo works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound and image with physical gestures. In addition to her performance work, she has a growing body of inter-media gallery works including multi-channel sound and video installations. She has also composed and recorded scores for dance, theatre, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Pamela was the recipient of the Rome Prize in Music Composition from the American Academy in Rome, and is currently a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
Z’s touring repertoire includes work that ranges in scale from concerts in galleries or small concert venues, to large-scale multi-media performance works in flexible black-box theaters and proscenium halls. Her concert repertoire includes short works for voice & electronics (with and without projected interactive video) in which she combines language, sonic textures, polyrhythmic layers, and a full range of vocal exploration. Her large-scale works involve live voice & electronics, combined with multiple channels of projected video, and set and lighting design. Circuit Network has worked with Pamela on several projects over the years, most recently to co-produce her multimedia piece “Simultaneous” at Project Artaud’s Space 124 in December 2022.
