[NewMusicEvents] Pamela Z premieres New Work at RML 04/14/07

[Pamela Z]

NEXMAP presents

Pamela Z: Sonic Gestures (Premiere)

Saturday, April 14. 2007, 10pm Performance
(Plus: Special 7pm Performance and Discussion)

Recombinant Media Labs
763 Brannan St., San Francisco, CA 94103
http://recombinantmedia.net

Tickets: http://www.nexmap.org/

for more information contact: Linda Bouchard
415.871.9992 info at nexmap.org
http://www.nexmap.org

On Saturday, April 14, 2007, Pamela Z presents "Sonic Gestures", a brand new multi-channel video, audio, and performance work commissioned by NexMap and site specific to RML's immersive performance facility. Combining ten video channels of fragmented gestural images with live vocal sounds processed and spatialized in real time using Max MSP software and custom gesture controllers, Pamela Z will surround the audience with a virtual chorus of chattering, whispering, singing, and ever transforming entities. Along with this new work, Pamela will present some short, existing works including "Declaratives in the First Person," a text-based, multi-channel audio work, and "Six Panes", a video, sound, and performance work originally created for the Tang Museum in New York State.
10:00 pm: Sonic Gestures and Other Works
Tickets: $20, $10 students/seniors
Your admission ticket automatically enters you to win a free MaxMSP software donated by cycling74 (must be present at event to win).

Special Event at 7:00 pm: 
Double Take on Pamela Z
Pamela Z will perform the world premiere of Sonic Gestures, and share information about her creative process with the audience in an up-close and personal conversation with NEXMAP artistic director, Linda Bouchard. This event will be followed by a catered reception and presentation of NEXMAP's 2007-08 events. 
7:00 pm: Double Take on Pamela Z Tickets: $50



". . .Like a minimalist, [Pamela Z] creates a piece out of a small set of sounds, sampled or created live and joined by a series of overlapping, intersecting loops. But from a simple beginning she builds up layer upon layer of sound until she's created a bewildering, mesmorizing, highly organized cacophony that taps deeply into the infosaturated, dataoverloaded, hyperventilated psyches of urban life. The result is both intellectually satisfying and powerful at the gut level." --John Weber, Curator/SFMOMA


PAMELA Z is a composer/performer who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, sampled sounds, and The BodySynth gesture controller. She has also composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her audio works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney in NY and the Diözesanmueum in Cologne. She has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Japan in concerts and festivals including Bang on a Can, the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds, and the Venice Biennale. Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship. http://www.pamelaz.com
http://www.myspace.com/pamelazcomposer

RECOMBINANT MEDIA LABS was founded to create, research, and portray Spatial Media Synthesis; the science of projecting image and sound objects in 3-dimensional space. RML cultivates radical methodologies for experiential engineering; exploring performative processes which expand the formal aesthetic and technological boundaries of immersive installation and surround cinema. 
http://recombinantmedia.net


NEXMAP, a non-profit corporation based in San Francisco, California, is dedicated to the production and appreciation of contemporary and experimental performing arts. NEXMAP serves as a vehicle and forum of exchange for local and international performers and creative artists in different mediums, including contemporary music, electronics, music theatre, dance, visual arts and multi-media, through the presentation of concerts, festivals, special events and performances and related educational, youth development and community outreach programs.
http://www.nexmap.org


Tickets & Contact Information
tix: http://www.nexmap.org/
for more information contact Artistic Director Linda Bouchard
415.871.9992 info at nexmap.org 




-- 
Pamela Z
Composer/Performer

Contact info:

Telephone: 415.861.EARS (415.861.3277)
Mobile: 415.5PAMELA (415.572.6352) 
FAX: 415.861.FAKS (415.861.3257)
(I forward my land line to my mobile phone when I'm travelling)

pamelaz at pamelaz.com
http://www.pamelaz.com
http://www.myspace.com/pamelazcomposer

Skype: pamelazed   AIM: pamelazdotcom

Snail Mail:
Pamela Z Productions
540 Alabama Street Studio 213
San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

shipping address (for packages larger than a 10" x 13" envelope):
Pamela Z  2440 Sixteenth Street  PMB #171, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

Pamela Z's CD "A Delay is Better" on the Starkland label is now available at http://www.amazon.com, http://www.starkland.com, and in stores near you.
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