[NewMusicEvents] Reserve your seats for tonight's performance of The Pendulum

[Pamela Z]

There are still remaining seats with good sight lines for Pamela Z's  
performances of The Pendulum tonight, tomorrow and Sunday!

You can get your tickets online via http://www.pamelaz.com/ 
pendulum.html.  Complete your PayPal transactions by 5:30 day of  
show, or buy at the door.

The hall has limited seating, so come early for a good seat!


THE PENDULUM
A new solo multi-media performance work by Pamela Z

Friday- Sunday June 27, 28, and 29, 2008, 8pm
Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street (between Harrison & Alabama), San  
Francisco.
Admission is $10
Tickets at the door or through PayPal (http://www.pamelaz.com/ 
pendulum.html)

On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 27th through 29th, 2008, at 8pm  
Pamela Z Productions presents Pamela Z in the San Francisco premiere  
of The Pendulum, a solo multi-media performance work exploring  
binaries of “Yes and No” through voice, electronics, projected video  
and manipulation of objects. Using a minimal set including dangling  
objects, and two channels of projected video, Ms. Z will perform a  
series of art songs and text-sound pieces with live voice, real-time  
processing, sampled voices and sounds and custom MIDI controllers, in  
the intimate performance space of the Royce Gallery.

About the inspiration for the work, the artist says:
“When I was growing up, my mother often wrote long lists of questions  
about things that concerned her. She would then dangle a small object  
-such as a needle, key, or trinket- on a thread and divine yes or no  
answers from the direction of its swinging - systematically writing  
the answers next to each question. Now in her advanced years, I have  
found that she amassed a great deal of documentation of her  
consultations with the pendulum for answers to questions both  
monumental and insignificant. A few years ago, while helping her to  
move, I discovered veritable reams of such pages- hand-written and  
typed. These papers chronicle a portion family history - albeit  
through my mother's rather distressed and confused filter.”

Some of the language from these pages finds its way into The Pendulum  
as a mesh of vocal texture throughout it's visually rich and  
sonically layered segments.



Pamela Z has been making solo work for voice and electronics in San  
Francisco since the mid 1980s. She has also composed scores for  
dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles and has had audio works  
presented at galleries and museums worldwide. She has toured  
extensively throughout the US and abroad in concerts and festivals  
including New York's Bang on a Can, the Japan Interlink Festival,  
Other Minds, the Venice Biennale, the Dakar Biennale, and  
SoundCulture. For more information visit www.pamelaz.com


INFO:
http://www.pamelaz.com/pendulum.html

WHAT:
Pamela Z's The Pendulum
WHEN:
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday June 27- 29, 2008, 8pm
WHERE:
Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street, San Francisco.
(between Harrison & Alabama)
TICKETS:
Admission is $10
Tickets are available at the door or through Paypal http:// 
www.pamelaz.com/pendulum.html

The Pendulum was made possible through grants from the San Francisco  
Art Commission and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.

also coming up:
SOUNDWORK
Register online for Pamela Z's upcoming workshop SoundWork:
http://www.pamelaz.com/swsummer08.html