[NewMusicEvents] Pamela Z summer workshop SoundWORK

[Pamela Z]

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SoundWORK
instructor: Pamela Z
Tuesdays July 1-August 12, 2008 6pm-9pm

A seven-week sound and performance workshop exploring experimental  
music, audio art, and interdisciplinary performance practices.   
Participants will be exposed to the work and ideas of new music  
composers and sound art practitioners, receive hands-on instruction  
with tools (software, hardware etc) and techniques for the creation  
of sound and performance works, and create and present works of their  
own.

The workshop will meet weekly for group sessions which will include  
lecture/demonstration and group listening and performance activities.  
There will be weekly assignments to create small works based on  
principles covered in the sessions, and a final meeting in which  
participants will each present a final project – a recorded or  
performed sound work, experimental music composition, or sound  
installation.

Participants will also sign up for private sessions for individual  
help with sound recording and editing software and equipment, and  
help with planning, composing and creating works.

Drawing on her own experience as a composer and performer of  
experimental music, sound, performance, and installation works, and  
the works of other notable artists in this broad-ranging field,  
Pamela Z will present sessions exploring elements of sound, and  
expermimental music including the use of sound in performance, sound  
with image (video & film), experimental composition techniques, the  
use of sampled sounds, found text and found objects, electronic  
processing of voice and other acoustic sound sources, synthesized  
sound, digital sound recording and editing, and the physics of sound.  
Participants will also receive a comprehensive list of recommended  
reading, listening, and viewing in addition to works presented in class.


SoundWORK will meet Tuesday nights July 1- August 12, 2008 6pm-9pm at  
Royce Gallery, 2901 Mariposa Street (with additional sign-up hands-on  
sessions in Pamela Z's nearby studio.)

For workshop and enrollment information, email soundwork at pamelaz.com  
or call 415 861 EARS.

Or enroll now through PayPal:  http://www.pamelaz.com/swsummer08.html

Full workshop price $350
(workshop without private hands-on: $275)
(some scholarships available)


Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist  
who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing and  
sampling technology. She creates solo works that combine operatic bel  
canto and experimental extended vocal techniques (processed in real  
time) with found percussion objects, spoken word, and sampled  
concrète sounds. These sounds are often triggered via custom MIDI  
controllers such as Ed Severinghaus' BodySynth™ or Donald  
Swearingen's Light SensePod, both of which allow her to manipulate  
sound with physical gestures. Her performances range in scale from  
small concerts in galleries to large-scale multi-media works in  
flexible black-box venues and proscenium halls.

Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe,  
and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including: Bang on  
a Can at Lincoln Center in New York; the Interlink Festival in Japan;  
Other Minds in San Francisco; and Pina Bausch Tanztheater's 25 Jahre  
Fest in Wuppertal, Germany.  She has composed, recorded and performed  
numerous original scores for choreographers and for film/video. Her  
large-scale, multi-media performance works, Parts of Speech, Gaijin  
and Voci, have been presented at venues including the Kitchen in New  
York, Theater Artaud and ODC Theater in San Francisco, the Museum of  
Contemporary Art Theatre in Chicago, as well as at theaters in  
Washington D.C. and Budapest Hungary. Her one-act opera Wunderkabinet  
(inspired by the Museum of Jurassic Technology and co-composed with  
Matthew Brubeck) premiered in 2005 at The LAB Gallery in San  
Francisco, and was presented at REDCAT in Los Angeles and Open Ears  
Festival in Canada.  She has had audio and video works included in  
exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York,  
Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco, the Erzbischöfliches  
Diözesanmuseum in Cologne, the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs NY,  
and the Dakar Biennale in Sénégal. Her work has also been presented  
at the San Jose Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio in New York, and  
La Biennale di Venezia in Italy.

Ms. Z has been commissioned to compose works for new music chamber  
ensembles: the Bang On A Can Allstars; Ethel, the California E.A.R.  
Unit; the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble; and the St. Luke's Chamber  
Orchestra.  Since 1986, she has been producing “Z Programs”, an  
ongoing series of interdisciplinary events in which her own work has  
been featured along with that of other experimental artists in  
various genres.  She has collaborated with a wide range of composer/ 
performers, media artists, and choreographers including Miya Masaoka,  
Joan Jeanrenaud, Jeanne Finley + John Muse, Shinichi Momo Koga, Leigh  
Evans, and Jo Kreiter.  She has participated in several Zakros New  
Music Theatre events (including their John Cage festivals), and has  
performed with The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Pamela  
is the recipient of numerous awards, including: the Guggenheim  
Fellowship, the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts; the Creative  
Capital Fund; the ASCAP Music Award; and the NEA and Japan/US  
Friendship Commission Fellowship.  She holds a music degree from the  
University of Colorado at Boulder. For more information, please  
visit: http://www.pamelaz.com