Pamela Z

Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist working with voice, live electronics, sampled sound and video. A pioneer of live looping, her performances combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, digital processing and custom-designed instruments that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. She has toured throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan. Her work has been presented at venues and exhibitions including Bang on a Can (NY), the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds (SF), MoMA (NY), the Venice Biennale and Dakar Biennale. She has composed scores for dance, film and chamber ensembles (including Kronos Quartet and Eighth Blackbird). Her awards include the Rome Prize, Berlin Prize, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MIT McDermott Award, the Guggenheim and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She will present a program of her own compositions specially curated for Octave 9.