Rants & Epiphanies
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“Wisdom that will bless I, who live in the spiral joy born at the utter end of a black prayer.” • — Keiji Haino “The subject of human creativity is not an ethnic-centric, but a composite subject.” • — Anthony Braxton “… It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.” • — The Marquis de Sade
Pamela Z performs a suite of solo works for voice and electronics to open a concert by Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra (in partnership with LA Philharmonic's Noon to Midnight Festival) on Sunday, November 19th, 2017, in Santa Monica, CA. She is processing her voice using custom MAX MSP software and manipulating sound using gesture-controlled MIDI instruments. Excerpts in this video include: 0:00 Quatre Couches 3:21 Badagada 6:14 Typewriter 7:47 Breathing
And the Movement of the Tongue
composed for string quartet and tape by Pamela Z
(commissioned by Kronos Quartet)
Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra premiered this new version for string orchestra in partnership with the LA Philharmonic’s “Noon to Midnight” Festival on November 18-19, 2017 in Los Angeles.
00:00 I. Born
01:46 II. Home
04:00 III. Rain
05:57 IV. Learned in the South
07:19 V. English
09:17 VI. A Piece of π
11:59 VII. Coffee
13:14 VIII. Cupertino
15:57 IX. The Tongue
17:19 X. Henry in Cuffs
18:59 XI. I Don't’ Know
21:00 XII. Mother
And the Movement of the Tongue is a work about speaking accents—specifically accented English. It started as an exploration of the profusion of broad-ranging accents that abound in the San Francisco Bay Area. But my last 2 1/2 months of composing the work were spent at an artist residency in North Carolina, so I couldn’t help but to expand the scope of the piece to include some of the richness in speaking accents I found there.
Attention (by Pamela Z) - Del Sol String QuartetLive at the Exploratorium
Del Sol Quartet in the premiere of Pamela Z’s Attention Thursday November 10, 2016 at the Exploratorium’s Kanbar Forum in San Francisco.
Attention is a work by Pamela Z commissioned by Del Sol String Quartet. Composed for string quartet, fixed media (video and multi-channel sound), voices, and mobile phones, the work explores the ways in which attention and focus are challenged in today’s culture.
Attention was presented by the Exploratorium’s Cinema Arts program, and was supported by a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission
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