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Pamela Z
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Concert: Saturday, April 29, 8 p.m. EDT
Mildred Sainer Pavilion
$15 (included with season subscription)
Artist Conversation: Thursday, April 27, 5 p.m. EDT
Mildred Sainer Pavilion
Free
What a way to close our season: the amazing Pamela Z will return to perform a program of solo works for voice, real-time electronic processing, sampled sounds, wireless gesture controllers, and interactive video.
To watch Pamela Z create a complex soundscape with entrancing imagery right before your eyes is a treat New Music New College has offered before, but not for eight years. Come to Sainer and immerse yourself in her creative genius.
Pamela Z performing in Club Sudakoff in 2015
Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist working primarily with voice, live electronics, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, she processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers. Her solo works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and wireless MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures.
Pamela Z using a gesture controller
photo credit: Nancy Nassiff
In addition to her solo work, she has been commissioned to compose scores for dance, theatre, film, and chamber ensembles including Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, the Bang on a Can All Stars, Julia Bullock with SF Symphony, and the LA Philharmonic New Music Group. Her interdisciplinary performance works have been presented at venues including The Kitchen (NY), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), REDCAT (LA), and MCA (Chicago), and her installations have been presented at such exhibition spaces as the Whitney (NY), Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), and the Krannert (IL). Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including Bang on a Can (NY), Interlink (Japan), Other Minds (San Francisco), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Dak’Art (Sénégal) and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Festival (Wuppertal).
Pamela Z demonstrating a gesture controller to an audience member after our concert
photo credit: Nancy Nassiff
She’s a recipient of numerous awards including the Rome Prize, United States Artists, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Guggenheim, Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, Herb Alpert Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Tickets
Tickets are FREE for New College students, faculty, and staff—just bring your NCF ID to the concerts.
For everyone else, single tickets are $15 each, and season tickets are a bargain at $60. Click here to purchase tickets online. Or visit our Tickets page for other ways to purchase tickets.
Concert admission is also free for students, faculty, and staff of SCF, USF Sarasota-Manatee, Ringling College of Art & Design, Eckerd College, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, and Booker High School—please bring your school ID. Students at other schools can purchase tickets at the concerts for $5 by showing a school ID.
Admission to our Artist Conversations is free for everyone.
All NMNC venues are ramp accessible.
This season is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
