Pamela Z

Presented by the Mills College Music Department, Center for Contemporary Music, and Performing Arts Center Mills Music Now 2020-2021  Online PAMELA Z Saturday, October 24, 2020 8:00pm PDT Free Pamela Z will perform a program consisting of short solo works for voice, real-time electronic processing, sampled sounds, wireless gesture controllers, and interactive video. The evening will include standalone works from her concert repertoire, excerpts from larger, more theatrical, performance works, and improvised work. Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist whose solo works combine a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, samples, video, and gesture activated MIDI controllers. Ms. Z has toured extensively throughout the US, 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), the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. She's created installation works and composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her numerous awards include the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, the Creative Capital Fund, the Herb Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship. www.pamelaz.com This is a free online event, but please go to Eventbrite to register for access. Donations are accepted. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pamela-z-tickets-119164047875 More information at: https://performingarts.mills.edu/performing-arts-programs/mills-music-n… Please like and share our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/309159290316852 Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94613 http://www.mills.edu