Pamela Z

Pamela Z (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1956) nyɛla Americanima binkumdi ŋmɛra, diɛndiɛmda n-ti pah media artist.

Visual art work
Pamela Z nyɛla ŋun daa nam "fixed-media" binkumdi tuma zaŋ n-ti ladio mini new media installations ban tumdi nuchee ni baŋsim. Di nyɛla bɛ ni daa zaŋ shɛli  Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York) ka di daa pahi o yuuni 2023 Studio Residency. O nyɛla ŋun mali "solo exhibition" Krannert Art Museum din be Champaign, Illinois yuuni 2010, O nyɛla ŋun daa niŋ li Theater Artaud in San Francisco lala yuuni maa yaha. O nuchee ni tun'shɛŋa nyɛ Savvy Contemporary (Berlin),New Music Festival din daa niŋ Fine Arts Center Galleries din beBowling Green State University yuuni 2013, n-ti pahi Chico University Art Gallery (Chico, California).

Discography

Solo albums
 Echolocation, 1987, ZED, cassette only, out-of-print
 A Delay is Better, 2004, Starkland, CD ST-213
 A Secret Code, 2021, Neuma Records CD 143
  Echolocation  (reissue, 2021), Freedom to Spend Vinyl LP FTS-024

Compilations
 Pearls, the Gem of the Sea on " Komotion International Vol. 11", compilation, 1991, Spirit Records, LP, CD, CS 
 State on "State of the Union", compilation produced by Elliott Sharp, 1992, Arrest, CD 
 In Tymes of Olde (Z) and Obsession, Additiction and the Aristotelian Curve (Z and Imhoff) on "From A to Z" compilation, Starkland, 1993, CD 
 Bald Boyfriend performed by The Qube Chix on "Dice" compilation, 1993, Ishtar, CD 
 Geekspeak on "Sonic Circuits IV" compilation, 1996, Innova Recordings, CD 
 Parts and Questions/Trip on "Dice 2" compilation, 1996, Ishtar, CD
 Caught on "Emergency Music" compilation, CRI, 1998, CD 
 Live/Work on "IMMERSION" compilation, Starkland, 2000, 5.1 surround DVD-audio ST-2010
 Geekspeak on "Bitstreams", compilation curated by Stephen Vitiello, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001, CD 
 50 for Charles Amirkhanian on "Homo Sonorus" compilation, Kunstradio, 2001, CD
 No. 3 on "Visions", compilation, (2002) EMIT Series, CD 
 Pop Titles 'You''' on "Deep Wireless 2: New Adventures in Sound Art," 2005, CD 
 Declaratives In First Person on "Crosstalk: American Speech Music" compilation produced by Mendi & Keith Obadike, Bridge Records, 2008, CD

Tribute CDs
 Movements I, II, & III (Peter Kowald), Kowald, Gottschalk, and Z on "Global Village Trio", Free Elephant, 2004, CDPostcard From Heaven (John Cage), Victoria Jordanova: harps, Z: voices, Arpaviva, 2006, CD
 Scared Song (Meredith Monk), composer, Monk, arr. & performer, Z on "Monk Mix", House Foundation for the Arts, 2012, CD

On others' albums
 Ethel, Ethel Dreams of Temporal Disturbances (Z) on "Light", Cantaloupe, 2006, CD CA20137
 Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd, Still Life with Commentator, Savoy Jazz, 2007 
Lisle Ellis, Sucker Punch Requiem (Ellis: bass, Z: voice & electronics, Oliver Lake: saxophones, George Lewis: trombone, Holly Hoffman: flutes, Mike Wofford: piano, Susie Ibarra: drums & percussion), Henceforth, 2008, CD
 Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd, Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project, 2013

Bibliography
 Gann, Kyle American Music in the Twentieth Century (Schirmer Books, 1997) , p. 383
 Borger, Irene. (1999). “The Force of Curiosity” (Interview with Pamela Z). California Institute of the Arts. pp. 299–323.
Harris, Craig, ed. (1999). “Art and Innovation” (Michael Black, David Levy, and Pamela Z "Artscience Sciencart"), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA/London, England. . pp. 210–247
Wilson, Stephen. (2002). Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology (Gesture: Pamela Z). MIT Press, Cambridge MA/ London, England. . pp. 745–746
Bulatov, Dmitry, ed. (2001). Homo Sonorus An International Anthology of Sound Poetry . (Pamela Z, USA), the National Center for Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad Branch, Russia.
Malloy, Judy, ed. (2003). Women in New Media. (Pamela Z: “A Tool is a Tool”) MIT Press, Cambridge MA/London. . pp. 343–361
Gray, Herman S. (2004). Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation. American Crossroads. .
Rothenberg, David. (2005).  Why Birds Sing . Basic Books. . pp. 203–204
 Uitti, Francis-Marie. “Pamela Z”, Contemporary Music Review: IMPROVISATION , Routledge (Taylor & Francis), Edinburgh, Vol. 25, Nos. 5/6 (October/December 2006), pp. 587–589.
 Lewis, George. “The Virtual Discourses of Pamela Z ”  Journal of the Society for American Music , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA, Vol. 1, No. 1, (February 2007), pp. 57–77.
Lane, Cathy (2008).  Playing with Words, The spoken word in artistic practice. CRISAP, RGAP, distributed in the U.K. and Europe by Cornerhouse Publications. , pages 34–36
Rodgers, Tara. (2010). Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Pamela Z, Language, Machines, Embodiment) Duke University Press, .
Garrett, Charles Hiroshi, ed. (2013).  The Grove Dictionary of American Music  (Pamela Z). Oxford University Press. .
Kelly, Jennifer. (2013).  In Her Own Words: Conversations with Composers in the United States . University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield. . pp. 210–227
Raines, Robert. (2015).  Composition in the Digital World: Conversations with 21st Century American Composers . Oxford University Press, New York, NY. . pp. 306–316
Da Rin, Renate (author), Parker, William (author/editor). (2015).  giving birth to sound - women in creative music . Buddy's Knife, Köln, Germany. . pp. 271–280
 Rutherford-Johnson, Tim (author). (2017).  Music after the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture since 1989 . Simpson Imprint in Humanities-University of California Press, Oakland, CA. .
 Chiriacò, Gianpaolo. (2018). Voci Neri. Mimesis/Eterotopie, Sesto San Giovanni, MI. . pp. 195–201
 Voegelin, Salomé. (2018). Fragments of Listening: The Political Possibility of Sound. Bloomsbury Academic, London. .
 Gaston-Bird, Leslie. (2020). Women in Audio''. Routledge, New York, NY. . pp. 131–135

Sources

External links

 official website
 From A to Z compilation CD on Starkland website
 surround sound recording of Live/Work, commissioned by Starkland
 A Delay Is Better on Bandcamp

Category:1956 births
Category:20th-century African-American women singers
Category:20th-century American singers
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Category:21st-century American women composers
Category:21st-century American women singers
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