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Pamela Z Pamela Z (born Pamela Brooks, 1956) is an American composer, performer, and audio artist who works primarily with her voice and live electronic processing. Raised in the Denver area, the African American Z received her bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she studied classical voice. After performing throughout Colorado as a rock musician under the name Pam Brooks, in 1985 she moved to San Francisco, where her experiments with live digital delay vocal processing began leading her down a different artistic path, and she changed her name to Pamela Z. In performance today, she typically processes her live voice through MAX MSP software on a PowerBook, combining operatic bel canto and experimental extended vocal techniques with percussion objects, spoken word, and sampled sounds. Z has performed in such festivals as Bang on a Can at Lincoln Center in New York, the Interlink Festival in Japan, Other Minds in San Francisco, and La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. Z has been commissioned from such sources as the Bang on a Can Allstars, Ethel, The California EAR Unit, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Orchestra of St. Luke's, and the record label Starkland. She is a member of the electroacoustic ensemble sensorChip and the interdisciplinary performance ensemble The Qube Chix, both based in San Francisco. Z has received numerous awards, including: the Guggenheim Fellowship; the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts; the Creative Capital Fund; the ASCAP Music Award; and the NEA and Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. |
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