| Utilizes found
texts from advertising, communications systems, buzzwords, and slang.
The sound sources for the work are a combination of actual samples from
these language elements, and versions rendered by the artist reading,
singing, chanting, and processing the language. These fragments are
woven together by non-language sounds sampled and composed into a cohesive
audio environment that deals with words as propaganda, words as mantra,
words as poetry, words as authority, and words as music.
Commissioned by NEW AMERICAN RADIO.
More Pamela ZBiographyPAMELA Z ( San Francisco, CA) is a composer/performer. She has performed solo in Bay Area clubs and galleries, and throughout the U.S. since 1984. She works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, and sampling technology creating lush textures and frenetic rhythmic structures overlayed with melodic lines and spoken text. Pamela Z has also collaborated on works for dance and experimental theater and produced numerous multimedia performances, featuring her own work and that of other Bay Area artists. She has created three works for NEW AMERICAN
RADIO: Parts of Speech
(1995), Trying
To Reach You (1990)
and Which
Is Better? (1988)
Other Radio WorksThe String Movement (1994)A brief, sonic journey into the puzzling world of exotic particles. Using her voice as the only sound source, the artist combines found texts, strange melodies, whispers, gasps, and pronouncements to depict the multidimensional world of particle interaction. The String Movement was developed and recorded during a residency at Yellow Springs Institute in August of 1992 as part of a larger work Exotic Particles. Commissioned by NEW AMERICAN RADIO. Which is Better?
(1988) Which is Better? combines expressive operatic solos, in which digital delay creates textures of varying denseness, spare percussion, and brief narrative statements. Commissioned by NEW AMERICAN RADIO. |