FluCoMa Podcast #21: Pamela Z
Episode 21 of the FluCoMa Podcast where Jacob Hart talks with composer and performer Pamela Z.
![Pamela Z profile picture](/explore/z/profile.jpeg)
Pamela Z
The Podcast
Chapters
- Introduction (0:0)
- Getting in to music (1:33)
- Collaboration (7:34)
- Preservation (17:33)
- Digital spaces (22:18)
- Analog to digital (28:40)
- Gesture controllers (41:42)
- Gesture and sound (50:42)
- Corpus curation (55:15)
- Isodora (1:1:44)
- RNBO and technical obsolescence (1:9:19)
- Form (1:14:52)
- Thoughts on the future (1:22:6)
Overview
In episode 21 of the FluCoMa Podcast we talk with the renowned composer, performer and media artist Pamela Z. In this episode we take an overlook of Pamela’s career and the many ways in which she has experimented with voice, performance and electronics. We shall hear how she explores the mapping of gestures to sounds, how she approaches instrument design, her approaches of analog and digital live voice processing, and the roles that technologies and HCI play in her work.
Links
Here are the links to some of the things that were discussed during the podcast:
Bang on a Can at Lincoln Center, the Venice Biennale, San Fransisco Symphony SoundBox.
Rome Prize, MIT McDermott Award, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Dorothea Tanning Award.
The Ramones to Varèse to The Roches to Stockhausen.
Carbon Song Cycle (in collaboration with Christina McPhee).
Raise for [Nick Photinos](Nick Photinos).
Episode of the FluCoMa Podcast with Laetitia Sonami.
“Mona Lisa”by Laetitia Sonami, Donald Swearingen, Pamela Z and Visual Brains:
The BodySynth by Ed Severinghaus and Chris Van Raalte:
Donald Swearingen’s controllers.
Typewriter/Breathing:
- Baggage Allowance:
- Other rooms:
RNBO.
Episode of the FluCoMa Podcast with Helen Bledsoe.