Pamela Z

Pamela Z (born 1956) is an American composer, performer, and media artist best known for her solo works for voice with electronic processing. In performance, she combines various vocal sounds including operatic bel canto, experimental extended techniques and spoken word, with samples and sounds generated by manipulating found objects. Her performance work often includes video projections and special controllers with sensors that allow her to use physical gestures to manipulate the sound and projected media. Z’s solo albums are Echolocation (1987), and A Delay is Better (2004), and A Secret Code (2021). Her fixed-media sound works for radio and new media installations for art galleries have manifested in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York), the Krannert Art Museum (Champaign, Illinois), Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), Trondheim Elektroniske Kunstsenter (Trondheim, Norway), the Fine Arts Center Galleries at Bowling Green State University, and the Chico University Art Gallery (Chico, California), and in group exhibitions in the Dakar Biennale, Sénégal, the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Col