Pamela Z's VOCI
Voci (Voices) is a new solo multi-media performance work exploring the sonic, cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the voice, celebrating the broad range of colours in the singing voice and speaking voice, and examining scientific and cultural phenomena around the voice and the many metaphors for voice.
Written, composed, and performed by
Pamela Z, Voci consists of layered, dynamically varied segments incorporating live electroacoustic vocal work with real-time digital processing, vocal samples triggered with light sensors (designed by Donald Swearingen) and a gesture controller called the BodySynth, and video (projected and on monitors).
These segments approach voice as anatomy, as character, as identifier, and communicator. Weaving together stories about voice with arias, non-verbal utterances, cries and whispers, choruses of "real" and synthetic voices, and fragments of scientific information,
Pamela Z builds a kind of polyphonic mono-opera. With visual work by filmmakers Jeanne Finley and John Muse and lighting designer Elaine Buckholtz (who worked on Z's 2001 Theater Artaud Production of Gaijin), Voci premieres at ODC Theatre in San Francisco with a two-week run from March 27 through April 5, 2003.
Cost: $12 (special Thurs Price)
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
BREATHING is a movement from Carbon Song Cycle (a inter-media chamber work by composer/performer Pamela Z and visual artist Christina McPhee). The work was originally written for voice & electronics, bassoon, viola, cello, percussion, and tape. This is a solo version performed by the composer (with just voice, processing, and tape), recorded at a 3/13/2014 duo concert with Joan La Barbara as part of the 2014 ROOM Series. Pamela Z is using a gesture controller (designed and built by Donald Swearingen). © 2013 Last Letter Music (ASCAP)