Pamela Z

[seraph]

Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, and sampling technology.

[jbenzola]

There seems to be a preponderance of cutting edge musicians/composers on the west coast...many that are severly more underarted than their east cost counterparts. At this years Woodstockhausen festival, I was the only person from the east coast who had bothered to come. The concert was 5+ hours of live and tape performances and all I can say is that the quality of the music performed was of an incredibly high quality. Also, the performers seem to be much more open and less pretentious than many on the east coast...probably the California sunshine and the tall Redwoods I was made to feel very welcome and the event itself was of a tremendous artistic success. The audience was at about 200 which to me is a pretty high number for a "new music" concert of 5+ hours!

[mosc]

Carlo, where's the review?

Jbenzola, I used to live in the Bay Area. People there are generally much less pretentious than those from the Atlantic side of the country. I guess the artists there take after the people. I would really liked to have attended Woodstockhausen, but I'd just returned from a trip to Europe and was short on currency. Tim Thompson did a piece there. Did you catch it?

[jbenzola]

I was there the entire 5+ hours and I know that I heard Tim's piece...I just can't remember it off hand! Here is the link to the concert program:

http://www.darwinarts.com/WSH/WSH2003/WSH2003_Concert_Program_censored.htm

[seraph]

[mosc]

[tjt]