Pamela Z :: The Stone :: Corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, New York City :: December 5, 2007; 8:00 PM and 10:00 PM :: Admission is $10 per set.

8 PM: Pamela Z (solo voice, electronics) - Pamela Z will perform a set of works-new, old, composed, and improvised-processing her voice through a Max MSP patch on her Powerbook and triggering sampled sounds with gesture controlled MIDI instruments.

10 PM: Pamela Z (voice, live electronic processing), Okkyung Lee (cello). and Sarah Schoenbeck (bassoon) perform improvised duets, and trios.
Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, and sampling technology. She creates solo works combining operatic bel canto and experimental extended vocal techniques with found percussion objects, spoken word, digital processing, and a MIDI controller called The BodySynth™ (which allows her to manipulate sound with physical gestures.) In addition to her solo work, she has composed and recorded scores for dance, theatre, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her large-scale multi-media works have been presented at Theater Artaud and ODC in SanFrancisco and at The Kitchen in New York, and her audio works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum in New York and the Diözesanmuseum in Cologne. Her multi-media opera Wunderkabinet - based on the Museum of Jurassic Technology (created in collaboration with Matthew Brubeck and Christina McPhee) has been presented at The LAB Gallery (San Francisco) in 2005 and at REDCAT (Disney Hall, Los Angeles) in 2006. Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including Bang on a Can at Lincoln Center in New York, the Interlink Festival in Japan, the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, Pina Bausch Tanztheater Festival in Wuppertal, Germany, and La Biennale di Venezia in Italy. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts, the ASCAP Music Award, and the NEA and Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

A native of Korea, okkyung lee has been developing her own voice in a contemporary cello performance, improvisation and composition. using her solid classical training as a springboard, she incorporates jazz, sounds, korean traditional music, noise with extended techniques and create her unique blend of music. Since moving to new york in 2000, she has performed and recorded with numerous artists such as laurie anderson, derek bailey, steve beresford, carla bozulich, nels cline, chris corsano, sylvie courvoisier, mark dresser, fred frith, shelley hirsch, john hollenbeck, susie ibarra, lindha kallerdahl, eyvind kang, miya masaoka, raz mesinai, min xiao-fen, thurston moore, lawrence D. “butch” morris, larry ochs, jim o’rourke, beth orton, zeena parkins, marc ribot, marina rosenfeld, saadet türköz and john zorn to name a few. In addition to frequent solo performances and leading her own ensembles, she frequently collaborates with Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd, (Still Life with Commentator); Christian Marclay, Billy Martin’s IOOI with Ikue Mori & DJ Olive, Guy Richards Smit’s Maxi Geil! and Playcolt. Okkyung has released the a number of albums under her name including her debut album, Nihm on Tzadik. She has been presented in US and international festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2006, BAM Next Wave Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, Time Based Arts Festival (Portland, Or), and La Biennale di Venezia (Italy). In late fall of 2007, she will be premiere two new works commissoned at Roulette and The Kitchen in New York. Okkyung holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Film Scoring/Contemporary Writing & Production from Berklee College of Music, and master’s degree in Contemporary Improvisation from New England Conservatory of Music.

Sara Schoenbeck, bassoonist, is dedicated to expanding the sound and role of the bassoon in the worlds of contemporary notated and improvised music. The Wire magazine places her in the tiny club of bassoonpioneers at work in contemporary music today and the New York Times has called her “riveting, mixing textural experiments with a big, confident sound.” From performing with creative music ensembles like the Anthony Braxton 12+1, Vinny Golia..s Large Ensemble, Wayne Horvitz..s Gravitas Quartet, Adam Rudolph..s Go Organic Orchestra, the contemporary music group Ensemble Green, Mladi Chamber Ensemble, to jazz and hip hop orchestras such as the Mancini Orchestra backing Tony Bennett, Diane Reeves, and Stevie Wonder, and Dakah HipHop Orchestra backing Mos Def Sara continues to defy categorization as an artist. Ms. Schoenbeck has also also shared the stage in improvised music performances with Yusef Lateef, Gino Robair, Fred Frith, John Butcher, Mark Dresser, Pauline Oliveros, Wadada Leo Smith and Nels Cline among many others. Sara spends most of her time in Los Angeles and records regularly for television and movies notably the Matrix Trilogy, Spanglish and Dahmer. Articles have been written about Sara and her bassoon in the Los Angeles Times Calendar section and Windplayer Magazine. Sara has performed throughout North America and Europe at major festivals and venues, notably the Improvised Music Fest in Antwerp, Belgium, AIMS Opera Festival in Graz, Austria, the Du Maurier Jazz Festival in Vancouver, B.C., the American Festival of Microtonal Music in New York, the New Orleans Jazz Festival, the Wire/Empty Bottle Adeventures in Modern Music Festival in Chicago, Earshot jazz Festival and SIMP in Seattle, the Playboy Jazz Festival and Green Umbrella Series in Los Angeles.