Pamela Z is a composer, performer, and media artist working primarily with voice, live electronics, sampled sound, and video. Based in San Francisco, she holds a music degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder. A pioneer of live digital-looping techniques, she processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers. Her solo works combine experimental vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and wireless MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. In addition to her solo work, Pamela Z has composed commissioned scores for dance, theater, film, and chamber ensembles, including Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, Bang on a Can All Stars, Julia Bullock with the San Francisco Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group. She has presented interdisciplinary performance works at venues such as The Kitchen (New York), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), REDCAT (Los Angeles), and MCA (Chicago), and her installations have been presented at such exhibition spaces as the Whitney (New York), Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), and the Krannert Center (University of Illinois). She has toured extensively and performed in numerous festivals including Bang on a Can, Interlink (Japan), Other Minds (San Francisco), La Biennale di Venezia, Dak’Art (Sénégal), and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Festival (Wuppertal). Pamela Z’s work has received support from the American Academy in Rome, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Guggenheim Foundation, and she is the recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, Herb Alpert Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, among others.