Being able to listen to Pamela Z as a lecturer was nothing else but an honour and pure pleasure.

I was never much interested in working with human voice, but she definitely started a process in my head that will somehow change this approach.

Pamela is conducting interviews as a part of her projects and then uses humans speech as a source of different pitches, tones and rhythms. She uses the interviews she’s doing as an inspiration as well as a material she makes her works with.

Pamela’s use of and approach to text as a medium, especially alphabetised lists (she sees them as something poetic) is also very interesting.

The last but not least – the devices Pamela is using in her live performance and is famous for. Those fascinating, small in size tools are, as she mentioned, designed for her by her friend – Donald Swearingen.

They are gesture activated MIDI controller(s) including the Nº UTM Ultrasonic controller, and SensorPlay wireless controllers.

http://donaldswearingen.com/stm6-overview/

https://pamela-z.bandcamp.com/album/echolocation

https://share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothek-audio-teilen.html?audio_id=883810