An online panel discussion on contemporary sound art featuring Miya Masaoka and Pamela Z.
Join the Zoom Webinar here: https://yale.zoom.us/j/95282899238?from=addon
For the final event in the Fall 2020 Yale CCAM Sound Art Series, we are thrilled to present a panel discussion on Sound Art featuring Miya Masaoka and Pamela Z. Both artists will discuss their work and how their practices as sound artists have been altered while live performance and installation opportunities are impossible or severely limited/regulated within this era of social distancing. Based on these limitations and alterations we will investigate how this current age will influence and alter sound art and technology going forward. The discussion will be followed by a Q and A session with the audience.
Join the Zoom Webinar here: https://yale.zoom.us/j/95282899238?from=addon
Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist making works for voice, electronic processing, samples, gesture activated MIDI controllers, and video. She has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. Her work has been presented at venues and exhibitions including Bang on a Can (NY), the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds (SF), the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. She has composed scores for dance, film, and chamber ensembles (including Kronos Quartet and Eighth Blackbird). Her awards include the Rome Prize, United States Artists, the Guggenheim, Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Herb Alpert Award. www.pamelaz.com
Photo credit: rubra (courtesy of Ars Electronica)
Miya Masaoka is an American composer and sound artist. Her work explores bodily perception of vibration, movement and time while foregrounding complex timbre relationships, and engages with themes of race, gender and society. In 2018 she joined the Columbia University Visual Arts Department as an Associate Professor, where she is the director of the Sound Art Program, a joint program with the Computer Music Center. A Studio Artist for the Park Avenue Armory, Masaoka has also received the Doris Duke Artist Award, a Fulbright Fellowship to Japan, and an Alpert Award. Her work has been presented at the Venice Biennale, MoMA PS1, Kunstmuseum Bonn, and the Park Avenue Armory. She has been commissioned by and collaborated with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Glasgow Choir, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Bang on a Can, Jack Quartet, Del Sol, Momenta and the S.E.M. Ensemble. She was recently commissioned by the Library of Congress, and a 2021 Commission from EMPAC.