Pamela Z, Todd Reynolds, and Luke DuBois :: August 28, 2009; 9:00 - 11:00 p.m. :: Monkey Town, 58 N 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY :: Make reservations early because seating is limited ::

Working separately and together Pamela Z and Reynolds/Dubois will surround you with moving images and a sonic frenzy of sampled concrète sounds, voice & processing, and violin & processing. In their first shared evening, composer/performer Pamela Z (voice, electronics, video) and Todd Reynolds + R. Luke Dubois (violin, electronics, video) will present a program sonically and visually rich layered works. Z will present short solo works for sound and multi-channel video, processing her voice and manipulating sonic and visual material with gesture controllers. Reynolds and Dubois will present collaborative, interactive work with violin, live processing, and live video. The three artists will finish the evening with an improvised sonic and visual trio.

Pamela Z is a composer/performer who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, samples, gesture activated MIDI controllers, and video. She has toured extensively 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’s created installation works and has composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship. See: http://www.myspace.com/pamelazcomposer

Todd Reynolds (NYC), composer, conductor, arranger, violinist and electronic musician, is a veteran of the New York City music scene, and a longtime touring and recording member member of Bang On A Can, Steve Reich and Musicians and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project . Collaborations run the gamut from Todd Rundgren and Joe Jackson to Kenny Werner and Betty Buckley to Meredith Monk and Scanner. His solo sets on tour opening for Indie sensations, The Books, and his affiliation with and use of the music software phenomenon Ableton Live have opened his unique blend of “classically- improvised-quantum-ambient-electronica” to a new and wider audience. His commitment to genre-bending and technology-driven innovation in music continues to produce innumerable collaborations with artists that regularly cross musical and disciplinary boundaries, regularly placing him in venues from clubs to concert halls around the world. See:
http://www.myspace.com/toddreynoldsmusic

R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance. He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with many artists and organizations including Toni Dove, Matthew Ritchie, Todd Reynolds, Michael Joaquin Grey, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Bang on a Can, Engine27, Harvestworks, and LEMUR, and was the director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra for its 2007 season.