Tribeca New Music Festival: Pamela Z, Bora Yoon, and Luke Dubois :: June 9, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY.

In a shared concert with Bora Yoon and Luke Dubois, Pamela Z will give a solo performance of works for voice, electronics, and video, including excerpts from some of her large-scale performance works.

Bora Yoon will perform a duo set with video artist Luke Dubois, Pamela Z will perform solo, and then all three will come together for a sonic and visual trio. They will be joined by the vocal quartet New York Polyphony for this final Tribeca New Music Festival evening.

Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, samples, and gesture activated MIDI controllers. 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. www.pamelaz.com

Bora Yoon is an experimental multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer, who creates architectural soundscapes from everyday found objects, chamber instruments, digital devices, and voice. As a solo performer, Yoon has toured her original soundwork ( (( PHONATION )) ) internationally, presenting at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Nam June Paik Museum in Seoul, Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok, the Bang on a Can Marathon, John Zorn’s Stone, the annual Pop!Tech conference, and universities across the globe. Her music has been presented by the Electronic Music Foundation and electronics giant Samsung; commissioned by the Young People’s Chorus of NYC and the SAYAKA Ladies Chorale of Tokyo; awarded by Billboard, BMI, and the Arion Foundation; and published by MIT Press, Swirl Records, and the Journal of Popular Noise.

R. Luke DuBois has collaborated with a wide range of artists including Elliott Sharp, Paul D. Miller, Todd Reynolds, Toni Dove, Chris Mann, Michael Joaquin Grey, Matthew Ritchie, Eric Singer, Bora Yoon, and Leroy Jenkins. He was a founding member of the Freight Elevator Quartet, and has produced records for Bang on a Can composer Michael Gordon on the Nonesuch label. His music integrates real-time performer-computer interaction with algorithmic methodologies repurposed from other fields, most notably formal grammars such as L-systems. His current research into issues of musical time revolve around a technique called time-lapse phonography, as used in his piece Billboard. In Fall 2008 he began teaching as a full-time professor at the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU. As a graduate student at Columbia he was a contributor to Real-Time Cmix and currently works for Cycling ’74 on Max/MSP/Jitter