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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Timepiece Triptych
Pamela Z
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“Timepiece Triptych” is a suite of multi-channel sound works exploring time-related processing on vocally produced sounds. Various time-altering digital processes including extreme timecompression and expansion, delay, granular syntheses, reversal, and reverb are applied to spatialized layers of text fragments and melodic material. The only sound sources used are my voice and the voices of birds.
Pamela Z (US) is a composer/performer and audio artist who works with voice, live electronic processing and sampling technology. Processing her voice through MAX MSP Software on a PowerBook, she creates performance works combining bei canto and experimental extended vocal techniques with found objects, text and sampled concrete sounds. Sounds are often triggered via custom MIDI Controllers such as the BodySynth and the Light SensePod which allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. Her performances range in scale from concerts in galleries to large-scale multi-media works in flexible black-box venues and proscenium halls. In addition to her performance work, she has a growing body of inter-media works including multi- channel sound and video installations. Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan and has performed in numerous festivals. She has created original scores for choreographers and film/video artists. Her numerous awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts, the Creative Capital Fund, the ASCAP Music Award and the NEA and Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder.