Pamela Z-My thoughts

Pamela Z

When I stumbled on this page I discovered a complete new system of creating art through song and motion. What Pamela Z uses in her work is a tool called Bodysynth, this machine is attached to muscles on her body and turns gestures, motion, and body movement into sounds. (http://www.pamelaz.com/bodysynth.html). When watching some of her performance pieces, I realized she had found the perfect way to incorporate her music background with an expressive twist and made from new technology. Not only does she have a beautiful opera sounding voice, but she explores a way of showing it in a media I had no idea even existed. In her performance called "same knowledge" it is pretty cool how she sets up projectors and at first it creates a sort of setting as though she is in a house, but then it changed to projected pictures that go with her meaning for the piece. Her voice in "bones" feels as though she is connected with the earth, in a completely serene and soulful way. The technique of this work is pretty awesome.