Fw: see the kabinet or forever wonder

Rhizomers of SF / Bay area…

Please come by and say hello.. I'lll be there Saturday night (in NYC now). The show is on tonight, Friday and Saturday.

"Curious technologies…..dedicated to the Muses…."

Christina

—–Forwarded Message—–
From: TROY BYKER <[email protected]>
Sent: Sep 14, 2005 4:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: see the kabinet or forever wonder

Tho i dare say the kabinet consists of such fine materials that it
warrants many more viewings than the three that remain. You heard me
right, there are only 3 performances left. Viewings require less than
an hour and they happen Thursday Friday and Saturday night at 8, at
the Lab.

Hello all,
Troy here to tell you of the good fortune i have had in being able to
work closely with the exceptional craftspeople of the Wunderkabinet.
Bask in the awe that until now, has been restricted to the children of
the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Opera? Meeting of the masters?
Complete sensual immersion? Dont be swept underneath only to be
found later, wandering and wondering whats inside.

the Lab
2948 16th Street
San Francisco
415.864.8855

Curious?

check out

pamelaz.com/wunderkabinet.html
mjt.org
thelab.org

or read on

> Pamela Z
> (in collaboration with Matthew Brubeck and Christina McPhee)
> WUNDERKABINET
> at The LAB
> 2948 16th Street
> San Francisco, CA 94103
> p: 415.864.8855
> Thursday-Saturday, September 15-17, 2005
> doors open 7:30 pm performance at 8 pm
> $10-$20 sliding scale admission
>
> Thursday Special: The LAB will be donating all
> proceeds from Thursday evening's performance to
> the American Red Cross for the victims of Katrina.
>
> Saturday Special: After the show on Saturday,
> September 17, Pamela Z and her collaborators
> Matthew Brubeck and Christina McPhee will meet
> with the audience for a Q&A and reception. And
> David Wilson, from the Museum of Jurassic
> Technology, will be attending this final
> performance of Wunderkabinet.
>
>
>
>
> Wunderkabinet is a new experimental multi-media
> opera developed by composer/performer Pamela Z
> in collaboration with cellist/composer Matthew
> Brubeck and media artist Christina McPhee. Scored
> for voice & electronics, cello & electronics, &
> video, the piece is inspired by and based on the
> exhibits displayed at the enchanting and renowned
> Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.
> Wunderkabinet premieres this month with a
> two-week run at The LAB Gallery in San Francisco.
>
> The boundary between reality and imagination is
> blurred as Wunderkabinet's central character
> "Alice May Williams" makes her strange and
> magical journey in search of the scientists of
> the Mount Wilson Observatory to whom she has been
> sending abundant correspondence, only to find
> herself in a strange cabinet of curiosities where
> she eventually becomes a docent.
>
> The music of Wunderkabinet is performed by Pamela
> Z (voice and live electronic processing) and
> Matthew Brubeck (cello & electronics, and a
> multi-layered set (largely comprised of projected
> images created by Christina McFee) evoking the
> dark yet radiant focus of the museum dioramas
> forms the backdrop for this evocative experience.
> The score (composed by Pamela Z and cellist Matt
> Brubeck) utilizes bowed and plucked strings,
> sampled found objects, and a wide range of vocal
> work ranging from operatic bel canto to
> experimental extended vocal techniques and spoken
> text. The libretto is derived from passages of
> actual descriptive texts from the Museum of
> Jurassic Technology's exhibitions and stories
> inspired by them.
>
> About the Artists:
>
> Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based
> composer/performer and audio artist who works
> primarily with voice, live electronic processing
> and sampling technology. Processing her live
> voice through "MAX MSP" software on a PowerBook,
> she creates solo works that combine operatic bel
> canto and experimental extended vocal techniques
> with found percussion objects, spoken word, and
> sampled concr�te sounds. These sounds are
> triggered with a MIDI controller called The
> BodySynth�, which allows her to manipulate sound
> with physical gestures.
>
> Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the
> United States, Europe, and Japan. She has
> performed in numerous festivals including: Bang
> on a Can at Lincoln Center in New York; the
> Interlink Festival in Japan; Other Minds in San
> Francisco; and Pina Bausch Tanztheater's 25 Jahre
> Fest in Wuppertal, Germany. She has composed,
> recorded and performed original scores for
> choreographers and for film/video artists, and
> has done vocal work for other composers
> (including Charles Amirkhanian and Henry Brant).
> Her large-scale, multi-media performance works,
> Parts of Speech, Gaijin and Voci, have been
> presented at Theater Artaud and ODC Theater in
> San Francisco, and at the Kitchen in New York.
> She has had audio works included in exhibitions
> at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New
> York, the Erzbisch�fliches Di�zesanmuseum in
> Cologne, and the Dakar Biennale in S�n�gal. She
> has also been presented at the San Jose Museum of
> Art, El Museo del Barrio in New York and at La
> Biennale di Venezia in Italy.
>
> Ms. Z has been commissioned to compose works for
> new music chamber ensembles: the Bang On A Can
> Allstars; Ethel, the California E.A.R. Unit; the
> Left Coast Chamber Ensemble; and the St. Luke's
> Chamber Orchestra. Since 1986, she has been
> producing "Z Programs", an ongoing series of
> interdisciplinary events in which her own work
> has been featured along with that of other
> experimental artists in various genres. She has
> done collaborative work with Jeanne Finley + John
> Muse, Miya Masaoka, Donald Swearingen, The Qube
> Chix, Zakros New Music Theatre, and has performed
> with The San Francisco Contemporary Music
> Players. Pamela is the recipient of numerous
> awards, including: 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 at Boulder. She has a solo CD on
> Starkland which the WIRE (UK) refers to as "Sheer
> genius from the most gifted and enterprising
> vocalist/composer/audio artist in the US since
> the heyday of Joan La Barbara and Mededith Monk".
> http://www.pamelaz.com
>
>
> Matt Brubeck is a composer/performer specializing
> in improvisation on the cello. Classically
> trained, with a Master's in cello performance
> from Yale, Matt is at ease in multiple genres and
> has taken his cello improvisation skills into
> diverse musical territories. During his many
> years in the San Francisco area, Matt performed
> with a variety of jazz, improv, and new music
> artists including Pamela Z, John Schott, Ralph
> Carney, Myles Boisen, and Scott Amendola. He
> founded Oranj Symphonette, which recorded two
> CD's for Rykodisc and went on to play many of the
> major jazz festivals, including Toronto,
> Montreal, New York, San Francisco, and Monterey.
> Matt worked for several years as composer and
> cellist/bassist with the San Francisco based Club
> Foot Orchestra, contributing to scores for film
> and television. In the pop/rock world, his
> eclectic adventures include touring with the
> Dixie Chicks, Sheryl Crow, and the Indigo Girls,
> as well as performing and/or recording with Tom
> Waits, Sheryl Crow, Sarah McLachlan, Tracy
> Chapman, Jonathan Richman, and others. Matt has
> continued to play classical cello and was a
> member of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra from
> 1989-2003. Under the adventurous direction of
> Maestro Kent Nagano, Matt enjoyed performing the
> traditional repertoire, as well as the works of
> many new music composers. His "Concerto Grosso
> for Two Improvising Soloists and Orchestra"
> (featuring violinist Carla Kihlstedt and Matt on
> cello) was premiered in 2003 at the BSO's Under
> Construction series for emerging composers.
> Currently Matt resides near Toronto, where he
> teaches cello, improvisation, and leads the New
> Music Ensemble at York University. Matt is
> actively involved in Toronto's vibrant music
> community, playing with a wide range of jazz and
> improvisational artists such as David Mott, Anne
> Bourne, Kevin Breit, Jesse Stewart, Marilyn
> Lerner, David Buchbinder, and David Braid, among
> others. (And, yes he is the tallest son of Dave.)
>
> Christina McPhee is a Los Angeles-born new media
> and installation artist who's technological
> landscapes engage strange ambiguities at the
> interface of art and science. Her performances,
> video and net art have been included in
> exhibitions, festivals and electronic media
> archives around the world, including Cornell
> University Electronic Media Archive, chairetmetal
> (Montreal), Cinemateque/Video Channel (Koln),
> Rhizome Artbase(New York) ,
> Cybersonica/Convergence at the ICA New Media
> Center, London, California Museum of Photography,
> back_up/Lounge|lab at Bauhaus-University Weimar,
> and Victoria Film Festival, Victoria, BC, COSIGN
> 2004 at the University of Split, Croatia, FILE
> Sao Paulo 2002 , and Digital Arts and Culture
> 2003 at RMIT Melbourne, especially for her online
> and installation project naxsmash. She writes on
> phenomenology, trauma and memory in electronic
> art and architecture, most recently in book print
> with "Net Baroque" in Life in the Ruins: A
> CTheory Reader", edited by Marilouise and Arthur
> Kroker (2004) and online with "Aphasia/Parrhesia"
> for drunkenboat(2005). Online, CTheory also
> features Slipstreaming the Cyborg, an interview
> with the artist with Rome-based Francesca De
> Nicolo. Current multimedia work queries seismic
> memory in digital chromogenic prints, video and
> live data based net art, in the Carrizo-Parkfield
> Diaries (2005). Created with text contributions
> from Jeremy Hight and web programming design from
> Sindee Nakatani, the live data work, based on
> current and archived ground motion values in
> collision, is part of the Whitney Museum of
> American Art, new media seriesArtport, and can
> also be reached at
> www.carrizoparkfielddiaries.net. McPhee's videos
> from the Carrizo Parkfield Diaries will travel to
> Carnegie Mellon University's Regina Gouger Miller
> Gallery, Pittsburgh, as part of Groundworks:
> Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art
> October 14 - December 11, 2005. In December 2005,
> she will be a visiting artist at HUMlab,
> University of Umea, Sweden.
> http://www.christinamcphee.net
>


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