Something to do

I'll be out of town, but I recommend this performance on Saturday, for those who like strange sounds and new music:

Pamela Z
(with special guest Kinji Hayashi)

Saturday, November 8, 2003, 9pm
21 Grand (449B 23rd Street in Oakland)

Pamela Z will perform an evening of works for voice, electronics and video. The evening will include short solo works for voice, processing, and samples, excerpts from large-scale performance works, improvised works, and duets with special guest Butoh artist Kinji Hayashi.

Pamela Z is a composer/performer who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, sampled sounds, and The BodySynth gesture controller. She has also composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her audio works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney in NY and the Diözesanmueum in Cologne. She has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Japan in concerts and festivals including Bang on a Can, the Japan Interlink Festival, and Other Minds. She has received numerous awards including the CalArts Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship. She recently gave performances at the Venice Biennale (9.21.03) and at the Reina Sophia Museum in Madrid (10.25.03). For information on Pamela Z, visit www.pamelaz.com

Kinji Hayashi was raised in Tokyo, Japan. A solo Butoh dancer since 1991, has collaborated with numerous artists and groups such as Inkboat, Polish Theater director Miroslaw Kocur, San Francisco playwright Helen Pau , the Asian American Theater Company ,Theaterworks , and Theater of Yugen and has toured with HRG and Harupin Ha in Japan and the US. He has received awards from Dance Bay Area's Commissioning Project, Zellerbach Family Fund, City of Oakland Cultural Arts Division, the Pritzker Foundation, and the American Composers Forum. Caring for turtles is a source of his inspiration in this fast-paced world. www.inkboat.com/inkbio/biokinji.html