CARBON SONG CYCLE / A COLLABORATIVE MULTIMEDIA CHAMBER WQRK
Music /composition + live performance: Pamela Z + Moving image / multichannel video and live graphical score sets: Christina McPhee
Clips here are from the 2023 revival of Carbon Song Cycle, as presented by Liz Keim for the Cinema Arts program at the Exploratorium, San Francisco
Co-produced with San Francisco Cinematheque and Shapeshifters Cinema, and supported with a grant to Cinema Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts 2023
Chamber Ensemble:
Pamela Z, voice & electronics
Mark Pascucci-Clifford, percussion; Crystal Pascucci-Clifford, cello; Dana Jessen, bassoon; Charith Premawardhana; viola
Video-mediated performance: Christina McPhee
Video Technician: Drew Detweiler
Carbon Song Cycle is a work for chamber ensemble and expanded cinema. It’s inspired by ongoing changes and upheavals in the Earth’s ecosystem and by the carbon cycle—the process through which carbon is exchanged between all terrestrial life forms and domains. As a live performance work for voice, electronics, expanded cinema, and chamber ensemble, Carbon Song Cycle is a collaborative creation by Christina McPhee and Pamela Z. It premiered in 2013 at Berkeley Art Museum|Pacific Film Archive, with production funding from the MAP Fund for Performance, New Music USA, and New Music Bay Area.
Performances at Roulette Intermedia in Brooklyn and at Joe Goode Space/Theatre Artaud in San Francisco followed in 2013-14
