“But I was unable to translate any of that growth to my live performances until I brought home the Ibanez Delay [an effects unit for creating echoes and loops]. For me, this was a perfect performance instrument! It allowed me to make layers of sound in real time so that I could create fairly complex and dense pieces using just that processor and my voice. Literally, the moment I began working with it, my whole compositional style began to transform. I began to listen to sound differently.”
Pamela Z

“As I got further into new music I became less interested in writing about something in a concrete way. I began to prefer the abstract. When I made Baggage Allowance (2010), for example, I chose an open-ended subject that allowed for exploration, as opposed to putting ideas across. I’m more interested in getting people to think for themselves, and I love it when people come to me after a concert and say, ‘I really liked what you said about this and that’ and I’m like, ‘oh, did I say those things? Well, that’s interesting. I had no idea.’”
Pamela Z