This Impossible Building, will be a concert-length work for vocal ensemble, live sampling and electronics, guitar, percussion, and video. Written by composer/performer Pamela Z for Roomful of Teeth, the Living Earth Show, and her own voice & electronics, the piece will explore architectural structure, spatiality, and layers.

With vocal performance, live sampling, gesture control, and images of (impossible and possible) spaces, Z will draft, build, demolish, and renovate a series of real and imaginary sonic and visual worlds.

Using a signature approach of her compositional practice, Ms. Z will incorporate speech fragments – taken from interviews with architects, dwellers, workers, and the ensemble members themselves – as sonic building blocks for the harmonic and melodic motifs and the structural foundation of the piece.