Frequency Series Presents: Mycelium New Music with Pamela Z
Schedule
Sun, 23 Nov, 2025 at 08:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
3111 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60618 | Chicago, IL
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Mycelium New Music
with guest artist Pamela Z
Justin Weiss, conductor/co-artistic director
Paul Novak, flute/co-artistic director
Michael Tran, clarinet
Dylan Feldpausch, violin
Isidora Nojkovic, cello
Jonathan Hannau, piano
Rebecca McDaniel, percussion
mycelium new music is a Chicago-based ensemble committed to creating imaginative, multidisciplinary performances of contemporary music that showcase diverse emerging voices. mycelium collaborates with composers, performers, and artists, and curates impactful and adventurous programming in Chicago’s artistic ecosystem and beyond.
mycelium’s 25/26 season “deep roots, wild sounds” presents three performances across Chicago. Highlights include collaborations with experimental music legend Pamela Z, visual artist Ruby Que, yangqin player Cheng Jin Koh, and soprano Kristina Bachrach, and compositions by rising star composers including Saad Haddad, Baldwin Giang, Sofia Jen Ouyang, and Charles Peck. The ensemble’s rhizome project brings three emerging composers to Chicago each year to workshop, perform, and record a recent work for sextet, and its s.p.o.r.e. series presents immersive, multimedia-driven performances of chamber music across the city. Launched in 2024, mycelium’s debut season included a performance alongside composer and alt-folk vocalist Annika Socolofsky, a premiere by Bobby Ge paired with readings by Chicago-based poets, and exciting new and recent works by composers Christian Quinones, Ania Vu, Seare Farhat, and more.
The ensemble takes its name from the mycelial network, the underground web of fungi that symbiotically connects an entire forest. mycelium new music cultivates connection, curiosity, and a shared musical ecology that thrives underground and bursts into light. https://www.myceliumnewmusic.com/
Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist working primarily with voice, live electronics, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live looping, she processes her voice to create complex sonic layers. Her solo works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and wireless MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. She has been commissioned to compose scores for dance, theatre, film, and chamber ensembles including Kronos Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, the Living Earth Show, Eighth Blackbird, the Bang on a Can All Stars, Julia Bullock with SF Symphony, and the LA Philharmonic New Music Group. Her interdisciplinary performances have been presented at venues including The Kitchen (NY), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), REDCAT (LA), and MCA (Chicago), and her installations have been presented at such exhibition spaces as MoMA (NY), the Whitney (NY), Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), and the Krannert (IL). Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including Bang on a Can (NY), Interlink (Japan), Other Minds (San Francisco), La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Dak’Art (Sénégal) and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Festival (Wuppertal). She’s a recipient of numerous awards including the Rome Prize, Berlin Prize, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MIT McDermott Award, United States Artists, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Guggenheim, Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, Herb Alpert Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder. www.pamelaz.com [http://www.pamelaz.com/]
mycelium new music [https://www.myceliumnewmusic.com/about.html] joins forces with pioneering composer-performer Pamela Z [https://pamelaz.com/] to present ways of looking. In her first Chicago show since the pandemic, Z will perform a solo set which blends voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video, before joining mycelium in a performance of her piece with sextet Ways of Looking. The performance also features mycelium’s 2025 rhizome project [https://www.myceliumnewmusic.com/projects.html], which showcases recent works by rising star emerging composers from around the country. These are pieces which may have received a premiere but no subsequent performances, or to which the composer may want to revise or add to, or which may not yet have a recording. As part of the rhizome project, three composers - Sofia Jen Ouyang [https://www.sofiaouyang.com/], Arjan Singh Dogra [https://www.arjansinghmusic.com/], and Carlos Bandera [https://www.carlosbandera.com/] - travel to Chicago for a collaborative workshop, recording, and performance.
program
Rukh for pierrot ensemble - Arjan Singh Dogra
Spirare IV for pierrot ensemble - Carlos Bandera
Commotion for pierrot ensemble - Sofia Jen Ouyang
Solo voice and multimedia set - Pamela Z
Ways of Looking for performer and pierrot ensemble - Pamela Z
https://www.myceliumnewmusic.com/
https://pamelaz.com/
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3111 N Western Ave Chicago IL 60618, 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618-6409, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
