Pamelia Stickney
Pamelia Stickney (born May 28, 1976 in Southern California, USA; formerly Pamela Kurstin ) is an American musician and theremin player.
Career
Stickney played with Foetus , Arthur Blythe , Makoto Ozone , David Byrne , John Zorn , Sébastien Tellier , Grace Jones , Yoko Ono , Otto Lechner , Max Nagl and appeared in the documentary about Robert Moog , Moog (2004) .
In 2005 she led a theremin master class at the Moog Theremin Fest in Asheville with Lidia Kawina . She has given workshops and lectures at Berklee College of Music , University of California Irvine , Boston Conservatory of Music, and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
In 2007 her solo CD was released on Tzadik .
In addition to solo concerts, she improvises with a wide variety of jazz formations and electronic music artists and tours with her band Blueblut , mainly in Great Britain and Europe. She also accompanies silent films and works with visual artists.
In her solo concerts, which she calls the “Theremin Orchestra”, she uses live loops to create polyphonic sound structures that are reminiscent of minimal music.
Pamelia Stickney lives in Vienna.
Discography
- Thinking Out Loud ( Tzadik 2007)
- Transcendental Dissonance (2017)
- Sebastian Rochford & Pamelia Kurstin Ouch Evil Slow Hop (Slowfoot 2011)
- Patrick Pulsinger , Pamelia Kurstin, Hilary Jeffery , Rozemarie Heggen Besides Feldman ( col legno 2011)
- Blueblut Hurts so Gut (with Mark Holub and Chris Janka and Willi Landl , 2014)
- Blueblut Buttbutt (not plagdichnicht 2016)
Web links
- Official website
- Article about P. Kurstin
- Artist portrait
- Pamelia Kurstin in Allaboutjazz
- Pamelia course at Allmusic (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Stickney, Pamelia |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kurstin, Pamela |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theremin player |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | United States |