PAN ZEN

live & free from thee otherground... ride the outer edge of elektrix...

Established Jul 1997

Kaskadia (NW)

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This March PAN!ZEN is kicking off another monthly event!

The skinny

PAN-ZEN is an experimental arts syndicate and sound system, in Cascadia - USA (1997 - present)

PAN-ZEN became manifest through the collective desires ov a group of musicians and artist/activists who performed as PANdrogynous Ad Nauseum (P.A.N.). Sasha Drumure (Cheap Dark Places, FreQ TranzMission, Samadhi), Adam Graff (ICD-9, FreQ TranzMission, GreenStar), Llewyn Máire (HSEF, FreQ TranzMission, Kabbage, Sardonik Grin, Try My Cabbage), and Phoebe (ICD-9, FreQ TranzMission, Pedro).

Through the need to produce specific environments in which to perform, the group began producing its own shows.... PANdrogynous preZENtationz.... After camping and performing with s.p.a.z, (Semi Permanent Autonomous Zone), at the second Autonomous Mutant Festival, Llewyn Máire and Phoebe decided to ritually formalize the group into a sound system...the PAN-ZEN Konspiracy Nett Wyrk

Over the years many projectz have developed around, within, and through PAN-ZEN, creating an ever-expanding nettwyrk ov musicians, performance activists, live artists, video mxrz, body and movement actionists, organizers, chefs, and the undefined....