Maryanne Amacher
Maryanne Amacher died on October 22, 2009 following a stroke resulting after complications from a severe fall on July 15. Amacher was a pioneering sound installation artist whose frequently site-specific works explored the sonic effects of psychoacoustic illusions.
Maryanne Amacher died on October 22, 2009 following a stroke resulting after complications from a severe fall on July 15. Amacher was a pioneering sound installation artist whose frequently site-specific works explored the sonic effects of psychoacoustic illusions.
Selected Writings and Interviews
The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are as yet unknown. A heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive.
Petra
CD Edition. The first time Maryanne Amacher's music has ever been available on vinyl. Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009) was a composer of large-scale fixed-duration sound installations and a highly original thinker in the areas of perception, sound spatia…
Sound Characters (Making The Third Ear)
20120 Restock. The "Making the Third Ear" part of the title refers to the phenomenon that listeners experience when listening to Maryanne Amacher's compositions -- played at the right volume, sounds seem to emit from within the listener's head! Even …
Sound Characters 2 (Making Sonic Spaces)
One of contemporary music's greatest and most elusive mavericks returns to Tzadik with yet another CD of ear-bending electronic sounds. A student of Stockhausen and close collaborator of John Cage and David Behrman, Maryanne Amacher has been creating…