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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life

Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life

Cimini, Amy

Hardcover

Series: Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound

General Art InstructionGeneral MusicMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0190060891
ISBN13: 9780190060893
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 1 2022
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
We haven't even made it to breakfast! was a phrase often used by composer Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009) to shorthand her critical and partial approach to knowledge production across the vast artistic, technical, and scientific discourses with which she worked. The same could be said about her own musical thought, which encompassed original presentational formats in existing and speculative media and approaches to sound and listening that conjoined real and imagined social worlds.

Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life discerns meeting points between frameworks for life that emerged from Amacher's multidisciplinary study of sound and listening: within acoustical spectra, inside human bodies and ears, across cities and edgleands, hypothetical creatures and virtual, fictive or distanciated environments. These figurations guide interpretative study of six signal projects: Adjacencies (1965/1966); City-Links (1967-1988); Additional Tones (1976 / 1988), Music for Sound-Joined Rooms (1980), Mini Sound Series (1985) and Intelligent Life (1980s) and countless sketches, notes and unrealized projects. Author Amy Cimini explores Amacher's working methods with an interpretive style that emphasizes technical study, conceptual juxtaposition, intertextual play, and narrative transport.

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