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Maryanne Amacher February 25 1938 1 2 - October 22 2009 Was An American Composer And Installation Artist. Biography
She Was Born In Kane Pennsylvania 1 To An American Nurse And A Swiss Freight Train Worker. As The Only Child She Grew Up Playing The Piano. Amacher Left Kane To Attend The University Of Pennsylvania Where She Received A B.F.A In 1964. 1 While There She Studied Composition With George Rochberg 1 And Karlheinz Stockhausen. Subsequently She Did Graduate Work In Acoustics And Computer Science At The University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign. While In Residence At The University Of Buffalo In 1967 She Created City Links Buffalo A 28-Hour Piece Using 5 Microphones In Different Parts Of The City Broadcast Live By Radio Station WBFO. There Were Several Other Pieces In The "City Links" Series Though Many Details Are Not Yet Known. A Common Feature Was The Use Of Telephone Lines To Connect The Sound Environments Of Different Sites Into The Same Space A Very Early Example Of What Is Now Called "telematic Performance" And Preceded Much More Famous Examples Of This By Max Neuhaus And Others. Amacher's Installations Combined Sculpture And Layers Of Loud Sound And Low Resonating Tones. Her Major Pieces Have Almost Exclusively Been Site Specific 1 Often Using Many Loudspeakers To Create What She Called "structure Borne Sound" Which Is A Differentiation With "airborne Sound" The Paradox Intentional. By Using Many Diffuse Sound Sources Either Not In The Space Or Speakers Facing At The Walls Or Floors She Would Create The Psychoacoustic Illusions Of Sound Shapes/"precense". Amacher's Early Work Is Best Represented In The Three Series Of Multimedia Installations Produced In The United States Europe And Japan The Sonic Telepresence Series "CITY LINKS" 1-22 1967- The Architecturally Staged "MUSIC FOR SOUND JOINED ROOMS" 1980- And The "MINI-SOUND SERIES" 1985- A New Multimedia Form Which She Created That Is Unique In Its Use Of Architecture And Serialized Narrative. She Worked Extensively With The Physiological Not Psychoacoustic Phenomenon Called Otoacoustic Emission In Which The Ears Themselves Act As Sound Generating Devices. Amacher Composed Several "ear Dances" Designed To Stimulate Clear "third" Tones Coming From The Listener's Ears. The Subtitle Of Her First Tzadik Records Album Sound Characters Making The Third Ear References These "ear Tones". "When Played At The Right Sound Level Which Is Quite High And Exciting The Tones In This Music Will Cause Your Ears To Act As Neurophonic Instruments That Emit Sounds That Will Seem To Be Issuing Directly From Your Head ... My Audiences Discover They Are Producing A Tonal Dimension Of The Music Which Interacts Melodically Rhythmically And Spatially With The Tones In The Room. Tones 'dance' In The Immediate Space Of Their Body Around Them Like A Sonic Wrap Cascade Inside Ears And Out To Space In Front Of Their Eyes ... Do Not Be Alarmed! Your Ears Are Not Behaving Strange Or Being Damaged! ... These Virtual Tones Are A Natural And Very Real Physical Aspect Of Auditory Perception Similar To The Fusing Of Two Images Resulting In A Third Three Dimensional Image In Binocular Perception ... I Want To Release This Music Which Is Produced By The Listener ..." Over The Years She Received Several Major Commissions In The United States And Europe With Occasional Work In Asia And Central And South America. In 1998 She Was Awarded A Grant From The Foundation For Contemporary Arts Grants To Artists Award. In 2005 She Was Awarded The Prix Ars Electronica The Golden Nica In The "Digital Musics" Category For Her Project "TEO! A Sonic Sculpture". At The Time Of Her Death She Had Been Working Three Years On A 40 Channel Piece Commissioned By The Experimental Media And Performing Arts Center In Troy NY. She Never Held A Full-Time Job After Being A Typist In The Early 1960s And Lived Simply In Kingston NY Until Her Death. For The Last Decade Of Her Life She Taught At The Bard College MFA Program. Notes 1. Allan Kozinn Maryanne Amacher 71 Visceral Composer Dies Obituary The New York Times 2009 Oct. 28. 2. Note While Most Sources State Amacher's Birth Year As 1938 She Had In Later Years Used The Birth Year 1943.
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Maryanne Amacher February 25 1938 1 2 - October 22 2009 Was An American Composer And Installation Artist. Biography
She Was Born In Kane Pennsylvania 1 To An American Nurse And A Swiss Freight Train Worker. As The Only Child She Grew Up Playing The Piano. Amacher Left Kane To Attend The University Of Pennsylvania Where She Received A B.F.A In 1964. 1 While There She Studied Composition With George Rochberg 1 And Karlheinz Stockhausen. Subsequently She Did Graduate Work In Acoustics And Computer Science At The University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign. While In Residence At The University Of Buffalo In 1967 She Created City Links Buffalo A 28-Hour Piece Using 5 Microphones In Different Parts Of The City Broadcast Live By Radio Station WBFO. There Were Several Other Pieces In The "City Links" Series Though Many Details Are Not Yet Known. A Common Feature Was The Use Of Telephone Lines To Connect The Sound Environments Of Different Sites Into The Same Space A Very Early Example Of What Is Now Called "telematic Performance" And Preceded Much More Famous Examples Of This By Max Neuhaus And Others. Amacher's Installations Combined Sculpture And Layers Of Loud Sound And Low Resonating Tones. Her Major Pieces Have Almost Exclusively Been Site Specific 1 Often Using Many Loudspeakers To Create What She Called "structure Borne Sound" Which Is A Differentiation With "airborne Sound" The Paradox Intentional. By Using Many Diffuse Sound Sources Either Not In The Space Or Speakers Facing At The Walls Or Floors She Would Create The Psychoacoustic Illusions Of Sound Shapes/"precense". Amacher's Early Work Is Best Represented In The Three Series Of Multimedia Installations Produced In The United States Europe And Japan The Sonic Telepresence Series "CITY LINKS" 1-22 1967- The Architecturally Staged "MUSIC FOR SOUND JOINED ROOMS" 1980- And The "MINI-SOUND SERIES" 1985- A New Multimedia Form Which She Created That Is Unique In Its Use Of Architecture And Serialized Narrative. She Worked Extensively With The Physiological Not Psychoacoustic Phenomenon Called Otoacoustic Emission In Which The Ears Themselves Act As Sound Generating Devices. Amacher Composed Several "ear Dances" Designed To Stimulate Clear "third" Tones Coming From The Listener's Ears. The Subtitle Of Her First Tzadik Records Album Sound Characters Making The Third Ear References These "ear Tones". "When Played At The Right Sound Level Which Is Quite High And Exciting The Tones In This Music Will Cause Your Ears To Act As Neurophonic Instruments That Emit Sounds That Will Seem To Be Issuing Directly From Your Head ... My Audiences Discover They Are Producing A Tonal Dimension Of The Music Which Interacts Melodically Rhythmically And Spatially With The Tones In The Room. Tones 'dance' In The Immediate Space Of Their Body Around Them Like A Sonic Wrap Cascade Inside Ears And Out To Space In Front Of Their Eyes ... Do Not Be Alarmed! Your Ears Are Not Behaving Strange Or Being Damaged! ... These Virtual Tones Are A Natural And Very Real Physical Aspect Of Auditory Perception Similar To The Fusing Of Two Images Resulting In A Third Three Dimensional Image In Binocular Perception ... I Want To Release This Music Which Is Produced By The Listener ..." Over The Years She Received Several Major Commissions In The United States And Europe With Occasional Work In Asia And Central And South America. In 1998 She Was Awarded A Grant From The Foundation For Contemporary Arts Grants To Artists Award. In 2005 She Was Awarded The Prix Ars Electronica The Golden Nica In The "Digital Musics" Category For Her Project "TEO! A Sonic Sculpture". At The Time Of Her Death She Had Been Working Three Years On A 40 Channel Piece Commissioned By The Experimental Media And Performing Arts Center In Troy NY. She Never Held A Full-Time Job After Being A Typist In The Early 1960s And Lived Simply In Kingston NY Until Her Death. For The Last Decade Of Her Life She Taught At The Bard College MFA Program. Notes 1. Allan Kozinn Maryanne Amacher 71 Visceral Composer Dies Obituary The New York Times 2009 Oct. 28. 2. Note While Most Sources State Amacher's Birth Year As 1938 She Had In Later Years Used The Birth Year 1943. read less
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She Was Born In Kane Pennsylvania 1 To An American Nurse And A Swiss Freight Train Worker. As The Only Child She Grew Up Playing The Piano. Amacher Left Kane To Attend The University Of Pennsylvania Where She Received A B.F.A In 1964. 1 While There She Studied Composition With George Rochberg 1 And Karlheinz Stockhausen. Subsequently She Did Graduate Work In Acoustics And Computer Science At The University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign. While In Residence At The University Of Buffalo In 1967 She Created City Links Buffalo A 28-Hour Piece Using 5 Microphones In Different Parts Of The City Broadcast Live By Radio Station WBFO. There Were Several Other Pieces In The "City Links" Series Though Many Details Are Not Yet Known. A Common Feature Was The Use Of Telephone Lines To Connect The Sound Environments Of Different Sites Into The Same Space A Very Early Example Of What Is Now Called "telematic Performance" And Preceded Much More Famous Examples Of This By Max Neuhaus And Others. Amacher's Installations Combined Sculpture And Layers Of Loud Sound And Low Resonating Tones. Her Major Pieces Have Almost Exclusively Been Site Specific 1 Often Using Many Loudspeakers To Create What She Called "structure Borne Sound" Which Is A Differentiation With "airborne Sound" The Paradox Intentional. By Using Many Diffuse Sound Sources Either Not In The Space Or Speakers Facing At The Walls Or Floors She Would Create The Psychoacoustic Illusions Of Sound Shapes/"precense". Amacher's Early Work Is Best Represented In The Three Series Of Multimedia Installations Produced In The United States Europe And Japan The Sonic Telepresence Series "CITY LINKS" 1-22 1967- The Architecturally Staged "MUSIC FOR SOUND JOINED ROOMS" 1980- And The "MINI-SOUND SERIES" 1985- A New Multimedia Form Which She Created That Is Unique In Its Use Of Architecture And Serialized Narrative. She Worked Extensively With The Physiological Not Psychoacoustic Phenomenon Called Otoacoustic Emission In Which The Ears Themselves Act As Sound Generating Devices. Amacher Composed Several "ear Dances" Designed To Stimulate Clear "third" Tones Coming From The Listener's Ears. The Subtitle Of Her First Tzadik Records Album Sound Characters Making The Third Ear References These "ear Tones". "When Played At The Right Sound Level Which Is Quite High And Exciting The Tones In This Music Will Cause Your Ears To Act As Neurophonic Instruments That Emit Sounds That Will Seem To Be Issuing Directly From Your Head ... My Audiences Discover They Are Producing A Tonal Dimension Of The Music Which Interacts Melodically Rhythmically And Spatially With The Tones In The Room. Tones 'dance' In The Immediate Space Of Their Body Around Them Like A Sonic Wrap Cascade Inside Ears And Out To Space In Front Of Their Eyes ... Do Not Be Alarmed! Your Ears Are Not Behaving Strange Or Being Damaged! ... These Virtual Tones Are A Natural And Very Real Physical Aspect Of Auditory Perception Similar To The Fusing Of Two Images Resulting In A Third Three Dimensional Image In Binocular Perception ... I Want To Release This Music Which Is Produced By The Listener ..." Over The Years She Received Several Major Commissions In The United States And Europe With Occasional Work In Asia And Central And South America. In 1998 She Was Awarded A Grant From The Foundation For Contemporary Arts Grants To Artists Award. In 2005 She Was Awarded The Prix Ars Electronica The Golden Nica In The "Digital Musics" Category For Her Project "TEO! A Sonic Sculpture". At The Time Of Her Death She Had Been Working Three Years On A 40 Channel Piece Commissioned By The Experimental Media And Performing Arts Center In Troy NY. She Never Held A Full-Time Job After Being A Typist In The Early 1960s And Lived Simply In Kingston NY Until Her Death. For The Last Decade Of Her Life She Taught At The Bard College MFA Program. Notes 1. Allan Kozinn Maryanne Amacher 71 Visceral Composer Dies Obituary The New York Times 2009 Oct. 28. 2. Note While Most Sources State Amacher's Birth Year As 1938 She Had In Later Years Used The Birth Year 1943. read less
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