Description
Now in paperback, the first ever book on American composer and sound-art pioneer Maryanne Amacher, with letters, manifestos, notes and more elucidating her eclectic thinking on sound and perception
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 spatialization and aural architecture. She is frequently cited as a pioneer of what has come to be called "sound art," although her thought and work challenges assumptions about the limitations of that genre.
Now in paperback, Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews represents the first ever book-length collection devoted to the composer, whose life and work are as vast as they are as yet unknown. From personal notes and letters to program notes, manifestos and unrealized project proposals, the documents are framed by longer interviews with Amacher that discuss corresponding periods of her life. Because Amacher worked across nearly every imaginable media format, this book will be of tremendous interest to theorists and practitioners in media and communications, urban design, contemporary art history, music studies, sound studies, film, radio, art criticism and performance studies.
Author: Maryanne Amacher
Publisher: Blank Forms Editions
Published: 03/02/2021
Pages: 398
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9781953691002
ISBN10: 1953691005
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Individual Artists | Essays
- Technology & Engineering | Acoustics & Sound
- Literary Collections | Interviews