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Wild Sound

Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life

By: Amy Cimini

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Hardcover | 13 April 2022

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320 Pages

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"We haven't even made it to breakfast!" Composer Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009) often used this phrase 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. In these conjunctions, this book 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. The book explores Amacher's working methods with an interpretive style that emphasizes technical study, conceptual juxtaposition, intertextual play and narrative transport.

This book also takes up Amacher's work as a guiding thread across shifting social discourses on life in the late 20th century U.S. Her projects convoked figurations of life and technoscience that could be partially and ironically accessed or conceptualized via complex auditory thresholds. This nascent feminist epistemology rooted in feminist science and technology studies centers biopolitical questions about difference and power in artistic and critical work that counts Amacher among its precedents.

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"Wild Sound can help all of us rethink how to hear and imagine sounds." -- Noah Kahrs, Music Theory Online "Amy Cimini's Wild Sound is the first comprehensive study of the work of Marianne Amacher, whose stature continues to rise in both artistic and musical realms. Through detailed analyses and archival research, Cimini reveals Amacher's prescient engagement with the media frameworks, technoscientific dictates, and biopolitical dynamics that continue to determine our contemporary moment." -- Branden W. Joseph, author of Experimentations: John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture "Cimini locates in Amacher's world of musical creation a nascent techno-feminist theory of embodiment; this theory is a goad to imagine the world otherwise. Wild Sound will set a new high standard for emerging waves of scholarship at the intersection of late-twentieth-century experimentalism, global political economy, and feminist theories of power." -- Brigid Cohen, Associate Professor, New York University

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