Wild Sound

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<br>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. <p/><em>Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life</em> 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<br>virtual fictive or distanciated environments. These figurations guide interpretative study of six signal projects: <em>Adjacencies</em> (1965/1966); <em>City-Links</em> (1967-1988); <em>Additional Tones</em> (1976 / 1988) <em>Music for Sound-Joined Rooms</em> (1980) <em>Mini Sound Series</em> (1985) and <em>Intelligent Life</em> (1980s) and<br>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.<br>