Pioneering sound artist Maryanne Amacher died yesterday. May she rest in peace.
From the Chicago Reader:
“Back in October 2000 the local experimental music presenters at Lampo brought her to Chicago. As Monica Kendrick wrote in the Reader then, “Amacher’s most impressive works are her massive installations, in which she occupies a space for days or even weeks if possible, learning every possible permutation of its acoustic properties, then creates ’sound shapes’ augmented by lighting and sometimes sculptural elements—a complete multisensual environment. She’s very interested in the physical process of hearing, too, and the effects created by the human ear itself—the resonance of one’s own tympanum and ossicles and pinna—which she ‘plays’ using certain frequencies.”
Read more in the Chicago Reader.
