Exhibition
Maryanne Amacher: Adjacencies
29 Sep 2017
The Kitchen
New York, United States
Event
Maryanne Amacher: Adjacencies
30 Sep 2017
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 14:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
$20 general / $15 members
Address
- 512 West 19th Street
- New York
New York - 10011
- United States
Event map
Maryanne Amacher ‘s AUDJOINS, a Suite For Audjoined Rooms realized posthumously by Antonio and Russell Greenberg of Yarn/Wire
About
Friday, September 29th, 2017
Saturday, September 30th, 2017
8:00 PM
$20 general / $15 members
The Kitchen
512 W 19th St, New York, NY 10011
Maryanne Amacher is known primarily as an electronic composer, but early on she wrote a handful of pieces for classical instruments using experimental forms of notation. AUDJOINS, a Suite For Audjoined Rooms was a collection of such works, from the early to mid-'60s, for various spatially staged ensembles. Adjacencies, a graphic score for two percussionists and electronics, was written in 1965 and is the only known extant score of that series. The work directs performers by sending their microphone signals to a changing array of speakers surrounding the audience, combining otherwise distinct worlds of sound. Not performed since 1966, Blank Forms has collaborated with Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz to unpack and analyze the score for its posthumous realization. Ian Antonio and Russell Greenberg, of the experimental piano-percussion quartet Yarn/Wire, will be performing Adjacencies, with sound distribution by Daniel Neumann and Woody Sullender.
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, creative intelligence, and aural architecture. She is frequently cited as a pioneer of what has come to be called sound art, although her thought and creative practice consistently challenges key assumptions about the capacities and limitations of this nascent genre. Often considered to be part of a post-Cagean lineage, her work anticipates some of the most important developments in network culture, media arts, acoustic ecology, and sound studies.
Co-presented with The Kitchen, with generous support from The Tin Man Fund.
Special thanks to Amy Cimini, Bill Dietz, and Jan Williams.
