Maryanne Amacher: Petra Format:CD

Maryanne Amacher: Petra Format:CDMaryanne 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 challenge key assumptions about the capacities and limitations of the genre. Amachers work

For over a decade

2007) is an exercise in listening

His First Album/Straight from the Throat/A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth)

continually transforming quotidian atmospheres and the mundane into expressive sound art using tape manipulation techniques

1979) represent a culmination and transformation of Hunt’s investigations from across the decade

and big-band leader Sun Ra

and the most devoted of fans

and harmonic feedback distortion

with Salmon Run and Softly Softly Copy Copy available on vinyl for the first time

conducted by Francesco Conz and Michael Glasmeier in the 1990s

transformative qualities

Charles Curtis