1. Maryanne Amacher was an American composer and installation artist.
10 Facts About Maryanne Amacher
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Maryanne Amacher is known for working extensively with a family of psychoacoustic phenomena called auditory distortion products, in which the ears themselves produce audible sound.
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Maryanne Amacher studied composition in Salzburg, Austria, and Dartington, England.
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Maryanne Amacher was invited while doing a fellowship at the Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by John Cage to work on several projects.
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Maryanne Amacher produced, alongside other works, "Torse" for Merce Cunningham from 1974 to 1980.
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Maryanne Amacher worked extensively with a set of psychoacoustic phenomena known as 'auditory distortion products'; put simply: sounds generated inside the ear that are clearly audible to the hearer.
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Maryanne Amacher was the first to systematically explore the musical use of these phenomena using electroacoustic sound technologies.
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Maryanne Amacher describes the subjective experience of these phenomena in the following passage:.
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Maryanne Amacher received a 1998 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.
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Maryanne Amacher has been an important influence for composers such as Rhys Chatham and Thurston Moore.