Cimini, Amy - Wild Sound

This is the first study of U.S. composer Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009), an elusive and original figure in music composition, sound art, installation, and media aesthetics. Wild Sound animates her creative and speculative approaches to how sound can be heard: as a fictional narrative, as a long distance connection, as a music composed of tones that originate inside the listener's inner ear.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
CHAPTER ONE: I want to make a music
Introduction
Tenses and Moods of the Audible
Book Overview and Selected Works: 1965-1990
Amacher Among the Musicologies and Other Studies
Life in a Sound and its Figurations
Life in an Eartone and its Figurations
The Archive and The Title
Dear Parents: Desires and Plans, 1965
CHAPTER TWO: Adjacencies and its Negations
Introduction
A Tape and Untaken Pictures: Learning Adjacencies
How to Wish for Sound: Negative Notation
The Space Notebook: An Analysis in the Subjunctive
Life in a Frequency Spectrum and its Figurations
Here - (ish): Another Tape and City-Links, WBFO Buffalo, 1967
A Page From a Musical Composition: In City, 1967
Conclusion: Adjacencies and the Phone Block
CHAPTER THREE: Scenes from a Long Distance Music: City-Links 1973-1975:
Introduction
How to Glow in the Dark: 1970s Textual Experiments
Dirty Water and the Microphone at Pier 6, 1973
Tone at the Harbor and Three Long Distance Musics on Tape
Incoming Night, Blum at Pier 6, May 1975
Long Distance Music at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies: Anywhere City (1974)
Telephones, Telepaths and Other Linkless Listenings: Presence (1975)
Leased Lines and Direct Distance Dialing: Obsolescing City-Links (1989)
Televisions and Mirrors: No More Miles - An Acoustic Twin (1974)
Conclusion
CHAPTER FOUR: Eartones and Third Ears:
Introduction
Stereoscopic Cochlea and Live Space on Paper
Intervals and Interchanges in Head Rhythm & Play Thing (1999)
Doublings and Coils in Labyrinthitis (2008)
Life in a Third Ear and its Figurations
The Phantasm Coming From My Head! and Other Interaural Genealogies
OBSERVE:POTENTIAL: Inside the Tone Scans
Conclusion: The Levi-Montalcini Variations (1992)
CHAPTER FIVE: Amacher's House for Strange Life:
Introduction
A Walk into Living Sound (Patent Pending)
The Tribute at 223 Grotto Street
CLUE I: MID RANGE Microbes and Other Creative Recyclers
Enchanted Cablecasts and Structure-Borne Sound: 1974-1979
CLUE II: Orchestral Metabolisms and Unheard Microbial Music
CLUE III: Diamond v Chakrabarty Among the Third Men
Acoustical Research as Dramatic Form in Amacher's Other Laboratories
Conclusion
AFTERWORD: Notes with Ears
Notes
References
Index

Series	Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound