A portrait by Elisabeth Schimana & Lena Tikhonova [2013]. Language: English & Deutsch

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Maryanne Amacher's work is sometimes misunderstood as installation art. For example, Kyle Gann (1995, p. 284) described her as "one of the best installation artists" in his book American Music in the Twentieth Century. Amacher's works belong to the realm of sound art, but they generally have a beginning and an end, like a piece of music. She was a composer committed to the interplay of space, time, and sound.

In 1967, she began the City Links series, creating a number of works up to 1980 in which she broadcast live acoustic events from distant locations to a studio ...