Ghost Written Scenarios & Unnamed Sensibilities

02nd Feb 2023 02nd Feb 2023 17:00 18:00

Bill Dietz on Maryanne Amacher

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  • Maryanne Amacher

    US

    The internationally renowned American composer, performer, and multi-media installation artist – who died in 2009 – was a 20th century maverick of music and sound, working extensively to develop her »ear tone music, with the physiological phenomenon called otoacoustic emission – in which the ears themselves act as aurally active generating devices.

  • Bill Dietz

    US/DE

    The American, Florence-based composer, writer, and co-chair of the Bard MFA Sound Department centers his artistic and theoretical work on reception – its histories, forms, and performance.

    • Ahead of two performances of »GLIA« at the festival, Amacher’s former collaborator Bill Dietz presents a talk which will contextualise the piece within Amacher's body of work, and will discuss her approach to installation and instrumentation.

    Photo: Courtesy Blank Forms / The Maryanne Amacher Foundation

    Three years after Amacher's death in 2009, a group of her former collaborators joined forces under the name Supreme Connections to address the posthumous life of the composer’s work. As part of this group, Dietz has sought to further the complexities and nuances of Amacher’s practice, its response to site, and her concept of »perceptual geography« as an approach to composition. As well as exploring Amacher’s methods of staging works, Supreme Connections presents talks, seminars, and workshops activating the composer’s ideas.

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