Maryanne Amacher
type: Item
description: pioneer in electronic music, media, sound and installation arts.
Field: sound, music and amplification
Type of information: Person
context: Maryanne Amacher (February 25, 1938 – October 22, 2009) was an American electronic composer and sound artist with a reputation for overwhelming volume and a love for science. A student of Karlheinz Stockhausen and a collaborator of John Cage and Merce Cunningham her work anticipates some of the most important developments in media, sound and installation arts. She is best known for working extensively with psychoacoustic phenomena in which the ears themselves produce audible sound.
country of citizenship: USA
date of birth: 1938-02-25T00:00:00Z
Date of death: 2009-10-22T00:00:00Z
occupation: composer
Wikidata source: Q449515
is used in theme: Women and technology (Theme)