Maryanne Amacher
Gravity - Music for Sound Joined Rooms Series

composer and sound installation artist. B.F.A, University of Pennsylvania , graduate studies in acoustics and computer science, University of Illinois, Urbana.

An entire building or series of rooms provides a stage for the sonic and visual sets of her Installations, produced almost exclusively in large expansive architectures. A "sonic choreography" is projected, anticipating virtual immersion environments. Major works the telepresence series, CityLinks #1 22 (1967 ); the architecturally staged Music For Sound Joined Rooms (1980 ) and the Mini Sound Series (1985 ) include solo and group shows at the Serralves Museum, Casa de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial 2002; Kunsthalle, Basel; Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna; Kunstmuseum, Bern; Kunsthalle Krems; Panasonic Hall, Tokyo; DAAD Gaflery Berlin , De Beurs Van Berlage, Amsterdam; Walker Arts Center; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; 21st Century Cultural Information Center, Tokushima; Maastunnel, Rotterdam.

In the 70s, she was commissioned by John Cage to compose the sonic environments for his multimedia work, Lecture On The Weather, and his ton hour solo voice composition, Empty Words, and to perform these works with him (1976 84); and by Merce Cunningham to create the repertolre music for Torse.

Other commissions in the 80's and 90's include the Ars Electronica Festival, Kronos Quartet, Capp Street Project, INKA digital Arts, Amsterdam; Austrian Federal Ministry of Culture, and the Japanese government. Academic affiliations: faculty MFA Summer Arts Program, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Bard College (2000 ); and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while a Follow, Center For Advanced Visual Studies (1972 76). Bunting Institute Fellow, Harvard University (1978 79); DAAD Fellow, Berlin (1986 87); Rosekrans Arts Follow, Mills College (1993); Follow, Guggenheim Foundation (1997 98).

CD's include Sound Characters (making The Third Ear) nominated a best record of the year 1999 In numerous review lists. OHM. The Early Gurus of Electronic Music (2000).

Grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Inc; Guggenheim Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council for the Arts; Now York Foundation for the Arts; Tamark Foundation; Beards Fund for the Arts, Pew Memorial Trust, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts (1973 1998).

Awarded the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica Distinction in “Computer Musik” in 1997 for The Levi Montalicini Variations.

In 2005, she was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica in the "Digital Musics" category for her project "TEO! A sonic sculpture".