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Maryanne Amacher operating a mixing console, wearing glasses

Maryanne Amacher

Maryanne Amacher

What we said at the time…

Maryanne is a definitive musician for me, one you reach for when some drunken pal challenges you to explain what all this ‘experimental’ music is about: she’s quite simply one of the coolest, daring musicians I can think of, with a unique and very personal vision; unfalteringly, theoretically rigorous but also thrilling, physical and LOUD, full of massive, sweeping drones and ear splitting detail.

Maryanne is interested in sound; not necessarily air born sound, but structural born sound, sound that rattles buildings but also the inner workings of your head and body. Sound that can excite your ear into hearing psycho-acoustic sounds that aren’t really there, that effect your perception of the space around you. She’s predominantly produced large scale installations, in which she creates “Sound Characters” that traverse whole buildings; creating atmospheres with the drama of a cinematic close up, she’s called it “a form of sonic theatre in which architecture magnifies the sensorial presence of experience. Rooms, walls, and corridors that sing”. Sound is tactile, can be felt to move, tonal colours interact as spatial presences. Sound is felt throughout the body as well as heard.

At Instal, Maryanne will present a rare live performance which, although not a full installation, will still make use of the unique acoustic and spatial properties of the Arches to rattle your body and help you locate your third ear.

This is her first ever performance in Scotland.

Maryanne requested that the performance, since it is so much to do with space and experience in the moment, was not recorded, so there is no audio or video documentation from this piece.

Documentation

11 images
Maryanne Amacher working at a mixing console at Instal 06

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Maryanne Amacher operating a mixing console, wearing glasses

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Maryanne Amacher operating a mixing console, wearing glasses

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Maryanne Amacher operating a mixing console, wearing glasses, head low

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Maryanne Amacher operating a mixing console, lower part of her face visible

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Maryanne Amacher with sound technician, lit from the desk

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

A woman in the audience for Maryanne Amacher's performance

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

A woman in the audience for Maryanne Amacher's performance, smiling

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Ellen Fullman in the audience at Maryanne Amacher's performance

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Maryanne Amacher in red dungarees working at a mixing desk

▴ Credit: Tim Matthews

Maryanne Amacher having a nap on a chair in Glasgow

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Maryanne Amacher working at a mixing console at Instal 06

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Maryanne Amacher operating a mixing console, wearing glasses

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Maryanne Amacher operating a mixing console, wearing glasses

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Maryanne Amacher operating a mixing console, wearing glasses, head low

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Maryanne Amacher operating a mixing console, lower part of her face visible

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Maryanne Amacher with sound technician, lit from the desk

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

A woman in the audience for Maryanne Amacher's performance

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

A woman in the audience for Maryanne Amacher's performance, smiling

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Ellen Fullman in the audience at Maryanne Amacher's performance

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Maryanne Amacher in red dungarees working at a mixing desk

▴ Credit: Tim Matthews

Maryanne Amacher having a nap on a chair in Glasgow

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

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