Ars Electronica Festival · 2000

Sound Characters for "Third Ear Music

by Maryanne Amacher

🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2000

In 2000, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “Sound Characters for "Third Ear Music” by Maryanne Amacher (Digital Musics & Sound Art) with a Honorary Mention. Explore 2 other works by Maryanne Amacher below.

Tracks 1, 4, 5 and 6 contain what I call “Third Ear Music”, - when our ears act as instruments and emit sounds as well as receive them.“Third Ear Music”is composed to stimulate our ears to “sound” their own tones and melodic shapes.

— Prix Ars Electronica Archive

About Maryanne Amacher

Maryanne Amacher (USA) is a composer and sound installation artist. Musical studies in Salzburg, Austria, and Darington Devon, England and composition studies with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Studies in music and computer science at the University of Pennsylvania.

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