Ars Electronica Festival · 1997
The Levi Montalcini Variations
🏆 Award of Distinction · Prix Ars Electronica 1997
“The Levi Montalcini Variations” by Maryanne Amacher received an Award of Distinction in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category of the Prix Ars Electronica 1997. Maryanne Amacher has 2 more works in this atlas.
"The Levi-Montalcini Variations" by Maryanne Amacher is more a sonic installation as a composition in the more conventional sense, it is a monumental wall of sound. It is massive, overwhelming, unrelenting and unyielding; but, once the hearing changes gear to adjust to these features, a myriad of details appear to…
About Maryanne Amacher
Maryanne Amacher (USA) is a composer and sound installation artist. Musical studies in Salzburg, Austria, and Dartington Devon, England and composition studies with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Studies in music and computer science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.