The performance of Plaything will be piloted by Edwin van der Heide and Naut Humon. Both Humon and van der Heide have been working closely with Maryanne Amacher.

MARYANNE AMACHER (*1938 - 2009) was an American composer, performer and multi-media installation artist known internationally for her dramatic architectural staging of music and sound. She worked extensively with the physiological phenomenon called otoacoustic emission in which the ears themselves act as audio generators. Her explorations into massive atmospheres of aurally defined linked spaces were legendary & perceptually provocative. She studied with Stockhausen, worked with John Cage and emerged with her own unique “Sound Characters”.

Over a period of several months Maryanne Amacher has been working on a composition for the Recombinant Media Labs surround environment, resulting in Plaything. The composition is representative for the live performances that she has been giving in the recent years.

Plaything is an incredible 50-minute experiential audio & optional image archive designed and performed live from the personal hand of Maryanne Amacher. Unequivocally one of the most magnificent musical mavericks of the 20th century, Maryanne took off on her own psychoacoustic flight path where the critics were commenting on "the immense volumes that made the frequencies feel liquid, all enveloping buzzing rumbles wrapped in sandstorm textures", "hallucinating swarms of biological air from every direction", "3D illusions of difference tone ear dances where the sound seems to emanating from inside your own skull”!



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryanne_Amacher