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“I Want to Make a Music . . .” by Amy Cimini is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is “I Want to Make a Music . . .” about?

Who was Maryanne Amacher? In episodes that span the years 1965–1990, this chapter introduces Amacher in relation to feminist science and technology studies (through her working notes), realized and unrealized projects in broadcast, architectural staging, and dramatic formats (through her writings, scores, project notes), as well as personal and artistic aspirations (in her letters). This survey emphasizes speculation, deferred or distributed audibility, and ongoing drama within auditory sensitivities as organizational logics across Amacher’s work. The chapter builds on these logics to orient listening toward expressions of social tense and mood. By denaturalizing the structuring conditions under which sounds can be heard together, Amacher’s work prompts questions about how sound and listening are co-materialized across disparate social locations in a shared present or uncertain future. Attention to these transits can reveal a situated politics of life in the late twentieth-century United States and intersects a music and sound studies with whom Amacher shares interlocutors in feminist science studies and epistemology.

Author

Amy Cimini

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN