{"product_id":"amacher-maryanne-intelligent-life","title":"AMACHER, MARYANNE - Intelligent Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback. 490 pages. \"The most comprehensive compilation of the sound artist's working documents for her unrealized media-opera tour de force. Written in the early 1980s by American sound art pioneer \u003c\/span\u003eMaryanne Amacher\u003cspan\u003e (1938-2009), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cu\u003eIntelligent Life\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows the employees of Supreme Connections LLC, a music entertainment corporation navigating a future in which artificial intelligence generates music faster than composers can. Anticipating an industry-wide downturn, Supreme Connections president \u003c\/span\u003eAplisa\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eKandel\u003cspan\u003e seeks advanced technologies that will revolutionize the act of listening, narrating to the audience as she does so. Though the untimely deaths of the opera's would-be patrons prevented Amacher from realizing the work in its intended forms, a serialized radio broadcast and television simulcast - she continued designing 'treatments' for the opera for much of her career. This publication makes the most complete presentation of these working documents - including episodic scripts, notes on the use of LaserDisc and an illustrated storyboard for the pilot, available to the public for the first time, and evinces Amacher's prescient ideas about perception, listening and composition.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote type=\"cite\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" id=\"m_-8808864203069215079bodyTable\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd align=\"center\" valign=\"top\"\u003e\n\u003ctable id=\"m_-8808864203069215079root\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" align=\"center\"\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\"\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" id=\"m_-8808864203069215079mceColumnId--16\" colspan=\"12\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" id=\"m_-8808864203069215079gutterContainerId-11\"\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign=\"top\" id=\"m_-8808864203069215079b11\"\u003e\n\u003ctable width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"m_-8808864203069215079d11\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A visionary document from one of the most radical minds in American experimental music finally sees the light.” —SoundOhm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Deserves to rank alongside the great operatic Xanadus of the 20th century.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVAN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIntelligent Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e scrambles generic expectations … claim[ing] ‘opera’ not as a locus of ‘disciplinary hegemony,’ but as an impetus for imaginative excess.” —Amy Cimini, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Blank Forms","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48838112280795,"sku":null,"price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/files\/9781953691231_PROD.jpg?v=1780507601","url":"https:\/\/www.fusetronsound.com\/products\/amacher-maryanne-intelligent-life","provider":"fusetron","version":"1.0","type":"link"}