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MARYANNE AMACHER: INTELLIGENT LIFE

MARYANNE AMACHER: INTELLIGENT LIFE

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212 x 280mm, 490 pages, Black white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2026 Had it been produced, Maryanne Amacher’s media opera Intelligent Life would have represented the summation of the composer’s concept to date. As she wrote to John Cage in the autumn of 1983, following the untimely deaths of the opera’s patrons—Wies Smals, founder of De Appel, and curator Josine van Droffelaar, in a plane crash in the Swiss Alps—she would have at last had the support to “communicate the finest of my thought to others.” Amacher’s serial, intended for broadcast, sought to transmit her evolving ideas abou

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