Maryanne Amacher Adjacencies

Maryanne Amacher Adjacencies Year: 1965 Adjacencies, a graphic score for two percussionists and electronics, was written in 1965. The work directs performers by sending their microphone signals to a changing array of speakers surrounding the audience, combining otherwise distinct worlds of sound. Her improvisatory streak she referred to some of the indications in Adjacencies as negative notation only deepened as Amacher fell in with a cadre of radical American experimentalists, a loose collective that included the saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton and the keyboardists of Musica Elettronica Viva, known as MEV. When touring with MEV in 1970, Amacher would sometimes bow a heat sink, the fan used to distributed excess heat in electronics. When amplified, her playing of this unlikely component created a rich and visceral screech thats still part of underground music lore.