Maryanne Amacher Archive

American composer Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009) is known for her groundbreaking acoustic art designed to produce inner ear music.

Joris Strijbos: IsoScope

IsoScope is a kinetic audiovisual outdoor installation, a sensorial experience in which the audience wanders through rotating lights and an ever-changing sonic cloud. This new work by Dutch artist Joris Strijbos consists of multiple robotic wind objects interacting with each other and with their surroundings.

Dick Raaijmakers: Ideophone III (1971)

In the early 1970s Dick Raaijmakers (1930–2013) developed three separate loudspeaker installations, Ideophone I, II and III. Ideophones are defined as words that evoke certain sensations, e.g., smell, colour, shape, sound, action, or movement. Raaijmakers’ Ideophones each possess a unique voice, but are self-destructive; the speakers activate themselves through feedback loops in order to ‘speak’.

La Monte Young: Drift Study (1968)

Frequency and amplitude ratios tuned by La Monte Young on a Moog synthesizer utilising its sine wave oscillators, mixer and low-pass filter.

Terry Riley: Poppy No Goods All Night Flight (The First Ascent) (1967)

This composition synthesizes many of the techniques and ideas popular among experimental composers during the late 1960s. Riley incorporates Coltrane- inspired saxophone as well as the effects of time-lag accumulators and tape loops. These experiments had considerable impact on the world of popular music.

Installations: Dick Raaijmakers, Terry Riley, La Monte Young & Marianne Amacher Archive

Sonic Acts also selected related works from the Stedelijk Museum’s collection to be shown throughout the Academy weekend, by among others Dick Raaijmakers (Ideophone III, 1971), Terry Riley (Poppy No Goods All Night Flight, The First Ascent, 1967), La Monte Young (Drift Study, excerpt, 1968) and Selections from Maryanne Amacher’s Tone and Interval Studies (1976–78).

Joris Strijbos: IsoScope

IsoScope is a kinetic audiovisual outdoor installation, a sensorial experience in which the audience wanders through rotating lights and an ever-changing sonic cloud. This new work by Dutch artist Joris Strijbos consists of multiple robotic wind objects interacting with each other and with their surroundings.

Dick Raaijmakers: Ideophone III (1971)

In the early 1970s Dick Raaijmakers (1930–2013) developed three separate loudspeaker installations, Ideophone I, II and III. Ideophones are defined as words that evoke certain sensations, e.g., smell, colour, shape, sound, action, or movement. Raaijmakers’ Ideophones each possess a unique voice, but are self-destructive; the speakers activate themselves through feedback loops in order to ‘speak’.

La Monte Young: Drift Study (1968)

Frequency and amplitude ratios tuned by La Monte Young on a Moog synthesizer utilising its sine wave oscillators, mixer and low-pass filter.

Terry Riley: Poppy No Goods All Night Flight (The First Ascent) (1967)

This composition synthesizes many of the techniques and ideas popular among experimental composers during the late 1960s. Riley incorporates Coltrane- inspired saxophone as well as the effects of time-lag accumulators and tape loops. These experiments had considerable impact on the world of popular music.