{"product_id":"intelligent-life-maryanne-amacher-9781953691231","title":"Intelligent Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most comprehensive compilation of the sound artist's working documents for her unrealized media-opera tour de force\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the early 1980s by American sound art pioneer Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009), \u003ci\u003eIntelligent Life\u003c\/i\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 Aplisa Kandel 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.\u003cbr\u003eThis 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\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maryanne Amacher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1953691234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953691231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blank Forms Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Maryanne Amacher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48154223247615,"sku":"9781953691231","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a1183d0d-7e5f-4bab-aaf4-26092fa53c94.jpg?v=1770788722","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/intelligent-life-maryanne-amacher-9781953691231","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}