Day 01 December, workshop + live performance + opening by Ilaria Lemmo @ Cinema Teatro Maffei, Turin.

Programme of the day:
From 10 AM to 1 PM at Cinema Teatro Maffei there will be the Workshop.

At 9 PM, at Cinema Teatro Maffei there will be the Live performance + opening by Ilaria Lemmo.
curated by ALMARE in partnership with Martin Pas with the support of Goethe Institut Turin

For bookings: info@almareproject.it

Perceptual Geography is a new solo live project by Thomas Ankersmit for Serge Modular
synthesizer, based on the pioneering research of – and dedicated to – legendary American
sound artist Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009). Perceptual Geography is a concept of
Amacher’s, referring to a three-dimensional choreography of sonic phenomena and their
experience – it is also the starting point for this new project. Exploring the architectural and
acoustic personality of each performance space anew, the work will never sound the same
twice.
Maryanne Amacher is an iconic figure in the experimental music world. She studied with
Stockhausen and collaborated with Cage, but is mostly known for a body of work that is
uniquely her own. She was drawn to extremes; from a whisper to a hurricane of sound. Her
work crossed boundaries between science, music, and art; she was a researcher at MIT and
her shows ranged from Woodstock to the Whitney Museum. In 2005 she received Ars
Electronica’s “Golden Nica”, their highest honor.
Amacher and Ankersmit first met in New York in 2000 and became friends in her later years.
Ankersmit’s instrument, the Serge Modular synthesizer, was developed by Amacher’s
partner Serge Tcherepnin, who also designed instruments for her.
More than a decade after Amacher's death, his body of music and research in the fields of
sound perception, psychoacoustic phenomena, sound spatialization and the expansion of
the role of the listener has attracted increasing international attention and interest.
Thomas Ankersmith’s live performance in Turin will be opened by composer and sound
researcher Ilaria Lemmo.