AMACHER, Maryanne; KUMPF, Lawrence (ed.)
Intelligent Life

Comprehensive and previously unpublished documentation on the American composer’s unproduced magnum opus – a “Media Opera” designed for Television and Stereo FM Sound Simulcast!

Set in the year 2021, Intelligent Life 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 and the future of music, including a bio-music script that lets the user hear Bach from the aural perspective of a reindeer and a wearable device that goes beyond replicating the mechanical tympanic resonances of the listening subject to produce the “listening mind” or the “sophisticated perceiver”—capturing and reproducing all the emotional and psychological associations unique to each individual.

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Published by Blank Forms Editions, 2026
Documents / Music & Sound