Amy Cimini

Amy Cimini is musicologist, violist, teacher and Associate Professor of Music at UC San Diego. She works on questions of power, community and technology in 20th & 21st century experimental music, sound art and auditory culture. She is the author of Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life (Oxford University Press 2022) and co-editor of Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interview (Blank Forms Editions 2020) with composer and theorist Bill Dietz. In other articles, she explores race and digital art curation; debates about feminist music theory; listening and border militarization and other topics. As a violist, she plays with composer Katherine Young in the duo Architeuthis Walks on Land and in improvised ensembles and experimental rock bands. She also makes solo music that critically explores local music and sound recording archives and soundscapes in the San Diego / Tijuana borderlands. Amy serves on the editorial board of the journal Women and Music as well as the Graduate Education Committee in the American Musicological Society. She is a founding member of the Music and Philosophy Study Group of the AMS and serves on the board of the Maryanne Amacher Foundation. Her first solo record, See You When I Get There was released in June 2025 on the Relative Pitch imprint.