Maryanne Amacher (born February 25, 1943) is an American composer of sound installations. Amacher studied composition with George Rochberg and Karlheinz Stockhausen at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a B.F.A. in 1964. Subsequently, she did graduate work in acoustics and computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1967, she created City Links: Buffalo, a 28 hour piece using 5 microphones in different parts of the city, broadcast live by radio station WBFO. Her pieces are almost exclusively site specific, the psychoacoustic illusion she creates being determined by the acoustics of the architecture. She has collaborated with David Behrman, Scott Fisher, Mark Trayle, and Alvin Curran. Amacher released an album, Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear), on Tzadik, the title of which refers to the illusion created that the sounds are coming from within one's own head.

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