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Robert Ashley is an American composer best known for his operas and theatrical work.
"In Automatic Writing I had become interested in the idea of characters in an operatic or dramatic sense. Of characters actually being manifested through a particular sound. I was fumbling around looking for ways I could work in an operatic sense that would be practical. I didn't want to start writing things that wouldn't be performed for 25 years without forming a group. So, I went toward the idea of sounds having a kind of magical function. Of being able to actually conjure characters. It's sort of complicated for me to think about it because I don't entirely understand it. It seemed to me that in a sort of psycho-physical sense sounds can actually make you see things, can give you images that are quite specific."
Robert Ashley
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this is one of the most amazing pieces of music i have heard, one that i have come back to for inspiration on many an occassion. sounds like drifting in the hypnagogic state between sleep and waking, occasionally engaging in post-coital pillow talk with the contents of the words slipping away into the endless eternity of dream, while a party is going in a nearby building.
ReplyDeletetotally unique.