Re: [microsound] chef d'oeuvre / ashley

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From: Jeff Shoemaker <cache@xxxxxxxxx>
> he was obviously WAY ahead of his time to be using MIDI in 1969 :P

whoops - the perils of cut/paste posting.
Moog III on the 1969 piece; the 1996 follow-up is MIDI sequenced.

> seriously, this sounds like a lot of fun.

sometimes electro-acoustic composers just wanna have fun. think of Tod
Dockstader and his "Gerald McBoing-Boing" soundtrack (was this ever released
on CD?); Pierre Henry and that wonderfully squeaky hinge; Michael Prime and
his sound-lab filled with hallucinogenic plants. . .

> sorry to flaunt ignorance, but who is Robert Ashley?

a key American composer best known for his opera-like, mixed-media narrative
works ("Perfect Lives," "Private Parts," etc). Ashley's electro-acoustic
forays, of which 1967's "Automatic Writing" and 1974's "In Sara, Mencken,
Christ and Beethoven there Were Men and Women" are especially memorable -
and accessible, further his ongoing fascination with the psychoacoustics of
human speech.

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