Robert Ashley

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Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)
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Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)

Feb 14, 2019

Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)
2019 89 min 1 vues
A new production of Robert Ashley's 1991 opera, "Improvement (Don Leaves Linda," featuring Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto, Dave Ruder and Aliza Simons. Music Director: Tom Hamilton Live Sound and Processing: Tom Hamilton Stage Design and Lighting: David Moodey Producer: Mimi Johnson Presented at the Kitchen (New York), February 7 through 16, 2019. This video was recorded live by Iki Nakagawa (with Joseph Bacon and Al Foote III) on February 14, 2019. Audio recorded by Eric Sherman; remixed by Tom Hamilton.
Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons
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Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons

Jan 01, 1981

Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons
1981 29 min 1 vues
Buried inside the epic American opera for television, “Perfect Lives” are the boogie-woogie lessons being sold by Buddy to untalented people in the middle of America. This pilot for the series is an abstraction that plays on the meaning of life (which is unknowable) and how to make art (impossible to teach) featuring the sublime mysteries of the traveling musician.
Music
Perfect Lives
7.5

Perfect Lives

Feb 16, 1984

Perfect Lives
1984 175 min 2 vues
Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s".
TV Movie
Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley
5.5

Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

Jun 07, 1974

Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley
1974 840 min 2 vues
In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an Opera (or piece of theater depending on the case) for television. The work is comprised of seven, two hours sections. Each “episode” is dedicated to investigations, interviews, and performances of his one of his peers – David Behrman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, and Terry Riley respectively, with the final reserved for himself.
Documentary
The Commission
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The Commission

Jan 01, 1983

The Commission
1983 45 min 1 vues
This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative strategies: In each of the eleven segments of this "electronic opera", different effects are used. Fascinated with the remarkable personality of infamous violinist Niccola Paganini and his complicated relationship to Hector Berlioz (played by artists Ernie Gusella and Robert Ashley, respectively), the author meditates over the intricacies of artistic geniality as connected not only with fame but also with the necessity of painful survival under the pressures of the art market.
Frames for Seconds
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Frames for Seconds

Jan 01, 1991

Frames for Seconds
1991 52 min 1 vues
Video art show presented at the 1991 Broadcast Designers Association convention. Includes work from: Robert Ashley, Robert Breer, Peter Callas, Christen Clark, Sumit Das, Ed Emshwiller, John Hart, Jon Klein, Lyonel Kouro, Maureen Nappi, Paul Garin, Amy Greenfield, Nam June Paik, Mark Pellington, M. Rawlings, John Sanborn, Dan Sandin, William Wegman, Dean Winkler. Major contributions include "MAJORCA-fantasia", "Sunstone", "Welcome to My Living Room" and "Neo-Geo: An American Purchase", as well as excerpts from "Perfect Lives".
The Commission
1

The Commission

Jan 01, 1983

The Commission
1983 45 min 1 vues
This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative strategies: In each of the eleven segments of this "electronic opera", different effects are used. Fascinated with the remarkable personality of infamous violinist Niccola Paganini and his complicated relationship to Hector Berlioz (played by artists Ernie Gusella and Robert Ashley, respectively), the author meditates over the intricacies of artistic geniality as connected not only with fame but also with the necessity of painful survival under the pressures of the art market.
Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons
1

Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons

Jan 01, 1981

Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons
1981 29 min 1 vues
Buried inside the epic American opera for television, “Perfect Lives” are the boogie-woogie lessons being sold by Buddy to untalented people in the middle of America. This pilot for the series is an abstraction that plays on the meaning of life (which is unknowable) and how to make art (impossible to teach) featuring the sublime mysteries of the traveling musician.
Music
Perfect Lives
7.5

Perfect Lives

Feb 16, 1984

Perfect Lives
1984 175 min 2 vues
Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s".
TV Movie
Perfect Lives
7.5

Perfect Lives

Feb 16, 1984

Perfect Lives
1984 175 min 2 vues
Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s".
TV Movie
Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley
5.5

Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

Jun 07, 1974

Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley
1974 840 min 2 vues
In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an Opera (or piece of theater depending on the case) for television. The work is comprised of seven, two hours sections. Each “episode” is dedicated to investigations, interviews, and performances of his one of his peers – David Behrman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, and Terry Riley respectively, with the final reserved for himself.
Documentary
Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)
1

Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)

Feb 14, 2019

Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)
2019 89 min 1 vues
A new production of Robert Ashley's 1991 opera, "Improvement (Don Leaves Linda," featuring Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto, Dave Ruder and Aliza Simons. Music Director: Tom Hamilton Live Sound and Processing: Tom Hamilton Stage Design and Lighting: David Moodey Producer: Mimi Johnson Presented at the Kitchen (New York), February 7 through 16, 2019. This video was recorded live by Iki Nakagawa (with Joseph Bacon and Al Foote III) on February 14, 2019. Audio recorded by Eric Sherman; remixed by Tom Hamilton.
Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)
1

Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)

Feb 14, 2019

Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)
2019 89 min 1 vues
A new production of Robert Ashley's 1991 opera, "Improvement (Don Leaves Linda," featuring Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto, Dave Ruder and Aliza Simons. Music Director: Tom Hamilton Live Sound and Processing: Tom Hamilton Stage Design and Lighting: David Moodey Producer: Mimi Johnson Presented at the Kitchen (New York), February 7 through 16, 2019. This video was recorded live by Iki Nakagawa (with Joseph Bacon and Al Foote III) on February 14, 2019. Audio recorded by Eric Sherman; remixed by Tom Hamilton.
The House
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The House

May 23, 1963

The House
1963 10 min 1 vues
A girl wanders through an abandoned farmhouse; doors open and close of themselves; when the girl finds a mark over a lipstick circle she had made on a mirror, the film ends.