They have come to a small town in the Midwest to entertain at the Perfect Lives Lounge. As Robert Ashley describes in the opera synopsis, 'they fall in with two locals to commit the perfect crime, a metaphor for something philosophical: in this case, to remove a sizable about of money from The Bank for one day (and one day only) and let the. An odd little album with Ashley's strangely hypnotic monotone reciting a text above an accompaniment of tablas and keyboards. I never really got a clear sense of what the text was about, but I don't really think that's all that necessary in this case.
another label where one learned to trust the logo on sight.
Poll Results
Option | Votes |
Robert Ashley - Private Parts (1978) | 5 |
David Behrman - Leapday Night (1987) | 3 |
Robert Ashley - Automatic Writing (1979) | 2 |
William Duckworth - The Time Curve Preludes (1983) | 2 |
Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room (1981) | 2 |
David Behrman - On The Other Ocean (1977) | 2 |
William Duckworth - The Time Curve Preludes (1990) | 1 |
Alvin Lucier - Sferics (1988) | 1 |
Eliane Radigue - Jetsun Mila (1987) | 1 |
Annea Lockwood - A Sound Map Of The Hudson River (1989) | 1 |
Robert Ashley - Perfect Lives (Private Parts): The Bar (1980) | 1 |
Behrman / Glass / Lucier / Mumma / Oliveros / Riley / Ashley - Music With Roots In The Aether (1976) | 1 |
Meredith Monk - Key (1977) | 0 |
John Cage - Freeman Etudes (János Négyesy, violin) (1985) | 0 |
Stephen Montague - Slow Dance On A Burial Ground (1984) | 0 |
Pauline Oliveros - The Wanderer (1984) | 0 |
David Tudor - Pulsers / Untitled (1984) | 0 |
Joel Chadabe - Settings For Spirituals / Solo (1984) | 0 |
Nicolas Collins - Let The State Make The Selection (1984) | 0 |
Gordon Mumma - Mesa / Pontpoint / Fwyyn (1986) | 0 |
Maggi Payne - Crystal (1986) | 0 |
Eliane Radigue - Mila's Journey Inspired By A Dream (1987) | 0 |
Roscoe Mitchell - Four Compositions (1987) | 0 |
William Duckworth - 31 Days (1987) | 0 |
Robert Ashley - Perfect Lives - An Opera For Television (VHS) (1983) | 0 |
Peter Gordon - Star Jaws (1977) | 0 |
Roger Reynolds - Distant Images (1987) | 0 |
Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox (1977) | 0 |
Robert Ashley - Yellow Man With Heart With Wings (1990) | 0 |
Tom Johnson - An Hour For Piano (1979) | 0 |
Robert Ashley - Atalanta Strategy (VHS) (1984) | 0 |
Paul Dresher - Liquid And Stellar Music / This Same Temple (1983) | 0 |
Gordon Mumma - Dresden / Venezia / Megaton (1979) | 0 |
'Blue' Gene Tyranny - Out Of The Blue (1978) | 0 |
Alvin Lucier - Music On A Long Thin Wire (1980) | 0 |
Jacques Bekaert - Summer Music 1970 (1979) | 0 |
George Lewis - Chicago Slow Dance (1981) | 0 |
Joel Chadabe - Rhythms For Computer And Percussion (1981) | 0 |
Robert Ashley - Perfect Lives (Private Parts): Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo Coo) (1981) | 0 |
Alvin Lucier - Music For Solo Performer (1982) | 0 |
'Blue' Gene Tyranny - The Intermediary (1982) | 0 |
Garrett list / A-1 Band - Fire & Ice (1982) | 0 |
Jill Kroesen - Stop Vicious Cycles (1982) | 0 |
Ron Kuivila & Nicolas Collins - Going Out With Slow Smoke (1982) | 0 |
Roger Reynolds - Voicespace (1982) | 0 |
Pauline Oliveros - Accordion & Voice (1982) | 0 |
'Blue' Gene Tyranny - Just For The Record (1979) | 0 |
Alvin Lucier - Still And Moving Lines Of Silence In Families Of Hyperbolas (1983) | 0 |
Eliane Radigue - Songs of Milarepa (1983) | 0 |
Robert Ashley - Atalanta (Acts Of God) (1985) | 0 |
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― Milton Parker, Monday, 10 March 2014 17:37(five years ago)link