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Robert Ashley: You Can’t Call It Anything Else But Opera

By Frank J. Oteri on April 1, 2001No Comment

Ashley's Notation for 'No Legs' from 'Dust'
Robert Ashley
photo by Jacques Bekaert

Robert Ashley at home, in conversation
with Frank J. Oteri

March 13, 2001

Transcribed by Julia Lu
Filmed by Jenny Undercofler

  1. Traditions and Influences
  2. America and Popular Culture
  3. Opera vs. Musical Theater
  4. Hip-Hop, D.I.Y. and Sound-Mixing
  5. “Performance Oriented” Music
  6. The Compositional Process
  7. Television
  8. A Video Excerpt from Music Word Fire
  9. An Excerpt of Ashley’s Notation for “No Legs” from Dust
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