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Robert Ashley Quotes

Robert Ashley Quotes

I got involved with that because I thought that was a way to make a living. It was interesting to me for one thing because science and technology was a very practical living. I almost got a PhD in psycho-acoustics but then I decided that I didn't want to be a scientist. I was very interested in the subject matter though. Psycho-acoustics is all about the way you hear things. The most important thing about working in that laboratory was that there was this speech research going on. Bell Labs were trying to do speech synthesis. This gave me access to machines that I could not have gotten to otherwise. It gave me access to very sophisticated techology. That was very interesting to me.
Robert Ashley

Bob James was a student at the University of Michigan. He was a VERY good pianist and he was very sympathetic to contemporary music and what we were doing. He played a couple of my pieces for the ONCE festival. When he graduated and moved to New York, he called me and said he had a contract and asked me if I could give him some material to work with. So I gave him two compositions. We were good friends. I liked his playing and his attitude.
Robert Ashley

In 1975, there were no operas in America. I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera. I started designed the work so that it would be usable on television. I think it's still true.
Robert Ashley

Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas made in India with music are practically operas. They're not sung but they have a very big appeal. I don't know why American television people are so stupid but at the moment, they just seem to have some sort of a block. They just do what they do and they do it for a certain number of years. Then it wears out and they try something else. It's just a matter of time I think.
Robert Ashley



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