Ashley, Outside of Time: Ideas about Music (Musik Texte, 2009), 320.
The text is a development and a reworking of one of the arguments presented in my lengthy analysis of Robert Ashley’s operas commissioned by Antoni Michnik and published in Glissando, no. 44 (2023).
Over the course of his career Ashley composed many operas. A complete list can be found on his website →.
Yates, The Art of Memory (Routledge, 1966), 6.
Art of Memory, 6.
Interview by Thomas B. Holmes, Recordings of Experimental Music 4, no. 2 (1982).
Ashley, Perfect Lives: An Opera (Archer Fields, 1991).
From the libretto for Ashely’s Improvement (Don Leaves Linda) (1985) →.
This is Kyle Gann’s phrase. See Gann, Robert Ashley (University of Illinois Press, 2012), 61.
Ashley, Perfect Lives, 37.
Perfect Lives, 90.
Perfect Lives, 21.
Ashley, Atalanta (Acts of God) (Burning Books, 2011), 22.
Perfect Lives, 39.
Quoted in Thom Holmes, “Robert Ashely: Built for Speed,” The Wire, March 2014 →.
Perfect Lives, 11–12.
Outside of Time, 156.
Atalanta, 22–26.
Atalanta, 22–26.