Robert Ashley
Robert Ashley
Robert Ashleywas an American composer, who was best known for his operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth28 March 1930
CountryUnited States of America
bound hard influenced seven work
It's hard to say how you get influenced by something. When you work on something for seven years, it's bound to make an impression.
grew learned listening mainly music radio
I grew up listening to the radio and to records. I learned music mainly from that.
crosses streets rely
Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.
rocks long three
If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.
block drama stupid
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.
theatre opera would-be
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.