Author: Kyle Gann Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252094565 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 177
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This book explores the life and works of the pioneering opera composer Robert Ashley, one of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley's innovations began in the 1960s when he, along with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Behrman, formed the Sonic Arts Union, a group that turned conceptualism toward electronics. He was also instrumental in the influential ONCE Group, a theatrical ensemble that toured extensively in the 1960s.During his tenure as its director, the ONCE Festival in Ann Arbor presented most of the decade's pioneers of the performing arts. Particularly known for his development of television operas beginning with Perfect Lives, Ashley spun a long series of similar text/music works, sometimes termed "performance novels." These massive pieces have been compared with Wagner's Ring Cycle for the vastness of their vision, though the materials are completely different, often incorporating noise backgrounds, vernacular music, and highly structured, even serialized, musical structures. Drawing on extensive research into Ashley's early years in Ann Arbor and interviews with Ashley and his collaborators, Kyle Gann chronicles the life and work of this musical innovator and provides an overview of the avant-garde milieu of the 1960s and 1970s to which he was so central. Gann examines all nine of Ashley's major operas to date in detail, along with many minor works, revealing the fanatical structures that underlie Ashley's music as well as private references hidden in his opera librettos.
Author: Alvin Lucier Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 0819572985 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
Composer and performer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking musical works, including those of Robert Ashley, John Cage, Charles Ives, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young. Lucier explains in detail how each piece is made, unlocking secrets of the composers’ style and technique. The book as a whole charts the progress of American experimental music from the 1950s to the present, covering such topics as indeterminacy, electronics, and minimalism, as well as radical innovations in music for the piano, string quartet, and opera. Clear, approachable and lively, Music 109 is Lucier’s indispensable guide to late 20th-century composition. No previous musical knowledge is required, and all readers are welcome.
Author: Larry Austin Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520947371 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 401
Book Description
The journal Source: Music of the Avant-garde was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. Conceived in 1966 and published to 1973, it included some of the most important composers and artists of the time: John Cage, Harry Partch, David Tudor, Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Steve Reich, and many others. A pathbreaking publication, Source documented crucial changes in performance practice and live electronics, computer music, notation and event scores, theater and installations, intermedia and technology, politics and the social roles of composers and performers, and innovations in the sound of music.
Author: Robert D. Ashley Publisher: ISBN: Category : Century 21 Exposition Languages : en Pages :
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The collection contains a variety of published materials and other types of media that document the 1962 Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition). The items were acquired by Robert Ashley while he served as Legal Advisor to the Fair, and donated to the Library by his son, Eli D. Ashley in July 1987. The collection is organized by format, and includes print materials, photographs, posters, slides, sound recordings and film. The wide variety of print materials provides extensive background information about the Fair. Public relations booklets and brochures give historical context on Fair development, as well as detailed descriptions and statistics about exhibits and activities. Official materials published by the Fair organization include event programs, press releases, tickets, postcards, posters and souvenir items. Externally published items include Northwest maps, magazine articles, and tourist brochures. The print collection also has extensive postal items, including commemorative envelopes and stamps. The audio visual materials include a collection of sound recordings (45 and 33 rpm) some with accompanying print lyrics. Music was recorded at some live Fair performances. Other music was composed about Seattle and the Fair, with humorous and other themes. The collection of slides includes a set produced by Morley Studios, the official photographer of the fair. The color photographs in the collection are enlarged and mounted on board. The 8 x 10 collection of black and white photographs with Fair subjects are captioned, and were produced and distributed by the public relations department.
Author: Dr. Euan Angus Ashley Publisher: Celadon Books ISBN: 1250234972 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 221
Book Description
In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine and genetics, brings the breakthroughs of precision medicine to vivid life through the real diagnostic journeys of his patients and the tireless efforts of his fellow doctors and scientists as they hunt to prevent, predict, and beat disease. Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the price of genome sequencing has dropped at a staggering rate. It’s as if the price of a Ferrari went from $350,000 to a mere forty cents. Through breakthroughs made by Dr. Ashley’s team at Stanford and other dedicated groups around the world, analyzing the human genome has decreased from a heroic multibillion dollar effort to a single clinical test costing less than $1,000. For the first time we have within our grasp the ability to predict our genetic future, to diagnose and prevent disease before it begins, and to decode what it really means to be human. In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Ashley details the medicine behind genome sequencing with clarity and accessibility. More than that, with passion for his subject and compassion for his patients, he introduces readers to the dynamic group of researchers and doctor detectives who hunt for answers, and to the pioneering patients who open up their lives to the medical community during their search for diagnoses and cures. He describes how he led the team that was the first to analyze and interpret a complete human genome, how they broke genome speed records to diagnose and treat a newborn baby girl whose heart stopped five times on the first day of her life, and how they found a boy with tumors growing inside his heart and traced the cause to a missing piece of his genome. These patients inspire Dr. Ashley and his team as they work to expand the boundaries of our medical capabilities and to envision a future where genome sequencing is available for all, where medicine can be tailored to treat specific diseases and to decode pathogens like viruses at the genomic level, and where our medical system as we know it has been completely revolutionized.
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