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Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music by Alvin Lucier. Wesleyan University Press, 2012. $24.95 - Robert Ashley by Kyle Gann. University of Illinois Press, 2012. $80.00 (hardbound)/$25.00 (paperbound)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2014

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Tempo , Volume 68 , Issue 268 , April 2014 , pp. 109 - 113
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References

1 http://www.kylegann.com/Ashley.html.

2 Gann is quoting Ashley, Robert, ‘Speech as Music’, in Ashley, Outside of Time: Ideas About Music (Cologne: Musik Texte, 2009)Google Scholar p. 76.

3 Gann is quoting from Sumner, M.K., Birch, K., and Sumner, M., eds, The Guests To in to Supper: Texts, Scores and Ideas of Seven American Composers: Ashley, Ono, Cage, Anderson, Amirkhanian, Peppe, Atchley (Oakland: Burning Books, 1986), pp. 106–7Google Scholar

4 Quoting his own, ‘Shouting at the Dead’, Village Voice 36, no. 41 (8 October 1991), p. 89Google Scholar

5 Parts of these can be viewed on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tt4a83z5Jw, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayy133u0vZs, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWHrhDK5ARY . A complete performance of Celestial Excursions can be viewed at http://vimeo.com/39305958; a complete performance of Concrete can be viewed at http://vimeo.com/38756727. Peter Greenaway's film Robert Ashley, the fourth part of Four American Composers, contains excerpts from a production of Perfect Lives at the Almeida Theatre: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49NmskXeR1k.