Label: Lovely Music - LCD1002

米実験音楽の巨匠Robert Ashleyによる説明不要の大名盤[Automatic Writing]。何度か廃盤〜再発を繰り返している名盤中の名盤であり、内容は当時の彼女とのベッドルームでの会話、物音、BGMをも一緒くたに捉えガサガサに加工/カットアップした官能的アンビエント・コンクレート。この妙な心地良さは作ろうと思って出来るものではない凄い領域。未体験の方は是非。



Automatic Writing (1979):
Produced, recorded and mixed at The Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College (Oakland, California), The American Cultural Center (Paris, France) and Mastertone Recording Studios (New York City). Mixing assistance at Mastertone Recording Studios.
A mix of the monologue and electronics was used in the video tape composition, "Title Withdrawn" (from "Music with Roots in the Aether: video portraits of composers and their music") by Robert Ashley.

Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon (1968):
Cynthia Liddell was recorded in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Singers and bells were recorded at Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.
The text and recording of Cynthia Liddell's voice were excerpted from the opera, "That Morning Thing" and reorchestrated as "Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon" to become the opening number of "The Wolfman Motorcity Revue", a theater work for amplified voices and tape.

She Was A Visitor (1967) is the epilogue to the opera "That Morning Thing".

Automatic Writing was originally released on LP as VR 1002.
Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon was originally released on Electric Sound, Mainstream (MS/5010).
She Was A Visitor was originally released on Extended Voices, Odyssey (32 16 0156).