About Robert Ashley: Robert Ashley was an American composer, who was best known for his operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques.
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.
Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.
