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Robert Ashley

Dust

Label: Lovely Music, Ltd.

Format: 2CD

Genre: Compositional

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Dust is an opera by Robert Ashley and Yukihiro Yoshihara (video direction) whose imaginary setting is a street corner anywhere in the world, where those who live on the fringes of society gather to talk, to each other and to themselves, about life-changing events, missed opportunities, memory, loss, and regret. Five "street people" recount the memories and experiences of one of their group, a man who has lost his legs in some unnamed war. As part of the experience of losing his legs, he began a conversation with God, under the influence of the morphine he was given to ease his pain. Now he wishes that the conversation, which was interrupted when the morphine wore off, could be continued so that he could get the "secret word" that would stop all wars and suffering. Personnel: Robert Ashley, Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara - Voices; "Blue" Gene Tyranny - synthesizer; Tom Hamilton - live mixing and sound processing; electronic orchestration by Robert Ashley, Tom Hamilton and "Blue" Gene Tyranny; sound effects for "Friends" composed by Tom Hamilton. Double CD comes in a jewel box and includes the 160-page libretto in a slipcase.
Details
Cat. number: LCD 1006
Year: 2007

Format

Subtitled "An Opera By Robert Ashley"

The double CD jewelcase is housed in a papersleeve and comes with a 160 pages libretto (ISBN: 0-9679974-0-2).

Dust was recorded live at The Kitchen, New York. It was edited and mixed at 10 Beach Street, New York.

Dust was commissioned by Kanagawa Arts Foundation and Dorothea Tanning. The opera was produced by Yasuyo Kondo for Kanagawa Arts Foundation and by Mimi Johnson for Performing Artservices, Inc.

The Japanese premiere took place in Yokohama at Kanagawa Prefectural Concert Hall on November 15, 1998; the U.S. premiere followed at The Kitchen in New York on April 14, 1999.

Video Design and Staging by Yukihiro Yoshihara.

Release notes

Subtitled "An Opera By Robert Ashley" The double CD jewelcase is housed in a papersleeve and comes with a 160 pages libretto (ISBN: 0-9679974-0-2). Dust was recorded live at The Kitchen, New York. It was edited and mixed at 10 Beach Street, New York. Dust was commissioned by Kanagawa Arts Foundation and Dorothea Tanning. The opera was produced by Yasuyo Kondo for Kanagawa Arts Foundation and by Mimi Johnson for Performing Artservices, Inc. The Japanese premiere took place in…

Tracklist
1-1Friends15:00
1-2Theosophy9:57
1-3The Priest9:57
1-4If There's Anything...9:57
1-5The Little Gun9:57
1-6Friends2:53
1-7No Legs8:30
2-1Don't Get Your Hopes Up6:02
2-2Just One More Time6:56
2-3It's Easy4:36
2-4The Angel Of Loneliness5:04
Credits
By Design
Art Direction, Design
Robert Ashley
Composed By, Libretto By, Orchestrated By [Electronic Orchestration], Producer, Mixed By [Final Mix], Edited By
Tom Hamilton
Mixed By [Live Mixing And Processing], Orchestrated By [Electronic Orchestration], Recorded By [Live], Mixed By [Final Mix], Edited By
"Blue" Gene Tyranny
Orchestrated By [Electronic Orchestration], Synthesizer
Yukihiro Yoshihara
Photography By [Stage Production Images]