Home

    Explore

    Create

    User Avatar

    You

    Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

    Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

    1974

    14:00:52

    Rate

    5.5/10 (2)

    Watch

    Fallback Icon

    No image available

    Genre

    Documentary
    Music

    Plot

    In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an Opera (or piece of theater depending on the case) for television. The work is comprised of seven, two hours sections. Each “episode” is dedicated to investigations, interviews, and performances of his one of his peers – David Behrman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, and Terry Riley respectively, with the final reserved for himself.

    Director

    Philip Makanna

    Writers

    N/A

    Stars

    Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman,