Video Portraits of Composers and their Music: David Behrman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley and Robert Ashley.
Produced and directed by Robert Ashley. Philip Makanna, Director and Camera;
Maggi Payne, Audio Recordist; Jerry Pearsall, Video Recordist and Technical
Director
Seven 2-hour VHS programs. NTSC.
PROGRAM CREDITS
Program 1. DAVID BEHRMAN
Landscape with
David Behrman (57:40)
The Music of David Behrman (57:40)
"Music with Melody-Driven Electronics"
Program 2. PHILIP GLASS
Landscape with
Philip Glass (57:40)
The Music of Philip Glass (50:57)
"Music in 12 Parts: Part 2"
"Act I, Scene 1, Einstein on the Beach"
Program 3. ALVIN LUCIER
Landscape with
Alvin Lucier (57:40)
including the performance of "Outlines of Persons and Things" (1975)
The Music of Alvin Lucier (57:40)
"Bird and Person Dyning" (1975)
"Music for Solo Performer" (1965)
Program 4. GORDON MUMMA
Landscape with
Gordon Mumma (57:40)
The Music of Gordon Mumma (57:40)
"Some Voltage Drop" (1974):
"Simulcast", "Schoolwork", "Telepos/Foxbat"
Program 5. PAULINE OLIVEROS
Landscape with
Pauline Oliveros (57:40)
including "Unnatural Acts Between Consenting Adults," a collaboration
with Carol Vencius
Landscape with Pauline Oliveros (continued) and The Music of Pauline Oliveros
(57:40)
"Rose Mountain Slow Runner"
Program 6. TERRY RILEY
Landscape with
Terry Riley (57:40)
The Music of Terry Riley (46:03)
"Shri Camel: Morning Corona"
Program 7. ROBERT ASHLEY
Landscape with
Robert Ashley (57:40)
"What She Thinks (It's History)"
The Music of Robert Ashley (45:00)
"Title Withdrawn"
Philip Makanna,
Director and Camera
Jerry Pearsall Video Recordist and Technical Director
Maggi Payne, Audio Recordist
William Farley, Concept Consultant
Tom Crawford, Post
Production CMX Editor
Stand-By at Matrix, Post Production
Produced and directed
by Robert Ashley
Copyright © P Robert Ashley, 1976
Funding
The National Endowment for the Arts
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Ford Foundation
The Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music
The Harry G. Steele Foundation
Broadcast Music, Inc.
All rights reserved.
These tapes are intended solely for the non-commercial use of the purchaser.
No part of the artistic program, whether visual, musical or verbal, may be excerpted
or reproduced in any medium or electronic format without the express written
permission of the author and Lovely Communications.