Performer: Robert Ashley
Genre: Electronic
Album: Automatic Writing
Style: Experimental
MP3 version ZIP size: 1762 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1201 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1551 mb
Rating: 4.9
Votes: 238
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1	Automatic Writing Electronics, Synthesizer [Polymoog], Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By – Robert AshleyMixed By [Mixing Assistance] – Rich LePageOther [Switching Circuit Designed And Built By] – Paul DeMarinisTranslated By [French Translation] – Monsa NorbergVoice – Robert AshleyVoice – Mimi Johnson Words By – Robert Ashley	46:00
2	Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon Recorded By [Cynthia Liddell] – Robert AshleyVocals [Singer] – Barbara Lloyd, Mary Ashley, Mary LucierVoice [Speaker] – Cynthia Liddell	10:14
3	She Was A Visitor Chorus – The Brandeis University Chamber ChorusConductor [Director] – Alvin Lucier	5:54

Credits

• Art Direction, Design – By Design
• Composed By, Liner Notes – Robert Ashley
• Design – Ken Cornet, Patrick Vitacco
• Illustration [Silhouette] – William Farley
• Mastered By [Digital Mastering] – Allan Tucker, Nicholas Prout

Notes

Factory pressed CDr edition on Lovely Music, Ltd. with the album title in green on the front cover.

Automatic Writing :
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A mix of the monologue and electronics was used in the video tape composition, Title Withdrawn (from Music with Roots in the Aether: video portraits of composers and their music) by Robert Ashley.
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Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon :
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.
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She Was A Visitor is the epilogue to the opera That Morning Thing.
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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).

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
VR 1002	Robert Ashley	Automatic Writing ‎(LP, Album)	Lovely Music, Ltd.	VR 1002	US	1979
LCD 1002	Robert Ashley	Automatic Writing ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Lovely Music, Ltd.	LCD 1002	US	1996
LCD 1002	Robert Ashley	Automatic Writing ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Lovely Music, Ltd.	LCD 1002	US	1996