Automatic Writing

Lovely Music present a reissue of Robert Ashley’s Automatic Writing, originally released as an LP by Lovely Music in 1979. Over the course of Robert Ashley’s career his preoccupation with language and the voice took many forms.
He became known in his librettos as a wonderful, funny, moving writer. But with Automatic Writing he examines language at a very “primitive” level – the human impulse make sounds to express his inner state, whether it be regret, embarrassment, fear, or happiness – even though there is no one else to listen. Talking to oneself.