Robert Ashley – Automatic Writing

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Label:	Lovely Music, Ltd. – LML 1002
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country:	US
Released:	Nov 2019
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Experimental

Tracklist

A		Automatic Writing	18:00
B		Automatic Writing	27:58

Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Lovely Music, Ltd.
Copyright © – Lovely Music, Ltd.
Published By – Visibility Music Publishers
Produced At – Center For Contemporary Music, Mills College
Produced At – American Center For Students And Artists
Recorded At – Center For Contemporary Music, Mills College
Recorded At – American Center For Students And Artists
Recorded At – Mastertone Recording Studios, Inc.
Mixed At – Center For Contemporary Music, Mills College
Mixed At – American Center For Students And Artists
Mixed At – Mastertone Recording Studios, Inc.
Remastered At – Masterdisk
Lacquer Cut At – Masterdisk

Credits

Artwork [Silhouette] – William Farley (2)
Design – Ken Cornet, Patrick Vitacco
Electronics, Synthesizer [Polymmoog] – Robert Ashley
Mixed By [Mixing Assistance] – Rich LePage
Other [The Switching Circuit Was Designed And Built By] – Paul DeMarinis
Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By – Robert Ashley
Remastered By, Lacquer Cut By – Scott Hull (2)
Translated By – Monsa Norberg
Voice – Mimi Johnson (2), Robert Ashley
Words By – Robert Ashley

Notes

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A mix of the monologue and electronics was used in the video tape composition, "Title Withdrawn" (from "Music with Roots in the Aether: video portraits of composers and their music") by Robert Ashley

Remastered and cut, from the original reel-to-reel tape, Masterdisk.

Published by Visibility Music Publishers (BMI)

©℗ 1979, 2019 Lovely Music, Ltd.
All rights reserved.
Printed in U.S.A.

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www.lovely.com
LML 1002

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Rights Society: BMI
Barcode: 7 45295 10021 8

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	Automatic Writing (LP, Album)	Lovely Music, Ltd., Vital Records	VR 1002	US	1979
Recently Edited	Automatic Writing (CD, Album, Reissue)	Lovely Music, Ltd.	LCD 1002	US	1996
New Submission	Automatic Writing (CD, Album, Reissue)	Lovely Music, Ltd.	LCD 1002	US	1996
New Submission	Automatic Writing (3×File, MP3, Album, Reissue, VBR)	Lovely Music (2)	none	US	2019
New Submission	Automatic Writing (CD, Album, Reissue)	Lovely Music, Ltd.	LCD 1002	US	2020

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Reviews

universalmagic Feb 1, 2023
My copy is flat and plays almost perfectly quiet, excellent master!
Basquiat81 Aug 9, 2022
Mine sounds perfect. No snap. No crackle. No pop. Glad I took a chance.
ryanstratton Aug 7, 2022
I'm not sure what to think of the music at this point lol but I am floored at how quiet the vinyl is considering it's such a quiet overall recording, nary a tick or pop on my copy.
Arby_Ess May 15, 2022
...I'm not sure if I got a later pressing, but my copy of this reissue sounds fine. A little hint of surface noise, but that's not surprising considering how quiet a lot of this piece is...
danger23 Mar 2, 2021
This is a joke... such subtle sounds in a hideous sea of snap crackle and pop... terrible pressing... back to Amazon it goes....
nacrevoit Aug 28, 2020
Also burned by this pressing. Sounds absolutely terrible. Awfully quiet and excessive surface noise.
andyhaiku May 22, 2020
Edited 3 years ago
Shocking pressing - i thought someone had dropped my stylus, had to do a full line check to make sure it wasn't me!
offcenter.nl Dec 28, 2019
Edited 3 years ago
is anyone else experiencing dirty pressings with this reissue? the quality is actually decent, but i've had two copies so far with either a lot of crackles, or audible marks. it's a pity, the music is amazing...