"Object Collection’s live adaptation of Robert Ashley’s seminal studio composition"
Automatic Writing transforms involuntary speech into an ambient soundscape, conjuring four spectral musical "characters." Object Collection reimagines this on a stage of flickering monitors and shifting light, weaving a dense, ephemeral sound world—less a recreation, more an elusive, living mirage.
Fulya Peker
Voice 1
Kara Feely
Voice 2
Chloë Roe
Actions
John Hastings
Guitarist
Aaron Meicht
Vocal Processor
Automatic Writing transforms involuntary speech into an ambient soundscape, conjuring four spectral musical "characters." Object Collection reimagines this on a stage of flickering monitors and shifting light, weaving a dense, ephemeral sound world—less a recreation, more an elusive, living mirage.
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