Mixed Blessings, Indiana by Robert Ashley by samuel stoll published on 2014-03-14T09:33:49Z In Robert Ashley’s ‚Mixed Blessings, Indiana’, an arbitrary choice of advertising leaflets for books of contemporary American trivial literature serves as pool for a Rhaeto- Romanic recital of the books’ translated title, author, abstract, hard- and soft cover number, e-book number, and empostazium label. These emotion-free texts allow an impersonal transmittance of the language that carries in it a very own rhythm, a microstructure that is captured by the instruments and the musicians’ voices. Ashley’s score gives 16 sequences in a composed order that is fixed, whereas the choice of sequences is not and can be chosen freely. Thus, the individual scores eventually unite, forming a dense image (of sound). Recording of the Worldpremiere at Roulette in New York on the 11.12.13. Horn and Voice: Samuel Stoll Cello and Voice: Moritz Müllenbach Synthesizer and Voice: Simone Keller Genre contemporary opera