"Produced in collaboration with Carlota Schoolman for the Kitchen ... (NYC) in association with the Fourth Channel (Great Britain)" Robert Ashley ("R", the narrator) , "Blue" Gene Tyranny (Buddy, the world's greatest piano player) , Jill Kroesen (Isolde) , David Van Tieghem ("D", the captain of the football team). Originally produced for television in 1983; previously released on VHS in 1985.
Contents:
Disc 1. The park (Privacy rules) ; The supermarket (Famous people) ; The bank (Victimless crime) -- Disc 2. The bar (Differences) ; The living room (The solutions) ; The church (After the fact) ; The backyard (T'be continued).
Summary:
Experimental opera for television employing computer graphics, live action, and electronic music. Story concerns a singer and his pianist who come to a small town in the Midwest to play at the Perfect Lives Lounge. They get caught up in a bank robbery plan with a local brother and sister. Various vignettes are played out in the town among people coming together for various reasons.
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