I feel that Robert Ashley has the strongest relationship to sound because of his history with music and art. Ashley “combined his formal education in music composition at the university of Michigan and The Manhattan School of Music, with studies in cultural speech patterns to eventually realize his definitive and pioneering text based, operatic works.” His dedication to music and his outstanding history of constantly making accomplishments such as The Morning Thing, Music With Roots in the Ether, and Perfect Lives leaves him to be one of the best multimedia artists. Music With Roots in the Ether was a documentary video series in which production took 14 hours, consisting of seven composers. The end result was two two-hour episodes which “consisted
