Ashley (Bill) Cooper Dies, March 30, 2003

mosc

**Ashley (Bill) Cooper**

It is with great sadness to relate that Ashley (Bill) Cooper died in his sleep from a heart attack this past Sunday morning, March 30th. Bill was a member of electro-music.com. He was registered with the name ACVibes. He joined up just a week ago.

I met Bill about 10 days ago. He was an invited audience member at the Art Music Coffee House. He was a long dear friend of Don Slepian. Bill and I have since exchanged email messages, and we were planning to visit each other's studios in the coming days.

Bill has been involved in electronic music since the late 1960's. He told me he had played the Buchla 200 Series synthesizers at Sacramento State University, and has been composing ever since. I didn't know Bill at all well, and certainly not enough to write about his life, but from just one meeting with him I was looking forward to a developing friendship. I will miss him, not so much for what I remember, but for what I was looking forward to.

Bill's personal web site can be found at this URL.

http://www.hometown.aol.com/ashleyquackt/myhomepage/index.html

I don't know how long this will remain available. There are a few pages about his music, and there are some photographs he has taken. He was obviously greatly moved by the September 11 tragedy.

Send condolences to:

Barbara Cooper
709 Dixon Street
Allentown, PA 18103

His funeral will be, 10:00AM Thursday April 3rd, at the K V Knopp Funeral Home at 46 E. Susquehanna Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 4:10 pm Post subject:

Interesting site. You have any idea if he might have some hidden url somewhere for some music files? His site made me curious about his music.

egw · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 4:37 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry to hear about Ashley.
We had just started up a correspondence, and he was going to send me some of his music.
He did mention that he had sent a CD to Bill Fox.
Bill, maybe you can dig that up?

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 4:41 am Post subject:

Any news about some Cooper music files somewhere? I am still interested in finding out more about his music.

mosc · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 5:51 am Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 10:26 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 10:45 am Post subject:

Cool. On the other hand.. does it create some sort of copyright /piracy problem? It would have been cool having some site somewhere where artists could exchange their own stuff with other artists.. and at the same time keep the material out of "free" distribution on the net.

mosc · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2003 9:16 am Post subject: