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'Blue' Gene Tyranny (born Robert Sheff in 1945 in San Antonio, Texas) is an avant-garde composer and pianist. He studied piano with Meta Hertwig and Rodney Hoare, and composition with Otto Wick and Frank Hughes. He taught at Mills from 1971 to 1982 and also worked at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills. He moved to New York in 1983 and received a Bessie in 1988 and in 1989 a Composer Fellowship from the NY Foundation for the Arts. 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Downtown San Antonio as viewed from the Tower of the Americas Nickname: Alamo City Location in Texas Founded -Incorporated 1731 {{{incorporated}}} County Bexar County Mayor Phil Hardberger Area - Total - Water 1,067. ...
Prior to 1821, Texas was part of the Spanish colony of New Spain. ...
A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ...
A composer is a person who writes music. ...
A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ...
He has toured with the Carla Bley Band and the Prime Movers (which included Iggy Pop and Michael Erlewine) and has performed on albums by Laurie Anderson (Strange Angels), David Behrman (On the Other Ocean), John Cage (Cheap Imitation and Empty Words), and Robert Ashley (Perfect Lives), with whom he frequently collaborates. Tyranny's albums include Country Boy Country Dog (How To Discover Music in the Sounds of Your Daily Life) (1994 Lovely Music LCD 1065) and Free Delivery (1999 Lovely Music LCD 1064). Carla Bley, née Borg, (born May 11, 1938 in Oakland, California) is an American jazz composer, pianist and band leader. ...
Iggy Pop Iggy Pop (born James Newell Osterberg, Jr on April 21, 1947 in Muskegon, Michigan) is an American punk rock singer. ...
Michael Erlewine (born July 18, 1941 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) founded the All Music Guide in 1991. ...
Laurie Anderson on the cover of her album Strange Angels. ...
David Behrman (born 1937) is a USA composer and the producer of Columbia Records Music of Our Time series. ...
John Cage John Milton Cage (September 5, 1912–August 12, 1992) was an American experimental music composer and writer. ...
Robert Ashley (born March 28, 1930) is a contemporary composer, best known for his operas and other theatrical works. ...
Tyranny is an editor for All Music Guide, reviewing albums and creating biographies for many notable contemporary artists. do i even know who you are??? // Headline text Bold textAn Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ...
The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ...
According to Kyle Gann in The Village Voice, Tyranny has "Cecil Taylor's keyboard energy, [and] Morton Feldman's ear. The most original aspect of [his] works is the way they create continuity: they're tonal, yet rigorously asymmetrical. They satisfy the ear without letting it take anything for granted. They evolve...with the labyrinthine irreversibility of deep psychic forces." Kyle Gann (b. ...
Cecil Percival Taylor (born in New York March 15, 1930) is a pianist and poet now generally acknowledged to be one of the great innovative sources of free jazz (along with the better known Ornette Coleman). ...
Morton Feldman (born January 12, 1926, died September 3, 1987) was an American composer. ...
Tonality is the character of music written with hierarchical relationships of pitches, rhythms, and chords to a center or tonic. ...
Symmetry is a characteristic of geometrical shapes, equations and other objects; we say that such an object is symmetric with respect to a given operation if this operation, when applied to the object, does not appear to change it. ...
External links
Listening - Art of the States: "Blue" Gene Tyranny Meditation: Nothing's Changed, Everything's Changed (1961/2002)
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