 "Blue"
Gene Tyranny, composer and pianist of avant garde music,
has toured extensively in solo and group concerts throughout
the U.S., Europe, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.
He has
composed over fifty works for
electronic, instrumental and vocal ensembles, over thirty
film and video soundtracks, and fifty scores for dance and
theatre productions
He has
performed on many albums of contemporary music for
Robert Ashley, Peter Gordon,
Laurie Anderson, and John Cage.
He has published articles including the 20th Century Avant-Garde
section of the recent All-Music Guide (Miller-Freeman,
1993, 1995, 1997)
His recent
pieces include The Driver's Son (1989-1996),
an audio -storyboard for voice, orchestra and interactive
electronics commissioned by The Electrical Matter: His
Tone of Voice at 36 (Empathy 1995) for voice
and chamber orchestra; Nocturne
With And Without Memory recorded by painst Lois
Svard (Lovely Music CD); The De-Certified Highway of
Dreams recorded by Double Edge (CRI); Free
Delivery, a collection of live concerts (Lovely
Music); Country
Boy Country Dog/How to Discover Music in the Sounds of
Your Daily Life, a 25-year project for orchestra,
electonics and environmental sounds (Lovely Music); and Somehere
in Arizona 1970 for baritone and electonics (in "Imaginary
Landscapes," Electktra/Nonesuch).
"Blue"
Gene Tyranny
has created live electonic and acoustic music for dances by
Stefa Zawerucha, the
Creach/Koester Co., Timothy Buckley, Trisha Brown and Steve
Paxton. His
music is the subject of chapters in Cole Gagne's Sonic
Transports (de Falco, 1990) and Soundpieces 2:
Interviews with American Compsers (Scarecrow Press, 1993)
and W. Duckworth's Talking Music (Shirmer Press, 1995)
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