• Born January 01, 1945 in San Antonio, TX
• Country: USA
• Genres: Vocal, Concerto, Chamber, Keyboard, Film, Orchestral, Music Theater, Ballet, Choral

Biography

Tyranny had three years private instruction in piano and composition with Otto Wick and Frank Hughes. He had new music premieres in the '50s (Cage, others) and was a junior member of ONCE Group in '60s. He went on rock/jazz tours (Carla Bley, Iggy Pop, etc.), was a technician at the Center for Contemporary Music, lecturer in music at Mills College (1971 - 1982), and a composer-in-residence at Bucknell University. Tyranny has served as a studio musician (Laurie Anderson, etc.) and a recording engineer on more than 50 dance, film, and theater scores and has won several awards and commissions. His music experiments are based on parapsychology and audio illusions (1970s), including Archaeoacoustics/Harmonic Fields of Unknown Peoples (1977); How Things That Can't Exist May Exist verbal scores (1958 - present); Keyboard Calculation Etudes for alternative and hypothetical keyboards (1993 - present); Harvey Milk/Portrait (1978); The Forecaster for decoding chorus, double orchestra, and time-transposing keyboardist (1988 - 1989); and The Driver's Son, audio-storyboard for narrator, tone of voice chorus, silent witness visual artist, and orchestra (1989 - 1997). ~ "Blue Gene" Tyranny, All Music Guide

Discography

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