PIANIST-COMPOSER "BLUE" GENE TYRANNY MAKES A RARE BAY AREA SOLO RECITAL APPEARANCE
"The most inspired piano performance I've ever heard"
Kyle Gann, Village Voice
"A complete genius... The way he plays is so complex and majestic, it's like watching a huge ocean liner pull out."
Laurie Anderson
"Blue" Gene Tyranny is a composer and pianist who has created over fifty works for various electronic and acoustic instruments and voices, which research natural and social phenomena, such as memory and spacetime illusions and the development of consciousness, and address human rights, the feeling of meaning, and alternative history.
For his October 14 recital in the Berkeley Arts Festival, "Blue" Gene Tyranny will play several pieces from his new album Take Your Time (on the Lovely Music label) including Meditation (Nothing's Changed, Everything's Changed) (1961/2002) for electromagnetically-stimulated piano, Spirit (1996) for computer edited harmonics and piano. A Letter From Home, the harmonic branching (1976/2002), and studies for his audio storyboard The Driver's Son (1992 - present). There will be several spontaneously played interludes, and, in memory of one-time Bay Area composer Phil Harmonic (Ken Werner), "Blue" Gene Tyranny will perform a piano version of his orchestral transformational lattice Music for Phil Harmonic's Stars Over San Francisco (1972) with additional new patterns, and the world premiere of Phil Harmonic's B.M.O.C. (Big Man on Campus) (Nov. 1972).
Cost: $10-$15