“Blue” Gene Tyranny
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Department: Sound
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Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons
Overview: Buried inside the epic American opera for television, “Perfect Lives” are the boogie-woogie lessons being sold by Buddy to untalented people in the middle of America. This pilot for the series is an abstraction that plays on the meaning of life (which is unknowable) and how to make art (impossible to teach) featuring the sublime mysteries of the traveling musician.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Four American Composers: Robert Ashley
Overview: A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway.
Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-01
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Perfect Lives
Overview: Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s".
Genres: TV Movie Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-16
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Just For The Record: Conversations With And About "Blue" Gene Tyranny
Overview: Just For the Record locates San Antonio, Ann Arbor, Oakland, and New York City as locations where Tyranny’s compositions and collaborations developed. Filmmaker David Bernabo takes a deep dive on the recently reissued Out of the Blue and the long lost Trust In Rock concert, on the long-gestating audio storyboard The Driver’s Son, and Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives. Interwoven with discussions on Tyranny’s music is a conversation about the nature of reissues and how distribution is survival for many aging musicians. Throughout the documentary, Bay Area filmmaker K. O. Beckman’s films with Tyranny, dating back to the 70s, provide rarely-seen performances and video projects. The film features conversations with Tyranny, composer/musicians Joan La Barbara, Peter Gordon, Kyle Gann, David Grubbs, Philip Perkins, Jeff Berman, and Bill Ruyle, writer Nicole Gagne, artist Pat Oleszko, and Unseen Worlds owner Tommy McCutchon.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-09
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