Program 655: Degrees of Freedom Found
KALW Broadcast Date: June 11, 2021 | Host: Liam Herb
Liam Herb presents music from the late avant-garde composer and pianist Robert Nathan Sheff, known professionally as “Blue” Gene Tyranny.
Program Audio
30-Second Spot
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Title: A Letter from Home, the basic chords, improvisation for one pianist (Live at Roulette, New York, December 1, 2004); Spirit, for piano, natural and artificial harmonics (Live at Roulette, New York, December 1, 2004)
Composer: Blue Gene Tyranny
Performers: Blue Gene Tyranny
Recording Title: Degrees of Freedom Found
Record Label: Unseen Worlds
Catalog Number: UW035CD
Title: On the Road to Blountstown, a true story, (from “Coincidents”) [Live at Roulette, New York, May 3, 2001]
Composers: Leroy Jenkins & Mary Griffin
Performers: Leroy Jenkins voice, violin; Blue Gene Tyranny, piano
Recording Title: Degrees of Freedom Found
Record Label: Unseen Worlds
Catalog Number: UW035CD
Title: The Forecaster Hopes (2019)
Composers: Blue Gene Tyranny
Performers: John Sackett, bass clarinet; Blue Gene Tyranny, synthesized orchestra
Recording Title: Degrees of Freedom Found
Record Label: Unseen Worlds
Catalog Number: UW035CD
Title: Clarinet Quintet
Composers: Daniel Goode
Performers: Moran Katz, clarinet; Momenta Quartet: Emilie-Anne Gendron, Alex Shiozaki,violins; Stephanie Griffin, viola; Michael Haas, cello
Recording Title: AnnCela Express
Record Label: New World Records
Catalog Number: 80828-2
Title: Small town (Lou Reed/John Cale), Movement I – Not dreaming, Telephone song (Laurie Anderson), Movement II – Not tasting, Shine, shine (Yoko Ono), Movement III – Not smelling, Neighborhood (David Bowie), Movement IV – Not hearing, I wonder how many people in this city (Leonard Cohen), Movement V – Not seeing, Babel (Patti Smith), Movement VI – Not touching, Nobody wants a lonely heart (Arthur Russell) , Movement VII – Not beginning, not ending Composer: Philip Glass
Performers: Robert Black
Recording Title: The Not Doings of an Insomniac
Record Label: Orange Mountain Music
Catalog Number: OMM0137
Title: Orpheus Variations
Composer: Alvin Lucier
Performers: Charles Curtis, solo cello; SEM Ensemble
Recording Title: Orpheus Variations
Record Label: Important Records
Catalog Number: n/a
