"Blue" Gene Tyranny - Country Boy Country Dog / How to Discover Music in the Sounds of Your Daily Life

Title: Country Boy Country Dog / How to Discover Music in the Sounds of Your Daily Life Artist: "Blue" Gene Tyranny Release Date: 1994 Label: Lovely Duration: 45:27 Album Type(s): Avant-garde UPCs: 7237218902236, 745295106524, 7452951065226 Genre: Electronica Styles: Electronic, Electro-Acoustic, Minimalism Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. A Dream Without Images
2. The CBCD Intro
3. Country Boy Country Dog
4. X Marks the Spot (Daydream)
5. The CBCD Variations [Live]

Year Type Label Catalog # 1994 CD Lovely 1065

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In a small Midwestern town, a natural mystery that's always been there is revealed. Using the procedural score "How To Discover Music In The Sounds of Your Daily Life" (1967), a rich variety of orchestral, electronic and natural sounds describe the interaction between mental events and the daily environment: the "inside" -- intuitive decision, spontaneous mental activity, feeling -- and the "outside" that make up reality. The score sets up an ecological chain in which natural sounds and voices are recorded and analyzed electronically (for hidden rhythmic codes, continuous melodic streams, harmonic attractions), and then electro-acoustical pieces are made from these analyses and played back into the environment. The five parts form an "audio-storyboard" (a movie soundtrack independent of a film): "A Dream Without Images" (before dawn, inside), "The CBCD Intro" (sunrise, outside), "Country Boy Country Dog" (midday, inside and out), "X Marks The Spot (Daydream)" (afternoon, inside), and "The CBCD Variations for Soloist and Orchestra" (twilight, outside). "Like any true artist, however, Tyranny reaches for the heart, not only the mind, through the tender and solemn hymn of 'The CBCD Intro' with its grand recurring motif, and the delightful 'CBCD Variation' for soloist and orchestra, one of the crowning achievements of his career...the schizophrenic babble of our lives becomes order and beauty...to these ears the electro-acoustic pieces rank among the more developed and seductive music that Tyranny has composed." (Piero Scaruffi, i/e No. 7) ~ All Music Guide, All Music Guide

Name Credits "Blue" Gene Tyranny Electronics, Piano, Engineer, Liner Notes, Images, Keyboards, Main Performer Allan Tucker Digital Mastering, Mastering Ami Radunskaya Cello Bob Shumaker Engineer Dan Smiley Violin George Cacioppo Engineer Greg Barber Bassoon Johannes Mager Trombone Mel Graves Bass Norman Peck Percussion Rae Imamura Celeste Robert Ashley Engineer Robert Hughes Conductor Robin May Oboe, Horn (English) Thomas Buckner Executive Producer, Producer Tom Hamilton Computer Editing, Computer Editing Ward Spangler Percussion