Dr. Cyn’s next album “Canary” is coming in 2024!!
Dr. Cyn as a Canary Artwork by Marilu Herrera.
Canary Album Artwork by Dr. Cyn
The image is of a bright yellow canary designed to look like Dr. Cyn with a mohawk and wearing a red bandana around its neck. The canary is flying away, up and to the right, and looking back slyly over their right shoulder.
This image is the album artwork for Dr. Cyn’s upcoming release. The background is a black and white image of a coal mine, it is very dusty and there are four miners shown coming out of the mine. The background image was created using artificial intelligence through Midjourney as prompted by Dr. Cyn. The Dr. Cyn Canary character shown above as created by Marilu Herrera is featured in the top left corner and then next to this reads the title of the album “Canary” in yellow font. The brandmark showing “Dr. Cyn” in red type is in the bottom right hand corner of the image. Dr. Cyn’s brandmark was also created by Marilu Herrera.
Dr. Cyn’s new single The Tennessee Three is Out Now On All Streaming Platforms!!
Pay what you can via Bandcamp!
Lyrics & Vocals - Dr. CynCorrigible
Music & Recording - Benjamin Lowry (from Nashville’s Bang OK Bang)
Recorded at Helping Our Music Evolve (HOME) Studios, Nashville, TN
Album artwork by Dr. CynCorrigible
Visualizer Video by Dr. CynCorrigible
This image is the cover artwork for Dr. Cyn’s single release titled “The Tennessee Three.” The background image is a brightly colored abstract image of a state capitol building on a bright, sunny day. The background image was created using artificial intelligence through Midjourney as prompted by Dr. Cyn. The title is in red letters at the top left of the image and Dr. Cyn’s brandmark reading “Dr. Cyn” is in black text on the bottom right.
What if we all focused on Membership?? A Social Work Tutorial on Dr. Hans Falck’s Membership Perspective in the age of COVID, featuring Quarantine Not Quarantined by Graduate Rise
Single, Music Video, and Edutainment Module (2022, Jan 15)
Winner of an International Safety Media Award!!
Graduates Rise won an Honorable Mention in the Campaigns under $50,000 category for this campaign at the 2022 World Safety Conference held by the World Health Organization in Adelaide, Australia. This image features is a white rectangle background, with blue and black artwork and lettering. The words “The International Safety Media Awards: Honoring Powerful Injury Prevention Media Campaigns” and features a semi-transparent image of the Earth.
Starring:
Dr. CynCorrigible as themselves
Shane Cunningham as Dr. Math (voice)
Malia Marshall as Dr, Math (puppetry)
The Grey A as himself
Writer, Producer, Assistant Director:
Dr. CynCorrigible
Cinematographer, Editor, Director: Alex Baldwin
Hair & Makeup: Emaline Briggs of BBC Nashville
Production Assistant: Malia Marshall
Featuring Darcy Katt, adopted via Project Felix. Support cat rescues via PayPal to ProjectFelixSpecialNeeds@gmail.com
Quarantine Not Quarantined by Graduates Rise
Now with Audio Descriptions! (2022, Jan 13)
Audio Descriptions Provided by Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Kensuke Nakamura of Social Audio Description.
Dr. CynCorrigible performs Nirvana’s Rape Me at Exit/In
Dr. CynCorrigible performs Nirvana's Rape Me at Exit/In in Nashville, Tennessee for the 'Nevermind' 30th Anniversary Tribute Show.
Guitar: William James (Sleeper Signal)
Drums: Joey Lauretta (Sleep Nation)
Bass: Trey Waters
NAMI Tennessee’s Gabe Howard interviews Dr. Cyn about Graduates Rise’s recent release Quarantine Not Quarantined on the NAMI-TN Faccebook Live! Monday, March 1, 2021 at 1:45 pm.
Follow NAMI TN on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/NAMI.Tennessee
Watch the interview here: https://www.facebook.com/NAMI.Tennessee/videos/232414561902558
Quarantine Not Quarantined! New Video (2021, Jan 15)
Access the Full Quarantine Not Quarantined by Graduates Rise Press Kit here.
Quarantine Not Quarantined by Graduates Rise performed by:
Dr. Cyncorrigble, Music, Vocals
The Grey A, Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer
Bingham Barnes, Bass
Rollum Haas, Drums
Recorded, Engineered, and Mastered by Jeremy Ferguson at Battletapes in Nashville, Tennessee
Album artwork by Marilu Herrera
Music Video Directed, Filmed, and Edited by Alex Baldwin
Co-Produced by Alex Baldwin and Dr. Cyncorrigible
Written by Dr. Cyncorrigible
Hair & Makeup by Emaline Briggs
Featuring Darcy Katt, adopted via Project Felix Support cat rescues via PayPal to ProjectFelixSpecialNeeds@gmail.com
This image is the album artwork for Quarantine Not Quarantined by Graduates Rise. It is a square, white background featuring the song title in light blue letters on the upper right corner “Quarantine Not Quarantined". In the bottom right corner is the band’s logo, the silhouette of a black graduation hat and tassel featuring the words “Graduates Rise” shaped within the hat. The central image is that of the band’s mascot, Dr. Math. Dr. Math is depicted as a black and white, hand-drawn, phallic-shaped, little-man wearing thick-framed eyeglasses with tape around the nose, a white button-down collared shirt, a nametag that says “My Name is Dr. Math,” and a light blue medical face mask, worn improperly down around his chin.
Read Dr. CynCorrigible’s autobiographical book chapter! (2021)
Read Dr. CynCorrigible’s autobiographical book chapter First-Gens and Student Debt: Paying More While Getting Less along with other first-gen narratives from around the world in Brill’s Amplified Voices: Intersecting Identities, Volume II, Edited by Jane A. Van Galen and Jaye Sablan.
Single - The Ballad Of Pellagra - (2021, Mar 31)
This image is the album artwork for Quarantine Not Quarantined by Graduates Rise. It is a square, white background featuring the song title in yellow letters shaped like corn and outlined in green on the upper right corner “The Ballad of Pellagra". In the bottom right corner is the band’s logo, the silhouette of a black graduation hat and tassel featuring the words “Graduates Rise” shaped within the hat. The central image is that of the band’s mascot, Dr. Math. Dr. Math is digitally drawn as a black and white, phallic-shaped, little-man wearing thick-framed eyeglasses with tape around the nose, a white button-down collared shirt, a nametag that says “My Name is Dr. Math.” He is depicted as a scarecrow, with straw coming out of the hands and neck of his shirt, and he is standing in a field of cotton. His arms are stretched out to either side. A black crow wearing a t-shirt winks as it stands triumphantly on Dr. Math’s head while another black crow wearing a t-shirt inquisitively studies Dr. Math while perched on his outstretched left arm.
The Ballad of Pellagra is a punk rock murder ballad that seeks to help listeners better understand the complexity of pellagra, a nutritional deficiency that killed over 100,000 people in the Southern USA during the late 1800's. Pellagra presents with diagnostic criteria that have come to be known as the "Four D's of Famine,” diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia, and death. The real world story of pellagra is taught in medical schools and schools of public health around the world. It is considered to be a landmark case in understanding economic epidemiology, which is the study of how disease progression in populations is connected to economic conditions. In the case of pellagra, the symptoms were originally blamed on the "filth" of sharecroppers and other poor southerners who were dying of the disease. This stigma persisted for years, and southerners continued to die. Many researchers helped to address the pellagra outbreak, with Dr. Joseph Goldberger and Dr. Edgar Sydenstricker being standout leaders in the movement to properly diagnose and treat the condition. They noticed that the condition was not transmitted to nurses and doctors, so they began to examine the diets of sharecroppers, which they found to be quite poor. They went on to identify that pellagra was specifically a deficiency in niacin and tryptophan that quickly resolved with an improved diet. Economic conditions found to have contributed to the outbreak of pellagra were ultimately systemic functions of poverty and oppression. Specifically, the cotton monoculture, which required sharecroppers to plant the cash crop of cotton rather than to grow vegetables, grain, or to raise cattle; the extremely limited access to healthy and affordable food options from local markets; and the cornmeal they used that had been milled in a way to make it shelf-stable for transport to the south on trains, but that also robbed it of all nutritional value. Researchers found that women suffered the most from pellagra, often because they provided the best food to their men and children. Ultimately, the case led to federal policies requiring processed foods to be enriched with essential nutrients. As this has played out across time, we once again find that poor southerners are suffering from population-level health epidemics fundamentally tied to their poor access to quality food. Referred to as food deserts, too many areas where southerners live in poverty provide very little access to healthy food options, while very often providing things to fill the belly with synthetic nutrients and other junk food products. Stigma persists and poor people continue to suffer and die.
Music, Lyrics, and vocals by Dr. Cyncorrigible
Piano by The Grey A
Ganjo by Sarah Eitel
Upright bass by Michael Majett
Drums by Erik Dail
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Mike Purcell at County Q Productions in Nashville, Tennessee.
Check out the Video for our single PUSSYGRABBER! (2017, Jan 9)
Graduates Rise's single Pussygrabber is a sex-positive song that presents consent culture the Riot Grrrl way. None shall comply with the Pussygrabber! All shall bow to the pussy power!
Lyrics, Music,& Vocals by Dr. Cyncorrigible
Music, Drums, & Rhythm Guitar by Phantom Farmer
Guitar by The Grey A
Bass by Brian Stone
Produced, Arranged, & Mixed by Phantom Farmer at The Stone Farm, Nashville, Tennessee
Video by Dr. Cyncorrigible
Cover art by Morf
Watch the video for our track SLAVE BODY (2016, Sept 1)
from the international Riot Grrrl compilation to prevent sexual assault on college campuses
Severe Impact: The Brock Allen Turner Mixtape
with a special dedication by Dr. CynCorrigible
Slave Body by Graduates Rise
With dedication by Dr. Cyncorrigible
for Riot Grill Productions'
Severe Impact: The Brock Allen Turner Mixtape
Listen to the entire mixtape here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-201306077
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Features 58 of the first poems Dr. Cyn ever wrote, created between 2005 and 2017, including sonnets, haikus, and free verse about love and politics and this crazy universe we are all living in.
Graduates Rise’s Debut Album - Math is Hard! (May 2016)
Math is Hard! lineup
Music/Vocals - Dr. Cyncorrigible
Guitar/Vocals - The Grey A
Bass - Jay Westermann (Rest In Peace)
Drums - Herschel Stratego
Math is Hard! Engineered and Produced by
Russell Lacy at Virginia Moonwalker, Richmond, Virginia
Cover art by Morf
Graduates Rise's debut album Math is Hard! confronts some of the issues facing higher education and seeks to shift the focus from blaming individuals to instead recognizing how systems perpetuate aggressions.
Specifically, the record tells the story of Dr. Cyncorrigible and her experiences as a low income student with disabilities in a PhD program.
Counter-hegemony deals directly with the dominance of positivism and how it has led to the financialization of education, further discussed in Student Accounting. Trash Data questions the effectiveness of laws around informed consent in today’s world of big data. Bully This tells the story of women and queers in science, attempting to work within a world dominated by white, male epistemologies. Slave Body serves as a thinking-man’s chain gang song, with perspectives coming from the id, ego, and super ego. Quit Lit sheds light on specifics of how people are degraded by education systems. Blame it on the Oligarchs draws attention to the role education systems play in maintaining wealth disparity in the world and Are You Blind? questions how this continues to happen. Whistleblower delivers a powerful message demanding change. I Can't Wait is a song about falling in love with Richmond, one of the USA's great punk rock cities.
Graduates Rise - Math is Hard! Lineup, Richmond, Virginia.
Photos by Cherie Canary.
Jay Westermann (RIP)
