Tony Conrad
Academic and Producer
Theatre of Eternal Music...experimental drone music. It featured the performances of La Monte Young, John Cale, Angus MacLise, Terry Jennings, Marian Zazeela, Tony Conrad, Billy Name, Jon Hassell, Alex Dea and others. The group is stylistically tied to the Neo-Dada... In this article: Theatre of Eternal Music, John Cale, La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, Marian Zazeela, Jon Hassell, Dream Syndicate, Amplification, Aesthetics, and Terry Jennings |
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
Ludlow Street
...houses the performance venues Cake Shop, The Living Room, and Piano's, among its many other diversions. As far back as 1963 Tony Conrad, Theatre of Eternal Music member, lived and worked at 56 Ludlow and in 1965 Lou Reed, John Cale...
In this article: Ludlow Street, Taylor Mead, Manhattan, Rivington Street, Houston Street, New York City, Carlo McCormick, and Colab
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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
Daniel Conrad
...during World War II in designing dazzle camouflage for the US Navy. His brother Tony Conrad is a video artist, filmmaker and musician. Conrad began his light-work in the late 60s while in the Berkeley area, where he began to create...
In this article: Daniel Conrad, Daniel Moore, Buddhist, World War II, Maryland Institute College of Art, Everett Warner, U.S. Senate, and US Navy
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Village Voice | September 21, 2009
The Improved Timing of Jim O'Rourke
...the Valley," a piece of quintessential American melancholy rendered lovingly by O'Rourke and augmented by compatriot violinist Tony Conrad, who saws a horizon-wide note across the song's latter half. Ponderous stuff, sure, which is exactly...
In this article: Jim O'Rourke, Bad Timing, Insignificance, Eureka, Erik Satie, and Anton Webern
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Pitchfork | September 17, 2009
Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
...just as deliberately as he'd later move on the long-form laptop record, I'm Happy and I'm Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4, or with drone masters Tony Conrad and Faust on Outside the Dream Syndicate Alive. Bad Timing, for instance, built for nearly 40...
In this article: Jim O'Rourke, Drag City, Bad Timing, Insignificance, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Heroes, Faust, and Wilco
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Wikipedia | September 15, 2009
Paul Sharits
...or avant-garde filmmaking, particularly what became known as the Structural film movement, along with artists such as Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, and Michael Snow. His film work primarily focused on installations using one or...
In this article: Paul Jeffrey Sharits, Hollis Frampton, Denver, Colorado, Bipolar disorder, University of Denver, Maryland Institute College of Art, Indiana University in Bloomington, and Antioch College
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Wikipedia | August 26, 2009
Tony Conrad
Tony Conrad (born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940 in Concord, New Hampshire) is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. His father was Arthur Conrad, who worked with...
In this article: The Flicker, John Cale, La Monte Young, Faust, University at Buffalo, Joan of Arc, New York City, and Angus MacLise
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The Seattle Times | August 20, 2009
At a Theater Near You: Scorsese films, a documentary about a nuclear physicist and more Tarantino
...1949-78," continues at Seattle Art Museum tonight with Michelangelo Antonioni's 1970 drama "Zabriskie Point," screening with Tony Conrad's 1965 short film "The Flicker." 7:30 p.m. at SAM's Plestcheeff Auditorium, 1300 First Ave., Seattle;...
In this article: Martin Scorsese, Seattle, Amit Goswami, Michelangelo Antonioni, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Inglourious Basterds, and DVD
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Wikipedia | July 22, 2009
Outside the Dream Syndicate
...from Hamburg in Germany who said that he knew a producer in Hamburg who would be interested in Conrad's music. Conrad flew to Hamburg where he met Uwe Nettelbeck, Faust's producer. Nettelbeck took Conrad to an old schoolhouse where...
In this article: Faust, Outside the Dream Syndicate, Hamburg, Dream Syndicate, Uwe Nettelbeck, Table of the Elements, United States, and Germany
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Wikipedia | May 24, 2009
The Flicker
...into a compact computer program by Tony Conrad's son. The film is accompanied with a soundtrack by Conrad on a synthesizer that he built solely for the film. The film starts with a warning message, which reads: The producer,...
In this article: The Flicker
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Wikipedia | May 17, 2009
Joan of Arc (album)
Joan of Arc is a 2006 album by mimimalist composer Tony Conrad. The piece, which lasts unbroken for over an hour, was originally written by Conrad as a soundtrack to accompany Piero Heliczer's like-named short film. Joan of Arc is...
In this article: Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc, Dream Syndicate, and Table of the Elements
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Tony Conrad (born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940 in Concord, New Hampshire) is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. His father was Arthur Conrad, who worked with Everett Warner during World War II in designing dazzle camouflage for the US Navy.
Conrad is a graduate of Harvard University (A.B., 1962, major Mathematics).
Support for Conrad's work has come from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the State University of New York, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
- Name At Birth:
- Anthony S. Conrad
- Birth Date:
- January 01, 1940
- Birthplace:
- Concord, New Hampshire
- Nationality:
- United States
- Occupation:
- Experimental filmmaker, musician/composer
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