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	Channel4.com - SlashMusic - Tony Conrad
		Tony Conrad is an experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, and academic who introduced the concept of Just Intonation--a tuning system based on nature rather than arbitrary divisions of sound--to contemporary composition.
		Conrad is perhaps best known for his work with Lamont Young and the Theater of Eternal Music, a New York City ensemble formed in the 1960s that performed seemingly endless single-note drones known as Dream Music.
		It is through the VU that Conrad made his largest impact on pop music, as both Lou Reed and Cale incorporated many of Conrad's and the Theater's theories into the band's sound.
	www.channel4.com /music/music-core/artist.jsp?artistId=135134 (132 words)

	Tony Conrad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tony Conrad, (born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940), is an avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer.
		Conrad began working in video and performance in the 1970s while teaching at Antioch College in Ohio and the Center for Media Studies, University at Buffalo.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_Conrad (395 words)

	Liquid Architecture 5: Tony Conrad interview
		Conrad is also acknowleged as a pioneer of structuralist filmmaking (his 1960s film The Flicker is one of the key early works of the "structural" film movement), and in recent years he has presented and performed at festivals and events worldwide.
		Conrad has worked in music composition, video, film, and performance and has taught video production and analysis in the Department of Media Study of the State University of New York at Buffalo since 1976.
		Art critic Tony Godfrey has suggested that much contemporary work is simply a reworking of ideas conceived in the 1960/70s – that the work today is simply more polished, with higher production qualities (for him this is a negative thing).
	www.liquidarchitecture.org.au /tony.html (983 words)

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		Born in Baltimore in 1940, Conrad studied music at Harvard, where he was first exposed to the work of John Cage and David Tudor; among his fellow students were David Behrman, Christian Wolff and Frederic Rzewski, all of whom later pursued careers in experimental music as well.
		Conrad approached Young about performing with the group, and by 1963 a new line-up also consisting of Zazeela and the young Welsh musician John Cale began playing about town in an ensemble variously dubbed The Dream Syndicate and The Theater of Eternal Music.
		It was through a German filmmaker travelling in New York City that Conrad first learned of the nascent Kraut-rock scene of the early '70s, and he soon began communicating with the members of Faust.
	www.conservatoryokc.com /conrad.html (358 words)

	The State News - Tony Conrad - Wednesday, January 15, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Conrad first started to explore polyphonic music and intonality with symphony violinist Ronald Knudsen when he was relatively young.
		Conrad's aversion to vibrato led him to explore the process of double stops - playing two notes together - in 18th-century composition.
		Conrad says this approach is similar to hillbilly or bluegrass fiddling in that it calls for the performer to keep the bow pressed almost constantly against the violin strings, emitting drones reminiscent of Indian music.
	www.statenews.com /editionsspring97/011597/ms_conrad.html (289 words)

	volcanic tongue \| catalogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Conrad’s precise instructions to the Faust rhythm section was to “keep the beat steady” but both Peron and Diermaier can’t resist inserting the odd covert phrase, the urge to rock-payoff evidently not completely extinct.
		Tony Conrad is a true American original, an avant garde composer, ferocious improviser, experimental film-maker, comic genius and one of the most vital thinkers-in-sound to come out of the cultural meltdown of the 1960s.
		Conrad was a key mover in the Lower East Side rock and avant underground in the early to mid 60s, playing with Lou Reed, John Cale and Walter DeMaria in Reed’s frat-rock combo, The Primitives, and standing in with early line-ups of The Velvet Underground.
	www.volcanictongue.com /tonyconrad.html (1214 words)

	Tony Conrad Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tony Conrad, a/k/a Anthony S. Conrad, born 1940 he is known in various circles as an avant garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer.
		When the film was shown many of the viewers in the audience became physically ill. Conrad began working in video and performance in the 1970s while teaching at Antioch College in Ohio and the Center for Media Studies, State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) at Buffalo
		Graduate of Harvard University (A.B., 1962, major Mathematics) and recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship his work has been shown at many museums including the Museum of Modern Art and P.S. 1 in New York City.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tony_conrad.html (368 words)

	Archives: Minimalism
		Well, the story Tony Conrad tells in the copious and truly fascinating booklet accompanying “Early Minimalism” is of similar myth-shattering significance: substitute La Monte Young for Schoenberg and minimalism for serialism, the friend being Conrad himself.
		Conrad’s “Early Minimalism”, a series of pieces written since 1994 but named after the months of 1965 (April, May and June are included here), represents his attempt to rechart the distant remembered territory of the lost Dream Music.
		Conrad refers later in his essay to the next generation of “young minimalists”--Reich and Glass, making the telling point that, “far from combating the autocratic tradition of the Western score, (they) carefully inscribed themselves within careerist authorial postures.
	www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/archives/conrad.html (951 words)

	Early Minimalism and Beyond: Tony Conrad in Music, Film, and Video
		Tony Conrad has, throughout his activities, sought redefinition of the role of composer, of creator of works.
		Tony Conrad, as a member of the Theatre of Eternal Music (1962-1965) as well as in other activity, has made music whose nature calls into question the traditional Western role of composer.
		Indeed, Tony Conrad’s introduction of just-intonation to the Theatre of Eternal Music and specifically to its "leader" La Monte Young, has proven to be the distinguishing feature of both Conrad and Young’s later works.
	www.geocities.com /hstencil/tonyconradintro.html (2067 words)

	1996 review of Gastr del Sol and Tony Conrad live
		Conrad began his career in the early 1960’s as a member of the original Theater of Eternal Music (also known as the Dream Syndicate) with La Monte Young and John Cale.
		Conrad and Cale were also members of the Primitives, a rock band which eventually mutated into the Velvet Underground.
		Conrad is playing more freely now, adding and subtracting pitches from the drone by altering the angle of his bow.
	tisue.net /orourke/gastr1996.html (1447 words)

	Official Ticketmaster site. Tony Conrad tickets, concerts and tour dates
		Born in Baltimore in 1940, Conrad studied music at Harvard, where he was first exposed to the work of John Cage and David Tudor; among his fellow students were David Behrman, Christian Wolff and Frederic Rzewski, all of whom later pursued careers in experimental music as well.
		Conrad approached Young about performing with the group, and by 1963 a new line-up also consisting of Zazeela and the young Welsh musician John Cale began playing about town in an ensemble variously dubbed the Dream Syndicate and the Theater of Eternal Music.
		It was through a German filmmaker travelling in New York City that Conrad first learned of the nascent Kraut-rock scene of the early '70s, and he soon began communicating with the members of Faust.
	www.ticketmaster.ca /artist/744106?brand=none (616 words)

	Tony Conrad: Bryant Park Moratorium Rally (1969): Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On October 15 of that year a rally was held in the park as part of the nationwide Moratorium protest against the Vietnam War, and Conrad, in a moment of inspired wit, began rolling audio tape in his loft.
		Of course, the effects of this captured TV footage are amplified by the astonishing concentration of the newscast's live coverage, which consists of the type of continuous, uncut feed that is now essentially extinct-- outside of the odd C-SPAN broadcast-- in our current age of the 10-second sound byte.
		Conrad originally made this recording available as a free mp3 on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, but it's unclear what new insights this piece truly provides for today's listeners and/or activists.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/conrad_tony/bryant-park-moratorium-rally.shtml (485 words)

	Interview with Tony Conrad
		Tony Conrad, best known for playing violin with the Theatre of Eternal Music in the early sixties, and for his more recent violin-centred compositions, admits that his introduction to his instrument was mostly negative.
		When Conrad left music school at the beginning of the sixties and moved to New York, he soon encountered La Monte Young's then group (featuring Billy Name, Marian Zazeela and Angus Maclise), playing a proto-minimalist jazz mutation.
		According to Conrad: "This was a total displacement of the composer's role, from progenitor of the sound to groundskeeper at its gravesite".
	media.hyperreal.org /zines/est/intervs/conrad.html (6371 words)

	Tony Salin Research Collection & Memorial Award
		Tony’s passing was felt particularly strongly at the Baseball Reliquary, as he was an enthusiastic member and supporter whose sense of humor and commitment to uncovering “forgotten” aspects of baseball history were uniquely suited to the Reliquary’s sensibility.
		Tony’s remarkable account of how the ball came into his possession, along with related photographs, can be accessed in the “Collections” section of the Reliquary Web site.
		Tony Salin had made provisions for his research collection to be housed at, and maintained by, the Baseball Reliquary.
	www.baseballreliquary.org /TonySalin.htm (1558 words)

	Browse by Artist: CONRAD, TONY
		Celebrated for the thrilling roar of his amplified violin, Conrad is a founding father of 'minimalism' and a giant in the American soundscape.
		Now Conrad's own Audio ArtKive imprint presents the first in a series of releases that reveal the wild breadth of his 40-year career, including field recordings, piano compositions, film soundtracks and more.
		Down 42nd Street towards Times Square, Tony Conrad is adjusting microphones in his 5th floor loft, one directed at the TV set -- where it will pick up live local news coverage -- the other pointing out the window, where the echo of speeches and crowd noise mingles with the oceanic rush of crosstown traffic.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/conrad.tony.html (411 words)

	Tony Conrad
		Tony Conrad, a/k/a Anthony S. Conrad, born 1940 he is known in various circles as an avant-guarde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer.
		Graduate of Harvard University (A.B., 1962, major Mathematics) and recipient of a John D. Rockefeller Foundation fellowship[?] his work has been shown at many museums including the Museum of Modern Art and P.S. in New York City.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/to/Tony_Conrad.html (340 words)

	Suspending Time (Visit the Getty)
		Snow and Conrad are also accomplished musicians whose work with sound and music play an essential role in their artistic careers.
		Conrad was associated with the founding of "minimal" music in the early 1960s.
		Tony Conrad appears in person at this special screening of his films presented by Filmforum Los Angeles, www.lafilmforum.org.
	www.getty.edu /visit/events/suspending_time.html (423 words)

	SOUNDLAB \| Dedicated to the Music, Media & Performance of Big Orbit Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Although Conrad had been a familiar face on the art scene in Buffalo since the mid-70s, this interview was an attempt to re-acquaint younger audiences with a local legend of international magnitude.
		Conrad music stays in one place, moving in a tiny circle that neither lets you think about the music or understand it; Instead, you simply ‘experience’ it, in the sense of having it forced onto you” (Andy Wilson).
		CONRAD: Well, part of the condition in which a symbolic action doesn't work anymore is simultaneously the condition where we're recognizing that you don't ever make the last, ultimate statement and nothing is perfectly correct and nothing is perfectly finished.
	www.bigorbitgallery.com /TEXTARCHIVES/tonyconradinterview.html (4620 words)

	Avantgarde Music. Tony Conrad: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Violin player Tony Conrad was one of the pioneers of New York minimalism, of microtonal music and of "deep listening".
		Thuunderboy (Table of the Elements, 2002) is a typical avantgarde swindle: Conrad recorded his son while the child was playing with turntables and other objects, and the album pretends this to be art.
		Tony Conrad, Tim Barnes, Mattin (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, 2006) document a live performance from april 2005.
	www.scaruffi.com /oldavant/conrad.html (267 words)

	indieworkshop.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Conrad played his arsenal of amplified bowed skins, different sized drum heads with holes in the middle which he drew bizarre sounds out of via a violin bow.
		Tony took some time to set up his gear and before we knew it they were getting under way.
		Tony finished his meal, stashed the evidence and returned to violin, flooding the place with his cascading drone.
	indieworkshop.com /articles/244 (1144 words)

	Tony Conrad with Faust - Outside the Dream Syndicate (Gyrofrog review) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Table of the Elements Li During the 1960s, Tony Conrad was a member of La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music, a.k.a.
		On the first, "From the Side of Man and Womankind," Conrad's violin slowly builds a layer of drones over a bass/ drums rhythm section that is Kraftwerkian in its simplicity.
		The second track, "From the Side of the Machine," is more dynamic and alluring than the first, as the drums and bass have (somewhat) freer rein, the violins sound less tremulous, synthesizers become rather prominent, and the rhythm gradually increases in tempo.
	www.gyrofrog.com /conrad.php (365 words)

	brooklynvegan: Tony Conrad, The Kitchen & Jim O'Rourke
		"Tony Conrad, best known for playing violin with the Theatre of Eternal Music in the early sixties, and for his more recent violin-centred compositions, admits that his introduction to his instrument was mostly negative." - from an Interview with Tony Conrad
		On May 18th and 24th (2005), the Kitchen is hosting special Tony Conrad events (performance/video).
		One of the pioneers of structural filmmaking, video art, and minimalist music, Tony Conrad restages his 1972 performance-installation at The Kitchen, Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain.
	www.brooklynvegan.com /archives/2005/05/tony_conrad_the.html (708 words)

	Midheaven Mailorder \| Browse by Artist: CONRAD, TONY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A remarkable four CD box set of TONY CONRAD's harmonic violin compositions, featuring Four Violins (1964), Early Minimalism: April 1965, Early Minimalism: May 1965 and Early Minimalism: June 1965.
		Down 42nd Street towards Times Square, TONY CONRAD is adjusting microphones in his 5th floor loft, one directed at the TV set--where it will pick up live local news coverage--the other pointing out the window, where the echo of speeches and crowd noise mingles with the oceanic rush of crosstown traffic.
		Conrad's recording of the Oct. 15 Vietnam Moratorium Rally is an eerie flashback that offers urgent new insights into our own lives and times, post-9/11 and full on into a new millennium.
	www.midheaven.com /artists/conrad.tony.html (323 words)

	Stephen Twining & Tony Conrad » ABC Queensland
		My second guest is Tony Conrad, a man whose music might not be everyone’s cup-of-tea.
		Tony is considered one of the key minimalist composers of the 20th century.
		In New York in the 1960’s Tony Conrad teamed up with John Cale and Lou Reed in a rock band call The Primitives.
	www.abc.net.au /queensland/stories/s1160565.htm (223 words)

	Interview with Tony Conrad
		Tony Conrad, best known for playing violin with the Theatre of Eternal Music in the early sixties, and for his more recent violin-centred compositions, admits that his introduction to his instrument was mostly negative.
		When Conrad left music school at the beginning of the sixties and moved to New York, he soon encountered La Monte Young's then group (featuring Billy Name, Marian Zazeela and Angus Maclise), playing a proto-minimalist jazz mutation.
		According to Conrad: "This was a total displacement of the composer's role, from progenitor of the sound to groundskeeper at its gravesite".
	www.hyperreal.org /intersection/zines/est/intervs/conrad.html (6371 words)

	U B U W E B :: Tony Conrad
		In 1965, American artist Tony Conrad made The Flicker, a film consisting entirely of fl and white photograms, which alternated according to different arrangements or frequencies.
		Conrad, who studied the physiology of the nervous system at Harvard University, invents through this film a new film image that is different from the usual narrative or pictorial ones generally put forward in cinema.
		By implicating the retina rather than sight—that is, by stimulating physiological rather than psychological impressions—the film displaces the centers of reception from the sensorial to the neural.
	www.ubu.com /sound/conrad.html (379 words)

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