Tony Conrad

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Pythagoras, Refusing To Cross The Bean Field At His Back, Is Dispatched By The Democrats 24:41 Tools
Disc 2: untitled places 07:52 Tools
The Heterophony Of The Avenging Democrats, Outside, Cheers The Incineration Of The... 18:05 Tools
Four Violins 32:32 Tools
Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain 03:08 Tools
The heterophony of the avenging democrats, outside, cheers the incineration 18:07 Tools
Joan of Arc 04:32 Tools
Joan Of Arc (1968) 04:30 Tools
Early Minimalism: April 1965 53:38 Tools
Fantastic Glissando 00:00 Tools
May 00:00 Tools
From The Side Of Man And Womankind 00:00 Tools
African Panhandle 02:05 Tools
Four Violins (1964) (Edit # 1) 03:07 Tools
Process One Of Fantastic Glissando 05:20 Tools
Taking Issue 20:28 Tools
Process Two Of Fantastic Glissando 10:39 Tools
Early Minimalism: May 1965 56:57 Tools
Four Violins (1964) (Edit # 2) 03:07 Tools
Early Minimalism: April 1965 (Edit) 05:12 Tools
Early Minimalism: June 1965 (Edit) 03:03 Tools
Process Three Of Fantastic Glissando 10:05 Tools
Four Violins (1964) 32:30 Tools
Early Minimalism: May 1965 (Edit) 04:52 Tools
Musculus Trapezius 05:17 Tools
Spillage 07:48 Tools
Demiltarized Ozone 10:09 Tools
April 1965 53:39 Tools
From The Side Of The Machine 00:00 Tools
Process Four Of Fantastic Glissando 04:15 Tools
Untitled Pieces 07:54 Tools
The Pyre Of Angus Was In Kathmandu 00:00 Tools
Let's Trade Pants 00:00 Tools
May 1965 00:00 Tools
The Death Of The Composer Was In 1962 00:00 Tools
ten years alive on the infinite plain (#1) 03:08 Tools
Let's Trade Pants B1 13:12 Tools
ten years alive on the infinite plain (#2) 03:24 Tools
Let's Trade Pants B2 14:17 Tools
The Heterophony of the Avenging Democrats, Outside, Cheers... 18:07 Tools
Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain (part 1) 03:08 Tools
Early Minimalism: June 1965 28:02 Tools
The Heterophony Of The Avenging Democrats, Outside, cheers The Incineration Of The Oythagorean Elite, Whose Shrill Harmonic Agonies Merge And Shimmer Inside Their Torched Meeting House 18:05 Tools
The heterophony of the avenging democrats, outside, cheers the incineration of the pythagorean elite, whose shrill harmonic agonies merge and shimmer inside their torched meeting house 18:07 Tools
June 1965 00:00 Tools
Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain (part 2) 03:22 Tools
Trance #2 18:05 Tools
The Celestial Monochord 18:08 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain (Excerpt) 03:08 Tools
Demilitarized Ozone - Edit 03:22 Tools
Heterophony of the Avenging Democrats, Outside, Cheers the Incineration 18:07 Tools
Early Minimalism: June 1965 (part 1) 28:02 Tools
Early Minimalism: June 1965 (part 2) 32:23 Tools
Early Minimalism: April 1965 (Complete Version) 32:23 Tools
Early Minimalism: June 1965, Part 1 28:02 Tools
From the Side of Woman and Mankind 20:04 Tools
Early Minimalism: June 1965, Part 2 32:21 Tools
Bowstring 1 05:30 Tools
Dagadag For La Monte 13:29 Tools
Early Minimalism: June 1965 Pt 1 32:21 Tools
From The Side Of Woman And Mankind (Complete Version) 00:00 Tools
Early Minimalism: June 1965 Pt 2 32:21 Tools
Bryant Park Moratorium Rally (1969) 50:51 Tools
Indicting Lully 00:00 Tools
Live Set 29:30 Tools
Inducting Lilly 29:30 Tools
Fantastic Glissando: Process 1 10:20 Tools
June 1965 Part One 10:20 Tools
July 95 00:00 Tools
Fantastic Glissando: Process 2 10:39 Tools
Fantastic Glissando: Process 3 10:04 Tools
Four Violins (excerpt) 03:07 Tools
Pythagora, Refusing To Cross The Bean Field At His Back, Is Dispatched By The... 24:45 Tools
The Flicker Soundtrack 27:16 Tools
From the side of man and woman 27:16 Tools
Sexual Vulnurability 02:54 Tools
Slapping Pythagoras 50:51 Tools
Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain (2) 03:16 Tools
The Heterophony Of The Avenging Democrats, Outside, Cheers The Incineration O... 18:08 Tools
June 1965 Part Two 18:08 Tools
Bryant Park Moratorium Rally 18:08 Tools
The death of the composers was in 1962 03:16 Tools
Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain (1) 01:53 Tools
pythagoras, refusing to cross 03:16 Tools
Live 1999 01:53 Tools
CONRAD, TONY - Slapping Pythagoras - 01 - Pythagoras, Refusing To Cross The Bean Field At His Back, Is Dispatched By The Democrats. 24:41 Tools
Early Minimalism - April 1965 50:51 Tools
An Aural Symbiotic Mystery 50:51 Tools
Untitled (Bryant Park Moratorium Rally - 1969) 50:51 Tools
From The Side Of Woman And Mankind [Complete Version] 50:51 Tools
Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain Part A 22:24 Tools
Encore 26:21 Tools
The Heterophony of the Avenging Democrats, Outside, Cheers the ... 50:51 Tools
the flicker 26:21 Tools
Let's Trade Pants A1 22:24 Tools
Earthquake Orgy 50:51 Tools
Process 1 50:51 Tools
Process 3 50:51 Tools
June 1965 II 50:51 Tools
Four Violins I & II 50:51 Tools
Pythagoras, Refusing to cross the bean field at his back, is dispatched by the Democrats (excerpt) 28:02 Tools
02 - From the Side of the Machine 26:21 Tools
Process 2 26:21 Tools
Early Minimalism - June 1965 (Part 1) 28:02 Tools
Pythagoras, Refusing To Cross The Bean Field At His Back, Is Dispat 26:21 Tools
The Heterophony Of The Avenging Democrats, Outside, Cheers The Inci 26:21 Tools
The Heterophony Of The Avenging Democrats 26:21 Tools
Joan of Arc (excerpt) 26:21 Tools
June 1965 #1 26:21 Tools
Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain (side A) 26:21 Tools
Early Minimalism June 1965 I 22:24 Tools
Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain Part B 28:02 Tools
Joan of Arc [part of it anyway] 22:24 Tools
Four Violins II 22:24 Tools
Four Violins I 22:24 Tools
From The Side Of Woman And Man 28:02 Tools
Four Violins (1964) (Edit #1) (Radio Boredcast Day 9) 22:24 Tools
Early Minimalism - June 1965 (Part 2) 28:02 Tools
Early Minimalism June 1965 II 28:02 Tools
The Death Of The Composer Was 28:02 Tools
Hetereophony of the Avenging D 28:02 Tools
June 1965 I 28:02 Tools
Jenny Jump 28:02 Tools
03 process 2 of fantastic glissando 28:02 Tools
The Flicker [soundtrack] 28:02 Tools
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Tony Conrad (Anthony Schmaltz Conrad, March 7, 1940 – April 9, 2016) was an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. Active in a variety of media since the early 1960s, he is considered to have been a pioneer of both structural film and drone music (or, as he has qualified, "The first non-bagpipe western drone music"). Conrad's first music release, and only release for many years, was a collaboration with the German group Faust, "Outside the Dream Syndicate" as Tony Conrad With Faust, published by Caroline (UK) in 1973. This remains his best known musical work and is somewhat of a classic of the minimal "krautrock" style. Along with John Cale, Angus MacLise, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela Conrad was an early member of the Theater of Eternal Music, which utilized Just Intonation (a tuning system based on the usage of fundamental tones derived from the harmonic series of a single fundamental, thereby based on nature rather than an arbitrary division of the octave) sustained sound to produce what they called dream music. Among other things, Conrad was responsible for the name of the group The Velvet Underground (although never actually in that group himself), and, drawing on his mathematical background, for the naming scheme for intervals now used by most musicians that work in Just Intonation. Recently he has composed more than a dozen audio works with special scales and tuning for solo amplified violin with amplified strings. Recent releases include "Early Minimalism Volume One", a four-CD set, "Slapping Pythagoras", "Four Violins" (recorded in the 60s), "Outside the Dream Syndicate Alive" (with Faust, live in London, 1995), and "Fantastic Glissando". He has also issued two archival CDs featuring the work of late New York filmmaker Jack Smith, with whom he was associated in the 1960s. 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. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.