Tony Conrad
Tony Conrad
Anthony Schmalz "Tony" Conradwas an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. Active in a variety of media since the early 1960s, he was a pioneer of both structural film and drone music...
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The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and the process of composition as long-term growth of interests within that sound complex.
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I've talked with John Cale for two decades about what to do about La Monte, and how to get copies of our work.
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As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me.
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What kind of conversation are we having here? I think anybody reading this expects us to be having a very informal kind of exchange.
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But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.
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That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues.
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People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.