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10 unusual facts about Tony Conrad


Birchville Cat Motel

Kneale operates the labels Celebrate Psi Phenomenon and Battlecruiser which have issued CDs by artists from New Zealand and overseas, including Matthew Bower (under the name Mirag) and Simon Wickham-Smith with recent releases by Richard Youngs and Alex Neilson and one involving Tony Conrad.

David Hykes

Hykes was educated at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio where he studied with avant-garde experimental filmmakers Tony Conrad and Paul Sharits, free jazz with the Cecil Taylor Unit, and contemporary, classical and medieval music with John Ronsheim and David Stock.

Gastr del Sol

1996's Upgrade & Afterlife included a would-be film score by O'Rourke, "Our Exquisite Replica of 'Eternity'", and an extended interpretation of the John Fahey piece "Dry Bones in the Valley" featuring guest Tony Conrad on violin.

Jonathan Donahue

The members were further encouraged to explore their talents by their mentor, minimalist composer and multimedia artist Tony Conrad.

Kim Cascone

Cascone has released more than 40 albums of electronic music since 1984 and has recorded/performed with Merzbow, Keith Rowe, Tony Conrad, Scanner, John Tilbury, Domenico Sciajno and Pauline Oliveros among others.

Lactamase Bonus Compilation

This album is the bonus 10" and number 13 in the Lactamase series. If you collected all 12 records in the series (Tony Conrad/Edward Ka-Spel, Rick Reed, Stimulus, Aranos, Miroslaw Rajkowski, Vas Deferens Organization, Noise-maker's Fifes, Charalambides, Troum, Whitelodge and Coil), you were able to submit all 12 coupons (1 collected in each of the other 10"s) and receive this as a bonus.

Structural film

The term was coined by P. Adams Sitney who noted that film artists such as Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, George Landow (aka Owen Land), Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad, Joyce Wieland, Ernie Gehr, Birgit and Wilhelm Hein, Kurt Kren, and Peter Kubelka had moved away from the complex and condensed forms of cinema practiced by such artists as Sidney Peterson and Stan Brakhage.

Sun Blindness Music

These albums were originally in the personal possession of Tony Conrad as part of his tape collection, and were thought lost.

He was not alone in this though - frequent collaborators La Monte Young, Terry Riley, original Velvet Underground drummer Angus Maclise, Tony Conrad, and Marian Zazeela also contributed to the genre.

The Dream Syndicate

Duck suggested the name "The Dream Syndicate" in reference to Tony Conrad's early 1960s New York experimental ensemble (better known as the Theater of Eternal Music), whose members included John Cale.


Kill Your Timid Notion

Past performers have included Cellule d'intervention Metamkine, Sachiko M & anthony McCall, Bruce McClure, Kazuo Imai & Atsuhiro Ito, Christian Marclay, Jennifer Reeves and Anthony Burr, Acid Mothers Temple, Philip Jeck, Fennesz, Tony Conrad and Text of Light and The Ruins.

Mattin

Mattin has collaborated with other artists including; Dion Workman, Taku Unami, Emma Hedditch, Margarida Garcia, Xabier Erkizia, Karin Schneider, Oren Ambarchi, Dean Roberts, Bruce Russell, Campbell Kneale, Tony Conrad, Taku Sugimoto, Matthew Bower, Philip Best, Drunkdriver, Ray Brassier and Junko.