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Tonyconrad.net. Anthony Schmalz Conrad (March 7, 1940 – April 9, 2016) was an American 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 drone music and structural film. [ 2] As a musician, he was an important figure in the ...
Tony and his then wife Beverly Grant Conrad subsequently calibrated a flicker to “The Ides Of March” from Cale and Terry Riley’s Church Of Anthrax album for the 1970 film Straight & Narrow (which received a screening at the 1972 Munich Olympics!), and created a four-projector flicker film Four Square in 1971.
The experimental filmmaker and musician has died, aged 76. It seemed unfathomable that Tony Conrad could ever die. He was the forever drone, the eternal project in long duration. It was believable that he would continue to age and evolve over time, but it seemed impossible that he would entirely disappear.
He is survived by his wife, Paige Sarlin, assistant professor in the Department of Media Study, and a son, Ted Conrad of Buffalo. Conrad’s passing has been covered by many sources around the world, including The New York Times, Contact Music, Thump, Taz in Germany, Billboard, Exclaim in Canada, NME, Blouin Art Info, Boing Boing and Vulture.
April 9, 2016. Tony Conrad, an experimental filmmaker, avant-garde musician and university educator who in the 1960s was a central figure in a flowering Lower Manhattan art movement, died on ...
Tony Conrad- one of my first partners in noise.- an indelible mark made, that will forever be paid forward. ... The New York Times reports Conrad also made several movies with his first wife ...
Tony Conrad died on 9 April in Hospice Buffalo, Cheektowaga, after a battle with prostate cancer, reported The Buffalo News. He was 76 years old. Conrad is often referred to as the pioneer of drone music in the West. But when he moved to New York City in the early 1960s, he also got heavily involved in film.
