fri april 29 | 10:00 PM

$24 | $12 students/seniors | eyego

Tony Conrad

THE MUSEUM
10 King Street West

Tony Conrad's artistic creativity cannot be subsumed by any one category. He is certainly best known as a musician and film-maker, yet he is also a painter, a video- and performance artist, and at the same time a mediator of his knowledge by means of quantities of writings and teaching activities. In 1966, Conrad made Flicker, one of the key works of structural film. The alternation between dark and light images with varying frequencies is often the medium of such experimental films.

As a violinist, he was a member — with artists such as John Cale, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela — of the Theater of Eternal Music, whose work in the 1960s helped define what was become known as "minimalism." Conrad’s recording Outside the Dream Syndicate with the rock band Faust in 1973 was a defining moment in the creation of “drone” music. Conrad’s concerts continue to explore the rich territory of long, sustained textures, evolving timbres and ear-bending tunings in a completely riveting and even hypnotic way.