Tony Conrad
About Tony Conrad
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
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