Overview
Tony Conrad
Known For
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer...
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic...
Lower East Side 12.12.12: Tony Conrad Interviewed by Michael Cohen
Tony Conrad interviewed on the streets of NYC.
Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist
The latest in Marie Losier's ongoing series of film portraits...
Grading Tips for Teachers
Tony Conrad provides useful & alternative grading tips for teachers....
Music in the Afternoon
Fellow violinist and artist Tony Conrad, in collaboration with software...
Grandma Baba and Little Boris
Tradition, mystical revelation, the passing on of family secrets--all that...
Biography
Anthony Schmalz "Tony" Conrad was 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. He performed and collaborated with a wide range of artists over the course of his career, most prominently La Monte Young's 1960s New York experimental music group Theatre of Eternal Music.