Tony Conrad
Sign in to saveAlso known as Anthony Schmaltz Conrad, Anthony Schmalz Conrad
American filmmaker, violinist and composer (1940-2016)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 9
Top works
- Tony Conrad
- Introducing Tony Conrad
- Tony Conrad : Doing the City
- Paul Sharits
- Writings
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Film & TV
Concord, New Hampshire, USA
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…
Known for
- The Velvet Underground — Self (voice)2021
- Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith — Himself (archive footage)2017
- Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present — Himself2016
- Lower East Side 12.12.12: Tony Conrad Interviewed by Michael Cohen — Self2012
- The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye2012
- Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist2008
- 365 Day Project — Self2007
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis — Self2007
- Grading Tips for Teachers — Himself2003
- Music in the Afternoon — Self2002
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1937-03-17
- Active to
- 2011-08-04
Discography
- Rot1973
- The Red Cassette1973
- Blau1974
- Con1978
- Consequenz1980
- Con 31981
- Conal1981
- Conrad & Sohn1981
- Contempora1981
- Context1981
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 10,684
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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 <a href="https://ww
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tony
- Family name
- Conrad
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Concord
- Place of death
- Cheektowaga
- Occupation
- filmmaker
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Employer
- University at Buffalo
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Documenta IX
- Genre
- minimalist music
- Instrument
- violin
- Image
- Tony Conrad 3 - DMS35th.jpg
- Work location
- New York City
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- Commons category
- Tony Conrad
- date of birth
- 1940-03-07
- date of death
- 2016-04-09
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons Creator page
- Tony Conrad
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
Sources (10)
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Available in 13 languages
- Français
- Deutsch
- 日本語
- Italiano
- العربية
- Czech
- Egyptian Arabic
- Lithuanian
- Malagasy
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- simple
- Slovak
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