Incredible record that I don't know how @ALFAMA managed to uncover. A gem.
#buzz
Tony Conrad - Joan of Arc (Table of Elements, October 2006)
Tony Conrad passed away in April 2016 at the age of 76. I think he was one of the most interesting artists in terms of avant-garde music experimentation (deliberately inspired by masters like John Cage and Karl-Heinz Stockhausen), which led him to intersect his path (alongside composers of the caliber of La Monte Young) with artists from the rock and alternative music scene, starting with a strange crossroad with the Velvet Underground in the early sixties, to the more famous collaboration with Faust in "Outside the Dream Syndicate" (1972). Many of his works, however, were and are closely linked to artistic works of more or less experimental visual nature, but also true soundtracks. This recording here is from 1968. It is a work conceived to be the soundtrack of a film by the Italian-American experimental director Piero Heliczer, who as a child acted in "Ladri di biciclette" by Vittorio De Sica and then moved to Paris, London, New York City, where he became part of Andy Warhol's circle. The record was recorded as an improvised session and played with only a pump organ at the home of John Vaccaro, the director of the Playhouse of the Ridiculous, in 1968, but the recording was only released in 2006 on Table Of The Elements. The recording session lasted over an hour: in fact, Heliczer only used eleven minutes of it, but Conrad didn’t know the exact length of Heliczer's recording and continued to play until the reel tape ran out. And this is a great fortune, because in the end, this recording is a true great musical work filled with primitive drone sounds and vibrant sound waves. The mind goes, besides minimalist composers like La Monte Young or Terry Riley, in some way to "Metal Machine Music," even though this work is perfectly listenable and here the intent is to build and narrate something, not to destroy.
Tony Conrad - Joan of Arc
#tonyconrad #avantgarde #joanofarc
#buzz
Tony Conrad - Joan of Arc (Table of Elements, October 2006)
Tony Conrad passed away in April 2016 at the age of 76. I think he was one of the most interesting artists in terms of avant-garde music experimentation (deliberately inspired by masters like John Cage and Karl-Heinz Stockhausen), which led him to intersect his path (alongside composers of the caliber of La Monte Young) with artists from the rock and alternative music scene, starting with a strange crossroad with the Velvet Underground in the early sixties, to the more famous collaboration with Faust in "Outside the Dream Syndicate" (1972). Many of his works, however, were and are closely linked to artistic works of more or less experimental visual nature, but also true soundtracks. This recording here is from 1968. It is a work conceived to be the soundtrack of a film by the Italian-American experimental director Piero Heliczer, who as a child acted in "Ladri di biciclette" by Vittorio De Sica and then moved to Paris, London, New York City, where he became part of Andy Warhol's circle. The record was recorded as an improvised session and played with only a pump organ at the home of John Vaccaro, the director of the Playhouse of the Ridiculous, in 1968, but the recording was only released in 2006 on Table Of The Elements. The recording session lasted over an hour: in fact, Heliczer only used eleven minutes of it, but Conrad didn’t know the exact length of Heliczer's recording and continued to play until the reel tape ran out. And this is a great fortune, because in the end, this recording is a true great musical work filled with primitive drone sounds and vibrant sound waves. The mind goes, besides minimalist composers like La Monte Young or Terry Riley, in some way to "Metal Machine Music," even though this work is perfectly listenable and here the intent is to build and narrate something, not to destroy.
Tony Conrad - Joan of Arc
#tonyconrad #avantgarde #joanofarc
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