Tony Conrad

Birthday: 7/3/1940
Deathday: 4/9/2016
Place of birth: Concord, New Hampshire, USA
Fame for: Directing
Also known as: Anthony Conrad, Anthony Schmalz "Tony" Conrad, Anthony Schmalz Conrad

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.