Tony Conrad: Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain - COMPACT DISCS

Tony Conrad: Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain Artist: Tony Conrad Label: Superior Viaduct Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 855985006840 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2017 05 19 Number of Discs: 2 Two CD set. Archive release of previously unissued 1972 premier performance. Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain is the quintessential work of artist filmmaker composer Tony Conrad. Comprised of both film installation and minimalist score for amplified strings,

Title: Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain
Artist: Tony Conrad
Label: Superior Viaduct
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 855985006840
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2017-05-19
Number of Discs: 2

Two CD set. Archive release of previously unissued 1972 premier performance. Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain is the quintessential work of artist/filmmaker/composer Tony Conrad. Comprised of both film installation and minimalist score for amplified strings, Ten Years leaps across genre and medium to connect his revolutionary structural filmmaking with the experiments in long-duration sound that Conrad had begun in the 1960s as part of the Theatre of Eternal Music. For it's 1972 premiere at New York's The Kitchen, Ten Years included Conrad on violin as well as Rhys Chatham and Laurie Spiegel performing on instruments of the composer's own making. Chatham played the Long String Drone - a 6-foot long strip of wood with bass strings, electric pickup, tuning keys, tape, rubber band and metal hardware - while Spiegel carried out an arrhythmic bass pulse throughout. Superior Viaduct is honored to present this previously unreleased recording of Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain's breathtaking premier performance. As Chatham recounts in the liner notes, "When I first listened to this recording after not hearing it for over 40 years, it transported me back to the early Kitchen and the heyday of early minimalism, played outside the Dream Syndicate."

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1.1 Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain - Tony Conrad
2.1 Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain - Tony Conrad

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