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Tony Conrad
Artist
About the author
As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me.
Tony Conrad,
Artist
#Saying
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.
Tony Conrad,
Artist
#Actions
#Literature
#Communication
I've talked with John Cale for two decades about what to do about La Monte, and how to get copies of our work.
Tony Conrad,
Artist
#Work
People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the "text" in literary terms.
Tony Conrad,
Artist
#People
#Thinking
#Literary
That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues.
Tony Conrad,
Artist
#Work
#Art
#Music
#Performance
The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and the process of composition as long-term growth of interests within that sound complex.
Tony Conrad,
Artist
#Right
#Growth
#Control
#Environment
#Sound