Label: Sub Rosa

約一時間ノンストップの超濃密テイク!!傑作!!1960年代初頭から多岐にわたるメディアで活動、ミュージシャン、実験映画作家、作曲家でありシアター・オブ・エターナル・ミュージックの一員としても演奏、ニューヨーク・シーンにおけるドローン・ミュージックの先駆者の一人Tony Conrad。2002年録音の本作は美術館の建設現場で行われたものであり、当時の氏の活動の核となっていた2つの楽器"ロング・ストリング・インストゥルメント"と、"アンプリファイド・ヴァイオリン"を使用、お馴染み大きな布で演奏風景自体を覆ったスタイルで記録された音源。ササクれたエッジに図太ウネリが並走し続ける圧巻の名演。12ページブックレット付き。



This recording (2002) captures the two instruments central to Conrad's practice at the time: his self-built Long String Instrument and his amplified violin. He performed hidden behind a large sheet, and the nature of what unfolded behind it was never disclosed to the audience.

Mudam
Recorded at the construction site of the future Mudam - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, designed by I. M. Pei - during the Museum Night of October 12, 2002, by invitation of Marie-Claude Beaud. The concert was co-organized by Transhistorics, a coproduction by Sub Rosa and Philippe Franck's Transcultures. Conrad also performed several times in Europe alongside Charlemagne Palestine in the following years, including the October 2005 concert An Aural Symbiotic Mystery.

Interview
The recording is accompanied by an extended interview conducted by Philippe Franck, published here as a tribute to him.

Short Bio
Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was an American musician, experimental
filmmaker, and composer, active across media since the early 1960s. A pioneer of drone music, he was a central figure in the New York scene of the 1960s and performed as part of the Theatre of Eternal Music. He became known as a filmmaker for his 1966 film The Flicker. Over the following decades he performed and collaborated with a wide range of artists.