Tony Conrad

Born: 1940-07-03 Concord, New Hampshire, USA

Died: 2016-04-09

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.