tony conrad concert in the uk monday 25th april

[mr. melia]

for anyone interested in noise that resembles putting your head inside a jet aeroplane engine:

Tony Conrad will be performing at the School of Music, University of East Anglia, Norwich, on Monday 25th April at 7.30pm.

Conrad was a key mover in the Lower East Side rock and avant underground in the early to mid 60s, playing with Lou Reed, John Cale and Walter DeMaria in Reed?s frat-rock combo, The Primitives, and standing in with early line-ups of The Velvet Underground. But it was his activities as part of The Dream Syndicate/Theatre Of Eternal Music, a group dedicated to extending waves of single note bliss into whole new zones of psychoactive ecstasy, that were to have the most far-reaching cultural impact. Alongside John Cale, Angus MacLise, LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela, Conrad founded a whole new approach to sound, working tiny pulsing intervals into long monotonal drones generated by bowed strings and vocals and birthing a minimalism several cells more blasted than the saccharine soundtracks associated with bigger hitting names like Philip Glass and Michael Nyman. His 'Outside the Dream Syndicate' record with Faust is a krautrockin' beaut.

Tickets cost ?6, ?4.50 friends/concessions and ?3 students and are available from UEA box office on 01603 508050 and Prelude Records 01603 628319 on St Giles Street.

Also making their 2005 society debut will be the ultra-minimal Roberte, the quietest big band you're likely to hear this spring.

[Changeling]

wow....wish I could go