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Early Minimalism Volume One

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Early Minimalism Volume One --- 1997

Box set including 96-page booklet. CD 1 is an enhanced CD which features interviews, performance footage and video. There are 8 sections to the enhanced portion. Disc 1 recorded at Tony Conrad's 56 Ludlow Street studio in New York, 19 December 1964. Disc 2 recorded at 707 e.V., Frankfurt am Main, 5 May 1994. Disc 3 recorded live at the Knitting Factory, New York City, 1 October 1995. Disc 4 recorded at Tony Conrad's Livingston Street studio, Buffalo, New York, August 1996. Audio Mastering: Griffin Mastering, Atlanta. Additional Engineering: Steam Room, Chicago. Compositions, texts, scores, and video: Tony Conrad, © ℗ Tony Conrad 1964/1996/1997. Early Minimalism Volume One © Table Of The Elements 1997. "HISTORY IS LIKE MUSIC - COMPLETELY IN THE PRESENT." In 1962 Tony Conrad’s amplified strings introduced the sustained drone of just-intonation into what came to be known as “minimal” music. Utilizing long durations and precise pitch, he and his collaborators forged an aggressively mesmerizing “Dream Music”—denying the activity of composition, elaborating shared ideas of performance, and articulating the Big Bang of “minimalism.” However, the many rehearsal and performance recordings from this period were repressed, inaccessibly buried. In 1987 Tony Conrad set out on a ten-year return expedition to the site of these entombed fragments to unearth the losses; from them he reconstituted and regenerated the epic Early Minimalism. Reaching back through time, Tony Conrad weaves a mobile narrative over and under minimalism: making music out of history, and history out of music. — Table of Elements