Experimental Music
JacobTV, Dutch Composer, Creates Multimedia Opera of Current Events
Darmstadt International Summer Course Celebrated as Avant-Garde Stronghold
Last month, a Brooklyn festival honored the 70th anniversary of Germany's Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, a starting point of many revered avant-garde composers including Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez and John Cage. Tony Conrad, Experimental Composer and Filmmaker, Dies at Age 76
Drone music composer and structural filmmaker, Tony Conrad, died on Saturday at age 76. The artist was best known in music circles for his minimalist violin work on 'Outside the Dream Syndicate,' his acclaimed 1973 album with German krautrock band, Faust.
