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Tony Conrad: Music and the Mind of the World

From 1976 to 1982, Tony Conrad (1940-2016) created “Music and the Mind of the World,” a piano composition comprising over 200 hours of recorded music. During this time everything Conrad played on the piano was recorded (with the incidental exception of perhaps three or four hours). In this endeavor – which includes the sounds of practicing, banging on the keys, formal exercises, experiments with the harmonic sonority of the piano itself, and even “On Top of Old Smokey” – we witness what might in essence be described as the total encounter between an improvising performer and the central instrument of Western musical culture. Now, for the first time, this influential yet largely unknown work has been and is now available online for free at the domain:

http://musicandthemindofthe.world

Music and the Mind of the World is published by Arcangel Surfware (Cory Arcangel, Elliot Kaufman, Gil Gentile, Amanda Schmidt); with archival programming and data manipulation by Henry Van Dusen; archival audio services by George Blood, L.P.; mastering by Jon Cohrs at Spleenless Mastering; and web programming and design by Familiar Studio. Special thanks to Greene Naftali Gallery and Galerie Buchholz for their support.

© Tony Conrad Estate