Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain is the quintessential work of artist/filmmaker/composer Tony Conrad. Comprised of both film installation and minimalist score for amplified strings, Ten Years leaps across genre and medium to connect his revolutionary structural filmmaking with the experiments in long-duration sound that Conrad had begun in the 1960s as part of the Theatre of Eternal Music.
"Ten Years began with image before sound," writes Andrew Lampert, "a row of quadruple projections arranged side-by-side, all the shuffling stripes cascading into each other. Over the next two hours the music throbbed and the projectors incrementally shifted inwards, their beams gradually uniting to form one pulsating, overlapping picture."
For its 1972 premiere at New York's The Kitchen, Ten Years included Conrad on violin as well as Rhys Chatham and Laurie Spiegel performing on instruments of the composer's own making. Chatham played the Long String Drone – a 6-foot long strip of wood with bass strings, electric pickup, tuning keys, tape, rubber band and metal hardware – while Spiegel carried out an arrhythmic bass pulse throughout.
Superior Viaduct is honored to present this previously unreleased recording of Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain's breathtaking premier performance. As Chatham recounts in the liner notes, "When I first listened to this recording after not hearing it for over 40 years, it transported me back to the early Kitchen and the heyday of early minimalism, played outside the Dream Syndicate."
Tony Conrad – Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain
レーベル:Superior Viaduct – SV049
フォーマット:2 × CD, Album
国・地域:US
リリース済み:19 May 2017
ジャンル:Classical
スタイル:Minimal, Drone, Avantgarde
収録曲
1-1
Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain
44:10
2-1
Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain
44:43
会社名など
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Tony Conrad Media
Copyright (c) – Tony Conrad Media
Recorded At – The Kitchen, New York City
クレジット
Bass [Bass Pulse] – Laurie Spiegel
Design – Susan Archie
Drone [Long String Drone] – Rhys Chatham
Edited By – Jim O'Rourke
Engineer [Restored By] – Gary Hobish
Liner Notes – Andrew Lampert, Rhys Chatham
Mastered By – Christoph Grote-Beverborg
Photography By [Photos] – Linda Edelstein
Producer – Regina Greene
Violin – Tony Conrad
ノート
Recorded on March 11, 1972 at The Kitchen, New York
Photos and archival materials courtesy of The Kitchen and The Estate of Tony Conrad
Liner notes:
Andrew Lampert
Mexico City, 2016
Rhys Chatham
Paris, 2016
© and ℗ 2017 Tony Conrad Media.
Issued in 6-panel digipak with 12 pp. booklet.
On shrinkwrap sticker:
Previously unreleased recording of breathtaking 1972 performance.
Featuring Rhys Chatham and Laurie Spiegel.
バーコードとその他の識別子
Barcode (Text): 8 55985 00684 0
Barcode: 855985006840
Matrix / Runout (CD1): 8258 - SV049D1
Matrix / Runout (CD2): 8258 - SV049D2
