Slapping Conrad:

Pat Pagano sez:

>I think Tony comes closest to the mark on Early Minimalism in
recreating the
>Theatre sound but the significators-Young and Zazeela voices are
painfully
>absent.

OK. This is off the record. My comments are my own
and have nothing to do with the MELA Foundation.

Conrad seems more interested in anarchy and noise than JI.
Sometimes (if not all the time!) when he performs, he runs
his instrument through effect boxes like distortion and
a ring modulator and it obscures the JI intent.
Maybe even his bowing technique is nasty too! Very harsh,
this creates overtones that obscures the tuning.

So I hear moments of *in tune*. Not the approach and
devotion to purity that he rambles on about.

La Monte has a grand *Project/Object* vision like Zappa:
his "Theatre of Eternal Music" runs from the begining
of his music to the the end (in LY's case to the edge of time).

Conrad has been major league
distracted with film and only dabbled in music while trying to
ride the coat talez of the Early Minimalists.

If he was really making that kind of music,
there would be more evidence beyond 4 Violins and
the Faust album! The Early Minimalism box just
seems like an afterthought.

>In fact I would assert that Mr. Conrad is a frustrated Pythagoras
>himself and indie rock elites Gastr del Sol are his curtseying cult!.

Well there you go! He accuses La Monte of being a Pythagoras
with his cult, when Conrad is exactly that too!

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