What Music Did: The Story of Numerocracy in the West
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Availability:In StockContributor:Tony Conrad, Patrick Nickleson (Editor)Publish date:3/16/2026Pages:464
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Michigan PressISBN-13:9780472057917ISBN-10:047205791XUPC:9780472057917Book Category:Music, ArtBook Subcategory:History & Criticism, Instruction & Study, Film & VideoBook Topic:TheorySize:8.99 x 6.14 x 1.15 inchesWeight:1.702Product ID:SCWN6Z3573
What Music Did: The Story of Numerocracy in the West
In What Music Did, experimental filmmaker and violinist Tony Conrad explores in depth the relationship between music and mathematics. A work of decades that was left unfinished at the time of his death in 2016, Conrad's expansive history of the interrelationship of music and mathematics is published here for the first time. Editor Patrick Nickleson describes Conrad's method as that of an...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Michigan PressISBN-13:9780472057917ISBN-10:047205791XUPC:9780472057917Book Category:Music, ArtBook Subcategory:History & Criticism, Instruction & Study, Film & VideoBook Topic:TheorySize:8.99 x 6.14 x 1.15 inchesWeight:1.702Product ID:SCWN6Z3573
Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was a musician, composer, filmmaker, and teacher. After completing his degree in mathematics at Harvard in 1963, Conrad moved to New York where he collaborated with the director Jack Smith on Flaming Creatures; with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, and John Cale in the Theatre of Eternal Music; and with his partner Beverly Grant on a series of important structural films...
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