Tony Conrad, minimalist musician/composer, experimental film maker and University of Buffalo faculty member has died April 9, 2016. He was 76. Conrad was influential on film makers like John Waters and to many of my friends who have taken his classes at UB he was beloved. It is also said that Conrad was indirectly responsible for naming The Velvet Underground. Conrad participated in the making of Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures, an experimental film that legendarily was partially screened as evidence before the Senate to prove that supreme court nominee Abe Fortas was soft on obscenity. The police had raided and broken up an underground screening of the film citing obscenity law. Here are a few portions of the film:
Prof. Conrad, you will be missed. Rest in power.
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