“Besides being a lovely recording, one that can be compared favourably to any great drone work produced in the last decade, Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain must also be seen as a historical document.”
Tony Conrad's Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain is an extraordinary 88-minute work, a powerfully majestic drone piece that will drive fans of the genre to distraction.
The work features violin, bass and Conrad's own invention: a six-foot-long plank of wood with bass strings, electric pickup, tuning keys, tape, rubber and metallic bits of hardware he called the long-string drone. (The latter is obviously the star of the show.)
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