Arcane Candy

Here’s a letter I dug up from Conrad Conrad, who wrote a column on avant-garde electronic music for Forced Exposure magazine back in the late ’80s / early ’90s. The letter mainly discusses a few releases from the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis and a few other avant-gardists.

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Letter From Conrad Conrad – March 19, 1997

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