[...] despite his seemingly orthodox accolades, Conrad is concerned with actively acting against what he describes as the aggressively traditional concert context. When I ask him about his issues with the concert scene, Conrad suddenly grows serious. I feel like it can represent a type of view of culture I disagree with, he explains. It’s this kind of rectilinear masterpiece culture that I want to get away from. You either become a tool or you’re stuck. In an attempt to express his discontent with the staid and conservative classical sensibility, Conrad opened the UNPLAY music festival in 2013. UNPLAY was an attempt to challenge the myopia of the current classical scene, with tripartite concerts that examined topics such as the ephemerality of the internet, a new 21st century canon for classical music, and social activism. I used to like the personal and professional as separate,” Conrad admits. But now I’ve tried to make them less dichotomous. Creating the way I do, presenting the way I do, is deliberate.
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