At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.

Thus he demonstrated against cultural institutions in New York City (such as MOMA and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) with Tony Conrad and Jack Smith in 1963 and against the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen twice in 1964. In fact he is a strong critic of the neo-Dada sensibility. The "Indian" element is the background of hypnotic tamboura drones but Flynt's improvisation at the violin betrays the influence of jazz music.

Henry Flynt (born 1940 in Greensboro North Carolina) is a philosopher avant-garde musician anti-art activist and exhibited artist often associated with Conceptual Art Fluxus and Nihilism.