various | ohm+: the early gurus of electronic music

an essential guide to the birth of electronic music. brian eno puts it pretty well in the introduction in the accompanying booklet:

“many of the ideas in this collection have now been so completely assimilated into popular listening that it may sometimes be hard to remember how surprising it all was on first outing. some of it still sounds pretty exotic. these cds are important as part of the story of how we got to where we are now–the cultural conversation so far–and as a still fruitful repertoire of future possibilities.”

there's also a dvd out there, but i've never seen it.

released by ellipsis arts in 2005.

cd 1

1. clara rockmore - tchaikovsky: valse sentimentale
2. olivier messiaen - oraison performed by ensemble d’ondes de montréal
3. pierre schaeffer - etude aux chemins de fer
4. john cage - williams mix
5. herbert eimert / robert beyer - klangstudie ii
6. otto luening - low speed
7. hugh le caine - dripsody
8. louis and bebe barron - main title from forbidden planet
9. oskar sala - concertando rubato
10. edgard varèse - poem électronique
11. richard maxfield - sine music
12. tod dockstader - apocalypse part ii
13. karlheinz stockhausen - kontakte
14. vladimir ussachevsky - wireless fantasy
15. milton babbitt - philomel
16. mev - spacecraft

cd 2

1. raymond scott - cindy electronium
2. steve reich - pendulum music (i) performed by sonic youth
3. pauline oliveros - bye bye butterfly
4. joji yuasa - projection esemplastic for white noise
5. morton subotnick - silver apples of the moon part 1
6. david tudor - rainforest version i
7. terry riley - poppy nogood
8. holger czukay - boat-woman-song
9. luc ferarri - music promenade
10. francois bayle - rosace 3
11. jean-claude risset - mutations
12. iannis xenakis - hibiki-hana-ma
13. la monte young - drift study 31 i 69 12:17:30 - 12:49:58 pm nyc

cd 3

1. charles dodge - he destroyed her image
2. paul lansky - her song
3. laurie spiegel - appalachian grove 1
4. bernard parmegiani - en phase / hors phase
5. david behrman - on the other ocean
6. john chowning - stria
7. maryanne amacher - living sound patent pending
8. robert ashley - automatic writing
9. alvin curran - canti illuminati
10. alvin lucier - music on a long thin wire
11. klaus schulze - melange
12. jon hassell - before and after charm (la notte)
13. brian eno - unfamiliar winds (leeks hills)

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