Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music Special Edition 3CD + DVD
 | By Maryanne Amacher, Robert Ashley, Milton Babbitt, Louis and Bebe Barron, Francois Bayle, David Behrman, John Cage Ellipsis Arts, 2005, Audio CD Customer Rating: 11 reviews Recommend |
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OHM+ : the early gurus of electronic music
Special Edition 3CD + DVD
Leaps in technology: oscillators, generators, vacuum tubes, amplifiers, transistors, magnetic tape, integrated circuits, and the microchip— inspired new instruments: the telharmonium, theremin, ondes martenot, electronic sackbut, clavivox, electronium, moog synthesizer, and computers— and artists everywhere hungry for new modes of expression.
This collection is a humble but bold attempt to give form to the wonderful, multi-directional, inevitable birth of electronic music.
"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." —from the Foreword by Brian Eno
Three CDs—42 original music tracks from 1948–1980 112 Page Book—extensive artist interviews, commentaries, and archival photographs Special Edition DVD—over two hours of rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video.
Disc 1Disc 2
- Valse Sentimentale - Clara Rockmore
- Oraison - Ens D'Ondes De Montreal
- Etude Aux Chemins De Fer - Pierre Schaeffer
- Williams Mix - John Cage
- Klangstudie II - Herbert Eimert/Robert Beyer
- Low Speed - Otto Luening
- Dripsody - Hugh Le Caine
- Forbidden Planet: Main Title - Louis Barron/Bebe Barron
- Elektronische Tanzste: Concertando Rubato - Oskar Sala
- Poem Electronique - Edgard Varese
- Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterflies Encountered Over The Ocean) - Richard Maxfield
- Apocalypse-Part 2 - Tod Dockstader
- Kontakte - James Tenney/William Winant
- Wireless Fant - Vladimir Ussachevsky
- Philomel - Milton Babbitt
- Spacecraft - MEV
Disc 3
- Cindy Electronium - Raymond Scott
- Pendulum Music - Sonic Youth
- Bye Bye Butterfly - Pauline Oliveros
- Projection Esemplastic For White Noise - Joji Yuasa
- Silver Apples Of The Moon, Part 1 - Morton Subotnick
- Rainforest Version 1 - David Tudor
- Poppy Nogood - Terry Riley
- Boat-Woman-Song - Holger Czukay
- Music Promenade - Luc Ferrari
- Vibrations Composees: Rosace 3 - Francois Bayle
- Mutations - Jean-Claude Risset
- Hibiki-Hana-Ma - Iannis Xenakis
- Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals: Drift Study '31/69 c.... - La Monte Young
- He Destroyed Her Image - Charles Dodge
- Six Fants On A Poem By Thomas Campion: Her Song - Paul Lansky
- Appalachian Grove - Laurie Spiegel
- En Phase/Hors Phase - Bernard Parmegiani
- On The Other Ocean - David Behrman
- Stria - John Chowning
- Living Sound, Patent Pending Music For Sound-Joined Rooms Series - Maryanne Amacher
- Automatic Writing - Robert Ashley
- Canti Illuminati - Alvin Curran
- Music On A Long Thin Wire - Alvin Lucier
- Melange - Klaus Schulze
- Before And After Charm (La Notte) - Jon Hassell
- Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) - Brian Eno
Title: Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music Special Edition 3CD + DVD
Sales Rank: 10054 in Music
Creator: Maryanne Amacher, Robert Ashley, Milton Babbitt, Louis and Bebe Barron, Francois Bayle, David Behrman, John Cage, John Chowning, Alvin Curran, Holger Czukay, Tod Dockstader, Charles Dodge, Herbert / Beyer, Robert Eimert, Brian Eno, Luc Ferrari, Jon Hassell, Paul Lansky, Hugh Le Caine, Alvin Lucier, Otto Luening
Label: Ellipsis Arts, 2005-10-25, Audio CD, 4 Discs
Package Dimensions: 5.75 x 4.96 x 1.34 inches, 0.84 pounds
- Electronic Hapiness
- This CD set is a much needed collection for all musicians or just audio freaks with an ear for electronic music. The great thing about this set is the DVD that comes with it. If you are into pioneers of electronic music and visuals/video art, then this CD is a must for you. If you listen to electronic pioneers like Morton Subotnic to Joy… More reviews
- The Total Package
- I recently purchased Ohm, the early gurus of electronic music, and I am very immpressed. By far the most important criteria for judgment must be the quality of the cleaning up of early recordings. Every track on all three CDs has a low noise floor, which has been achieved without the loss of palpability or dynamic range that is so common with the usual cleaning… More reviews
- An Audio Encyclopedia of Early Electronic Experiments
- I enjoyed listening to the CD and watching the videos. Some of the selections, however, were not quite what I would call musical quality, but were interesting sound samples. I was glad that I heard them, but once heard they would not be something I would want to listen to as music or for a background when reading a book. Some tracks had a very good… More reviews
- A great collection of important works
- This is an excellent collection of pre-1980s electronic music. It probably goes without saying, but just to be clear, the music here is part of the academic/experimental music tradition and more popular forms of electronic music such as Kraftwerk or Jean-Jacques Perry are not represented here.
There is a great selection of composers here from early musique concrete pioneers like Pierre Schaeffer to technical… More reviews
- Worth the dough
- Yeah, it's costly, yeah, it quickly skims over 40+ years of electronic music, but its an excellent sample of the range of early uses and experimentations with electronics for creation of challenging and rigorous music. With 3 CDs and a DVD, plus a pretty thick (for a CD set) insert, I thought this was certainly a decent value. While certainly not encyclopedic, this… More reviews
