OHM+ : the early gurus of electronic music
Special Edition 3CD + DVD
New Collector's Edition of this Historic Collection!
Giant leaps in technology such as 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...
On this collection you will hear how musicians have used cutting edge technology to create multi-dimensional, wonderful forms of music. Listen, learn and be inspired...
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.
“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
"Herein lies the connective tissue bridging musique concrète, 20th-century classical, electronic experimentation, and the theoretical avant-garde to psychedelia, ambient, dub, techno, electro, and synthpop." —Amazon.com
"Early pioneers of electronic music get their due on Ellipsis 'OHM' set." —Billboard
"The whole thing is a scream." —Rolling Stone
CD Track List:
CD 1
1) Clara Rockmore “Tchaikovsky: Valse Sentimentale” [ 2:08 ]
2) Olivier Messiaen "Oraison” [ 7:42 ] performed by Ensemble D’Ondes De Montréal
3) Pierre Schaeffer “Etude aux Chemins de Fer” [ 2:50 ]
4) John Cage “Williams Mix” [ 5:42 ]
5) Herbert Eimert / Robert Beyer “Klangstudie II” [ 4:27 ]
6) Otto Luening “Low Speed” [ 3:40 ]
7) Hugh Le Caine “Dripsody” [ 1:26 ]
8) Louis and Bebe Barron “Main Title from Forbidden Planet” [ 2:19 ]
9) Oskar Sala "Concertando rubato” [ 3:07 ]
10) Edgard Varèse "Poem Électronique" [ 8:00 ]
11) Richard Maxfield “Sine Music” [ 6:00 ]
12) Tod Dockstader “Apocalypse Part II” [ 2:01 ]
13) Karlheinz Stockhausen “Kontakte” [ 6:20 ]
14) Vladimir Ussachevsky “Wireless Fantasy” [ 4:35 ]
15) Milton Babbitt “Philomel” [ 4:57 ]
16) MEV “Spacecraft” Edit [ 6:06 ]
CD 2
1) Raymond Scott "Cindy Electronium” [ 1:55 ]
2) Steve Reich "Pendulum Music (I)" [ 5:52 ] performed by Sonic Youth
3) Pauline Oliveros "Bye Bye Butterfly” [ 8:02 ]
4) Joji Yuasa “Projection Esemplastic for White Noise” [ 7:36 ]
5) Morton Subotnick "Silver Apples of the Moon Part 1" [ 4:20 ]
6) David Tudor “Rainforest Version I” [ 5:09 ]
7) Terry Riley "Poppy Nogood" [ 7:55 ]
8) Holger Czukay “Boat-Woman-Song” [ 5:01 ]
9) Luc Ferarri “Music Promenade” [ 7:00 ]
10) Francois Bayle "rosace 3” [ 3:19 ]
11) Jean-Claude Risset “Mutations”[ 4:55 ]
12) Iannis Xenakis “Hibiki-Hana-Ma” [ 4:39 ]
13) La Monte Young “Drift Study 31 I 69 12:17:30 - 12:49:58 PM NYC” [ 7:00 ]
CD 3
1) Charles Dodge "He Destroyed Her Image" [ 1:59 ]
2) Paul Lansky “Her Song” [ 3: 04 ]
3) Laurie Spiegel “Appalachian Grove 1” [ 5:20 ]
4) Bernard Parmegiani “En Phase / Hors Phase” [ 2:29 ]
5) David Behrman "On the Other Ocean" [ 6:48 ]
6) John Chowning “Stria” [ 5:11 ]
7) Maryanne Amacher “Living Sound Patent Pending” [ 7:02 ]
8) Robert Ashley “Automatic Writing” [ 7:07 ]
9) Alvin Curran “Canti Illuminati” [ 7:25 ]
10) Alvin Lucier "Music On A Long Thin Wire” [ 6:43 ]
11) Klaus Schulze “Melange” [ 6:52 ]
12) Jon Hassell “Before And After Charm (La Notte)” [ 7:59 ]
13) Brian Eno “Unfamiliar Winds (Leeks Hills)” [ 5:21 ]
OHM+ DVD Track List
Track 1:
Clara Rockmore
The World’s Greatest Theremin Virtuosa (excerpt, 10:36), 1998
Track 2:
John Cage
Paying Attention (excerpt 6:19)
Frank Schaeffer: Video, Andrew Culver: Audio, 2004
Track 3:
Jean-Claude Risset Mutations (6:35)
Film by Lillian F. Schwartz, music by Jean-Claude Risset, 1973
Track 4:
Steve Reich Three Tales: Dolly (excerpt, 10:38)
Video by Beryl Korot, Music by Steve Reich, 2003
Track 5:
Morton Subotnick Sidewinder (excerpt 6:29)
Performed by Morton Subotnick and Tony Martin, 1976
Track 6:
Holger Czukay Floatspace (3:14)
Performed by Holger Czukay, 1986
Track 7:
Bebe Barron Interview with Bebe Barron (excerpt, 7:56)
Interview by Eric Chasalow, Filmed by Barbara Cassidy, 1997
Track 8:
Paul Lansky The Dust Bunny (17:08)
Music written and performed by Paul Lansky, Sound design by Ted Coffey, Animation and Story by Grady Klein, 2004
Track 9:
Leon Theremin (3:32) Paul Lansky's lesson with Leon Theremin
Video by George Lewis, January 1991
Track 10:
IannisXenakis Bohor (3:59)
Sound Visualization by Liubo Borissov, 2005
Track 11:
Milton Babbitt Interview with Milton Babbitt (excerpt, 8:36)
Interview by Eric Chasalow, Filmed by Barbara Cassidy, 1997
Track 12:
Laurie Spiegel Improvisation on a 'Concerto Generator' (2:40)
Music, Performance, and Interactive software by Laurie Spiegel, 1977
Track 13:
David Behrman Music with Melody-Driven Electronics (excerpt, 5:13)
Performed by David Behrman, Don Cardoza, E. Jedidiah Denman, Katharine Morton, 1976
Track 14:
John Chowning Stria (12:25)
Animations and Explanatory Material Created by John Chowning, 2005
Track 15:
Robert Ashley What She Thinks (It’s History) (excerpt, 3:59)
Performed by Robert Ashley, Mimi Johnson, Paul DeMarinis, and “Blue” Gene Tyranny, 1976
Track 16:
Max Mathews Phosphones (excerpt, 2:29)
Music and Light Performed by Emmanuel Ghent, Choreography by Mimi Garrard,
Performed by the Mimi Garrard Dance Company, 1971
Track 17:
Pauline Oliveros Bye Bye Butterfly (8:21)
Performed by Pauline Oliveros and Tony Martin, 2005
Track 18:
Alvin Lucier Music for Solo Performer (excerpt, 11:45)
Performed by Alvin Lucier, 1965
Track 19:
Mother Mallard Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company (excerpt, 5:13)
Film by Edin Velez, Music by Mother Mallard (1976)
Track 20:
Robert Moog Moog: A documentary Film by Hans Fjellestad (excerpt, 5:54) 2005