OHM: Early Gurus of Electronic Music (1948-1980)

“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

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” Edit [ 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" Edit [ 4:20 ]
6) David Tudor “Rainforest Version I” Edit [ 5:09 ]
7) Terry Riley "Poppy Nogood" [ 7:55 ]
8) Holger Czukay “Boat-Woman-Song” Edit [ 5:01 ]
9) Luc Ferarri “Music Promenade” Edit [ 7:00 ]
10) Francois Bayle "rosace 3” [ 3:19 ]
11) Jean-Claude Risset “Mutations”Edit [ 4:55 ]
12) Iannis Xenakis “Hibiki-Hana-Ma” Edit [ 4:39 ]
13) La Monte Young “Drift Study 31 I 69 12:17:30 - 12:49:58 PM NYC” Edit [ 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" Edit [ 6:48 ]
6) John Chowning “Stria” Edit [ 5:11 ]
7) Maryanne Amacher “Living Sound Patent Pending” [ 7:02 ]
8) Robert Ashley “Automatic Writing” Edit [ 7:07 ]
9) Alvin Curran “Canti Illuminati” Edit [ 7:25 ]
10) Alvin Lucier "Music On A Long Thin Wire” Edit [ 6:43 ]
11) Klaus Schulze “Melange” [ 6:52 ]
12) Jon Hassell “Before And After Charm (La Notte)” Edit [ 7:59 ]
13) Brian Eno “Unfamiliar Winds (Leeks Hills)” [ 5:21 ]