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Opening with Clara Rockmore's reworking of Tchaikovsky with the theremin, and finishing with one of Brian Eno's ambient soundscapes, OHM artfully succeeds in its goal of giving a representative (as opposed to the impossible, comprehensive) overview of the first several decades of electronic music. Over 3 discs, 42 compositions, and 96 pages of notes and photos, OHM clearly illustrates the producers' and contributing writers' point that early electronic music is much of the foundation of contemporary music. 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 and the globalization of sound. The groundbreaking uses of loops, sampling, drones, remixes, and cut-and-paste technology are put fully into context. The diversity of music included makes any sort of summation impossible, but that is also the point: electronic music is not really a genre, but an open field of endless possibility. From John Cage's famous "William's Mix" of tape snippets to Karkheinz Stockhausen's electronic orchestral compositions, from David Tudor and Holger Czukay's experiments in unrelated blendings of audio elements to David Behrman's supremely peaceful duet between computers and musicians, the aural renegades on OHM tread where none (save a few of their contemporaries) had gone before. The liner notes convey the incredible amount of hard work and experimentation it took to stitch together many of these pieces in the predigital era. Putting aside the inevitable quibbles about what's missing (much of it due to legal and/or logistical issues), a more complete collection of musical eggheads, eccentrics, and visionaries is hard to imagine. --Carl Hanni
ARTIST: Brian Eno, Maryanne Amacher, Robert Ashley, Milton Babbitt, Louis and Bebe Barron, Francois Bayle, David Behrman, John Cage, John Chowning, Alvin Curran
CATEGORY: Music
MANUFACTURER: Ellipsis Arts
FEATURES: Box set
TYPE: Electro-Acoustic, Film, Avant-Garde, Electronic, Experimental Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Vocal, Experimental, Atonal, Box Sets (Audio Only), Tape Music, Musique Concrète, Chamber, Electronic/Computer Music, Ambient, Waltz for Keyboard, Vocal Music, Miscellaneous Music, Pop, Film Music
MEDIA: Audio CD
TRACKS: 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, 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
# OF MEDIA: 3
UPC: 052296367022

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excellent but uncomplete
Althought most of the music here is an excellent collection of electronic music history, this 3 CDs lack of the important contribution given by the RAI phonology studios of Milan, Italy in the 50s <
>(which was bigger than Koln's WDR studios) with Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio and Luigi Nono. <
>This is a big mistake. Milans studios were the biggest of europe and produced many important electroacoustic pieces. <
>If the collection aim to describe faithfully electronic music history, it should include this artists too.


To call it music may be a bit limiting.
Some of the tracks on here are "music". That is that they contain all the bits we're trained to experience as music -- melody, etc. Some are not, and the composers would be the first people to tell you that. A lot of these works are reactions to ingrained rules, so they're bound to be jarring. <
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>A more successful way to approach such a broad and varied collection of audio experimentation is to think of it as curated sound. This isn't something to wash the dishes to, or to seduce someone to (although if you did manage to seduce someone with the recordings on this anthology, HOLD ON TO THAT PERSON, because they've got to be a keeper). These are unique sound textures that deserve a close, probably solitary listen, and I think if you're in the right frame of mind, it can be a very rewarding listen. <
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>My main complaint is sequencing: each dicrete piece follows it's own internal logic, so there are more than a couple rough gear changes. However, since each piece is so different, and the collection is so varied, I'm not sure that you could totally escape that.


A worthwhile collection
The OHM collection contains some of those ground breaking electronic compositions that have shaped today's styles, from the early electronic instruments of Theremin and Martenot, through Pierre Schaeffer's Music Concrete tape music and the electronic music of Stockhausen and Subotnick, to the mainframe computer output of Risset and Chowning. <
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>It is unfair to mark this collection down due to the production quality and 'musicality' of its contents, to do so would be to staggeringly miss the point of the development of electronic music through the 20th Century. What this collection shows is the ideas behind those at the cutting edge of the genre before many could even conceive of such output. That said it is hard going at points, as experimental music can be. <
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>Highlights for me are no doubt Olivier Messiaen's 'Oraison' on CD 1, David Tudor's 'Rainforest Version 1' on CD 2 and on CD 3 David Behrman's 'On the Other Ocean' and Maryanne Amacher's 'Living sound Patent Pending'.

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