OHM+ the early gurus of electronic music TWO AND A HALF HOURS OF RARE ARCHIVAL PERFORMANCES, INTERVIEWS, ANIMATIONS, AND EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO WORKS BY THE PIONEERS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC. Clara Rockmore John Cage Jean-Claude Risset Steve Reich Morton Subotnick Holger Czukay Bebe Barron Paul Lansky Leon Theremin IannisXenakis Milton Babbitt Laurie Spiegel David Behrman John Chowning Robert Ashley Max Mathews Pauline Oliveros Alvin Lucier Mother Mallard Robert Moog Produced by: Thomas Ziegler, Jason Gross, and Russell Charno

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Rolling Stone

This review is for the original OHM Release: “The whole thing is a scream”

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 soabsolutelyassimilated 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’re now–the cultural conve (more…)