JIM O’ROURKE: FILMOGRAPHY
(& DISCOGRAPHY)

• maintainer: Seth Tisue / seth@tisue.net
• last update 19 October 2007 (see change log)

Notes

Dates are release dates, not recording dates. Please take entries marked “forthcoming” with a grain of salt. Click on cover art for larger version.

Corrections, additional information, lyrics, new or higher resolution cover scans, and sites I should link to are welcome at the above E-mail address.

I am not Jim’s agent or secretary. Nor do I know who is. If you are trying to get in touch with him, through me is not the way.

Links

Mark Martucci has an all-things-O’Rourke site up that is new and growing. Happy Days is an O’Rourke site in Japanese with discography, pictures, and other info, but last time I checked it hadn’t been updated since 2002.

There are two O’Rourke discussion groups at Yahoo (jim-orourkelist, jimorourkeisbeautiful). The latter was formerly a “girls only worship center” but is now “SERIOUS”.

Jim has a very short personal page up at the Sonic Youth site. An old site by Jim, Hoobalaboobala, has been offline for some years now.

Jim has contributed photographs to a few projects at Neon Gallery in Sweden. News About Music and Art was an online magazine; issue #1 is no longer online, but contained photographs by O’Rourke of Japanese women getting stuck in subway doors. O’Rourke contributed a photograph (with accompanying text) to the gallery’s Snap Shots exhibition. Here is the photo; you may recognize it from an album cover.

Live photos of the Dream Aktion Unit (Thurston Moore, Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty, and O’Rourke) performing live in October 2003 at the Destijl/Freedom From Festival of Music in Minneapolis/St. Paul are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/tisue/sets/72157594365237301/ (they played on both Friday and Saturday).

BOMB Magazine has published O’Rourke’s interview with filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

The book Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed contains a piece by O’Rourke about the album Propaganda by Sparks.

O’Rourke contributed a mix tape to Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture, a book edited by Thurston Moore.

Alan Licht’s forthcoming book Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories has an introduction by O’Rourke.

Acknowledgments

Josh Ronsen started this discography in 1994 and was its primary maintainer through 2001. Thanks to Jim and others who have helped out with additions and corrections, especially Danny Gromfin, Johan Nilsson, Moshe Levy, and Marvin Lin, plus also Thomas Ankersmit, Jonas Bonnetta, Max Burke, Fabio Carboni, Nicole Chambers, Tom Darksmith, James Elliott, Mark Evans, Adam Frucci, Gavin, Jason Guthartz, Ellinor Gylling, Stephanie Hinson, Jason Henn, Yuri Ikeda, Jesse Kudler, Chris Lawrence, Rob Lewis, Andrew Littlefield, Julien Lorain, Jacob Ludvigsen, Frank Malczewski, Jacques Masson, meepathon45, Michel Millar, Kevin Molony, Brendan Murray, Daniel Novakovic, Kevin O’Conner, Erik Ogenstedt, Sybilla Poortman, Antti Ravelin, Richard Rupenus, Hafdis S., Joseph S., Kayser Sauze, Jeff Seelbach, Tom Shriner, Andrei Smarandoiu, Clifford Smith, Will Soderberg, Patrick South, Joshua Stevenson, Landon Thorpe, Adrian Trythall, Floris van Hoof, Matt Wellins, Louis Wells, Jon Whitney, Nick Wrigley, C. Spencer Yeh, and many others.

Contents

• Films
• Works in own name
• Works in own name: tracks
• Collectively improvised works
• Works as band member: The Supreme Indifference, Loose Fur, Sonic Youth, Diskaholics Anonymous Trio, Fenn O’Berg, Mirror, Gastr del Sol, Brise Glace, Yona-Kit, Organum, the Red Krayola, Indicate, Mimir, Illusion of Safety, the Elvis Messiahs
• Appearances
• Other credits
  • Producer
  • Remixer
  • Etc.
• Labels
  • Moikai
  • Dexter’s Cigar
  • Distemper
• Interviews
• Lyrics
• Change log

Films

as director

• Door
• film 2005
• running time: 18 minutes
• O’Rourke has written, “In 2003 I discovered a box of tapes I had thought I had erased, and had long forgot about. The tapes were all from between 1986–1991... The box also contained what would become... the music for the films Door and Not Yet.”
• reportedly the film is based on feedback and and images of an opening door
• screened at the No Fun festival in New York in May 2005 (but not included on the DVD later released from the festival)
• included on Noise DVD (MK2 Music) 2006, documenting the Carte Blanche Au Festival Art Rock; see http://rock.discogs.com/release/770570 for details on the DVD; I’m guessing the film is included as a bonus track but is not actually considered part of the festival documentary directed by Olivier Assayas

• Not Yet
• film 2003
• running time: 18 minutes
• from the Rotterdam Film Festival program: “Not Yet, by Jim O’Rourke, is the only finished and screened film by this musician so far. He uses a scene from [Brian DePalma’s Blow Out]. The camera revolves around a sound technician who enters his studio and discovers that all his magnetic tapes have been erased. The physical effect of this disorienting scene is enhanced by double printing and an eerie, floating soundtrack.” (The sound technician is played by John Travolta.)
• from Sonic Youth’s spring 2004 newsletter: “On April 23rd the Whitney will show Jim’s film Not Yet with live music” (at the Whitney Biennial)
• O’Rourke has written, “In 2003 I discovered a box of tapes I had thought I had erased, and had long forgot about. The tapes were all from between 1986–1991... The box also contained what would become... the music for the films Door and Not Yet.”

other credits

Notes: Film music composed and/or performed by O’Rourke is listed in the discography section rather than here.

• Toshio Matsumoto
• Funeral Parade of Roses
• DVD 2006
• O’Rourke supplied an essay for the booklet of the DVD reissue of this 1969 film

• Richard Linklater
• The School of Rock
• film 2003
• O’Rourke is credited as “music consultant”

• Stefan Roloff
• The Red Orchestra
• film 2002
• O’Rourke is credited with “sound”

• Sam Jones
• I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
• 2DVD 2003
• film 2002
• O’Rourke appears briefly in the film but does not speak; however he is heard in some of the outtakes included on the DVD set

Works in own name

• [?]
• 8″ (Kning Disk/iDEAL) forthcoming
• from the SOUND + ART series
• lathe cut record, boxed and signed; limited edition of 65 copies

• Long Night
• 2CD (Streamline) forthcoming
• recorded in 1990

• 6 Oscillators 87/Guitar 88
• LP (No Fun) 2006
• from No Fun’s “Rotten” LP series
• limited edition of 500 copies
• recorded in 1987–1988; one side is oscillators, the other tabletop guitar

• The New Blockaders/Thurston Moore/Jim O’Rourke
• The Voloptulist
• CD (Hospital) 2006
• LP (Ecstatic Peace) 2007
• the first of two tracks is a Blockaders/Moore collaboration; the other track, “840 Seconds Over”, is a Blockaders/O’Rourke collab with guest Chris Corsano on drums
• CD is limited edition of 1000
• LP is limited edition of 500, with different artwork

• Mizu No Nai Umi
• CD (Headz) 2005
• unreleased recording from 1990, plus a live version from 2003 (with Tim Barnes on crotales and Karen Waltuch on viola)
• title translates roughly as “Sea Without Water”

• “Oscillators and Guitars”
• on split LP w/ Thomas Ankersmit
• LP (Tochnit Aleph) 2005
• recorded in 1992
• limited edition of 750 copies

• Old News Vol. 4
• CD-R (no label) 2005
• sold on tour in Japan in fall 2005
• hopefully this is the right translation for the Japanese title
• according to a listener, the first of the two tracks on this disc is “the orchestral part of the last track on the first Fenno’berg album”
• (I have no information on any Vol. 3)

• “Some Kind Of’
• on From the Earth to the Spheres Vol. 4 split LP w/ My Cat Is An Alien
• LP (Opax) 2005
• O’Rourke’s side is a solo tabletop guitar track recorded in 1988
• LP is limited edition of 100 copies
• advance promotional CD-R copies exist but were never offered for sale
• unlike other volumes in the series, this will not be reissued on CD by Cargo UK

• Two Organs
• LP (Three Poplars) 2004
• recorded in 1991

• Love Liza
• film 2002
• the film includes music from several of O’Rourke’s albums
• soundtrack not available separately

• He Who Laughs
• LP (Neon Gallery) 2002
• one-sided LP on clear vinyl
• limited edition of 500 copies
• music made for Herbert Brenon’s silent film of the same title

• Old News Vol. 2
• CD-R (no label) 2002
• solo electronics
• limited edition of about 30 copies
• sold on Mirror’s tour of Japan in late 2002

• Old News
• CD-R (no label) 2002
• solo electronics
• limited edition of about 40 copies, each with a unique cover
• sold on Diskaholics Anonymous Trio tour of Japan in early 2002

• I’m Happy and I’m Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4
• CD (Mego) 2001
• LP (Mego) 2002
• CD (P-Vine) 2002
• the Japanese version on P-Vine includes a bonus track called “Let’s Take It From the Top”

• Insignificance
• CD/LP (Drag City) 2001
• (lyrics)
• “Get a Room” included on comp CD included with December 2001 issue of Uncut [an English magazine])
• “Therefore I Am” issued as a one song promotional CD by Domino
• “All Downhill From Here”, “Therefore I Am”, and “Get a Room” included on promotional Le Mellieur du rock Underground Americain comp CD (Domino) 2001
• “All Downhill From Here” included on Both Sides Now: The Spirit of Americana comp 2CD (Gravity) 2002 (at least, I assume it is the album version)
• “Therefore I Am” included on Radio Cookie Scene comp CD included with September 2001 issue of Cookie Scene (a Japanese magazine) (at least, I assume it is the album version)

• jim:computer:hotel
• CD (Olof Bright) 2000
• 50 minute CD
• included in The Black Box boxset, limited edition of 100 copies, sold (for $500!) at the Swedish Kulturbro 2000 event at the Ystad Art Museum. The boxset also includes two Sonic Youth items; see Sonic Youth section for details.

• Halfway to a Threeway
• EP/CD-EP (Drag City) 1999
• CD-EP (P-Vine) 1999
• (lyrics)
• the Japanese version on P-Vine does not include any extra tracks, as has sometimes been erroneously reported

• Eureka
• CD/LP (Drag City) 1999
• CD (P-Vine) 1999
• (lyrics)
• Japanese version on P-Vine includes a bonus guitar instrumental track, “Little Island Walking”
• “Ghost Ship In A Storm” included on Worlds of Possibility comp 2CD (Domino) 2003
• “Ghost Ship In A Storm” included on Another Country comp CD/2LP (Agenda) 2003
• “Eureka” included in film Eureka directed by Shinji Aoyama (2000)
• “Through the Night Softly” included on promotional disc Rough Cuts: Music for Films comp CD (Rough Trade) 2000
• a remix of “Ghost Ship in a Storm” appears on a Zero 7 CD; see “Etc.” section for details
• “Through the Night Softly” included on Domino: On The Wire comp CD (Domino) 1999 (included with November 1999 issue of The Wire)
• “Ghost Ship In A Storm” included on Might Club comp CD (NME) 1999 (included with 12/99 issue of NME)
• “Women of the World” (shortened version) included on ON:1 15 Top Tracks For The 21st Century comp CD (NME) 1999 (included with an issue of NME)
• “Women of the World” included on Unconditionally Guaranteed Vol. 3 comp CD (Uncut) 1999 (included with April 1999 issue of Uncut [an English magazine])
• “Something Big” used in advertisement for British Gas

• Please Note Our Failure
• 10″ (Some) 1998

• Bad Timing
• CD/LP (Drag City) 1997
• CD (Blues Interactions) 1998

• Happy Days
• CD (Revenant) 1997
• excerpt used in film Julien Donkey-Boy
• sound sample online at http://www.revenantrecords.com/mp3s/Happy_Days.mp3
• in 2005 an LP edition was planned and announced, then scrapped

• Terminal Pharmacy
• CD (Tzadik) 1995

• Use
• DAT (Soleilmoon) 1994

• Picture of Light
• film 1994
• soundtrack not available separately

• Rules of Reduction
• CD3 (Metamkine) 1993

• “Muni”/“Michel Piccoli”
• 7″ (Table of the Elements) 1993
• on Guitar Series Vol. I comp CD (Table of the Elements) 2003?
• the 7″ is on white vinyl; I don’t know the edition size
• according to someone who auctioned a copy of the CD reissue on eBay, “less than 100 copies” of the CD were made as promotional items and were not for sale

• Remove the Need
• CD (Extreme) 1993
• CD (P-Vine) 1999
• an excerpt was included on the Extreme Music 1993 promo sampler cassette

• Scend
• CD (Divided) 1992
• LP (Three Poplars) 2003
• LP reissue is a revised version, in a limited edition of 1000 copies on clear vinyl

• Disengage
• 2CD (Staalplaat) 1992
• with Warren Fischer (violin)

• Tamper
• CD (Extreme) 1991
• CD (P-Vine) 1999
• excerpted without authorization on the RRR Taste Test Cassette Vol. 7 comp cassette (RRRecords) 1992
• some pieces were altered somewhat by O’Rourke for the 1999 reissue

• The Ground Below Above Our Heads
• LP (Entenpfuhl) 1991
• with Dave Cerra (French horn)
• limited edition of 500 copies

• Secure on the Loose Rim
• cassette (Sound of Pig) 1991

• It Takes Time to Do Nothing
• cassette (audiofile Tapes) 1990
• solo prepared guitar (plus some Ensoniq Mirage)

• Remove the Need
• cassette (Complacency) 1989
• solo prepared guitar
• contains completely different material than the recording issued under the same name in 1993

• Some Kind of Pagan
• cassette (Sound of Pig) 1989

Works in own name: tracks

• “Viva Forever”
• on Guilt by Association comp
• CD (Engine Room) forthcoming
• O’Rourke covers the Spice Girls on a compilation of “today’s most exciting Indie talent re-interpreting their favorite guilty pleasure pop songs”
• to be released in August 2007; details at http://www.engineroomrecordings.com/gba/

• “Out with the Old”
• on Avanto 2006 comp
• CD (Avanto) 2006
• O’Rourke’s contribution is a previously unreleased a 26 minute piece commissioned by the festival; the original sound material is from 1990 but underwent transformation in 1991, 1994, and 2006

• “407 Seconds Over”
• on Viva Negativa: A Tribute to the New Blockaders, Vol. 2 comp
• 4LP (Vinyl On Demand) 2006
• 3CD (Hypnagogia) forthcoming
• both LP and CD versions are limited editions of 500 copies

• “Naoru”
• on Not Alone comp
• 5CD (Jnana) 2006
• benefit compilation with proceeds to benefit Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
• this track was previously released as track 5 of Old News (volume 1)

• “Kaminari One”
• on I Love Guitar Wolf Very Much comp
• CD (Ki/oon) 2005
• CD (Narnack) 2005

• “Corona”
• from The Wild Blue Yonder
• film 2005
• the rest of the music in the movie is by other people
• this was recorded at the Grizzly Man sessions, but is not the same as a similarly-titled track on that disc

• “[?]”
• on The End of the Fear of God comp
• CD (Tochnit Aleph) 2004

• (5 loop grooves)
• on Yokomono comp
• 12″ (Staalplaat) 2004
• eleven artists, including O’Rourke, contributed five loop grooves each

• “Call Up On Your Sisters”
• on All Tomorrow’s Parties 3.0 comp
• 2CD/2LP (ATP) 2003

• Jim O’Rourke & Glenn Kotche
• “Pictures of Adolf Again”
• MP3 (Protest) 2003
• cover version of a Bill Fay song, released online

• (untitled)
• on Het Apollohuis 1980-1997: An Anthology of New Music Concerts comp
• 2CD (Het Apollohuis) 2003
• recorded May 3, 1993

• “law and order 3am est”
• on Friends of the Bumblebee comp
• CD (Rönnells/Håll Tjäften) 2002

• “[?]”
• on Showa Residence Akaban (the Red Disc) comp
• CD (Substance) 2002

• “When I First Saw Phauss...”
• on KREV X comp
• 2CD (Ash) 2002
• credited to “James O’Rourke”

• Jim O’Rourke featuring Original Love
• “Dakishimetai”
• on Happy End Parade comp
• 2CD (Speedstar) 2002
• tribute compilation to the Japanese band Happy End; more information is here, but it’s in Japanese
• a short text by Jim about Happy End, I think from the CD booklet, is at http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/speedstar/hattori/comment/jim.html
• I’m told the song title roughly translates as “I want to hold you”

• “Like Urine Loves Cold Slate”
• on Or Some Computer Music: Issue 2 comp
• CD (Or) 2001
• art on back cover by O’Rourke

• “May ’00, 2000”
• on BitStreams comp
• CD (Whitney Museum of American Art) 2001
• comp is subtitled “Sound works from the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, March 22–June 10, 2001”

• “Venus In Furs”
• on Rabid Chords 002: VU Tribute comp
• 2CD (Victor Japan) 2000
• cover version of a song by the Velvet Underground
• with Tim Barnes, Glenn Kotche, and Julie Pomerleau
• O’Rourke contributed a paragraph for the CD booklet

• “Exhol”
• on The Elysian Fields Soundtrack/Bande son Elysian Fields comp
• CD (Purple Music/Centre Pompidou) 2000
• CD came with art catalog from an exhibit at the Centre Pompidou in Paris

• “Never Again”
• on Chicago 2018—It’s Gonna Change comp
• 2CD (Clearspot) 2000

• “Thanks But No Thanks”
• on Drive From 2000 comp
• CD (Wax/Tokuma) 1999
• cover version of a song by Sparks

• “Norton Recovery”
• radio broadcast 1998
• broadcast on the Kunstradio program on Austrian national radio; available via RealAudio (and also orderable on cassette) at http://kunstradio.at/1998B/1_10_98.html

• “Fall Breaks and Back to Winter (Spring Breaks and Back to Winter)”
• on Smiling Pets comp
• CD (Sony Japan) 1998
• with Edith Frost (vocals)

• “Divided”
• on Modulation & Transformation 3 comp
• 3LP/2CD (Mille Plateaux) 1998

• (untitled single loop groove)
• on RRR-500 comp
• LP (RRRecords) 1998
• O’Rourke is credited as “F4E JO” (For 4 Ears Jim O’Rourke); presumably the groove is excerpted from one of O’Rourke’s recordings for For 4 Ears

• “There As”
• on Scatter comp
• CD (Ash) 1997

• “As In”
• on In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze comp
• CD (Mille Plateaux) 1996

• “Antithese”
• on Musique Action 2 comp
• CD (Vand’Oeuvre) 1996

• “Sinking Lights in Lambeth”
• on Statics comp
• CD (CCI) 1995

• “Milena Dravic”
• on The Miracle of Levitation comp
• CD (Gentle Giant) 1995

• “Tacere Fas”
• on Unentitled comp
• CD (These) 1995

• (untitled track)
• on 28 (Nickel) comp
• 7″ (Table of the Elements) 1995
• limited edition of 250 (all of which say “record number one in an edition of 250”)
• music on one side only; credits etched on flip side
• produced by O’Rourke
• insert by O’Rourke
• other tracks are by Tony Conrad, Richard Youngs, Faust, and Keith Rowe

• “Purge”
• on The Arbitrary Nature of Meaning comp
• CD (Isomorphic) 1995

• “Flat Without a Back”
• on Ambient 4: Isolationism comp
• 2CD (Virgin) 1994

• (untitled single loop groove)
• on RRR-100 comp
• 7″ (RRRecords) 1994

• “Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing”
• on Poetic Silhouettes comp
• CD (AMF) 1993

• “Far Along a Vacant Sea”
• on X-X Section comp
• CD (Extreme) 1993

• “Scan”
• on Frontieres? split CD with Syllyk
• CD (La Légende des Voix) 1992

• “Eveh”
• on Chicago Loops comp
• CD (Sup Up) 1991

• “Ring Unite Failure”
• on Assemblage 1990 comp
• cassette (Realization) 1990

• “Unruhig”
• on Patience is a Virtue comp
• cassette (Sound of Pig) 1990?

• “Fey”
• on split cassette with David Prescott
• cassette (Generations Unlimited) 1988?

Collectively improvised works

• Original Silence
• The First Original Silence
• CD (Smalltown Supersound) 2007
• with Thurston Moore, Terrie Ex, Mats Gustafsson, Paal Nilssen-Love, and Massimo Pupillo

• Merzbow/Carlos Giffoni/Jim O’Rourke
• Electric Dress
• CD (No Fun) 2007
• recorded live in Tokyo in 2006; O’Rourke on synth and microphone; Masami Akita (Merzbow) performs on all analog equipment, no laptop
• edited and mastered by O’Rourke

• Osorezan
• Mimidokodesuka
• CD (Polystar Jazz Library) 2006
• Osorezan is the trio of O’Rourke, Darin Gray, and Chris Corsano

• Jim O’Rourke & Akira Sakata
• Explosion
• CD (Polystar Jazz Library) 2006
• with Darin Gray, Chris Corsano, Manabu Sakata

• Carlos Giffoni/Jim O’Rourke
• Synth Destruction #2
• CD-R (No Fun) 2006
• limited edition of 50 numbered copies
• sold at Giffoni’s live dates in Japan in September 2006 (some of which are with O’Rourke); some copies were also available by mail order

• Thurston Moore/Lee Ranaldo/Steve Shelley/Jim O’Rourke
• Melbourne Direct
• 2LP (Saucerlike) 2006
• recorded direct to disc at Corduroy Records in Melbourne, Australia
• limited edition of 800 copies

• Jim O’Rourke & Akira Sakata
• Oyobare/Tetrodotoxin
• CD (Polystar Jazz Library) 2005
• with Darin Gray, Chris Corsano, Manabu Sakata, Masaki Yoshimi
• recorded live at the Pit Inn in Tokyo, April 2005

• White Out
• China Is Near
• CD (ATP) 2005
• White Out is Lin Culbertson and Tom Surgal, joined on this disc by guests O’Rourke and William Winant

• North Six
• 3″ CD (Antopic) 2004
• with Carlos Giffoni and Lee Ranaldo

• Eugene Chadbourne
• Dr. Chadbourne’s Adventures at the Guitar Festival
• 2CD (Leo) 2003
• recorded in August 1999
• O’Rourke plays only on some portions

• The Lightbox Orchestra
• First Contact!
• CD (Locust) 2002
• O’Rourke plays on one of the four tracks, recorded in February 1998

• Alpha Lemur Echo Two
• CD (Mycophile) 2001
• with (on most of CD) Michael Prime and Eddie Prévost
• with (one one track, recorded 1991) Michael Prime, Adam Bohman, and Andy Hammond
• limited edition of 1000

• Brett Larner
• Itadakimasu: Improvised Duets 1994-2000
• CD (Spool) 2001
• O’Rourke plays hurdy-gurdy on one track (recorded by Dan Burke in 1996)

• White Out
• Drunken Little Mass
• CD (Ecstatic Peace) 2000
• White Out is Lin Culbertson and Tom Surgal; O’Rourke guests on guitar and Powerbook

• Xylophonen Virtuosen
• CD (Incus) 2000
• with Mats Gustafsson

• Tribute to Masayuki Takayanagi
• CD (Grob Musik) 2000
• three tracks are by the trio of Weasel “Necrodevourer” Walter, Jim “Lycanthrovampyr” O’Rourke, and Fred “Sado-Immolator” Lonberg-Holm; the other two tracks are Walter solo

• “Rockon”
• on Kim’s Bedroom CD (Purple) 2000
• with Ikue Mori; came with the publication “Purple”

• “[?]”
• on No. 99 5CD (Entartete Kunst) 2000
• with Jason Bellchamber
• O’Rourke also contributed a short text in the booklet included with the set
• recorded live at the No Music Festival in 1999
• limited edition of 500 copies
• album details at http://www.ek-records.com/nomusic99.htm

• In Bern
• CD (Hat Hut) 1999
• with Loren Mazzacane Connors

• Myopic Bookstore Improvised Music Workshop Volume One
• CD (BOXmedia) 1999
• O’Rourke on one track only, in trio with Kevin Drumm and Michael Colligan

• Werner Dafeldecker/Christof Kurzmann/Christian Fennesz
• CD (Charhizma) 1999
• O’Rourke appears one only one on the five tracks, playing computer (Powerbook). The other guests are Martin Siewert on one track and Kevin Drumm on three tracks.

• Fred Lonberg-Holm
• Site-Specific
• CD (Explain) 1999
• O’Rourke plays guitar on one track

• The Improvisation Meeting in Chicago
• CD (LFQR) 1999
• O’Rourke on three tracks only, playing acoustic guitar only; with (in varying combinations) Taku Sugimoto, Masahiko Okura, Kevin Drumm, Steve Butters, Josh Abrams, Michael Colligan, Brent Gutzeit, Fred Lonberg-Holm

• Fear No Fall
• CD (Lowlands) 1998
• with Toshinori Kondo, DJ Low, Zeena Parkins, David Shea, Dirk Wachtelaer; O’Rourke plays guitar, synthesizer and harmonica

• “There’s Hell in Bern”
• on Meme CD (Meme) 1998
• with Loren Mazzacane Connors

• Weighting
• CD (For 4 Ears) 1998
• with Günter Müller

• Rafael Toral
• Chasing Sonic Booms
• CD (Ecstatic Peace) 1998
• O’Rourke plays accordion on one track and piano and other instruments on another

• Clouds
• CD (Victo) 1998
• with Lee Ranaldo, Gianni Gebbia, William Hooker

• “     ”
• on The Basement Recordings: Live at Cicero’s comp
• CD (On the Clock) 1997
• with Darin Gray, Kevin Drumm

• Table Chair and Hatstand
• CD (For 4 Ears) 1997
• with Günter Müller and Voice Crack (Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl)

• Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back
• film 1997
• videocassette (Atavistic) 1997
• soundtrack CD/LP (Atavistic) 1997
• one track solo; one track duet with Will Oldham (a song, not improv); plays on four other tracks as member of improvising group “The Boxhead Ensemble” with Ken Vandermark, David Grubbs, etc.

• Slow Motion
• CD (For 4 Ears) 1995
• with Günter Müller

• Mats Gustafsson
• Parrot Fish Eye
• CD (OkkaDisk) 1995
• plays on half of disc only, in trio with Gustafsson and Gene Coleman
• album details at http://okkadisk.com/releases/od12006.html

• K.K. Null
• Guitar Organism
• CD (Charnel) 1995
• on one track only

• Acoustics
• CD (Victo) 1994
• with Henry Kaiser, John Oswald, Mari Kimura

• Third Straight Day Made Public
• CD (Complacency) 1994
• with Eddie Prévost

• Tatsu Aoki
• Kioto
• CD (Asian Improv Records) 1994
• on one track only

• A New Kind Of Water
• CD (Charnel) 1993
• with K.K. Null

• “Music Through Channels”
• on No Smoking, Littering, or Radio Playing comp
• CD (WNUR/Cargo) 1993
• with Henry Kaiser

• Tomorrow Knows Where You Live
• CD (Victo) 1992
• with Henry Kaiser

• “Monster Investigator Juspion”
• on Passed Normal Vol. 5 comp
• CD (Fot) 1992
• with Henry Kaiser

• “[?]”
• on World Music Series Vols. 19-20 comp
• cassette (Upsetco) 1991?
• with Eugene Chadbourne

• Neuro Eco Media
• cassette (Nux Organization) 1990
• with K.K. Null

Works as band member

with The Supreme Indifference

• “A Lick in Time”
• on Night School comp
• 7″ (Kill Rock Stars) 2003

• “Male-In-Communication”
• on Fields and Streams comp
• 2CD (Kill Rock Stars) 2002

with Loose Fur

• Born Again in the USA
• CD (Drag City) 2006
• (lyrics)
• watch the video to “Hey Chicken” here

• Loose Fur
• CD/LP (Drag City) 2003
• (lyrics)

with Sonic Youth

O’Rourke became an official member of Sonic Youth in 2001; on a few recordings prior to Murray Street, he was a guest. The other members of the group are Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley. He left the group in late 2005.

• Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities
• CD (Geffen) 2006
• O’Rourke on only some tracks

• Sonic Youth with Tim Barnes
• Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui
• CD (SYR) 2005
• recorded live at Anthology Film Archives on April 12, 2003

• Corporate Ghost—The Videos: 1990–2002
• DVD (Geffen) 2004

• Sonic Nurse
• CD (Geffen) 2004
• 2LP (Goofin’) 2004

• “Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream”
• on Buddy Series Vol #1 (split with Erase Errata)
• 7″ (Narnack) 2003
• limited edition of 1500 copies

• “Loop Cat”
• on You Can Never Go Fast Enough comp
• CD/2LP (Plain) 2003
• I’m assuming Jim plays on this

• Sonic Youth + I.C.P. + The Ex
• In the Fishtank
• CD-EP/EP (Konkurrent) 2002
• collectively improvised; Sonic Youth members on this disc do not include Kim Gordon, but do include guest William Winant; I.C.P. are represented by Ab Baars, Han Bennink, and Wolter Wierbos; The Ex are represented by Luc Ex and Terrie Ex
• “III” included on Wire Tapper comp CD included with November 2002 issue of The Wire

• Demonlover
• film 2002
• CD (Labels/Virgin France) 2002
• 8 of 12 tracks on the CD are by Sonic Youth including O’Rourke
• some more music from the film is on the Kali Yug Express EP

• Kali Yug Express
• 10″ EP (Geffen) 2002
• limited edition of 500 copies on blue vinyl
• included with some French copies of Murray Street
• the piece on side 1 is from Things Behind the Sun; the pieces on side 2 are from Demonlover (but are not on that soundtrack CD)
• the material on this EP was also available as MP3 downloads to owners of the Murray Street CD, but the URL no longer works

• Murray Street
• CD (Geffen) 2002
• LP (Goofin’) 2002

• Brigitte Fontaine
• Kekeland
• CD/10″ (Virgin France) 2001
• O’Rourke plays piano on “Demie clocharde&rdquo and also mixed that track and the title track

• Things Behind the Sun
• film 2001
• soundtrack not available separately (except for some material on the Kali Yug Express EP)

• Lightnin’
• 7″ (Olof Bright) 2000
• included in The Black Box boxset; see entry for jim:computer:hotel for more details
• recorded live in Norway in June 2000

• Without Kim
• CD (Olof Bright) 2000
• included in The Black Box boxset; see entry for jim:computer:hotel for more details
• O’Rourke mixed this, but does not perform; Kim Gordon is absent and Mats Gustafsson guests

• NYC Ghosts and Flowers
• CD/LP/CS (Geffen) 2000
• O’Rourke plays bass on several tracks and vibes on one (no Powerbook as reported elsewhere), also produces, and co-recorded/mixed it

• Goodbye 20th Century
• 2CD/2LP (SYR) 1999
• Sonic Youth perform pieces by Cage, Cardew, Maciunas, Tenney, Oliveros, Wolff, et al; O’Rourke and others guest

• Sonic Youth/Jim O’Rourke
• Invito Al Cielo
• CD/EP (SYR) 1998

with Diskaholics Anonymous Trio

• Live in Japan, Vol. 2
• CD/LP? (Load) forthcoming

• Live in Japan, Vol. 1
• CD/LP (Load) 2006
• recorded 2002

• Weapons of Ass Destruction
• CD/LP (Smalltown Supersound) 2006
• LP is limited edition of 1000 copies

• “Yellow Label Silence”/“Come Back Archimedes Badkar, All is Forgiven”
• 12″ (no label) 2002
• limited edition of 300: 100 with cover art by Moore, 100 with cover art by Gustafsson, and 100 with cover art by O’Rourke (O’Rourke’s, at least, are all different); about 60 of O’Rourke’s copies were lost in transit and may or may not be in circulation
• the cover image shown is (according to Printed Matter, Inc.’s website) a painting by Kim Gordon, so the cover art attribution information above may not be correct (perhaps Moore and Gordon both did some of that 100)
• A-side is a different mix of the track from the CD on Crazy Wisdom; B-side is what O’Rourke describes as “a huge collage of the whole recording session”

• “Totally Gump (Gump Completist) — Alternative Mix By Jim”
• on Look at the Music comp
• CD (Olof Bright) 2002
• this is a remix of a track from the CD on Crazy Wisdom
• this was one of two CD’s issued to accompany the catalog for the Look at the Music/SeeSound festival coproduced by Neon Gallery

• Diskaholics Anonymous Trio
• CD (Crazy Wisdom) 2001

with Fenn O’Berg

• The Return of Fenn O’Berg
• CD/LP (Mego) 2002
• CD (P-Vine) 2002
• the Japanese release on P-Vine contains one extra track

• The Magic Sound of Fenn O’Berg
• CD (Mego) 1999
• “Gürtel Zwei” included on Wire Tapper 5 comp CD (The Wire) 2000 (included with issue #193 of The Wire)

• “(5.6m of) Fennoberg”
• on Sonar 99 comp
• 4CD (So Dens) 1999

with Mirror

The main members of Mirror are Andrew Chalk and Christoph Heemann, but O’Rourke has been a frequent guest member.

• Mirror
• Still Valley
• LP (Die Stadt) 2004
• CD (Die Stadt) 2005
• LP is limited edition of 500 copies, of which 200 are on clear vinyl and include a signed insert (or maybe it’s 520/220; sources differ)
• CD is limited edition of 1000 copies
• CD includes one extra track

• Mirror
• Figures in a Landscape
• 2LP (Three Poplars) 2004
• limited edition of 300 copies, each with unique artwork
• reissue of the In to the Wood and Live in Bern CD-R’s

• Mirror
• A Pilgrim’s Solace
• CD-R (Three Poplars) 2003
• limited edition of 150 copies, signed and numbered

• Mirror
• Live in Bern
• CD-R (Three Poplars) 2003
• limited edition of 149 copies, numbered (49 of them also signed)
• later reissued on the Figures in a Landscape 2LP (cf.)

• Mirror
• In to the Wood
• CD-R (Three Poplars) 2003
• limited edition of 200 copies, each with unique artwork
• later reissued on the Figures in a Landscape 2LP (cf.)

• Mirror
• Die Spiegelmanufaktur
• LP (Die Stadt) 2002
• CD (Die Stadt) 2003
• picture disc; limited edition of 500 copies
• CD reissue is a limited edition of 1000 copies and includes an 18-minute bonus track

with Gastr del Sol

Gastr del Sol consisted of David Grubbs and a rotating cast of collaborators, usually including O’Rourke until July 1997 when he left the group.

• Camoufleur
• CD/LP (Drag City) 1998
• CD (Blues Interactions) 1998
• “The Seasons Reverse” included on Unconditionally Guaranteed comp CD (Uncut) 1999
• “Bauchredner” included on Musique facile pour gens difficiles comp CD (Virgin France) 1998
• “The Seasons Reverse” included on Un Hiver 98 comp CD 1998 (included with French zine Les Inrockuptibles)

• “Black Horse”
• “Ursus Arctos Wonderfilis”
• on 7UP Listen Up! comp
• CD (Track Marketing) 1997
• This was a prerecorded radio program, hosted by Janeane Garofalo and distributed to college radio stations only. Also included is interview material with the band.

• “Dead Cats in a Fog Horn”
• on Nova Feedback comp
• CD (God Mountain) 1996

• “The Bells of St. Mary”
• on The Christmas Album comp
• CD (Sony Japan) 1996

• Upgrade & Afterlife
• CD/2LP (Drag City) 1996
• two excerpts from “Our Exquisite Replica of ‘Eternity’” used in The Book of Life film (1998) by Hal Hartley (but not included on soundtrack album)

• “The Japanese Room at La Pagode”
• on split 7″ with Tony Conrad
• 7″ (Table of the Elements) 1995
• the first 500 copies include a bonus 7″ by Tony Conrad called “Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain”, on which O’Rourke plays

• “Quietly Approaching”
• on Red Hot and Bothered comp
• CD (Red Hot/Kinetic/Reprise) 1995

• The Harp Factory on Lake Street
• CD-EP (Table of the Elements) 1995

• “At Night and at Night”
• on Hey Drag City comp
• CD/2LP (Drag City) 1994
• with Christoph Heemann

• Mirror Repair
• EP/CD-EP (Drag City) 1994
• “Eight Corners” included on This Means War comp CD (Toy’s Factory) 1996

• Crookt, Crackt, or Fly
• CD/LP (Drag City) 1994

• 20 Songs Less
• 7″ (TeenBeat) 1993
• 7″ (Minority) 2007
• side 2 only was included on Wakefield Vol. 3: Superstars on Forty-Five comp CD (TeenBeat) 1995; the use was unauthorized
• the 2007 reissue is on clear vinyl

with Brise Glace

• “Likeness”
• on Camp Skin Graft comp
• CD (Skin Graft) 1997
• on this release, Brise Glace consisted of “Jim O’Rourke: razor blade, Darin Gray: electric bass”

• “Angus Dei aus Licht”
• on Sides 1-4 comp
• 2x7″ (Skin Graft) 1996
• on this release, Brise Glace consisted of “Jim O’Rourke and razorblade”

• When In Vanitas...
• CD/LP (Skin Graft) 1994
• with guests (on one track) Gene Coleman, David Grubbs, Christoph Heemann, Henry Kaiser, Carolyn Faber
• “Neither Yield Nor Reap” included on Monsters, Robots and Bug Men comp 2CD (Virgin) 1996

• “In Sisters All And Felony”/“Angels on the Installment Plan”
• 7″ (Skin Graft) 1994

with Yona-Kit

• Yona-Kit
• CD/LP (Skin Graft) 1995
• “Skeleton King” included on Camp Skin Graft comp CD (Skin Graft) 1997
• “Dancing Sumo Wrestlers” included on Monsters, Robots and Bug Men comp 2CD (Virgin) 1996

with Organum

• Vacant Lights/Rara Avis
• 2CD (Die Stadt) 2004
• the Rara Avis disc includes “Iuel”/“Wolf” and “Obon” (see below) as well as a previously unissued track called “Rara Avis” which is a 2003 re-work by David Jackman of a 1991 mix by O’Rourke of a 1990 performance by Jackman, O’Rourke, Dinah Jane Rowe, and Eddie Prévost
• limited edition of 600 copies

• “Obon”
• on Veil of Tears
• CD (Matchless) 1994
• remixed by O’Rourke and Robert Hampson; O’Rourke does not perform

• Sphyx
• LP (Aeroplane) 1994
• CD (Robot) 2002
• CD reissue is limited edition of 700 copies

• “Æo”/“Shining Star”
• 7″ (Mermaid) 1994
• limited edition of 440 copies on clear vinyl

• “Iuel”/“Wolf”
• 7″ (Dom America) 1991
• O’Rourke plays guitar, on “Iuel” only

with the Red Krayola

• Sighs Trapped by Liars
• CD (Drag City) 2007
• O’Rourke plays various instruments, also mixed it

• Singles
• CD (Drag City) 2004
• O’Rourke appears on only two tracks, previously issued as the “Chemistry”/“Farewell to Arms” 7″

• Japan in Paris in LA
• 16mm film (Kyodai Productions) 1997
• soundtrack CD (Drag City) 2004
• the film is available through Electronic Arts Intermix (http://www.eai.org/)
• on the soundtrack, the credited composers for one track (“The Surrealist Dream No. 2”) are O’Rourke and Tom Watson

• Hazel
• CD/LP (Drag City) 1996

• “Chemistry”/“Farewell to Arms”
• 7″ (Drag City) 1995

• Amor and Language
• CD-EP/EP (Drag City) 1995

• The Red Krayola
• CD/LP (Drag City) 1994

with Indicate

• Whelm
• CD (Touch) 1995

with Mimir

• 7″ (Brainwashed) 2005
• clear vinyl
• first 50 copies include bonus DVD-R

• Mimir
• LP (Streamline) 1999
• limited edition of 950 on green vinyl

• Mimyriad
• CD (Streamline) 1994
• LP (Streamline) 1999
• the album was remixed/re-edited for the 1999 vinyl reissue
• the reissue is a limited edition of 550 copies

with Illusion of Safety

• Water Seeks Its Own Level
• CD (Silent) 1994
• used as sample source only

• Distraction
• CD (Odd Size) 1994
• O’Rourke provides rhythm programming and guitar on “Helen Your Brain, Forever since about Breakfast”
• also used as sample source on one other track

• Probe
• CD (Staalplaat) 1993
• Dan Burke has described this CD as a “50/50 collaboration” between him and O’Rourke

• The False Mirror
• 7″ (a state of flux) 1993
• on one track only

• “Every Tyrant a City”
• on The Great New World In Environment and Acceleration comp
• CD (V2 Organisation) 1992

• Cancer
• CD (Tesco) 1992

• Inside Agitator
• CD (Complacency) 1992

• Historical
• CD (Staalplaat) 1991

• RVE
• cassette (Complacency) 1991

• “Helen Your Brain, Forever since about Breakfast”
• on Chicago Loops comp
• CD (Sub Up) 1991
• plays guitar

• Forced Cohesion
• casssette (Complacency) 1990

• Finite Material Context
• double cassette (Complacency) 1990

• IOS Live/Holeist
• split LP with Holeist
• LP (Complacency) 1989

• Finance And Ideology
• CS (Complacency) 1989

with the Elvis Messiahs

• The Messiahs
• “Houdini”
• on Patience is a Virtue comp
• cassette (Sound of Pig) 1990?

• The Messiahs
• Dead
• cassette (Sound of Pig) 1989?
• personnel on side one (live at the Cubby Bear): Warren Fischer, Jeff Kowalkowski, Tim Mulvenna, Jim O’Rourke, Al Perna, Erin DeWeese; personnel on side two (live on WZRD): Pete Adamczyk, Warren Fischer, Thymme Jones, Jim O’Rourke

• The Elvis Messiahs
• EE
• cassette (Sound of Pig) 1988?

• The Elvis Messiahs
• “Hound Dog”
• on His Master’s Voice comp
• cassette (RRRecords) 1988?

• The Elvis Messiahs
• “Metamorphosis of Houdini”
• on Passed Normal 3 comp
• cassette (Fot) 1988

• The Elvis Messiahs
• Freedom of Presence
• cassette ([?]) 1988?

Appearances

• Miss High Heel
• The Family’s Hot Daughter
• CD (Blossoming Noise) forthcoming
• recorded in 1995 and 1996; other participants include Weasel Walter, Jim Magas, Azita Youssefi, Jodie McCann, Nandor Nevai, Chuck Falzone, Bill Pisarri, Tom Smith

• Kahimi Karie
• Nunki
• CD (Victor Japan) forthcoming
• O’Rourke composed, arranged, played, produced, and mixed three tracks (the lyrics and singing are by Karie); he plays guitar and bass on all three tracks and piano on one

• Otomo Yoshihide
• Prisoner
• soundtrack CD (Headz) 2007
• the credits say “music by Otomo Yoshihide with improvisation by all musicians”
• O’Rourke appears on all tracks playing acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and/or synthesizer; one track is O’Rourke solo on acoustic guitar
• see http://www.japanimprov.com/indies/headz/prisoner.html for full track listing and personnel info
• a Japanese-language website for the film, http://www.prisoner-m.com/, includes photos of the recording session
• IMDB has further information about the film, directed by Masao Adachi, at http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0924004/

• Jim O’Rourke
• Corona: Tokyo Realization
• CD (Columbia Japan) 2006
• contains two performances of Toru Takemitsu’s “Corona for pianist(s)” (1962), played by O’Rourke on piano, harpsichord, and organ
• to be performed, Takemitsu’s score must be “realized”, either ahead of time or improvisationally; what O’Rourke plays here is his own “Tokyo realization” of the piece; there is also a well known “London version” recorded by Roger Woodward in 1973, reissued on CD in 2006 by Explore Records
• ordinarily classical releases are credited to the composer with a secondary credit for the performer, but Takemitsu’s publishers requested the album be released under O’Rourke’s name (however, I have not listed it with O’Rourke’s true solo releases)
• the disc is listed in some online databases under the working title Translate Takemitu; the missing S is not an error, but an alternate, much less commonly used romanization of Takemitsu’s name, sometimes used by Takemitsu’s publishers

• Beth Orton
• Comfort of Strangers
• CD (Astralwerks) 2006
• O’Rourke plays a variety of instruments and sings backup; he also produced the album and co-wrote two songs
• there is also a limited edition 2CD version with five extra songs with which O’Rourke was not involved

• Perfect Partner
• film 2005
• soundtrack LP (Electra) 2005
• music on one side only; etching by Kim Gordon and JD Walsh on flip side
• film is by Kim Gordon, Tony Oursler, and Phil Morrison
• music is by Tim Barnes, Kim Gordon, Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, and O’Rourke
• music mixed by O’Rourke
• the LP is only available as part of a box set also including prints and other items, in a limited edition of 500 copies; see http://www.electra-productions.com/editions.html for more information

• Tony Conrad with Faust
• Outside the Dream Syndicate Alive
• CD (Table of the Elements) 2005
• O’Rourke plays violin
• recorded live in London on February 18, 1995

• Richard Thompson
• Grizzly Man Soundtrack
• CD (Cooking Vinyl) 2005
• soundtrack to film Grizzly Man
• O’Rourke plays guitar, piano, and accordion, provides some incidental vocals, and co-wrote some pieces, though much is improvised
• the other musicians are Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith, Danielle DeGruttola, and John Hanes
• the DVD of the film includes an hour-long documentary on the making of the soundtrack; O’Rourke is seen and heard speaking a few times, playing instruments, adjusting the preparations of his prepared piano, and clowning around in the “mixing maze”

• Nancy Sinatra
• Nancy Sinatra
• CD (Sanctuary) 2004
• O’Rourke plays bass on two songs

• Mats Gustafsson
• Hidros 3
• CD (Smalltown Supersound) 2004
• LP (Smalltown Supersound) forthcoming
• O’Rourke is credited with “live mix” and “making it work”
• the LP will be released in 2005 and will be a different mix, made by O’Rourke; according to the label’s website “in many ways this will be a new and different album than the CD that is out now”

• Male Slut
• “Industrial Noise Blues”
• on Tracks and Fields
• comp 2CD (Kill Rock Stars) 2004
• lineup is Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, and O’Rourke

• Wilco
• A Ghost Is Born
• CD (Nonesuch) 2004
• O’Rourke plays on most tracks, also co-produces

• Nurse With Wound/Jim O’Rourke
• Angry Eelectric Finger 1: Tape Monkey Mooch
• CD/LP (Beta-Lactam Ring) 2004
• original material by Nurse With Wound, “dissected, fertilized, and regrown” by O’Rourke
• LP is limited edition of 600 copies

• Nurse With Wound
• Angry Eelectric Finger (Spitch’ Cock One)
• CD (United Dairies) 2004
• one of four tracks on CD (“Tape Monk”) is a collaboration with O’Rourke
• “first 2000 CDs in a full color digipack” according to the label
• I believe this is a portion of the same material later issued on full on Beta-Lactam Ring

• Arnold Dreyblatt
• Point Source/Lapse
• one-sided LP (Table of the Elements) 2003
• O’Rourke plays drums on one of two tracks
• same track also recorded by O’Rourke, live at the Lounge Ax, Chicago, in 1997

• Sonny Vincent
• The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
• CD (Acetate) 2003
• O’Rourke and Thurston Moore guest on one track

• Sue Garner
• Shadyside
• CD (Thrill Jockey) 2002
• O’Rourke recorded two tracks and guests on onetrack

• Nobukazu Takemura
• Songbook
• CD (Childisc) 2001
• CD/2LP (Bubble Core) 2003
• O’Rourke plays guitar on one track

• Tramps, Traitors and Little Devils: A Drag City Supersession
• CD/LP (Drag City) 2001
• other musicians inclue Neil Michael Hagerty, Bill Callahan, Edith Frost, Tara Key, Rian Murphy, and others

• John Oswald
• 69 Plunderphonics 96
• 2CD (Seeland) 2001
• O’Rourke plays guitar on one track

• Stereolab
• Sound-Dust
• CD (Elektra) 2001
• 2LP (Duophonic) 2001
• O’Rourke engineered and mixed 5 tracks
• he is also credited with guitar, keyboards, vibes, marimba, glockenspiel, electronics, tape echos, and delays
• the 2LP release was a limited edition of 1800 copies
• there were also handmade “book” editions of the CD and 2LP (1200 copies each)

• Stereolab
• Captain Easychord
• EP/CD-EP (Elektra UK) 2001
• three of four tracks produced by O’Rourke
• I haven’t seen the credits, but I assume that the tracks are from the Sound-Dust sessions and that O’Rourke also plays on them

• Phill Niblock
• Touch Works, For Hurdy Gurdy and Voice
• CD (Touch) 2001
• one of the three tracks (“Hurdy Hurry”) based on samples of O’Rourke playing hurdy gurdy

• Lee Ranaldo
• “El Oido (The Ear)”
• on Sonic Boom: The Art of Sound comp
• book/2CD (Hayward Gallery) 2000
• the book is the catalog for a sound art exhibition in London,