Jim O'Rourke (musician)

Jim O'Rourke ( born January 18, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American experimental musician, record producer, film composer and short film director.

Work

O'Rourke's work is among others influenced by jazz music, classical music, noise, drone, and guitar rock music and - with the exception of classical music - affect his own publications virtually any of these genres.

In addition to its generally much more experimental solo work was and he is also active in various bands and side projects. He published together with Jeff Tweedy and Glen Kotche of Wilco two albums as Loose Fur for Wilco in turn produced O'Rourke their album A Ghost Is Born in 2004, for which he alternative to the Grammy Award in the category " Best Music Album " was excellent. He was a member of Mimir, a project by Christoph Heeman, Andrew his brother Martin (both also known as deer Not supervisors sofa), and Edward Ka - Spel.

With David Grubbs along O'Rourke ran the project Gastr del Sol. Between 1999 and 2005 he was a member of Sonic Youth, where he played bass and guitar, and was responsible for the shooting. He left the band to concentrate on his work as a short film director, but also continues to work with individual members of the band, especially with Thurston Moore.

As a film composer, he was involved among other things in 2002 in the film Love Liza, and Koji Wakamatsu's 2007 United Red Army.

Jim O'Rourke now lives in Tokyo.

Discography (selection)

Solo:

• Disengage, 1992, Staalplaat
• Bad Timing, 1998, Drag City
• Eureka, in 1999, Domino
• Halfway to a threeway, EP, 2000, Drag City
• I'm Happy and I'm Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4, 2001, Mego
• Insignificance, 2001, Drag City
• Long Night, 2009 Streamline
• The Visitor, 2009, Drag City

• Born Again in the USA, 2006, Drag City