Overview
Jim O'Rourke
Known For
Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero
In May 1997, Tim Taylor, creative force behind the beloved...
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
Feature documentary on the pioneering life and work of iconoclastic...
Kikoe
Experimental documentary about Japanese experimental musician Otomo Yoshihide. Includes interviews...
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
With Herzog's direction, Richard Thompson leads a small group of...
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing...
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at...
Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth
This portrait of the New York band Sonic Youth marking...
Biography
Jim O'Rourke (born January 18, 1969) is an American musician and record producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene. Around 2000, he relocated to New York before moving on to Tokyo, Japan, where he currently resides. O’Rourke is best known for his numerous solo and collaborative projects, many of which are entirely instrumental, and for his tenure as a member of Sonic Youth from 1999 to 2005. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia