Jim O'Rourke

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Jim O'Rourke

Sound 57 January 18, 1969

Chicago, Illinois, USA

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…

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Drive My Car

Drive My Car

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Grizzly Man

Grizzly Man

7.5 2005 Movie
Demonlover

Demonlover

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Love Liza

Love Liza

6.4 2002 Movie
Eureka

Eureka

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My Man

My Man

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United Red Army

United Red Army

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Things Behind the Sun

Things Behind the Sun

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Dear Stranger

Dear Stranger

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Mongoland

Mongoland

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Gambling, Gods and LSD

Gambling, Gods and LSD

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The Creeping Garden

The Creeping Garden

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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

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones

    Movie Music

  2. 2025
    Dear Stranger

    Movie Original Music Composer

  3. 2023
    Hands That Bind

    Movie Original Music Composer

  4. 2023
    Yoko

    Movie Original Music Composer

  5. 2021
    Drive My Car

    Movie Musician

  6. 2021
    ML-AP

    Movie Music

  7. 2020
    from my kitchen window the building was blinking

    Movie Sound

  8. 2019
    Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero

    Movie Self

  9. 2018
    Hitokara ヒトカラ

    Movie Music

  10. 2018
    Until First Light

    Movie Original Music Composer

  11. 2017
    On Generation and Corruption

    Movie Music

  12. 2016
    The Thing That Stalks the Fields

    Movie Associate Producer

  13. 2016
    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

    Movie Himself

  14. 2014
    The Creeping Garden

    Movie Original Music Composer

  15. 2014
    My Man

    Movie Original Music Composer

  16. 2013
    The End of Summer

    Movie Original Music Composer

More credits
  1. 2012
    Magnetic Reconnection

    Movie Music

  2. 2012
    Petrel Hotel Blue

    Movie Original Music Composer

  3. 2012
    Generator

    Movie Music

  4. 2010
    Sketches of Kaitan City

    Movie Original Music Composer

  5. 2009
    Still in Cosmos

    Movie Sound Designer

  6. 2009
    The World

    Movie Original Music Composer

  7. 2009
    Kikoe

    Movie

  8. 2008
    The Seasons

    Movie Music

  9. 2007
    H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories

    Movie Original Music Composer

  10. 2007
    United Red Army

    Movie Original Music Composer

  11. 2007
    Muhlifein

    Movie Himself

  12. 2007
    Prisoner/Terrorist

    Movie

  13. 2007
    Elements of Nothing

    Movie Music

  14. 2006
    Her Noise - The Making Of

    Movie

  15. 2006
    Noise

    Movie Self

  16. 2006
    No is E

    Movie Music

  17. 2005
    In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

    Movie Self

  18. 2005
    Grizzly Man

    Movie Musician

  19. 2005
    Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes

    Movie

  20. 2004
    not yet

    Movie Director

  21. 2003
    Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

    Movie Performer

  22. 2003
    Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

    Movie

  23. 2002
    Love Liza

    Movie Original Music Composer

  24. 2002
    Demonlover

    Movie Original Music Composer