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American indie rock and avant-garde musician, composer and producer Jim O’Rourke has been a key component in the increasing overlap of the American and European music , working in everything from and to and and building many a bridge in between. A Chicago native, his work has found equal luck with experimental jazz and fanatics, room denizens, and bedroom experimentalists, and has had the resultant effect of cross-pollinating many otherwise isolated compositional communities. Dealing most often with prepared guitar in improvisational group settings, O’Rourke has also released a fair bit of material as a soloist, although more often in the electro-acoustic/ vein. He’s collaborated with such contemporary improv heroes as Derek Bailey, Henry Kaiser, Eddie Prevost and Keith Rowe (of English group AMM), KK Null, David Jackman (Organum), and early experimentalists Faust. O’Rourke is also engaged in an ongoing exploration of as a member of Gastr Del Sol, who’ve released albums through the Teen Beat and Table of the Elements labels.

Beginning with guitar at the age of 6, it wasn’t until his collegiate career at DePaul University that O’Rourke’s interest in the less obvious possibilities of the instrument led him through the early catalogs of the post-classical and electro-acoustic traditions. While at DePaul, O’Rourke completed much of the work that would constitute his first few releases.
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