Tom Dissevelt
About the artist
Tom Dissevelt (1921 - 1989) was a Dutch jazz musician and electronic music pioneer. His mixture of jazz and experimental electronics is most widely-known in the soundtrack for the Oscar-winning short film "Glas" (1958). During the war years Dissevelt studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In 1955 he was hired as a bass player and arranger for the Dutch jazz orchestra The Skymasters. During this time he became interested in 12-tone serialism and listened often to the German radio
Top songs
- Song of the Second Moon
- Syncopation
- Whirling
- Sonik Re-Entry
- Vibration
- Drifting
- Moon Maid
- Orbit Aurora
- Gamelan
- Ignition
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- Whirling (US title: Sonik Re-Entry)
- Atlantic
- Twilight Ozone
- Anchor Chains
- Visitor from Inner Space (Vibration)
- The Ray Makers
- Zanzi
- Syncopation (US title: Orbit Aurora)
- Gamelan (1963/64)
- Woomerangs
- Drifting (US title: Moon Maid)
- Vibration (US title: The Visitor From Inner Space)
- Trois directions etudes pathetique
- Trois directions etudes aux chemins de fer
- Pacific Dawn
- Pianoforte
- Gold and Lead
- Mexican Mirror
- Seconds to Eternity
- Spearhead
- Re-Entry
- Tropicolours (Early Version)
- Fantasy In Orbit: Gamelan
- Waltzing Matilda
- Tropicolours
- Fantasy In Orbit: Pacific Dawn
- Intersection
- Fantasy In Orbit: Ignition
- Fantasy In Orbit: Atlantic
- Fantasy In Orbit: Tropicolour
- Song of the Second Moon - Original Version
- Fantasy In Orbit: Mexican Mirror
- Fantasy In Orbit: Waltzing Mathilda
- Fantasy In Orbit: Zanzi
- Fantasy In Orbit: Anchor Chains
- Fantasy In Orbit: Re-Entry
- Fantasy In Orbit: Spearhead
- Intersection (US title: Twilight Ozone)
- Fantasy In Orbit: Gold & Lead
- Fantasy In Orbit: Woomerangs
- 12-Tone Composition for the Skymasters (As Used In 'Intersection')
- The Visitor from Inner Space
- Fantasy In Orbit: Seconds To Eternity
- Syncopation (Alternate Version)
- Syncopation - Alternate Version
- Spearheads
- Tropicolour
- Waltzing Mathilda
- Syncopation - Remastered 2026
- glas (henstra, 1959)
- Tropicolours - Early Version
- Waltzing Mathilda - Early Version
- Intersection - Early Version
- Intersection (Early Version)
- Quiz Tune For Vara Television
- Syncopation (Orbit Aurora)
- Song Of The Second Moon - Remastered 2026
- Drifting (Moon Maid)
- Vibration - Remastered 2026
- Drifting - Remastered 2026
- Intersection (Fantasy For Electronic Sound And Orchestra) - Remastered 2026
- Mechanical Motions - Remastered 2026
- Vibration (The Visitor from Inner Space)
- Whirling - Remastered 2026
- Visitor From Inner Space
- Whirling (Sonic R-Entry)
- Intersection (Twilight Ozone)
- Sonic Re-entry
- Pianoforte - Remastered 2026
- Waltzing Mathilda (Early Version)
- Tropicolours (From 'Fantasy In Orbit') (Early Version)
- Waltzing Mathilda (From 'Fantasy In Orbit') (Early Version)
- Mechanical Motions
- Intersection (Fantasy For Electronic Sound And Orchestra)
- Multi-Layered Laughter
- Fantasy In Orbit - Ignition
- Glas
- Fantasy In Orbit - Atlantic
- Fantasy In Orbit - Spearhead
- Fantasy In Orbit - Anchor Chains
- Fantasy In Orbit - Gold and Lead
- Fantasy In Orbit - Mexican Mirror
- Gamelan (1963-4)
- Fantasy In Orbit - Gamelan
- Fantasy In Orbit - Zanzi
- Fantasy In Orbit - Waltzing Mathilda
- Fantasy In Orbit - Pacific Dawn
- Fantasy In Orbit - Woomerangs
- Fantasy In Orbit - Seconds to Eternity
- Syncopation (US: Orbit Aurora)
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