List of experimental musicians
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The following is a small list of experimental musicians:
- Sawat Dii Khap - short-lived Filipino band
- Analuseos - noise music
- Aphex Twin - electronic music
- ASSACRE - experimental music and performance art
- Autechre - electronic music
- Robert Ashley - totalist television opera
- Derek Bailey - experimental guitarist
- Conny Bauer - free improvisation, trombonist
- Boredoms - noise music
- Caroline M Breece - electroacoustic composer
- Michael G. Breece - outsider sound artist
- Baschet Brothers - sound sculpture and fountains
- Gavin Bryars - indeterministic orchestration
- Graham Bowers - avant-progressive, avant-garde, ambient, sound theatre
- John Cage - aleatoric music
- Can - 'Krautrock' pioneers
- Captain Beefheart - Rock, blues-rock, free improvisation
- Joseph Celli - video, extended technique, improvisation
- Christopher - Canadian ethno metallic ambience & vocal gender bender
- Coil - sidereal sound, scrying, hallucinogens, ANS, etc.
- Nicolas Collins -
- Henry Cow - Rock in Opposition
- Crass - anarchist punk rock band with avant-garde influences and elements incorporated
- Alvin Curran -
- Stuart Dempster - reverberant spaces, just intonation, extended trombone techniques
- Delia Derbyshire - pre-synthesizer electronic music pioneer
- Arnold Dreyblatt - just intonation
- Kevin Drumm - experimental guitarist
- Einstuerzende Neubauten - German industrial music
- Dror Elimelech
- Brian Eno - ambient music, algorithmic composition
- David First - drones and interference beats
- Fred Frith - free improvisation, Rock in Opposition
- Ellen Fullman - Long String Instrument
- gaop - Israeli noise \ avantgarde \ dark ambient \ post industrial \ minimalistic \ experimental composer and artist
- Gerechtigkeits Liga - experimental, post industrial, tribal rythm soundscapes
- Bernhard Gál - sound installation, multi-media, composer and artist
- Diamanda Galás
- Lejaren Hiller - first computer composition Illiac Suite (1957) with Leonard Issacson
- Fred Van Hove - piano
- The Hub - interactive real time computer network: John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Phil Stone, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Mark Trayle
- Jerry Hunt - computers and ritualistic performance
- Spike Jones
- Meri von KleinSmid - Composer, sound artist and phonographer
- The lepracy - avant-garde-core
- Annea Lockwood - environmental sounds
- Alvin Lucier - acoustical phenomena
- The Mars Volta - Experimental, Post-Rock, Jazz, Progressive Rock Group
- Merzbow - noise music
- Moondog
- Gordon Mumma - live electronics
- Ben Neill - sound installations, mutantrumpet
- Phill Niblock - minimal music composer
- Pauline Oliveros - meditative music, just intonation, reverberant spaces, Expanded Instrument System
- Yoko Ono - "happenings"
- John Oswald - plunderphonics
- Nam June Paik - "happenings", action music
- Paul Panhuysen - string and other sound installations
- Michael Prime - biofeedback from plants
- Harry Partch - just intonation, drama, opera
- Sun Ra
- Vladimir Ussachevsky - electronic music pioneer
- Raymond Scott - em pioneer; pioneer of the music sequencer
- Steve Reich - multimedia documentary opera
- Roger Reynolds - multimedia, spatial
- Kelly Roberti - bassist, composer, arranger, educator
- Ernesto Rodrigues - composer, free improvisation, free jazz
- David Rosenboom - biofeedback (human)
- Eric Ross - composer, free improvisation, free jazz, theremin
- The Ruins - Japanese avant-punk, worked with Derek Bailey
- Pierre Boulez - Musique concrète
- Pierre Schaeffer - Musique concrète
- Midara Gokoro - Musique concrète, Ambient house
- Morton Subotnick - multi-media, electronics
- The synthetic dream foundation - experimental electronic music composer
- Richard Teitelbaum - electronics, extended technique, improvisation
- Throbbing Gristle - noise, "happenings", ritual
- Spagirus - Experimental drone artist.
- Sonic Arts Union - Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman
- Sonic Youth - American post-punk/noise rock band
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Multimedia, Musique concrète
- Sunn o))) - drone metal band
- Swans - Originated in the New York No Wave scene; have gone from avant-punk to industrial to prog rock to folk to post-rock
- James Tenney - alternate tunings, perceptual phenomena
- Edgard Varèse - Musique concrète
- The Velvet Underground - drones, taboo subjects
- Iannis Xenakis - stochastic
- Richard Youngs - postmodern minimalist
- Frank Zappa - rock, jazz, "classical", freak out
- Evan Ziporyn - gamelan, Bang on a Can
- John Zorn - postmodern free jazz
See also
- List of musicians by genre
- Free improvisation (includes a further list of musicians whose work might be considered 'experimental')
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