List of experimental musicians
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The following is a list of notable experimental musicians:
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In alphabetical order by artist's name
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[edit] A-E
- Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah - experimental music - Egypt
- Miguel Álvarez-Fernández - experimental radio and sound installations
- Laurie Anderson - electronic music
- Robert Ashley - totalist television opera
- Nigel Ayers - (UK) sound art, sound collage, member of Nocturnal Emissions
- Derek Bailey - guitarist
- David Behrman - live electronics
- Burkhard Beins - percussion and objects
- Glenn Branca - guitar, noise ensemble
- George Brecht - performance art
- Gavin Bryars - indeterministic orchestration
- John Cage - indeterminate music
- Can - Krautrock band
- Cornelius Cardew - British composer
- Rhys Chatham - guitar, noise ensemble
- Coil - sidereal sound, scrying, hallucinogens, ANS
- Nicolas Collins
- Loren Mazzacane Connors
- Controlled Bleeding - Paul Lemos
- Henry Cowell - (USA) tone clusters and Extended technique
- Alvin Curran - found sounds
- Current 93 - coined the term "apocalyptic folk"
- Chris Cutler - English experimental music composer and percussionist
- Dead Air Fresheners - masked, anonymous chance music or indeterminate music ensemble
- Stuart Dempster - reverberant spaces, just intonation, extended trombone techniques
- The Dillinger Escape Plan - experimental rock, avant-garde metal, mathcore
- Arnold Dreyblatt - just intonation
- Kevin Drumm - guitarist
- Iancu Dumitrescu- composer, founder of Hyperion group dedicated to experimental music
- Judy Dunaway
- Kyle Bobby Dunn - composer, arranger, experimental guitarist
- Trevor Dunn - bassist
- Leif Elggren
- Brian Eno - ambient music, algorithmic composition
- Experimental Audio Research - ambient, synth/noise
[edit] F-J
- Morton Feldman
- Henry Flynt - violinist, guitarist, inventor of Electronic Hillbilly Music
- David First - drones and interference beats
- Ellen Fullman - long string Instrument
- Diamanda Galás - vocalist, composer
- Philip Glass - minimalism
- The Hafler Trio
- Lou Harrison - (USA) gamelan influenced
- Carl Michael von Hausswolff
- Bruce Haack - experimental electronic composer
- Pierre Henry- musique concrète
- Katt Hernandez- violinist, microtonalist, improviser
- Lejaren Hiller - first computer composition Illiac Suite (1957) with Leonard Issacson
- Christopher Hobbs - experimental and systems music composer
- Tim Hodgkinson- English experimental music composer and performer
- The Hub - interactive real time computer network: John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Phil Stone, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Mark Trayle
- Martín Irigoyen - guitar, prepared guitar, multi-instrumentalist, steampunk, composer
- Charles Ives - quarter tones, tone clusters, aleatoric music, polyrhythm and polytonality
- Don Joyce - sound collage
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- KK Null
- Anne La Berge - flute, improvisation, electronics, composition
- André Éric Létourneau – gamelan, flute, composition, chance-operations, electronic music, microtonal music
- George Lewis – trombone, composition, improvisation, electronic music, computer music
- Steve Lieberman-(USA)- punk bassist, flutist called The Gangsta Rabbi
- Annea Lockwood - environmental sounds
- Alvin Lucier - (USA) acoustical phenomena
- Miya Masaoka - Composer and performer
- Merzbow - (Japan) noise music
- Moondog - composer
- Gordon Mumma - live electronics
- Roberto Musci- guitar & sampler
- Muslimgauze - (UK)
- Ben Neill - sound installations, mutantrumpet
- Phill Niblock - minimal music composer
- Nocturnal Emissions - (UK)
- Nurse With Wound - (UK and Ireland) collaborative solo project of artist Steven Stapleton
- Michael Nyman - (UK) composer and former critic and musicologist
- Obsil - (ITA) composition, electronic music
- Pauline Oliveros - (USA) meditative music, just intonation, reverberant spaces, Expanded Instrument System
- Yoko Ono - (UK, USA, Japan) happenings
- John Oswald - (USA) plunderphonics
- Nam June Paik - happenings, action music
- Paul Panhuysen - string and other sound installations
- Evan Parker - (UK) saxophonist
- Harry Partch - (USA) microtonal composer
- Henri Pousseur – (Belgium) self-described as "experimental"[cite this quote]
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- Steve Reich - (USA) multimedia documentary opera
- Hans Reichel - Free improvisation musician and inventor of electro-acoustic instruments
- Renaldo and the Loaf - (UK)
- The Residents - (USA)
- Boyd Rice - (USA) noise music, ambient music
- Terry Riley - (USA) multimedia minimalist composer
- David Rosenboom - biofeedback (human)
- Keith Rowe - British guitarist
- Luigi Russolo - Futurism and noise music
- Kristoffer Rygg - Frontman and main composer of Ulver
- Erik Satie - precursor of minimalism, dada
- Pierre Schaeffer - Musique concrète
- Elliott Sharp - multi-instrumentalist
- Sonic Youth - Noise rock band
- Howard Stelzer - (USA)
- Sunn o))) - drone metal band
- James Tenney - alternate tunings, perceptual phenomena
- Throbbing Gristle - industrial music, noise, shock lyrics
- Edgard Varèse - electronic music
- Vitamin S - An experimental musical collective
- La Monte Young - just intonation, minimalist, drone music
- Richard Youngs - postmodern minimalist
- Evan Ziporyn - (Bang on a Can), gamelan
- John Zorn - postmodern, various genres
- Zoviet France - British band