List of experimental musicians

The following is a list of notable experimental musicians:

In alphabetical order by artist's name

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

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

K-P

• 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"

Q-Z

• 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

See also

• List of musicians by genre