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This is a list of notable experimental musicians , in alphabetical order by surname.[vague
A-E
Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah – (Egypt) experimental musicAcid Mothers Temple – Experimental psychedelic rockMiguel Álvarez-Fernández – experimental radio and sound installationsGiulio Aldinucci – experimental electroacoustic composerTori Amos - Alternative, Baroque pop, ExperimentalLaurie Anderson – electronic music Ron Anderson – noise and progressiveRobert Ashley – totalist television operaNigel Ayers – (UK) sound art , sound collage, member of Nocturnal Emissions Derek Bailey – guitarist Beck - (USA) Anti-folk and experimental musicDavid Behrman – live electronicsBjörk - Alternative, avant-garde,experimental, electronicaBoards of Canada - ambient, downtempo, IDM, electronicaBoredoms – Japanese noise rockBurkhard Beins – percussion and objectsKate Bush - Art Pop/Rock, Experimental Rock, Alternative Rock, Baroque popBuckethead – guitaristButthole Surfers - Alternative rock, Experimental, Avant-GardeGlenn Branca – guitar, noise ensembleGeorge Brecht – performance artBull of Heaven – minimalism, noise, drone, avant-garde jazz, modern classicalGavin Bryars – indeterministic orchestrationJohn Cage – indeterminate musicCan – Krautrock bandCaptain Beefheart - avant-garde blues artist.Cornelius Cardew – British composerRhys Chatham – guitar, noise ensembleCoil – sidereal sound, scrying, hallucinogens, ANSNicolas Collins Loren Mazzacane Connors Controlled Bleeding – Paul LemosDavid Cope – composer, computeristHenry 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 percussionistDead Air Fresheners – masked, anonymous chance music or indeterminate music ensembleDeftones – experimental rock Stuart Dempster – reverberant spaces, just intonation , extended trombone techniquesThe Dillinger Escape Plan – experimental metal, mathcoreArnold Dreyblatt – just intonation Kevin Drumm – guitarist Iancu Dumitrescu – composer, founder of Hyperion group dedicated to experimental musicJudy Dunaway Kyle Bobby Dunn – composer, arranger, experimental guitaristTrevor Dunn – bassist Marc Edwards – free jazzLeif Elggren Brian Eno – ambient music , algorithmic compositionExperimental Audio Research – ambient , synth/noise
F-J
FKA Twigs - (UK) musician, songwriter, producerMorton Feldman – composerFlume - experimental electronic producerGrimes - experimental electronica, synthpopFlying Lotus - hip hop, IDM, jazz, electronicaHenry Flynt – violinist, guitarist, inventor of Electronic Hillbilly MusicDavid First – drones and interference beats Cor Fuhler - improvising multi instrumentalist, composer, instrument builderEllen Fullman – long string InstrumentDiamanda Galás – vocalist , composer Qubais Reed Ghazala - musician, composer, father of circuit-bending Philip Glass – minimalism, composerPercy Grainger – composer and performerBruce Haack – experimental electronic composerHalf Japanese – experimental indie rockRichard D. James - experimental, ambient, electronic music, technoThe Hafler Trio Lou Harrison – (USA) gamelan influencedCarl Michael von Hausswolff Joseph Haydn – composerPierre Henry – musique concrète Katt Hernandez – violinist , microtonalist , improviser Lejaren Hiller – first computer composition Illiac Suite (1957) with Leonard Issacson Susumu Hirasawa Christopher Hobbs – experimental and systems music composerTim Hodgkinson – English experimental music composer and performerGustav Holst – English composerEmily Howell – computer composerThe Hub – interactive real-time computer network: John Bischoff , Tim Perkis , Chris Brown , Phil Stone , Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Mark TrayleI Set My Friends on Fire 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, compositionAndré Éric Létourneau – gamelan, flute, composition, chance-operations, electronic music, microtonal musicGeorge Lewis – trombone, composition, improvisation, electronic music, computer musicSteve Lieberman – American punk bassist, flutist called The Gangsta RabbiLightning Bolt – noise rockFranz Liszt – composer and performerAnnea Lockwood – environmental soundsAlvin Lucier – (USA) acoustical phenomenaJohn Lydon – (UK) singerThe Mars Volta - rock bandElio Martusciello – Italian experimental music composer and performerMelvins – experimental metalMeshuggah – extreme metal, experimental metal, progressive metalMiya Masaoka – composer and performerMerzbow – (Japan) noise music Monexus - (South Africa)[1] Moondog – composer Gordon Mumma – live electronicsRoberto Musci – guitar & samplerMuslimgauze – (UK)Ben Neill – sound installations, mutantrumpetPhill Niblock – minimal music composerNocturnal Emissions – (UK)Nurse With Wound – (UK and Ireland) collaborative solo project of artist Steven StapletonMichael Nyman – (UK) composer and former critic and musicologistThe Observatory – Singapore-based art-rock bandObsil – (ITA) composition, electronic musicOlivier Messiaen - (France) composer and organist.Pauline Oliveros – (USA) meditative music, just intonation , reverberant spaces, Expanded Instrument System Yoko Ono – (UK, USA, Japan ) happenings John Oswald – (USA) plunderphonicsNam June Paik – happenings , action musicPaul Panhuysen – string and other sound installations Evan Parker – (UK) saxophonistHarry Partch – (USA) microtonal composerHenri Pousseur – (Belgium) self-described as "experimental"[This quote needs a citation
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Radiohead (UK) – alternative rock , experimental rock A.R.Rahman – (India) Film Music composerSteve Reich – (USA) multimedia documentary opera Hans Reichel – Free improvisation musician and inventor of electro-acoustic instrumentsRenaldo and the Loaf – (UK)The Residents – (USA)Boyd Rice – (USA) noise music , ambient music Terry Riley – (USA) multimedia minimalist composerCipriano de Rore – (Franco-Flemish)David Rosenboom – biofeedback (human)Keith Rowe – British guitaristLuigi Russolo – Futurism and noise music Kristoffer Rygg – Frontman and main composer of Ulver Erik Satie – precursor of minimalism , dada Pierre Schaeffer – Musique concrèteGiancarlo Schiaffini – Italian experimental music composer and performerElliott Sharp – multi-instrumentalistSolage – composerSonic Youth – noise rock bandHoward Stelzer – (USA)Sunn O))) – drone metal bandSvoy – (USA, Russia) Universal Music Group producer/writer/artist,[2] "...One of the most accomplished experimental electronic artists" —Timmy Kusnierek, Your EDM[3] Toru Takemitsu – composerJames Tenney – alternate tunings , perceptual phenomenaLynda Thomas - experimental musician and performerThrobbing Gristle – industrial music , noise, shock lyricsDavid Van Tieghem – percussionist, composer, sound designer, performance artistEdgard Varèse – electronic musicVitamin S – An experimental musical collectiveMichael Waller – contemporary musicWeen - psychedelic and lo-fi band that covers a multitude of genresKathleen Yearwood – experimental, avant garde composerLa Monte Young – just intonation , minimalist , drone music Richard Youngs – postmodern minimalist Frank Zappa – composer and performerEvan Ziporyn – (Bang on a Can ), gamelan John Zorn – postmodern , various genresZoviet France – British band
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