List of experimental musicians

The following is a list of notable experimental musicians:



"In alphabetical order by artist's name"

*Laurie Anderson - electronic music
*Robert Ashley - totalist television opera
*Nigel Ayers - (UK) sound art, sound collage, member of Nocturnal Emissions
*Derek Bailey - guitarist
*Conny Bauer - free improvisation, trombonist
*David Behrman - live electronics
*Burkhard Beins - percussion and objects
*Luciano Berio - avant-garde, serial music, twelve-tone, contemporary classical, electronic
*Black Dice - noise rock, ambient
*Boredoms - noise music
*Pierre Boulez - serial music
*Graham Bowers - avant-garde, ambient, sound theatre
*Glenn Branca - guitar, noise ensemble
*Anthony Braxton - avant-garde, saxophone, clarinet, composer
*George Brecht - performance art
*Gavin Bryars - indeterministic orchestration
*Buckethead - guitarist
*John Cage - aleatoric music
*Neil Campbell
*Can - Krautrock pioneers
*Captain Beefheart - experimental rock, psychedelic rock
*Cornelius Cardew - British composer
*Eugene Chadbourne - guitarist, shockabilly
*Les Claypool - bass guitarist, experimental rock, experimental funk
*Coil - sidereal sound, scrying, hallucinogens, ANS.
*Nicolas Collins
*Controlled Bleeding - Paul Lemos
*Clayton Counts - noise, electroacoustic composer
*Alvin Curran - found sounds
*Current 93 - coined the term "apocalyptic folk"
*Dan Deacon
*Dead Air Fresheners - masked, anonymous chance music or indeterminate music ensemble
*Stuart Dempster - reverberant spaces, just intonation, extended trombone techniques
*Delia Derbyshire - pre-synthesizer electronic music pioneer
*Arnold Dreyblatt - just intonation
*Kevin Drumm - guitarist
*Judy Dunaway
*Trevor Dunn - bassist
*Earth - drone metal
*Einstürzende Neubauten - German industrial music
*Leif Elggren
*Brian Eno - ambient music, algorithmic composition
*Experimental Audio Research - ambient, synth/noise
*Faust - Krautrock experimentalists
*Morton Feldman
*Fifty Foot Hose - pre-synthesizer electronic rock pioneers
*Henry Flynt - violinist, guitarist, inventor of Electronic Hillbilly Music
*David First - drones and interference beats
*Robert Fripp - guitarist
*Fred Frith - free improvisation, Rock in Opposition
*John Frusciante - avant-garde, stream of consciousness
*Ellen Fullman - long string Instrument
*Bernhard Gál - sound installation, multi-media, composer and artist
*Diamanda Galás - vocalist, composer
*The Hafler Trio
*Carl Michael von Hausswolff
*Henry Cow - rock in opposition
*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
*The Hub - interactive real time computer network: John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Phil Stone, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Mark Trayle
*Don Joyce - sound collage
*Gabby La La - multi-instrumentalist
*George Lewis – trombone, composition, improvisation, electronic music, computer music
*Annea Lockwood - environmental sounds
*Alvin Lucier - (USA) acoustical phenomena
*Melt Banana - noise rock
*Merzbow - (Japan) noise music
*Mr. Bungle
*Moondog - composer
*Gordon Mumma - live electronics
*Roberto Musci- guitar & sampler
*Muslimgauze - (UK)
*Ben Neill - sound installations, mutantrumpet
*Phill Niblock - minimal music composer
*Nihilist Spasm Band - noise music
*noCore - noise music, live electronic music performer
*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
*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) just intonation, drama, opera
*Mike Patton - experimental rock, various genres, noise music, experimental electronica, experimental vocals
*Steve Reich - (USA) multimedia documentary opera
*The Residents - (USA)
*Roger Reynolds - multimedia, spatial
*Boyd Rice - (USA) noise music, ambient music
*Terry Riley - (USA) multimedia minimalist composer
*Ernesto Rodrigues - composer, free improvisation, free jazz
*David Rosenboom - biofeedback (human)
*Keith Rowe - British guitarist
*Ruins - Japanese avant-punk
*Kristoffer Rygg - Frontman and main composer of Ulver
*Jessica Rylan - home-made analog synthesizers, voice
*Pierre Schaeffer - musique concrète
*Raymond Scott - electronic music pioneer; pioneer of the music sequencer
*Shaking Ray Levis - free improvisation
*Elliott Sharp - multi-instrumentalist
*Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - avant-rock, surrealist imagery, use home-made instruments made by band member Dan Rathbun.
*Sonic Youth - American post-punk/noise rock band
*Karlheinz Stockhausen - multimedia, musique concrète, electronic music
*Morton Subotnick - multi-media, electronics
*Sun Ra- keyboards, free jazz
*Sunn o))) - drone metal band
*Sutcliffe Jügend - noise music
*Richard Teitelbaum - electronics, extended technique, improvisation
*James Tenney - alternate tunings, perceptual phenomena
*Throbbing Gristle - industrial music, noise, shock lyrics
*Vladimir Ussachevsky - electronic music pioneer
*Jozef van Wissem - composer, lutist
*Edgard Varèse - musique concrète
*The Velvet Underground - drones, taboo subjects
*Whitehouse - noise music
*Iannis Xenakis - stochastic
*La Monte Young - just intonation, minimalist, drone music
*Richard Youngs - postmodern minimalist
*Frank Zappa - experimental rock, psychedelic rock
*Evan Ziporyn - (Bang on a Can),gamelan
*John Zorn - postmodern, various genres
*Zoviet France - British avant-garde band

See also

*List of musicians by genre
*Free improvisation (includes a further list of musicians whose work might be considered 'experimental')

References