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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 music
Alice Glass - (Canada) Experimental, witch house, noise
Acid Mothers Temple – Experimental psychedelic rock
Arca – (Venezuela) Experimental, Electronic music
Aphex Twin - IDM, experimental, ambient, glitch
Anaiis – (French) (Senegal) Experimental musician
Miguel Álvarez-Fernández – experimental radio and sound installations
Giulio Aldinucci – experimental
electroacoustic composer
Tori Amos – Alternative, Baroque pop, Experimental
Laurie Anderson –
electronic music
Ron Anderson – noise and progressive
Animal Collective – experimental music collective
Frédéric Acquaviva – (France) Experimental music
Robert Ashley –
totalist television opera
Cities Aviv –
experimental hip-hop , post-genre
Nigel Ayers – (UK)
sound art , sound collage, member of
Nocturnal Emissions
Derek Bailey –
guitarist
Beck – (USA)
Anti-folk and experimental music
David Behrman – live electronics
Björk – Alternative, avant-garde, experimental, electronica
Bladee – Cloud rap, experimental pop
Boards of Canada – ambient, downtempo, IDM, electronica
Boredoms – Japanese noise rock
Burkhard Beins – percussion and objects
Kate Bush – Art Pop/Rock, Experimental Rock, Alternative Rock, Baroque pop
Buckethead – guitarist
Butthole Surfers – Alternative rock, Experimental, Avant-Garde
Glenn Branca – guitar, noise ensemble
George Brecht – performance art
Bull of Heaven – minimalism, noise, drone, avant-garde jazz, modern classical
Gavin Bryars –
indeterministic orchestration
John Cage –
indeterminate music
Can – Krautrock band
Captain Beefheart – avant-garde blues artist.
Charli XCX – experimental pop star.
Cornelius Cardew – British composer
Rhys Chatham – guitar, noise ensemble
Clipping. –
experimental hip-hop
Coil – sidereal sound,
scrying ,
hallucinogens ,
ANS ,
glitches
Nicolas Collins
Loren Mazzacane Connors
Controlled Bleeding – Paul Lemos
David Cope – composer, computerist
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
Death Grips –
experimental hip-hop
Deftones –
experimental rock
Stuart Dempster –
reverberant spaces,
just intonation , extended
trombone techniques
Earl Sweatshirt - Experimental Hip Hop
The Dillinger Escape Plan – experimental 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
Marc Edwards – free jazz
Leif Elggren
Brian Eno –
ambient music , algorithmic composition
Experimental Audio Research –
ambient , synth/noise
Carolina Eyck –
thereminist
F–J
Jean-Baptiste Favory – musique concrète & electronic
Florian-Ayala Fauna – musician, music producer
[1]
FKA Twigs – (UK) musician, songwriter, producer, director
Morton Feldman – composer
Flume – experimental electronic producer
The Flying Lizards – (UK) experimental new wave group
Flying Lotus – hip hop, IDM, jazz, electronica
Henry Flynt – violinist, guitarist, inventor of Electronic Hillbilly Music
David Fenech – musique concrète & experimental pop music
David First –
drones and interference
beats
John Frusciante – guitarist, Rock Musician, Electronica, Hip Hop, Avent-Garde
Cor Fuhler – improvising multi instrumentalist, composer, instrument builder
Ellen Fullman – long string Instrument
Diamanda Galás –
vocalist ,
composer
Roopam Garg –
guitarist ,
composer
Qubais Reed Ghazala – musician, composer, father of
circuit-bending
Seppe Gebruers - Quartertone pianist, improvisor and composer
Philip Glass – minimalism, composer
Percy Grainger – composer and performer
Eli Gras
Grimes – experimental electronica, synthpop
Bruce Haack – experimental electronic composer
Half Japanese – experimental indie rock
Richard D. James – experimental, ambient, electronic music, techno
The Hafler Trio
Lou Harrison – (USA) gamelan influenced
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Joseph Haydn – composer
Pierre Henry –
musique concrète
Lejaren Hiller – first computer composition Illiac Suite (1957) with
Leonard Issacson
Susumu Hirasawa
Christopher Hobbs – experimental and
systems music composer
Tim Hodgkinson – English experimental music composer and performer
Gustav Holst – English composer
Emily Howell – computer composer
The Hub – interactive real-time computer network:
John Bischoff ,
Tim Perkis ,
Chris Brown ,
Phil Stone , Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Mark Trayle
I 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
iwrestledabearonce
JPEGMAFIA – experimental hip-hop
K–P
KK Null – noise rock
Kommissar Hjuler – cut-up collages
Anne La Berge – flute, improvisation, electronics, composition
André Éric Létourneau – gamelan, flute, composition, chance-operations, electronic music, microtonal music
George E. Lewis – trombone, composition, improvisation, electronic music, computer music
Steve Lieberman – American punk bassist, flutist called The Gangsta Rabbi
A Life of Science – Arizona based electronic band
Lightning Bolt – noise rock
Franz Liszt – composer and performer
Annea Lockwood – environmental sounds
Alvin Lucier – (USA)
acoustical phenomena
John Lydon – (UK) singer
The Mars Volta – rock band
Malísima - ambient, glitch, IDM, noise, spoken word, abstract
Elio Martusciello – Italian experimental music composer and performer
Melvins – experimental
Meshuggah – extreme metal, experimental metal, progressive metal
Mama Baer – voice improvisation
Travis Miller - Experimental Artist
Miya Masaoka – composer and performer
Merzbow – (Japan)
noise music
Moondog –
composer
Gordon Mumma – live electronics
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
Midori (band) – (Japan) four-member jazz-punk fusion band
The Observatory – Singapore-based art-rock band
Obsil – (ITA) composition, electronic music
Olivier Messiaen – (France) composer and organist.
Pauline Oliveros – (USA) meditative music,
just intonation ,
reverberant spaces, Expanded Instrument System
Oneohtrix Point Never - (USA) electronic music, ambient music,
vaporwave
Yoko Ono – (UK, USA,
Japan )
happenings
Orange Monkey – (USA)
Ortiz Morales – (Spain) Experimental and noise music. Old kinematic synchronisms reconstructions.
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
Portishead – Bristol
Henri Pousseur – (Belgium) self-described as "experimental"[
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Q–Z
A.R. Rahman – (India) Film Music composer
Steve Reich – (USA)
multimedia
documentary
opera
Hans Reichel – Free improvisation musician and inventor of electro-acoustic instruments
Renaldo and the Loaf – (UK)
Dino Residbegovic – (BiH) experimental/live-electronic contemporary music composer
The Residents – (USA)
Boyd Rice – (USA)
noise music ,
ambient music
Terry Riley – (USA)
multimedia
minimalist composer
Ivette Román-Roberto – experimental vocalist
Cipriano de Rore – (Franco-Flemish)
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
Mathias Rehfeldt – experimental organist, composer
Giancarlo Schiaffini – Italian experimental music composer and performer
Elliott Sharp – multi-instrumentalist
Mark Stanley – guitarist, composer
Solage – composer
Sonic Youth – noise rock band
SOPHIE -
experimental pop
Soul Coughing – improvisational
jazz ,
hip hop , noise, and samples.
Howard Stelzer – (USA)
Sunn O))) –
drone metal band
Svoy – (USA, Russia) Universal Music Group producer/writer/artist,
[2] "...One of the most accomplished experimental electronic artists" —Timmy Kusnierek, Your EDM
[3]
Swans (band) – experimental rock,
no wave
Toru Takemitsu – composer
James Tenney – alternate
tunings , perceptual phenomena
They Might Be Giants – alternative rock, indie rock, experimental rock, children's music
Lynda Thomas – experimental musician and performer
Throbbing Gristle –
industrial music , noise, shock lyrics
Edgard Varèse – electronic music
Michael Waller – contemporary music
Ween – psychedelic and
lo-fi band that covers a multitude of genres
Xiu Xiu – experimental rock, noise pop, spoken word
Kathleen Yearwood – experimental, avant garde composer
La Monte Young –
just intonation ,
minimalist ,
drone music
Richard Youngs –
postmodern
minimalist
Frank Zappa – composer and performer
Evan Ziporyn – (
Bang on a Can ),
gamelan
John Zorn –
postmodern , various genres
Zazie Productions , composer and multimedia artist
Zoviet France – British band
See also
References