List of experimental musicians
The following is a list of notable experimental musicians with Wikipedia articles:
- Laurie Anderson - Electronic Music
- Aphex Twin - electronic music
- Autechre - electronic music
- Robert Ashley - totalist television opera
- Derek Bailey - experimental guitarist
- Conny Bauer - free improvisation, trombonist
- David Behrman - live electronics, Sonic Arts Union
- Black Dice - noise rock, ambient
- Boredoms - noise music
- Graham Bowers - avant-progressive, avant-garde, ambient, sound theatre
- Gavin Bryars - indeterministic orchestration
- Pierre Boulez - Musique concrète
- John Cage - aleatoric music
- Neil Campbell
- Can - 'Krautrock' pioneers
- Captain Beefheart - Rock, blues-rock, free improvisation
- Coil - sidereal sound, scrying, hallucinogens, ANS, etc.
- Current 93 - Coined the term "apocalyptic folk"
- Nicolas Collins
- Henry Cow - Rock in Opposition
- Alvin Curran
- Stuart Dempster - reverberant spaces, just intonation, extended trombone techniques
- Delia Derbyshire - pre-synthesizer electronic music pioneer
- R. Luke DuBois - electronic music / multimedia, laptop performer
- Arnold Dreyblatt - just intonation
- Kevin Drumm - experimental guitarist
- Leif Elggren
- Einstuerzende Neubauten - German industrial music
- Brian Eno - ambient music, algorithmic composition
- Experimental Audio Research - ambient, synth/noise
- Fifty Foot Hose - pre-synthesizer electronic rock pioneers
- David First - drones and interference beats
- Fred Frith - free improvisation, Rock in Opposition
- Ellen Fullman - Long String Instrument
- Gerechtigkeits Liga - experimental, post industrial, tribal rhythm soundscapes
- Bernhard Gál - sound installation, multi-media, composer and artist
- Diamanda Galás
- Carl Michael von Hausswolff
- Lejaren Hiller - first computer composition Illiac Suite (1957) with Leonard Issacson
- The Hub - interactive real time computer network: John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Phil Stone, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Mark Trayle
- Spike Jones
- Annea Lockwood - environmental sounds
- Alvin Lucier - acoustical phenomena
- Merzbow - noise music
- Moondog
- Gordon Mumma - live electronics
- Ben Neill - sound installations, mutantrumpet
- Phill Niblock - minimal music composer
- Nihilist Spasm Band - noise music
- Nocturnal Emissions
- Nurse With Wound - Collaborative solo project of artist Steven Stapleton
- Pauline Oliveros - meditative music, just intonation, reverberant spaces, Expanded Instrument System
- Yoko Ono - "happenings"
- John Oswald - plunderphonics
- Nam June Paik - "happenings", action music
- Paul Panhuysen - string and other sound installations
- Mike Patton - experimental rock, various genres, noise music, experimental electronica, experimental vocals
- Harry Partch - just intonation, drama, opera
- Sun Ra
- Steve Reich - multimedia documentary opera
- Roger Reynolds - multimedia, spatial
- Ernesto Rodrigues - composer, free improvisation, free jazz
- David Rosenboom - biofeedback (human)
- Eric Ross - composer, free improvisation, free jazz, theremin
- Keith Rowe - British gitarist
- The Ruins - Japanese avant-punk, worked with Derek Bailey
- Jessica Rylan - home-made analog synthesizers, voice
- Pierre Schaeffer - Musique concrète
- Elliott Sharp - multi-instrumentalist
- Raymond Scott - em pioneer; pioneer of the music sequencer
- Sonic Arts Union - Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman
- Sonic Youth - American post-punk/noise rock band
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Multimedia, Musique concrète
- Morton Subotnick - multi-media, electronics
- Sunn o))) - drone metal band
- Swans - Style-shifting No Wave-based art rock
- Richard Teitelbaum - electronics, extended technique, improvisation
- James Tenney - alternate tunings, perceptual phenomena
- Throbbing Gristle - noise, "happenings", ritual
- Vladimir Ussachevsky - electronic music pioneer
- Edgard Varèse - Musique concrète
- The Velvet Underground - drones, taboo subjects
- Iannis Xenakis - stochastic
- Richard Youngs - postmodern minimalist
- Frank Zappa - rock, jazz, "classical"
- Evan Ziporyn - gamelan, Bang on a Can
- John Zorn - postmodern free jazz
See also
- List of musicians by genre
- Free improvisation (includes a further list of musicians whose work might be considered 'experimental')
Categories
Lists of musicians by genre