List of experimental musicians
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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
- Black Dice - noise rock, ambient
- Boredoms - noise music
- Pierre Boulez - serial music
- Graham Bowers - avant-garde, ambient, sound theatre
- Glenn Branca - guitar, noise ensemble
- 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
- Shaking Ray Levis - free improvisation
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Swans - style-shifting, no wave-based art rock
- Richard Teitelbaum - electronics, extended technique, improvisation
- James Tenney - alternate tunings, perceptual phenomena
- Test Icicles - noise rock
- The 3rd and the Mortal - progressive rock, doom metal
- 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
[edit] See also
- List of musicians by genre
- Free improvisation (includes a further list of musicians whose work might be considered 'experimental')
