This is a list of notable experimental musicians , in alphabetical order by surname.
Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah – (Egypt) experimental musicAcid Mothers Temple – Experimental psychedelic rockFrédéric Acquaviva – (France) Experimental musicGiulio Aldinucci – experimental electroacoustic composerMiguel Álvarez-Fernández – experimental radio and sound installationsAmnesia Scanner – Finnish experimental electronic duoTori Amos – Alternative, Baroque pop, ExperimentalAnaiis – (French) (Senegal) Experimental musicianLaurie Anderson – electronic music Ron Anderson – noise and progressiveAnimal Collective – experimental music collectiveAphex Twin - IDM, experimental, ambient, glitchArca – (Venezuela) Experimental, Electronic musicAutechre – (UK) IDM, Experimental, Ambient, Glitch, FlashcoreNigel 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, electronicaBladee – Cloud rap, experimental popBoards 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 artGavin Bryars – indeterministic orchestrationBull of Heaven – minimalism, noise, drone, avant-garde jazz, modern classicalJohn Cage – indeterminate musicCan – Krautrock bandCaptain Beefheart – avant-garde blues artistCornelius Cardew – British composerCardiacs – British rock band[ 1] Charli XCX – experimental pop starRhys Chatham – guitar, noise ensembleCities Aviv – experimental hip-hop , post-genreClipping. – experimental hip-hop Coil – sidereal sound, scrying , hallucinogens , ANS , glitches Nicolas Collins Loren Mazzacane Connors Controlled Bleeding – Paul LemosDavid Cope – composer, computeristHenry Cowell – (USA) tone clusters and Extended technique Cui Jian – Alternative, avant-garde, experimental, electronica[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] 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 ensembleDeath Grips – experimental hip-hop Deftones – experimental rock Stuart Dempster – reverberant spaces, just intonation , extended trombone techniquesEarl Sweatshirt - Experimental Hip HopThe 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 Eartheater - vocalist, producerMarc Edwards – free jazzLeif Elggren Brian Eno – ambient music , algorithmic compositionExperimental Audio Research – ambient , synth/noiseCarolina Eyck – thereminist
Jean-Baptiste Favory – musique concrète & electronicFlorian-Ayala Fauna – musician, music producer[ 5] FKA Twigs – (UK) musician, songwriter, producer, directorMorton Feldman – composerFlume – experimental electronic producerThe Flying Lizards – (UK) experimental new wave groupFlying Lotus – hip hop, IDM, jazz, electronicaHenry Flynt – violinist, guitarist, inventor of Electronic Hillbilly MusicDavid Fenech – musique concrète & experimental pop musicDavid First – drones and interference beats John Frusciante – guitarist, Rock Musician, Electronica, Hip Hop, Avent-GardeCor Fuhler – improvising multi instrumentalist, composer, instrument builderEllen Fullman – long string InstrumentDiamanda Galás – vocalist , composer Roopam Garg – guitarist , composer Qubais Reed Ghazala – musician, composer, father of circuit-bending Seppe Gebruers - Quartertone pianist, improvisor and composerAlice Glass – (Canada) Experimental, witch house, noisePhilip Glass – minimalism, composerPercy Grainger – composer and performerEli Gras Grimes – experimental electronica, synthpopBruce 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 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 composerHorse Lords - experimental math rock , krautrock Emily 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 iwrestledabearonce JPEGMAFIA – experimental hip-hop
KK Null – noise rockKommissar Hjuler – cut-up collagesAnne La Berge – flute, improvisation, electronics, compositionDaniela Lalita – (Peru) vocalist and producer of experimental musicAndré Éric Létourneau – gamelan, flute, composition, chance-operations, electronic music, microtonal musicGeorge E. Lewis – trombone, composition, improvisation, electronic music, computer musicSteve Lieberman – American punk bassist, flutist called The Gangsta RabbiA Life of Science – Arizona based electronic bandLightning Bolt – noise rockLil Ugly Mane - Experimental ArtistFranz Liszt – composer and performerAnnea Lockwood – environmental soundsAlvin Lucier – (USA) acoustical phenomenaJohn Lydon – (UK) singerMama Baer – voice improvisationThe Mars Volta – rock bandElio Martusciello – Italian experimental music composer and performerMelvins – experimentalMeshuggah – extreme metal, experimental metal, progressive metalMiya Masaoka – composer and performerOlivier Messiaen – (France) composer and organistMerzbow – (Japan) noise music Midori – (Japan) four-member jazz-punk fusion bandMoondog – composer Gordon Mumma – live electronicsMuslimgauze – (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 musicPauline 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) plunderphonicsNam June Paik – happenings , action musicPaul Panhuysen – string and other sound installations Evan Parker – (UK) saxophonistHarry Partch – (USA) microtonal composerPortishead – BristolHenri Pousseur – (Belgium) self-described as "experimental"
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)Dino Residbegovic – (BiH) experimental/live-electronic contemporary music composerThe Residents – (USA)Boyd Rice – (USA) noise music , ambient music Terry Riley – (USA) multimedia minimalist composerIvette Román-Roberto – experimental vocalistCipriano 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 concrèteMathias Rehfeldt – experimental organist, composerGiancarlo Schiaffini – Italian experimental music composer and performerElliott Sharp – multi-instrumentalistMark Stanley – guitarist, composerSolage – composerSonic Youth – noise rock bandSOPHIE - experimental pop Soul Coughing – improvisational jazz , hip hop , noise, and samplesSprain - experimentalHoward Stelzer – (USA)Sunn O))) – drone metal bandSvoy – (USA, Russia) Universal Music Group producer/writer/artist,[ 6] "...One of the most accomplished experimental electronic artists" —Timmy Kusnierek, Your EDM[ 7] Swans (band) – experimental rock, no wave Toru Takemitsu – composerJames Tenney – alternate tunings , perceptual phenomenaThey Might Be Giants – alternative rock, indie rock, experimental rock, children's musicLynda Thomas – experimental musician and performerThrobbing Gristle – industrial music , noise, shock lyricsEdgard Varèse – electronic musicMichael Waller – contemporary musicWeen – psychedelic and lo-fi band that covers a multitude of genresXiu Xiu – experimental rock, noise pop, spoken wordKathleen 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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