List of experimental musicians

This is a list of notable experimental musicians. The list is in alphabetical order by surname if the band is of one person's name and is in alphabetical order by the first letter if the name is of a band's.

A–E

Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah – (Egypt) experimental music Acid Mothers Temple – experimental psychedelic rock Frédéric Acquaviva – (France) experimental music Giulio Aldinucci – experimental electroacoustic composer Miguel Álvarez-Fernández – experimental radio and sound installations Amnesia Scanner – Finnish experimental electronic duo Tori Amos – alternative, Baroque pop, experimental Anaiis – (French) (Senegal) experimental musician Laurie Anderson – electronic music Ron Anderson – noise and progressive Animal Collective – experimental music collective Aphex Twin – IDM, experimental, ambient, glitch Arca – (Venezuela) Experimental, Electronic music Autechre – (UK) IDM, Experimental, Ambient, Glitch, Flashcore 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 Bipolar Explorer - experimental dreampop, spoken word, field recording 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 Gavin Bryars – indeterministic orchestration Bull of Heaven – minimalism, noise, drone, avant-garde jazz, modern classical John Cage – indeterminate music Can – Krautrock band Captain Beefheart – avant-garde blues artist Cornelius Cardew – British composer Cardiacs – British rock band Charli XCX – experimental pop star Rhys Chatham – guitar, noise ensemble Cities Aviv – experimental hip-hop, post-genre 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 Cui Jian – Alternative, avant-garde, experimental, electronica 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 Eartheater – vocalist, producer Marc Edwards – free jazz Leif Elggren Brian Eno – ambient music, algorithmic composition Experimental Audio Research – ambient, synth/noise Carolina Eyck – thereminist

F–J

KÁRYYN Jean-Baptiste Favory – musique concrète & electronic Florian-Ayala Fauna – musician, music producer 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 Alice Glass – (Canada) Experimental, witch house, noise 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 Horse Lords – experimental math rock, krautrock 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 Rafael Anton Irisarri - ambient, experimental, modern classical 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 Daniela Lalita – (Peru) vocalist and producer of experimental music 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 Lil Ugly Mane - Experimental Artist Franz Liszt – composer and performer Annea Lockwood – environmental sounds Alvin Lucier – (USA) acoustical phenomena John Lydon – (UK) singer Mama Baer – voice improvisation The Mars Volta – rock band Elio Martusciello – Italian experimental music composer and performer Melvins – experimental Meshuggah – extreme metal, experimental metal, progressive metal Miranda Sex Garden - British experimental music group Miya Masaoka – composer and performer Olivier Messiaen – (France) composer and organist Merzbow – (Japan) noise music Midori – (Japan) four-member jazz-punk fusion band 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 The Observatory – Singapore-based art-rock band Obsil – (ITA) composition, electronic music 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) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – (UK) electronic music 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)

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 Sprain – experimental Howard Stelzer – (USA) Sunn O))) – drone metal band Svoy – (USA, Russia) Universal Music Group producer/writer/artist, 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 Zoviet France – British band

See also List of musicians by genre

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