List of experimental musicians

The following is a list of notable experimental musicians with Wikipedia articles:

• Laurie Anderson - electronic music
• DFU - Genre spanning kings
• Aphex Twin - electronic music
• Autechre - electronic music
• Robert Ashley - totalist television opera
• Derek Bailey - guitarist
• Conny Bauer - free improvisation, trombonist
• David Behrman - live electronics
• Burkhard Beins - percussion and objects
• Black Dice - noise rock, ambient
• Boards of Canada - electronic music
• Boredoms - noise music
• Björk - ambient music
• Graham Bowers - avant-garde, ambient, sound theatre
• Gavin Bryars - indeterministic orchestration
• Pierre Boulez - musique concrète
• Buckethead - guitarist
• John Cage - aleatoric music
• Neil Campbell
• Can - 'Krautrock' pioneers
• Cornelius Cardew - British composer
• Coil - sidereal sound, scrying, hallucinogens, ANS, etc.
• Nicolas Collins
• Clayton Counts - noise, electroacoustic composer
• Henry Cow - Rock in Opposition
• Alvin Curran - found sounds
• Current 93 - coined the term "apocalyptic folk"
• Stuart Dempster - reverberant spaces, just intonation, extended trombone techniques
• Delia Derbyshire - pre-synthesizer electronic music pioneer
• Arnold Dreyblatt - just intonation
• Kevin Drumm - guitarist
• Trevor Dunn - bassist
• Earth - drone metal
• Leif Elggren
• Einstuerzende Neubauten - German industrial music
• Brian Eno - ambient music, algorithmic composition
• Experimental Audio Research - ambient, synth/noise
• Fantomas - avant-garde metal
• Morton Feldman
• Fifty Foot Hose - pre-synthesizer electronic rock pioneers
• David First - drones and interference beats
• Robert Fripp - guitarist
• Fred Frith - free improvisation, Rock in Opposition
• Ellen Fullman - long string Instrument
• Bernhard Gál - sound installation, multi-media, composer and artist
• Diamanda Galás - vocalist, composer
• Pierre Henry- musique concrète
• 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
• Spike Jones
• Don Joyce - sound collage
• Annea Lockwood - environmental sounds
• Alvin Lucier - acoustical phenomena
• Melt Banana - noise rock
• Merzbow - noise music
• Moondog - composer
• Gordon Mumma - live electronics
• Muslimgauze
• 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
• Michael Nyman - composer and former critic and musicologist
• 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
• Steve Reich - multimedia documentary opera
• The Residents
• Roger Reynolds - multimedia, spatial
• Boyd Rice - noise music, ambient music
• Terry Riley - multimedia Minimalist composer
• Ernesto Rodrigues - composer, free improvisation, free jazz
• David Rosenboom - biofeedback (human)
• Keith Rowe - British guitarist
• Ruins - Japanese avant-punk, worked with Derek Bailey
• Jessica Rylan - home-made analog synthesizers, voice
• Pierre Schaeffer - musique concrète
• Raymond Scott - em pioneer; pioneer of the music sequencer
• Elliott Sharp - multi-instrumentalist
• Sonic Youth - American post-punk/noise rock band
• Karlheinz Stockhausen - multimedia, musique concrète
• Morton Subotnick - multi-media, electronics
• Sun Ra
• 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 - 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
• Carl Michael von Hausswolff
• Whitehouse - noise music
• Iannis Xenakis - stochastic
• La Monte Young - just intonation, minimalist, drone music
• Richard Youngs - postmodern minimalist
• Evan Ziporyn - gamelan, Bang on a Can
• John Zorn - postmodern, various genres

See also

• List of musicians by genre
• Free improvisation (includes a further list of musicians whose work might be considered 'experimental')