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107 relations: A priori and a posteriori, Acousmatic sound, Aleatoricism, AllMusic, Arto Lindsay, Avant-garde, Avant-garde music, Carl Ruggles, Carla Henius, Charles Ives, Charles Seeger, Charlotte Moorman, Chou Wen-chung, Chris Mann (composer), Christian Wolff (composer), Cliché, Comic book, Computer music, Cornelius Cardew, Darmstadt School, David Cope, David Tudor, Derek Bailey (guitarist), Dick Higgins, Direct and indirect realism, Downtown music, Earle Brown, Edgard Varèse, Electroacoustic music, Electronic music, Experimental musical instrument, Experimental Musical Instruments (magazine), Experimental rock, Film, Frederic Rzewski, Free improvisation, Free music, French language, Gavin Bryars, Glenn Branca, Harmony, Harrison Birtwistle, Harry Partch, Henry Cowell, Herbert Brün, Iannis Xenakis, Indeterminacy (music), Ivor Darreg, James Chance, John Cage, ..., John Cale, John J. Becker, John Tilbury, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Keith Rowe, Kevin Volans, La Monte Young, Laurie Anderson, Lejaren Hiller, Leonard B. Meyer, Luciano Berio, Lydia Lunch, Malcolm Goldstein, Mars (band), Mauricio Kagel, Melody, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Metaphysics, Metre (music), Michael Nyman, Mixed media, Morton Feldman, Musical improvisation, Musical instrument, Musique concrète, Nam June Paik, Nikša Gligo, No wave, Ontology, Outsider music, Paradox, Performance art, Performativity, Philip Glass, Pierre Boulez, Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer, Pop music, Primal therapy, Punk rock, Register (music), Rhys Chatham, Rhythm, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Serialism, Spoken word, Status quo, Steve Reich, Sylvano Bussotti, Terry Riley, The Residents, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Transgressive art, Warren Burt, Wolf Vostell, Yoko Ono. Expand index (57 more) »
A priori and a posteriori
The Latin phrases a priori ("from the earlier") and a posteriori ("from the latter") are philosophical terms of art popularized by Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (first published in 1781, second edition in 1787), one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy.
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Acousmatic sound
Acousmatic sound is sound that is heard without an originating cause being seen.
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Aleatoricism
Aleatoricism is the incorporation of chance into the process of creation, especially the creation of art or media.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.
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Arto Lindsay
Arthur Morgan "Arto" Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer.
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Avant-garde
The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.
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Avant-garde music
Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of experimentation or innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences.
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Carl Ruggles
Charles Sprague "Carl" Ruggles (March 11, 1876 – October 24, 1971) was an American composer.
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Carla Henius
Carla Henius (4 May 1919 – 27 December 2002) was a German operatic soprano and mezzo-soprano, voice teacher and librettist.
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Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer.
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Charles Seeger
Charles Louis Seeger, Jr. (December 14, 1886 – February 7, 1979) was an American musicologist, composer, and teacher.
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Charlotte Moorman
Madeline Charlotte Moorman (November 18, 1933 – November 8, 1991) was an American cellist, performance artist, and advocate for avant-garde music.
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Chou Wen-chung
Chou Wen-chung (born June 29, 1923 in Yantai (Chefoo), Shandong, China) is a Chinese American composer of contemporary classical music.
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Chris Mann (composer)
Chris Mann (born 1949) is an Australian-American composer, poet and performer specializing in the emerging field of compositional linguistics, coined by Kenneth Gaburo and described by Mann as "the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking better than I do".
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Christian Wolff (composer)
Christian G. Wolff (born March 8, 1934) is an American composer of experimental classical music.
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Cliché
A cliché or cliche is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.
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Comic book
A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.
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Computer music
Computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition, to help human composers create new music or to have computers independently create music, such as with algorithmic composition programs.
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Cornelius Cardew
Cornelius Cardew (7 May 193613 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble.
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Darmstadt School
Darmstadt School refers to a group of composers who attended the from the early 1950s to the early 1960s in Darmstadt, Germany.
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David Cope
David Cope (born May 17, 1941 in San Francisco, California) is an American author, composer, scientist, and former professor of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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David Tudor
David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.
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Derek Bailey (guitarist)
Derek Bailey (29 January 1930 – 25 December 2005) was an English avant-garde guitarist and leading figure in the free improvisation movement.
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Dick Higgins
Dick Higgins (March 15, 1938 – October 25, 1998) was a British composer, poet, printmaker, and early Fluxus artist.
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Direct and indirect realism
The question of direct or naïve realism, as opposed to indirect or representational realism, arises in the philosophy of perception and of mind out of the debate over the nature of conscious experience;Lehar, Steve.
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Downtown music
Downtown music is a subdivision of American music, closely related to experimental music.
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Earle Brown
Earle Brown (December 26, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an American composer who established his own formal and notational systems.
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Edgard Varèse
Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar Varèse;Malcolm MacDonald, Varèse, Astronomer in Sound (London, 2003), p. xi. December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States.
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Electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music around the middle of the 20th century, following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice.
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Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.
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Experimental musical instrument
An experimental musical instrument (or custom-made instrument) is a musical instrument that modifies or extends an existing instrument or class of instruments, or defines or creates a new class of instrument.
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Experimental Musical Instruments (magazine)
Experimental Musical Instruments was a periodical edited and published by Bart Hopkin, an instrument builder and writer about 20th century experimental music design and custom made instrument construction.
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Experimental rock
Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.
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Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.
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Frederic Rzewski
Frederic Anthony Rzewski (born April 13, 1938 in Westfield, Massachusetts) is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.
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Free improvisation
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician(s) involved.
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Free music
Free music or libre music is music that, like free software, can freely be copied, distributed and modified for any purpose.
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French language
French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Gavin Bryars
Richard Gavin Bryars (born 16 January 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.
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Glenn Branca
Glenn Branca (October 6, 1948 – May 13, 2018) was an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series.
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Harmony
In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.
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Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle, (born 15 July 1934) is a British composer.
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Harry Partch
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments.
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Henry Cowell
Henry Dixon Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario.
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Herbert Brün
Herbert Brün (July 9, 1918 – November 6, 2000) was a composer and pioneer of electronic and computer music.
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Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis (Greek: Γιάννης (Ιάννης) Ξενάκης; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born, Greek-French composer, music theorist, architect, and engineer.
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Indeterminacy (music)
Indeterminacy is a composing approach in which some aspects of a musical work are left open to chance or to the interpreter's free choice.
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Ivor Darreg
Ivor Darreg (May 5, 1917 – February 12, 1994) was an American composer and leading proponent of microtonal or "xenharmonic" music.
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James Chance
James Chance, also known as James White (born April 20, 1953 as James Siegfried in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), is an American saxophonist, keyboard player, songwriter and singer.
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John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.
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John Cale
John Davies Cale, OBE (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, singer, songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground.
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John J. Becker
John Joseph Becker (January 22, 1886 – January 21, 1961) was an American composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, a conductor, a writer on music, and an music administrator.
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John Tilbury
John Tilbury (born 1 February 1936) is a British pianist.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Keith Rowe
Keith Rowe (born 16 March 1940 in Plymouth, England) is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter.
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Kevin Volans
Kevin Volans (born 26 July 1949) is a South African born Irish composer and pianist.
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La Monte Young
La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American avant-garde composer, musician, and artist generally recognized as the first minimalist composer.
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Laurie Anderson
Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.
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Lejaren Hiller
Lejaren Arthur Hiller (February 23, 1924, New York City – January 26, 1994, Buffalo, New York) © 1994 by Peter Gena.
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Leonard B. Meyer
Leonard B. Meyer (January 12, 1918 – December 30, 2007) was a composer, author, and philosopher.
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Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer.
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Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Anne Koch, June 2, 1959)Martin Charles Strong.
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Malcolm Goldstein
Malcolm Goldstein (born March 27, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American-Canadian composer, violinist and improviser who has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960s.
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Mars (band)
Mars was a New York City rock band formed in 1975 when China Burg (née Constance Burg; a.k.a. Lucy Hamilton) (guitar, vocals) and artist Nancy Arlen (drums) brought Mark Cunningham (bass) and vocalist Sumner Crane together to talk about music.
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Mauricio Kagel
Mauricio Raúl Kagel (December 24, 1931 – September 18, 2008) was a German-Argentine composer notable for developing the theatrical side of musical performance.
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Melody
A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
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Merce Cunningham
Mercier Philip "Merce" Cunningham (April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009) was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of the American modern dance for more than 50 years.
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Meredith Monk
Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer.
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Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of being, existence, and reality.
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Metre (music)
In music, metre (Am. meter) refers to the regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats.
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Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano.
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Mixed media
In visual art, mixed media is an artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed.
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Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer.
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Musical improvisation
Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Musique concrète
Musique concrète (meaning "concrete music")" problem for any translator of an academic work in French is that the language is relatively abstract and theoretical compared to English; one might even say that the mode of thinking itself tends to be more schematic, with a readiness to see material for study in terms of highly abstract dualisms and correlations, which on occasion does not sit easily with the perhaps more pragmatic English language.
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Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean American artist.
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Nikša Gligo
Nikša Gligo (born 6 April 1946 in Split) is a Croatian musicologist and university professor.
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No wave
No wave was a short-lived avant-garde scene that emerged in the late 1970s in downtown New York City.
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Ontology
Ontology (introduced in 1606) is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.
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Outsider music
Outsider music is music created by self-taught or naïve musicians.
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Paradox
A paradox is a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to an apparently self-contradictory or logically unacceptable conclusion.
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Performance art
Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary.
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Performativity
Performativity is language which effects change in the world and functions as a form of social action.
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Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer.
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of institutions.
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Pierre Henry
Pierre Henry in January 2008 Pierre Georges Henry (9 December 1927 – 5 July 2017) was a French composer, considered a pioneer in the musique concrète genre of electronic music.
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Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation:,; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.
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Primal therapy
Primal therapy is a trauma-based psychotherapy created by Arthur Janov, who argues that neurosis is caused by the repressed pain of childhood trauma.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
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Register (music)
In music, a register is the relative "height" or range of a note, set of pitches or pitch classes, melody, part, instrument, or group of instruments.
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Rhys Chatham
Rhys Chatham (born September 19, 1952) is an American composer, guitarist, trumpet player, multi-instrumentalist (flutes in C, alto and bass, keyboard), primarily active in avant-garde and minimalist music.
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Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
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Ruth Crawford Seeger
Ruth Crawford Seeger (July 3, 1901 – November 18, 1953), born Ruth Porter Crawford, was an American modernist composer active primarily during the 1920s and 1930s and an American folk music specialist from the late 1930s until her death.
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Serialism
In music, serialism is a method of composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other musical elements.
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Spoken word
Spoken word is a performance art that is word based.
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Status quo
Status quo is a Latin phrase meaning the existing state of affairs, particularly with regard to social or political issues.
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Steve Reich
Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.
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Sylvano Bussotti
Sylvano Bussotti (born 1 October 1931) is an Italian composer of contemporary music whose work is unusually notated and often creates special problems of interpretation.
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Terry Riley
Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music, of which he was a pioneer.
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The Residents
The Residents are an American art collective best known for avant-garde music and multimedia works.
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Toshi Ichiyanagi
is a Japanese composer of avant-garde music.
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Transgressive art
Transgressive art is art that aims to transgress; i.e. to outrage or violate basic morals and sensibilities.
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Warren Burt
Warren Burt (born 10 October 1949) is an Australia-based composer of American birth.
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Wolf Vostell
Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 – 3 April 1998) was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art and installation art and pioneer of Happening and Fluxus.
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Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono (小野 洋子, born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist who is also known for her work in performance art and filmmaking.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_music
