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180 relations: Aesthetics of music, Albert Ayler, Aleatoric music, Alfred 23 Harth, AMM (group), Anthony Braxton, Anthony Coleman, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Atonality, Audio feedback, Austria, Avant-garde jazz, Avant-garde music, Berlin, Bill Laswell, Bob Ostertag, Cecil Taylor, Christian Marclay, Circuit bending, Claudio Monteverdi, Company (free improvisation group), Contemporary classical music, Cornelius Cardew, David Moss (musician), David Tudor, Derek Bailey (guitarist), Django Reinhardt, Do it yourself, Don Moye, Earle Brown, East Village, Manhattan, ECM Records, Eddie Prévost, Electroacoustic music, Elektra Records, Emanem Records, Ennio Morricone, Erstwhile Records, ESP-Disk, Eugene Chadbourne, Europe, Evan Parker, Experimental music, Extended technique, Fluxus, Fred Frith, Frederik Magle, Free fall, Free jazz, ..., Günter Müller, George Crumb, George Lewis (trombonist), Graphic notation (music), Guitar, Han Bennink, Happening, Harmony, Harvey Pekar, Henry Cowell, Henry Kaiser (musician), Henry Threadgill, Ikue Mori, Ingrid Laubrock, Intelligent dance music, Intuition (free improvisation), Intuitive music, Jack DeJohnette, Jackson Mac Low, Jane Ira Bloom, Jazz, Jean Guillou, Jimmy Giuffre, Joe Harriott, Joe Maneri, John Butcher (musician), John Coltrane, John Stevens (drummer), John Zorn, Joseph Jarman, Just Music, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Keith Rowe, Ken Vandermark, Kenny Wheeler, Key signature, Kluster, Knitting Factory, Kramer (musician), La Monte Young, Lê Quan Ninh, Lee Konitz, Lennie Tristano, Lester Bowie, Like a Flame, List of free improvising musicians and groups, List of music styles, Live electronic music, London, London Musicians Collective, Lou Gare, Lower Manhattan, Lowercase (music), Lute, Malachi Favors, Mark Dresser, Mego (label), Melisma, Melody, Michael Snow, Minimalism, Misha Mengelberg, Modernism (music), Mood (psychology), Morton Feldman, Muhal Richard Abrams, Musical chairs, Musical collective, Musical improvisation, Musics (magazine), Nantes, Ned Rothenberg, New York Eye and Ear Control, New Zealand, Noise music, Noise rock, Oliver Lake, Olivier Latry, Opera, Ornette Coleman, Otomo Yoshihide, Pauline Oliveros, Performance art, Peter Brötzmann, Poire z, Polly Bradfield, Pyramid Club, Quintet, Resonance FM, Rhythm, Robert Dick (flutist), Rock music, Roman Stolyar, Roscoe Mitchell, Roulette, Serialism, Shelly Manne, Shorty Rogers, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Stephen Nachmanovitch, Sun Ra, Surrealist music, Sylvano Bussotti, Tempo, Texture (music), The Music Improvisation Company, The Stone (music space), Thomas Buckner, Timbre, Tokyo, Tom Cora, Tonic (music venue), Toshinori Kondo, Treatise (music), Trevor Watts, Turntablism, United Kingdom, United States, University of Michigan, Vitamin S, Voice Crack, Warne Marsh, Wayne Horvitz, West Germany, WNUR-FM, WZBC, Yuri Landman, Zeena Parkins, 20th-century classical music, 8BC. Expand index (130 more) »
Aesthetics of music
In the pre-modern tradition, the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics explored the mathematical and cosmological dimensions of rhythmic and harmonic organization.
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Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.
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Aleatoric music
Aleatoric music (also aleatory music or chance music; from the Latin word alea, meaning "dice") is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s).
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Alfred 23 Harth
Alfred Harth, now known as Alfred 23 Harth or A23H, is a German multimedia artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer who creatively mixes genres.
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AMM (group)
AMM is a British free improvisation group that was founded in London, England, in 1965.
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Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who is known in the genre of free jazz.
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Anthony Coleman
Anthony Coleman (born August 30, 1955) is an avant-garde jazz pianist. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked with John Zorn on Cobra, Kristallnacht, The Big Gundown, Archery, and Spillane and helped push modern Jewish music into the 21st century.
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Art Ensemble of Chicago
The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the late 1960s.
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Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1965 in Chicago, Illinois, United States, by pianist/composer Muhal Richard Abrams, pianist Jodie Christian, drummer Steve McCall, and composer Phil Cohran.
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Atonality
Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.
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Audio feedback
Audio feedback (also known as acoustic feedback, simply as feedback, or the Larsen effect) is a special kind of positive loop gain which occurs when a sound loop exists between an audio input (for example, a microphone or guitar pickup) and an audio output (for example, a power amplified loudspeaker).
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Austria
Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.
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Avant-garde jazz
Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz.
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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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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.
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Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955, Salem, Illinois, and raised in Albion, Michigan) is an American bassist, producer and record label owner.
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Bob Ostertag
Robert "Bob" Ostertag (born April 19, 1957 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States) is an experimental sound artist and writer based in San Francisco.
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Cecil Taylor
Cecil Percival Taylor (March 15, 1929 - April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet.
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Christian Marclay
Christian Ernest Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer.
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Circuit bending
Circuit bending is the creative, chance-based customization of the circuits within electronic devices such as low-voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and digital synthesizers to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (15 May 1567 (baptized) – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player and choirmaster.
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Company (free improvisation group)
Company was an ever-changing collection of free improvising musicians.
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Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s to early 1990s, which includes modernist, postmodern, neoromantic, and pluralist music.
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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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David Moss (musician)
David Moss (born January 21, 1949 in New York City) is an American composer, percussionist and self-taught vocalist, founder of the David Moss Dense Band; co-founder and artistic director of the Institute for Living Voice, Antwerp.
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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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Django Reinhardt
Jean Reinhardt (or; 23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) stage name Django Reinhardt, was a Belgian-born Romani French jazz guitarist, musician and composer, regarded as one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century.
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Do it yourself
"Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things without the direct aid of experts or professionals.
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Don Moye
Famoudou Don Moye, (born May 23, 1946) is an American jazz percussionist and drummer.
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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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East Village, Manhattan
East Village is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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ECM Records
ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Manfred Eicher in Munich in 1969.
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Eddie Prévost
Eddie Prévost (Edwin John) (born Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, 22 June 1942) is an English percussionist noted for founding and participating in the AMM free improvisation group.
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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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Elektra Records
Elektra Records is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.
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Emanem Records
Emanem Records is a record company and independent record label founded in London, England in 1974 by Martin Davidson and Madelaine Davidson to record free improvisation.
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Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI (born 10 November 1928) is an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player.
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Erstwhile Records
Erstwhile Records is an independent record label devoted to free improvisation, particularly the electroacoustic variety, and contemporary, experimental composed music, and combinations of both.
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ESP-Disk
ESP-Disk is a New York-based record company and label founded in 1964 by lawyer Bernard Stollman.
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Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne (born January 4, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and music critic.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Evan Parker
Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British saxophone player who plays free jazz.
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Experimental music
Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.
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Extended technique
In music, extended technique is unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.
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Fluxus
Fluxus is an international and interdisciplinary group of artists, composers, designers and poets that took shape in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Fred Frith
Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor.
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Frederik Magle
Frederik Reesen Magle (born 17 April 1977) is a Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist.
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Free fall
In Newtonian physics, free fall is any motion of a body where gravity is the only force acting upon it.
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Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 60s as musicians attempted to alter, extend, or break down jazz convention, often by discarding fixed chord changes or tempos.
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Günter Müller
Günter Müller (born 20 October 1954) is a German sound artist who originally performed as a percussionist and drummer, active primarily in free improvisation.
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George Crumb
George Crumb (born October 24, 1929) is an American composer of avant-garde music.
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George Lewis (trombonist)
George Emanuel Lewis (born July 14, 1952) is an American composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar in the fields of improvisation and experimental music.
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Graphic notation (music)
Graphic notation (or graphic score) is the representation of music through the use of visual symbols outside the realm of traditional music notation.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Han Bennink
Han Bennink (born 17 April 1942) is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist.
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Happening
A happening is a performance, event, or situation meant to be considered art, usually as performance art.
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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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Harvey Pekar
Harvey Lawrence Pekar (October 8, 1939 – July 12, 2010) was an American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series.
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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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Henry Kaiser (musician)
Henry Kaiser (born September 19, 1952) is an American guitarist and composer, known as an idiosyncratic soloist, a sideman, an ethnomusicologist, and a film score composer.
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Henry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944) is an American composer, saxophonist, and flautist, who came to prominence in the 1970s leading jazz ensembles with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating genres other than jazz.
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Ikue Mori
(born 17 December 1953), also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, composer, and graphic designer.
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Ingrid Laubrock
Ingrid Laubrock (born September 24, 1970) is a German jazz saxophonist, who plays soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones.
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Intelligent dance music
Intelligent dance music (commonly abbreviated as IDM) is a form of electronic music that emerged in the early 1990s, characterized by an abstract or "cerebral" sound better suited for home listening than dancing.
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Intuition (free improvisation)
"Intuition" is the title of a free improvisation by the Lennie Tristano quintet.
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Intuitive music
Intuitive music is a form of musical improvisation based on instant creation in which fixed principles or rules may or may not have been given.
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Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette (born August 9, 1942) is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer.
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Jackson Mac Low
Jackson Mac Low (September 12, 1922 – December 8, 2004) was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff.
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Jane Ira Bloom
Jane Ira Bloom (born January 12, 1955) is an American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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Jean Guillou
Jean Guillou, 2014. Jean Victor Arthur Guillou (born April 18, 1930) is a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue.
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Jimmy Giuffre
James Peter Giuffre (April 26, 1921 – April 24, 2008) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger.
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Joe Harriott
Joseph Arthurlin "Joe" Harriott (15 July 1928 in Kingston, Jamaica – 2 January 1973 in Southampton, Hampshire) was a Jamaican jazz musician and composer, whose principal instrument was the alto saxophone.
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Joe Maneri
Joseph Gabriel Esther Maneri (February 9, 1927 – August 24, 2009), was an American jazz composer, saxophone and clarinet player.
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John Butcher (musician)
John Butcher (born 1954 in Brighton, England) is an English tenor and soprano saxophone player who has lived in London since the late 1970s.
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John Coltrane
John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.
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John Stevens (drummer)
John William Stevens (10 June 1940 in Brentford, Middlesex, England – 13 September 1994 in Ealing, London) was an English drummer and a founding member of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble.
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John Zorn
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist with hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, and producer across a variety of genres, including jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and improvised music.
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Joseph Jarman
Joseph Jarman (born September 14, 1937 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas), is a jazz musician, composer, and Shinshu Buddhist priest.
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Just Music
Just Music were a West German avant-garde music ensemble, an interchangeable collective of classically trained instrumentalists founded at the centrum freier cunst, Frankfurt/Main in 1967 by multi-instrumentalist Alfred Harth.
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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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Ken Vandermark
Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964) is an American jazz composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.
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Kenny Wheeler
Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC (14 January 1930 – 18 September 2014) was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards.
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Key signature
In musical notation, a key signature is a set of sharp, flat, and rarely, natural symbols placed together on the staff.
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Kluster
Kluster is a German experimental musical group whose work often resembles later industrial music.
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Knitting Factory
The Knitting Factory is a nightclub that was opened in New York City and that featured eclectic music and entertainment.
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Kramer (musician)
Mark Kramer (born Stephen Michael Bonner in New York City in 1958http://www.kramershimmy.com/secondshimmy/?/bio/), known professionally as Kramer, is a musician, composer, record producer and founder of the New York City record label Shimmy-Disc.
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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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Lê Quan Ninh
Lê Quan Ninh (born Paris, 1961) is a French percussionist active in contemporary music and free improvisation.
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Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz (born October 13, 1927) is an American composer and alto saxophonist.
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Lennie Tristano
Leonard Joseph "Lennie" Tristano (March 19, 1919 – November 18, 1978) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and teacher of jazz improvisation.
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Lester Bowie
Lester Bowie (October 11, 1941 – November 8, 1999) was an American jazz trumpet player and composer.
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Like a Flame
Like a Flame is a double-album with free improvisations for organ by Frederik Magle released in December 2010 on the Swedish record label Proprius Music (PRCD 2061).
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List of free improvising musicians and groups
This is a list of musicians and groups who compose and play free music, or free improvisation.
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List of music styles
This is a list of music styles.
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Live electronic music
Live electronic music (also known as live electronics) is a form of music that can include traditional electronic sound-generating devices, modified electric musical instruments, hacked sound generating technologies, and computers.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London Musicians Collective
The London Musicians Collective (LMC) is a cultural charity based in London, England devoted to the support and promotion of contemporary, experimental and improvised music.
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Lou Gare
Lou Gare, born Leslie Arthur Gare (16 June 1939 – 6 October 2017) was an English free-jazz saxophonist born in Rugby, Warwickshire, perhaps best known for his works with the improvised music ensemble AMM and playing with musicians such as Eddie Prévost, Mike Westbrook, Cornelius Cardew, Keith Rowe and Sam Richards.
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Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough for business, culture, and government in the City of New York, which itself originated at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in 1624, at a point which now constitutes the present-day Financial District.
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Lowercase (music)
Originally coined by minimal artist Steve Roden, lowercase is an extreme form of ambient minimalism where very quiet, usually unheard, sounds are amplified to extreme levels.
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Lute
A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.
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Malachi Favors
Malachi Favors (August 22, 1927, Lexington, Mississippi – January 30, 2004, Chicago, Illinois) was a noted American jazz bassist best known for his work with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
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Mark Dresser
Mark Dresser (born 1952, Los Angeles, California) is an American double bass player and composer.
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Mego (label)
Mego was an experimental electronic music independent record label based in Vienna, Austria.
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Melisma
Melisma (Greek:, melisma, song, air, melody; from, melos, song, melody, plural: melismata) is the singing of a single syllable of text while moving between several different notes in succession.
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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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Michael Snow
Michael Snow, (born December 10, 1928) is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music.
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Minimalism
In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Misha Mengelberg
Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer.
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Modernism (music)
In music, modernism is a philosophical and aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in aesthetic worldviews in close relation to the larger identifiable period of modernism in the arts of the time.
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Mood (psychology)
In psychology, a mood is an emotional state.
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Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer.
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Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams (born Richard Lewis Abrams; September 19, 1930 – October 29, 2017) was an American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist in the free jazz medium.
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Musical chairs
Musical chairs is a game of elimination involving players, chairs, and music, with one fewer chair than players.
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Musical collective
Musical collective is a phrase used to describe a group of musicians who collaborate over time to perform, record or compose music.
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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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Musics (magazine)
In 1975 Derek Bailey, Steve Beresford, Max Boucher.
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Nantes
Nantes (Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt) is a city in western France on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast.
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Ned Rothenberg
Ned Rothenberg (b. Boston, Massachusetts, September 15, 1956) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer.
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New York Eye and Ear Control
New York Eye and Ear Control is an album of group improvisations recorded by an augmented version of Albert Ayler's group to provide the soundtrack for Michael Snow's 1964 film of the same name.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Noise music
Noise music is a category of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise within a musical context.
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Noise rock
Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a diverse style of experimental rock employing noise music elements, which spun off from punk rock in the 1980s.
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Oliver Lake
Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet.
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Olivier Latry
Olivier Latry (born 22 February 1962) is a French organist, improviser and Professor of Organ in the Conservatoire de Paris.
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Opera
Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.
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Ornette Coleman
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer.
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Otomo Yoshihide
is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist.
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Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of experimental and post-war electronic art music.
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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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Peter Brötzmann
Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a German artist, free jazz saxophonist, and clarinetist.
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Poire z
poire_z (pronounced "pwar-zed") was an electronic free improvisation music group formed in 1998.
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Polly Bradfield
Polly Bradfield is an American violinist from the New York City free improvisation scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Pyramid Club
__notoc__ The Pyramid Club is a nightclub in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City.
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Quintet
A quintet is a group containing five members.
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Resonance FM
Resonance 104.4 FM is a London based non-profit community radio station specialising in the arts run by the London Musicians' Collective (LMC).
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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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Robert Dick (flutist)
Robert Dick (born January 4, 1950) is a flutist, composer, teacher and author.
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Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
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Roman Stolyar
Roman Stolyar (born December 6, 1967) is a Russian composer, piano improviser and educator.
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Roscoe Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator, known for being "a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist".
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Roulette
Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning little wheel.
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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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Shelly Manne
Sheldon "Shelly" Manne (June 11, 1920 – September 26, 1984), was an American jazz drummer.
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Shorty Rogers
Milton "Shorty" Rogers (April 14, 1924 – November 7, 1994) was one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz.
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Spontaneous Music Ensemble
The Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME) was a loose collection of free improvising musicians convened beginning in the mid-1960s by the late South London-based jazz drummer/trumpeter John Stevens and alto and soprano saxophonist Trevor Watts.
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Stephen Nachmanovitch
Stephen Nachmanovitch is a musician, author, computer artist, and educator.
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Sun Ra
Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances.
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Surrealist music
Surrealist music is music which uses unexpected juxtapositions and other surrealist techniques.
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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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Tempo
In musical terminology, tempo ("time" in Italian; plural: tempi) is the speed or pace of a given piece.
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Texture (music)
In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a composition, thus determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece.
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The Music Improvisation Company
The Music Improvisation Company is an album by saxophonist Evan Parker, guitarist Derek Bailey, Hugh Davies on various self-made electronic devices, and percussionist Jamie Muir (along with vocalist Christine Jeffrey added on two tracks) which was recorded in 1970 and released on the ECM label.
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The Stone (music space)
The Stone is a not-for-profit experimental music performance space located in the Alphabet City neighborhood in New York City.
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Thomas Buckner
Thomas Buckner (born 1941) is an American baritone vocalist specializing in the performance of contemporary classical music and improvised music.
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Timbre
In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.
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Tokyo
, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.
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Tom Cora
Thomas Henry Corra (September 14, 1953 – April 9, 1998), better known as Tom Cora, was an American cellist and composer, best known for his improvisational performances in the field of experimental jazz and rock.
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Tonic (music venue)
Tonic was a music venue located at 107 Norfolk Street, New York City which opened in the Spring of 1998 and closed in April 2007.
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Toshinori Kondo
is an avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter.
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Treatise (music)
Treatise is a musical composition by British composer Cornelius Cardew (1936–81).
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Trevor Watts
Trevor Charles Watts (born 26 February 1939 in York) is an English jazz and free-improvising alto and soprano saxophonist.
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Turntablism
Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating new music, sound effects, mixes and other creative sounds and beats, typically by using two or more turntables and a cross fader-equipped DJ mixer.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Vitamin S
Vitamin S is a free improvisation collective founded in 2000 in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Voice Crack
Voice Crack was a Swiss electronic free improvisation group.
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Warne Marsh
Warne Marion Marsh (October 26, 1927 – December 18, 1987) was an American tenor saxophonist.
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Wayne Horvitz
Wayne Horvitz (born 1955) is an American composer, keyboardist and record producer He came to prominence in the Downtown scene of 1980s and '90s New York City, noted for working with John Zorn's Naked City among others.
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West Germany
West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD) in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990.
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WNUR-FM
WNUR-FM (89.3 FM) is a 7200 watt radio station based in Evanston, Illinois that broadcasts to Chicago and its northern suburbs.
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WZBC
WZBC (90.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an Alternative format.
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Yuri Landman
Yuri Landman (born February 1, 1973) is a Dutch inventor of musical instruments and musician who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a number of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars, Jad Fair of Half Japanese, Liam Finn, and Laura-Mary Carter.
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Zeena Parkins
Zeena Parkins is an American harpist active in free improvisation and jazz.
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20th-century classical music
20th-century classical music describes art music that was written nominally from 1901 to 2000.
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8BC
8BC was a nightclub, performance space, and art gallery located at 337 East 8th Street in the East Village neighborhood of New York, New York.
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References
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