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3 unusual facts about Experimental Music


Jaroba

James Robert Barnes (born October 17, 1964) is an American Musician and composer of Experimental music and Soundscapes.

Karl Montevirgen

Karl Montevirgen (b. August 10, 1969) is an American Composer who specializes in improvisational, experimental guitar work.

Steve Beresford

British song writer and performer Katy Carr cites Steve Beresford's lectures on musical themes associated with Free improvisation, Experimental music, John Cage, musique concrète, Diamanda Galás and The Slits as a source of initial inspiration with regards to the creation of her debut album, Screwing Lies released in 2001.


Beta-lactam Ring Records

The aesthetic focus of the label is psychedelic and experimental music with a global roster of artists representing these genres including Legendary Pink Dots (including solo work by members of the band such as Edward Ka-spel), Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Green Milk from the Planet Orange, LSD March, Volcano The Bear, Daniel Menche, Eyeless in Gaza, and Vas Deferens Organization.

Chris Willsher

His label, though somewhat dormant in latter years, continues to produce sporadic material by punk and experimental artists, including forthcoming work by, and relating to Crass, Subhumans, UK Subs and the Bus Station Loonies.

Curves Music

The distributor focusses on a mixture of (Dutch) hip hop, electronic and dance artists, but also draws artists associating closely with folk and experimental music.

Droban-Apherna

Droban-Apherna is a Portuguese instrumental experimental music band from Silves, in Portugal and it was created in late 2008, being originally called "Estes".

Dual Plover

Dual Plover is a pioneering independent Australian record label, founded in Sydney in 1996, notable for discovering some of the most enigmatic artists in experimental music.

Feminist Improvising Group

The Feminist Improvising Group (FIG) were a five- to eight-piece English free improvising avant-garde jazz and experimental music ensemble formed in London in 1977 by Scottish vocalist Maggie Nicols and English bassoonist/composer Lindsay Cooper.

Garry Bradbury

Garry Bradbury is an Australian electronic musician active in Sydney's experimental music scene since 1979 where he was an early member of the pioneering post punk / industrial band Severed Heads, from 1981 to 1985, appearing on the albums: Since the Accident, City Slab Horror, Blubberknife and Clifford Darling, Please Don't Live In The Past.

Hash Jar Tempo

Hash Jar Tempo is a collaborative musical project between the members of Philadelphia-based psychedelic band Bardo Pond and experimental guitarist and composer Roy Montgomery.

Het Brein Dat Kwam Uit De Ruimte

Het Brein Dat Kwam Uit De Ruimte ("The brain that came from space") is an experimental electronic Dutch band from Heemskerk.

III Records

iii Records is a Japanese record label founded in 1999 and dedicated to issuing music from jazz to classical with focus on avant-garde and experimental directions.

Junkyard Nostalgias

Junkyard Nostalgias is the fourth album by Norwegian pop/experimental singer-songwriter Kaada.

Music for Moviebikers

Music for Moviebikers is the third album by Norwegian pop/experimental singer-songwriter Kaada.

My Pretend Orchestra

My Pretend Orchestra was an Experimental / Art Pop project from the UK by musician/producer Daniel Bloomfield.

Prognosis Show

The title 'Prognosis' was derived from the obvious medical term and from the genre Progressive rock but it also featured many other genres including Space music, Krautrock, Psychedelic music, Electronic music and Experimental Music.

Simon Wickham-Smith

He first came to the attention of the experimental music underground with the release of Lake, a collaboration with Richard Youngs issued under the moniker R!!!S!!!.

Staalplaat

Created in 1982, the company's mission was created as a sound forum for sound artists, who write and perform new and experimental music.

Taj Mahal Travellers

The Taj Mahal Travellers (also given variously as Taj Mahal Travelers, Taj-Mahal Travellers, etc.) were a Japanese experimental music ensemble founded in 1969 by former Group Ongaku leader and Fluxus member Takehisa Kosugi.

Thank You for Giving Me Your Valuable Time

Thank You for Giving Me Your Valuable Time is the debut album by Norwegian pop/experimental singer-songwriter Kaada.

The Isness

The Isness is a 2002 album by experimental electronica group The Future Sound of London, released under the alias Amorphous Androgynous (except in the US, where it was released as FSOL for commercial reasons).

The Very Best of Men's Recovery Project

The Very Best of Men's Recovery Project is a greatest hits album released by the American experimental punk group Men's Recovery Project on October 15, 2005 (see 2005 in music).

Trouble at Jinx Hotel

Trouble at Jinx Hotel is the fourth album by Canadian experimental music band Molasses, fronted by Mike Moya who is also a founding member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and HṚṢṬA.

Vheissu

The album is characterized by many critics as being a rather experimental deviation from Thrice's post-hardcore roots, with the implementation of elements such as piano melodies ("For Miles"), electronica ("Red Sky"), folk Japanese music-box undertones ("Music Box" - The melody comes from the song Sakura Sakura) and chain gang chant choruses ("The Earth Will Shake").

WIDR

The library comprises mainly CDs from a number of non-mainstream or alternative record labels and represents styles ranging from alternative, jazz and hip-hop to electronic, world and experimental music.

WRCT

Genres including Alt-Country, Jazz, Hip hop, Metal, Experimental, Indie rock, Blues, International, Electronic, and even Musical Theater are among those commonly represented in rotation.They try to show off local music that people do not typically hear on mainstream stations.

WVUD

In 1976 the station was issued a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Class D non-commercial educational license for 10 Watts under callsign WXDR and broadcast a block format that included jazz, folk, classical, ambient, college alternative, and experimental music.


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Aphonia Recordings

Although their collaborations remained intermittent through their teenage years they would later find themselves both studying experimental music composition at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

B. George

From 1982 to 1985, he produced an occasional survey of new American pop and experimental music for the BBC that was broadcast as part of “The John Peel Show” in the UK.

Dario Martinelli

As a composer, Martinelli writes experimental music (with works commissioned by Sibelius Academy, and various festivals in Finland and Estonia, alone or together with Finnish composer Petri Kuljuntausta), incidental music (he wrote for documentaries, radio programs and theatre shows), and popular music (he is songwriter for the Italian singer Anna Maria Castelli).

Dead Air Fresheners

In Signum magazine, writer Tiffany Lee Brown implies strongly that Olympia Experimental Music Festival founder Jim McAdams is one of the anonymous musicians in the group.

Detali Zvuku festival

Now Dmytro Fedorenko also runs Kvitnu Fest - international experimental music festival, smaller events called "Kvitnu Live" and Ukrainian label Kvitnu, that was awarded by Qwartz Electronic Music Awards 7 in 2011 in three nominations - Qwartz Label - Kvitnu, Qwartz Artist and Discovery - Sturqen and V4w.enko was also nominated to Discovery category.

Excepter

Excepter is an experimental music group from Brooklyn, founded in 2002 by No-Neck Blues Band member John Fell Ryan.

Hounded by Fury

Hounded by Fury is an album by Welsh experimental music group Hwyl Nofio, released in 2006.

Icy Demons

Icy Demons is an experimental music project started by Bablicon's Griffin Rodriguez (credited as Blue Hawaii) and Man Man / Need New Body's Christopher Powell (Pow Pow).

Janene Higgins

Her work spans several genres, from video performance in the experimental music scene to videos for Saks Fifth Avenue, and the design of several hundred CD packages for such record labels as Sony, BMG, PolyGram, and a wide variety of independents.

Klopfzeichen

Klopfzeichen is the first full-length album by German experimental music trio Kluster.

Megan Jean and the KFB

Klay played a lot of experimental music with such notables as Assif Tsahar, Cooper-Moore, Mike Pride and Todd Colburn.

Michel Chion

Michel Chion born in 1947 in Creil, France, is a composer of experimental music.

Nigel Gavin

As a constant innovator, he is a regular contributor to the Auckland experimental music salon Vitamin S and has given multimedia performances with photographer Ralph Talmont's photographs.

Roman Signer

A photo of Signer's "Wasser Stiefel" serves as the cover art of Upgrade & Afterlife (1996), an album by American experimental music group Gastr del Sol.

Wanderlust Circus

Noah Mickens has created and performed in a great number of shows in Portland and elsewhere dating back to 2000, starting with his experimental music and performance series 36 Invisibles, and working on the board of directors for 2Gyrlz Performative Arts.