experimental music

[wiechfreak]

I've been checking out some experimental music lately, a lot of it is pretty....weird to say the least But I do find all of it very interesting. Are there any fans of experimental music here, if so gimme some suggestions of bands/artists please.

[moon shadow]

check out Karlheinz Stockhausen

[silent-storm]

maybe you can list what you have gotten into so far to see where you are comming from. The reason I ask this is because I have some problems with the term "experimental" music. What is that? Is anything that sounds weird experimental? because I would be more inclined to say that experimental music would be creating a form/structure/concept/whatever that hasn't been done before as 'experimental' and that is damn near impossible to think of anything that hasn't in some way been done before...and in this case something like hip hop would be a lot more experimental then 12 tone atonal music as the later has been around for about 100 years...although that has it's problems in that you can claim to be experimental just because you are composing/improvising today rather then a generation ago, which really doesn't mean a thing because 99% of people out there are essentially composing/improvising exactly the same way that people did 50 years ago.

So, I'd be interested in knowing some people that you consider to be 'experimental' before I give any suggestions.

[sam6]

Originally Posted by wiechfreak

Are there any fans of experimental music here, if so gimme some suggestions of bands/artists please.

yeah man me too ,i think there is experimental rock,most of them were in 70's ,mid of 70's, i dont know if that called experimental rock,and there are alot in claasic music at the begaining of 1900.chech out modern russian composers.

[sugarbee]

I'm not exactly "up" on experimental anything these days, but I still tell people to Check out R. Murray Schaefer all the time. He is a contemporary Canadian composer who I studied in my music class in Highschool (a loooong time ago, lol) and I have had the pleasure of meeting him through my University Music program as well as seeing him conduct one of his choral pieces and wow it was really cool. I don't know the scope of his work and can't remember even the works I studied except for "Epitaph for Moonlight" which is a choral piece, four part I believe I don't think there is any accompaniment, if there is it's sparse, purcussion instruments I think. but the cool thing is that he asked a bunch of grade 7 kids to make sounds or nonsensical words that they associated with moonlight, words like "shivaglowa" and some more that I can't think of and couldn't find on line.And those made up words became the text. His scores are really interesting as well, some of them, this one for sure are written graphically, knowledge of conventional music notation is not necessary, the scores are works of art in themselves. I highly recommend checking him out. You have to do a bit more than listen though, at least I think you do. You need to find out just a little about how he does what he does and why maybe. I've posted about this guys before (I know cuz that post of mine actually came up when I googled it!) But it's different. Brilliant, I think. Most definitely different though!
I tried to put a link in here and it just didn't work but if you try this one
http://www.musiccentre.ca/
it should work, once inside just search under composer to bring up the info.

[Mateo150]

Most live jazz that isn't "smooth jazz" tends that direction IMO. I went to a MMW show and they did some weird Pink Floydish Live at Pompeii type stuff, esoteric non-typical music... Medeski playing seemingly random notes, wood was doing an assortment of stuff, pans, triangle, etc, and Martin was doing a lotta weird stuff with wind chimes and so on... anyway, I'd have to call that experimental.