>experimental LIVE music<

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About >experimental LIVE music<

Finally an inclusive group for those into avant-garde/experimental/underground/out-there music!!!

Rules are simple:

1 - Post pictures documenting specifically LIVE PERFORMANCES of experimental musicians/sound artists evolving outside of the ugly/bad-bad-bad/EVIL music busine$$.

2 - Post NO MORE THAN 3 PICTURES FROM THE SAME GIG and AVOID LOUSY IMAGES (i.e. blurry, pixelated, taken with flash or too heavily photoshopped).

3 - Also please indicate NAME(S) of artist(s), LOCATION (venue + city + country) and DATE of event.

For the consistency and uniqueness of the group, pictures that do not match these criteria are likely to be cruelly removed from here without warning so please don't take it personal. More info on the type of photos I expect to see here can be found in this thread and selected examples are shown below.

Represented genres should include (but are not limited to) improvisation, noise, sound art, free jazz, no wave, contemporary music, electro-acoustic, musique concrète, circuit bending, industrial, power electronics, anti-music, DIY, minimalism, onkyo, lower-case, sound sculptures, no-fi, skronk, plunderphonics, downtown music scenes, so-called new music and any category-defying weird shit…

If you still hesitate as to whether you belong here or not, here’s a short list of people whose work should sound familiar to you and who are represented in this group: Afrirampo, Aids Wolf, Noël Akchoté, Tetuzi Akiyama, Rashied Ali, Liz Allbee, Maryanne Amacher, Oren Ambarchi, Laurie Anderson, Animal Collective, Thomas Ankersmit, Antimatter (Xopher Davidson), Scott Arford, Astro (Hiroshi Hasegawa), Kenneth Atchley, Atom Heart, Aube (Akifumi Nakajima), Autechre, Stephen Baker, Blixa Bargeld, Tim Barnes, William Basinski, Pierre Bastien, Emil Beaulieau (Ron Lessard), Burkhard Beins, Han Bennink, Steve Beresford, Borah Bergman, Philip Best, Michael Bettine, John Bischoff, Raoul Björkenheim, Kevin Blechdom, Olivia Block, Krys Bobrowski, Tore H. Bøe, Borbetomagus, Boris, Alessandro Bosetti, Glenn Branca, Anthony Braxton, Peter Brötzmann, Chris Brown, David Brown, John Butcher, John Cage, Rob Cambre, MV Carbon, Tim Catlin, Eugene Chadbourne, Rhys Chatham, Don Cherry, Bruno Chevillon, David Chiesa, Chop Shop (Scott Konzelmann), Joshua Churchill, Cluster, Cock E.S.P., Coil, Ornette Coleman, Joe Colley, Mike Connelly, Loren MazzaCane Connors, Tony Conrad, Consumer Electronics, Chris Corsano, Costes, Current 93, Cutest Puppy In The World, Chris Cutler, Werner Dafeldecker, Greg Davis, Rhodri Davis, Bertrand Denzler, dieb13, Aaron Dilloway, Dinosaurs With Horns, Bill Dixon, Tom Djll, Michel Doneda, Axel Dörner, Hamid Drake, Arnold Dreyblatt, Kevin Drumm, Marc Ducret, John Duncan, Trevor Dunn, Phil Durrant, Rudolf Eber, Earth, John Edwards, FM Einheit, Keith Evans, Peter Evans, The Ex, Yamataka Eye, Kai Fagaschinski, Farmers Manual, Silvia Fässler, Fat Worm Of Error, Faust, James Fei, Dror Feiler, Fe-mail, Fennesz, Paul Flaherty, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Mick Flowers, Flying Luttenbachers, Michael Formanek, Joe Foster, Robin Fox, Fred Frith, Fuckhead, Cor Fuhler, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Gal, Diamanda Galás, Charles Gayle, Carlos Giffoni, Heiner Goebbels, Gunda Gottschalk, André Goudbeek, Milford Graves, Henry Grimes, Tom Grimley, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Mats Gustafsson, Will Guthrie, Keiji Haino, Shoji Hano, Alfred 23 Harth, The Haters, Jim Haynes, Robin Hayward, Health, Florian Hecker, Tim Hecker, Christoph Heemann, Gerry Hemingway, Jojo Hiroshige, Susie Ibarra, Ryoji Ikeda, Illusion Of Safety, Kazuo Imai, Incapacitants, Peter Jacquemyn, Jandek, Jazkamer, Philip Jeck, Jeph Jerman, Sven-Åke Johansson, Junko, G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, Jason Kahn, Zbigniew Karkowski, Greg Kelley, Peter Kowald, Ulrich Krieger, KTL, Christof Kurzmann, David Lacey, Joke Lanz, Bill Laswell, Frédéric Le Junter, Lê Quan Ninh, Joëlle Léandre, Okkyung Lee, Urs Leimgruber, Jason Lescalleet, George Lewis, Alan Licht, Lightning Bolt, Arto Lindsay, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Francisco López, Lydia Lunch, Paul Lytton, eRikm, Sachiko M, Madame P, Magik Markers, Luca T. Mai, Makigami Koichi, Christian Marclay, Lasse Marhaug, Masonna (Yamazaki Maso), Matmos, Kaffe Matthews, Joe McPhee, Sean Meehan, Melt Banana, Daniel Menche, Misha Mengelberg, Merzbow (Masami Akita), Christof Migone, Phil Minton, Roscoe Mitchell, Dieter Moebius, MoHa, Jemeel Moondoc, Thurston Moore, Ikue Mori, Lawrence D. 'Butch' Morris, Norbert Möslang, MSBR (Koji Tano), Jon Mueller, Günter Müller, Seijiro Murayama, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakatani, Negativland, Seth Nehil, Andrea Neumann, Phill Niblock, Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto), Nihilist Spasm Band, BJNilsen, Paal Nilssen-Love, Jérôme Noetinger, KK Null, Nurse With Wound, o.blaat, Stephen O’Malley, Jim O’Rourke, John Olson, Aki Onda, Optrum, Origami Collective, Andy Ortmann, Julien Ottavi, Otomo Yoshihide, OvO, Pain Jerk (Kohei Gomi), Charlemagne Palestine, Pan Sonic, Evan Parker, William Parker, Zeena Parkins, Lee Patterson, Mike Patton, Barre Phillips, Dave Phillips, Phroq, Pimmon, Kimmo Pohjohen, Eddie Prévost, Gert-Jan Prins, Prurient (Dominick Fernow), Bhob Rainey, Lee Ranaldo, Maja Ratkje, Vic Rawlings, Peter Rehberg (aka Pita), Religious Knives, Marc Ribot, Terry Riley, Arnaud Rivière, Steve Roden, Paul Rogers, Billy Roisz, Damion Romero, Simon Rose, Ned Rothenberg, Keith Rowe, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, John Russell, Philip Samartzis, Helmut Schäfer, Marcus Schmickler, Christine Sehnaoui, Elliott Sharp, Shinjuku Thief (Darrin Verhagen), Matthew Shipp, Matt Shoemaker, Sickness, Silver Apples, Sonny Simmons, Daniel Skoglund, The Skull Defekts, Smegma, Wadada Leo Smith, Burkhard Stangl, Starving Weirdos, Ralph Steinbrüchel, Howard Stelzer, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Subotnick, Sudden Infant, Taku Sugimoto, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Sunn O))), Damo Suzuki, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Atau Tanaka, Cecil Taylor, JG Thirlwell (aka Foetus), Throbbing Gristle, Asmus Tietchens, John Tilbury, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Yasunao Tone, Roger Turner, Fred Van Hove, Ken Vandermark, Viennese Vegetable Orchestra, Stephen Vitiello, Paul Vogel, Volcano The Bear, Phil Wachsmann, Weasel Walter, David S. Ware, Whitehouse, Barry Weisblat, Mathieu Werchowski, John Wiese, Trevor Wishart, Wolf Eyes, Jack Wright, Randy H.Y. Yau, C. Spencer Yeh, Justice Yeldham (Lucas Abela), Yellow Swans, La Monte Young, Nate Young, Z’ev, Zeitkratzer, Michael Zerang, John Zorn, Zu, etc, etc…









One last thing: go hear some creative live music more often!

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