Experimental

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Earle Brown

● Earle Brown (December 26, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an American who established his own formal and notational systems. Brown was the creator of open form,[1] a style of musical construction that has influenced many since—notably the downtown New York scene of the 1980s (see ) and generations of younger composers.

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● Among his most famous works are December 1952, an entirely graphic score, and the open form pieces Available Forms I & II, Centering, and Cross Sections and Color Fields. He was awarded a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award (1998).

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. His work is deeply influenced by both and Indian classical music, and has utilized innovative tape music techniques and delay systems. He is best known for works such as his 1964 composition and 1969 A Rainbow in , both considered landmarks of minimalist music.

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.[1][2][3] His works are cited as prominent examples of post-war experimental and contemporary music, and were tied to New York's downtown music and art scenes.[4] Young is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in Western (originally referred to as "dream music"), prominently explored in the 1960s with the collective the . He has engaged in musical and multimedia collaborations with a wide range of artists, including , Pandit , , , and multimedia artist , with whom he developed the Dream House sound and light environment.[3]

Cornelius Cardew

● (7 May 1936 – 13 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the , an experimental performing ensemble. He later rejected experimental music, explaining why he had "discontinued composing in an avantgarde idiom" in his own programme notes to his Piano Album 1973 in favour of a politically motivated "people's liberation music"

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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● She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, and served as its director. She taught music at , the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Oliveros authored books, formulated new music theories, and investigated new ways to focus attention on music including her concepts of "deep listening" and "sonic awareness". She was an Eyebeam resident.

Alvin Lucier

● (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University, Lucier was a member of the influential , which included Robert Ashley, , and . Much of his work is influenced by science and explores the physical properties of sound itself: resonance of spaces, phase interference between closely tuned pitches, and the transmission of sound through physical media.

Morton Feldman

● A major figure in 20th-century music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. Feldman's works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating; pitch shadings that seem softly unfocused; a generally quiet and slowly evolving music; recurring asymmetric patterns. His later works, after 1977, also begin to explore extremes of duration.

Morton Feldman, Projection 2 (1951)

Morton Feldman, Projection 2 (1951)