Cornelius Cardew (7 May 1936 – 13 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, 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.
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Eddie Prévost
Drummer/percussionist/writer/publisher
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John Tilbury
English pianist
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AMM
British free improvisation group
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Howard Skempton
British composer and accordionist
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Christopher Hobbs
British composer
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Tania Chen
British musician
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Keith Rowe
British artist
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Ekkehard Ehlers
German musician
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Rhodri Davies
British musician
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Alvin Curran
American musician and composer
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Christian Wolff
American composer
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer
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Mark Simpson
British composer and clarinettist
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David Jackman
British musician
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Frederic Rzewski
American musician
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Richard Barrett
British composer
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Andrew Powell
British musician, composer, arranger; member of Henry Cow
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John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
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Mauricio Kagel
Argentine-German composer
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James Tenney
American composer and music theorist
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Derek Bailey
British guitarist
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Morris Pert
British musician
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George Lewis
composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar
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Richard Teitelbaum
American composer
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Howard Riley
British musician