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Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp
American musician
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Robert Rich
Robert Rich
American ambient musician and composer
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John Zorn
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader
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Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy
American jazz musician; saxophonist, composer
4
Leif Elggren
Leif Elggren
Swedish artist
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Derek Bailey
Derek Bailey
British guitarist
6
Praxis
Praxis
experimental rock band led by Bill Laswell and Buckethead
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Sam Rivers
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
8
Judy Dunaway
Judy Dunaway
American composer
9
Nicholas Bullen
Nicholas Bullen
British musician
10
Fred Lonberg-Holm
Fred Lonberg-Holm
American musician
11
John Elefante
John Elefante
American rock singer
12
George Lewis
George Lewis
composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar
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Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer
14
Karlheinz Essl
Karlheinz Essl
Austrian composer
15
Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer, and philosopher
16
Alvin Curran
Alvin Curran
American musician and composer
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Jean Derome
Jean Derome
Canadian musician
18
Loren Mazzacane Connors
Loren Mazzacane Connors
American musician
19
Nicola Hitchcock
Nicola Hitchcock
British Singer
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Mick Turner
Mick Turner
Australian musician and artist
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Can
Can
German experimental rock band
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Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars
British musician
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Dave Holland
Dave Holland
British musician
24
Otomo Yoshihide
Otomo Yoshihide
Japanese composer, guitarist (1959-)
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Rhodri Davies
Rhodri Davies
British musician
26
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
English singer-songwriter
27
Toshi Ichiyanagi
Toshi Ichiyanagi
Japanese composer
28
Yasunao Tone
Yasunao Tone
Japanese artist
29
Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
American jazz musician
30
Peter Cusack
Peter Cusack
British musician
31
David Tudor
David Tudor
American pianist and composer
32
Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers
English singer-songwriter, record producer
33
Tim Hodgkinson
Tim Hodgkinson
English experimental music composer and performer
34
Würzel
Würzel
English rock musician
35
Evan Ziporyn
Evan Ziporyn
American composer
36
Fred Frith
Fred Frith
English musician, composer and improvisor
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Walter Hawkins
Walter Hawkins
American musician
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Ralph Towner
Ralph Towner
American musician
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Bill Dixon
Bill Dixon
American musician
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer
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Metal Machine Trio
Metal Machine Trio
American musical band
42
Ed Kuepper
Ed Kuepper
German-born Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter
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David Darling
David Darling
American musician
44
Vic Ruggiero
Vic Ruggiero
musician, songwriter and producer from New York City
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4Him
4Him
46
Paul Dutton
Paul Dutton
Canadian singer and poet
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Catherine Jauniaux
Catherine Jauniaux
musician
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Don Byron
Don Byron
American musician
49
Chris Cutler
Chris Cutler
English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist
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Adrian Belew
Adrian Belew
American rock musician
51
Medeski Martin & Wood
Medeski Martin & Wood
American jazz trio
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Roscoe Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell
American jazz musician
53
Wayne Horvitz
Wayne Horvitz
American musician
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Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor
American jazz pianist and poet
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Stereolab
Stereolab
English band
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Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer (1940-1993)
Jaap Blonk
Dutch composer

Jaap Blonk

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Dutch composer
Blonk at the Moers Festival 2017

Jaap Blonk (born 1953, Woerden) is a Dutch avant-garde composer and performance artist.

Blonk is primarily self-taught both as a sound artist and as a visual/stage performer. He studied physics, mathematics, and musicology for a time, but did not complete his studies. One of his early influences was Kurt Schwitters, whose Ursonate he first heard in 1979; he memorized the entire work, and it became one of the cornerstones of his repertory; he has recited portions of the piece hundreds of times in various public places. His compositions and performances are examples of sound poetry, making use of words and phonetic snippets as well as clicks, hisses, and other vocal manipulations. He works as a solo performer, in collaboration with avant-garde musicians such as John Tchicai, Tristan Honsiger, and Mats Gustafsson, and with his own ensembles Splinks and BRAAXTAAL. His live performances involve humor and improvisation, and are occasionally received poorly by audiences, as when he was booked as an opener for punk rock band The Stranglers early in the 1980s.