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• Abruptum
  Abruptum
  Abruptum was a black metal and dark ambient band from Sweden formed in 1989 by IT , All , and Ext. IT had already planned to create the band in 1987, but it wasn't until 1990 that he found the right members to do it. The same year, they recorded their first two demos. After the release of the...
  
  
• Acid Mothers Temple
  Acid Mothers Temple
  Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. is a Japanese psychedelic band, the core of which formed in 1995. The band is led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto and early in their career featured many musicians, but by 2004 the line-up had coalesced with only a few core members and frequent guest...
  
  
• AIDS Wolf
  AIDS Wolf
  AIDS Wolf is a Canadian noise rock band, who debuted on Pasalymany tapes but are currently on Skin Graft Records and Lovepump United.-Name:According to singer Chloe Lum, the name "AIDS Wolf" comes from an urban legend wherein wolves carry AIDS and pass it to house pets who then pass it on to...
  
  
• Akufen
  Akufen
  Marc Leclair, better known by his stage name Akufen, is a Canadian electronic musician. His music is electronic music that is often described as minimal house, minimal techno, glitch, or microhouse....
  
  
• An Albatross
  An Albatross
  An Albatross is a noise rock band based in Wilkes-Barre, PA, known for their chaotic live shows and psychedelic/circus-like presentation.-History:Formed in the fall of 1999 by guitarist Jake Lisowski, vocalist Edward B...
  
  
• Alva Noto
  Alva Noto
  Alva Noto is a stage name of sound artist Carsten Nicolai who uses art and music as complementary tools to create microscopic views of creative processes. Another alias he uses is Noto...
  
  
• Maryanne Amacher
  Maryanne Amacher
  Maryanne Amacher was an American composer and installation artist.-Biography:Amacher was born in Kane, Pennsylvania, to an American nurse and a Swiss freight train worker. As the only child, she grew up playing the piano. Amacher left Kane to attend the University of Pennsylvania on a full...
  
  
• Oren Ambarchi
  Oren Ambarchi
  Oren Ambarchi is a multi-instrumentalist who in major plays electric guitar and drums, with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. He was born in Sydney, Australia in 1969 to a Jewish family originally from Iraq....
  
  
• Anenzephalia
  Anenzephalia
  Anenzephalia is the nom-de-plume of noise musician B. Moloch, who is occasionally joined by Wilhelm Herich of Genocide Organ. Anenzephalia was one of the first projects to record for the Tesco Organisation label.-Partial discography:...
  
  
• Animal Collective
  Animal Collective
  Animal Collective is an experimental psychedelic band originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in New York City. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare , Panda Bear , Deakin , and Geologist...
  
  
• Arab on Radar
  Arab on Radar
  Arab on Radar are a Providence, Rhode Island based noise rock band founded in 1994. They went on hiatus in 2002. Members of the band went on to form or join the bands The Chinese Stars, Athletic Automaton, Made in Mexico, and most recently Doomsday Student...
  
  
• Arcane Device
  Arcane Device
  Arcane Device was the recording name of musician David Lee Myers from 1987 to 1993. He has collaborated with musicians such as Asmus Tietchens, Tod Dockstader, Marco Oppedisano, and Kim Cascone.-Discography:* Devices 1987-2007 double CD...
  
  
• A.R.E. Weapons
  A.R.E. Weapons
  A.R.E. Weapons is a noise-rock band from New York City. Formed in 1999 by Matthew McAuley, Brian F. McPeck, and Ryan Noel, A.R.E. Weapons has been described as hardcore electro-rock. Their live shows are noted for their aggressiveness and confrontational style. Rough Trade was encouraged to sign...
  
  
• John Armleder
  John Armleder
  John Armleder as the son of a hotelier , is a Swiss performance artist, painter, sculptor, critic, and curator. His work is based on his involvement with Fluxus in the 1960s and 1970s, when he created performance art pieces, installations and collective art activities that were strongly influenced...
  
  
• Koji Asano
  Koji Asano
  Koji Asano is a Japanese musician and composer. He works primarily in the field of electro-acoustic music, with his principal instrument being computer software...
  
  
• Astro
  Astro (band)
  Astro is the project of Japanese musician Hiroshi Hasegawa of the influential noise music group C.C.C.C. Astro's music is made using assorted analog equipment including Moog, EMS, and Flower Electronics synthesizers...
  
  
• Atari Teenage Riot
  Atari Teenage Riot
  'Atari Teenage Riot' is a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. The name was taken from a Portuguese Joe song 'Teenage Riot' from the 'Teen-age Riot' album, with the word 'Atari' added as an Atari ST computer was used to create compositions...
  
  
• Kenneth Atchley
  Kenneth Atchley
  Kenneth Atchley is an American composer, noise artist and reclusive member of the San Francisco Bay Area electronic music community....
  
  
• Atrax Morgue
  Atrax Morgue
  Atrax Morgue was the nom de plume of Italian noise musician Marco Corbelli. Many of Atrax Morgue's early material was released on cassette, as part of the industrial/noise 'cassette underground' of the early 1990s. Often these cassettes were released on Corbelli's own Slaughter Productions label,...
  
  
• Aube
  Aube (band)
  Aube is the name used by Japanese musician for his experimental noise records. He has released many CDs, LPs and cassettes since 1991, and is regarded as one of the most important noise musicians working today. He himself does not like to term his work "music," preferring the term "design": "I...
  
  
• Autolux
  Autolux
  Autolux is an avant-garde rock group consisting of Eugene Goreshter , Greg Edwards and Carla Azar...
  
  
• Autopsia
  Autopsia
  Autopsia is an art project dealing with music and visual production. Autopsia gathers authors of different professions in realization of multimedia projects. Its art practice began in London in the late 1970s, continued during the 80s in the art centers of former Yugoslavia. Since 1990, Autopsia...
  
  
• Avec-A
  Yuri Landman
  Yuri Landman is a Dutch experimental luthier who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a list of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars, Jad Fair of Half Japanese and Liam Finn...
  
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• Tzvi Avni
  Tzvi Avni
  Tzvi Avni is an Israeli composer.-Biography:He was born in Saarbrücken, Germany, and emigrated to Mandate Palestine as a child. He studied with Paul Ben-Haim....
  
  
• Nigel Ayers
  Nigel Ayers
  Nigel Ayers is a multimedia artist born in Tideswell, Derbyshire, England, in 1957.His sound art has included numerous audio releases and live performances through his genre-busting group Nocturnal Emissions....
  
  

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• Blackhouse
  Blackhouse
  Blackhouse is a Christian industrial band. Blackhouse plays what has been cited as "primo industrial rock", contrasting with post-industrial styles promulgated by artists such as NIN, Klank, or Circle of Dust...
  
  
• Johannes Baader
  Johannes Baader
  Johannes Baader , originally trained as an architect, was a writer and artist associated with Dada in Berlin....
  
  
• Bad Sector
  Bad Sector
  Bad Sector is an ambient/noise project formed in 1992 in Tuscany, Italy by Massimo Magrini. While working at the Computer Art Lab of ISTI in Pisa , he developed original gesture interfaces that he uses in live performances: 'Aerial Painting Hand' , 'UV-Stick' Bad Sector is an ambient/noise...
  
  
• John Balance
  John Balance
  John Balance , born in Mansfield, England, was the founder of the experimental music group Coil, along with his partner Peter Christopherson...
  
  
• William Basinski
  William Basinski
  William Basinski is a United States avant-garde composer of ambient music via tape music and process music. Basinski is also a clarinetist, saxophonist, sound artist, and video artist...
  
  
• Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
  Dennis Báthory-Kitsz
  Dennis Báthory-Kitsz Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (born March 14, 1949, Plainfield, New Jersey) Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (born March 14, 1949, Plainfield, New Jersey) (pseudonyms: Dennis Bathory, Dennis Kitsz, Dennis J. Kitsz, Dennis Bathory Kitsz, Kalvos Gesamte, Grey Shadé, D.B...
  
  
• Bastard Noise
  Bastard Noise
  -History:The Bastard Noise was founded in 1991 by Henry Barnes, W. T. Nelson and Eric Wood, initially as a side project of powerviolence band Man Is The Bastard.-Project personnel and past contributors:...
  
  
• Emil Beaulieau
  Emil Beaulieau
  Emil Beaulieau, or more fully, “Emil Beaulieau: America’s Greatest Living Noise Artist” is the stage name of Ron Lessard, a prominent noise musician who primarily records for his own label: RRRecords. He has collaborated and performed with many well-known noise artists, including Merzbow, Pain...
  
  
• Leila Bela
  Leila Bela
  Leila Bela is an Iranian-born American avant-garde musician, writer, photographer, actress, multi-instrumentalist, playwright and record producer from Austin, Texas.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bob Bellerue
  Bob Bellerue
  Bob Bellerue is an American composer and performer of music.In 2003, Bellerue studied at California Institute of the Arts, with contemporaries Mark Trayle, Morton Subotnick, Vinny Golia, and Dick Hebdige, and received an MFA in Music....
  
  
• Belong
  Belong (band)
  Belong is an American experimental music duo composed of Turk Dietrich and Michael Jones. The group formed in New Orleans in 2002. Their debut album, October Language, was recorded in 2004 and released in 2006. The duo's sound blends ambient and glitch styles, with a focus on guitar textures...
  
  
• Philip Best
  Philip Best
  Philip Best is a pioneer of power electronics who formed the band Consumer Electronics in 1982 at the age of 14. He joined the group Whitehouse, led by William Bennett, in 1983...
  
  
• Joseph Beuys
  Joseph Beuys
  Joseph Beuys was a German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social...
  
  
• Maurizio Bianchi
  Maurizio Bianchi
  Maurizio Bianchi is an Italian pioneer of noise music, originating from Milan.-Biography:...
  
  
• Big Black
  Big Black
  Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
  
  
• Big City Orchestra
  Big City Orchestra
  Big City Orchestra is a long running art/anti-art group based generally in California. They have an ever rotating cast of musician and nonmusician members...
  
  
• Black Dice
  Black Dice
  Black Dice is an experimental electronic music group currently based in Brooklyn, New York, USA.-Early years:Black Dice formed in spring 1997 soon after guitarist Bjorn Copeland met drummer Hisham Bharoocha and bassist Sebastian Blanck when they were students at the Rhode Island School of Design...
  
  
• Black Lung
  Black Lung
  Black Lung is an electronic and industrial music project by Australian musician David Thrussell, also known for his industrial bands Snog and the more ambient Soma....
  
  
• Jorge Boehringer
  Jorge Boehringer
  Jorge Boehringer is an electro-acoustic musician, composer, sound designer, and installation artist from the United States. He was born in New York in 1975, grew up in Texas, and in 1998 moved Oakland, California...
  
  
• Borbetomagus
  Borbetomagus
  Borbetomagus are a free improvisation/noise music group. They are cited by critics as pioneers of aggressive improvised noise music.- Biography :...
  
  
• Boredoms
• Boris
  Boris (band)
  is a Japanese experimental rock band, known for often combining and switching between different music genres including drone metal, sludge metal, noise rock, psychedelic rock, ambient and pop...
  
  
• Matthew Bower
  Matthew Bower
  Matthew Bower is a British musician, active since the early 1980s, with a vast collection of collaborative and solo work behind him.-Skullflower:...
  
  
• Garry Bradbury
  Garry Bradbury
  Garry Bradbury is an Australian electronic musician active in Sydney's experimental music scene since 1979 where he was an early member of the pioneering post punk / industrial band Severed Heads, from 1981 to 1985, appearing on the albums: Since the Accident, City Slab Horror, Blubberknife and...
  
  
• Glenn Branca
  Glenn Branca
  Glenn Branca is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. In 2008 he was awarded an unrestricted grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.-Beginnings: 1960s and early 1970s:Branca...
  
  
• George Brecht
  George Brecht
  George Brecht , born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil...
  
  
• Brighter Death Now
  Brighter Death Now
  Brighter Death Now is the artist name under which Roger Karmanik , the founder of the Swedish record label Cold Meat Industry, releases death industrial, power electronics and dark ambient music....
  
  
• Marc Broude
  Marc Broude
  -Biography:Marc started recording while living in a squatter artist collective in 2005 playing in various bands with genres like black metal, grindcore, punk, and noise. In 2006 he released the 7" single Psychological Warfare. That same year Marc, Danny Cortez and Chris Anderson formed Zog, a black...
  
  
• Brainbombs
  Brainbombs
  Brainbombs is a Swedish noise rock band formed 1985 in Hudiksvall. The members are Dan, Peter, Jonas, Drajan and Lanchy. The latter was also a member of Totalitär....
  
  

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• C.C.C.C.
• C-drík
  C-drik Fermont
  C-drík is a vegan artist, academically trained musician, dj, singer, composer and drummer. He is a former student of electro-acoustic composer Annette Vande Gorne .-Biography:...
  
  
• Neil Campbell
  Neil Campbell (musician)
  Neil Campbell is a British musician, notable for his vast catalogue and his many collaborations. In 2005, The Wire declared that he, Richard Youngs and Matthew Bower had "provided the map co-ordinates for much of what passed for a post-punk UK underground during most of the 80s and 90s".-Early...
  
  
• Cornelius Cardew
  Cornelius Cardew
  Cornelius Cardew was an English experimental music composer, and founder of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. He later rejected the avant-garde in favour of a politically motivated "people's liberation music".-Biography:Cardew was born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire...
  
  
• Monte Cazazza
  Monte Cazazza
  Monte Cazazza is an American artist and composer best known for his seminal role in helping shape the early landscape of industrial music through recordings with the London-based Industrial Records in the mid-1970s.-Career:...
  
  
• Cabaret Voltaire
  Cabaret Voltaire (band)
  Cabaret Voltaire were a British music group from Sheffield, England.Initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk and Chris Watson, the group was named after the Cabaret Voltaire, a nightclub in Zürich, Switzerland that was a centre for the early Dada movement.Their earliest performances...
  
  
• Caroliner
  Caroliner
  Caroliner, a group formed in 1983 in San Francisco, is an industrial bluegrass–experimental–Noise conceptual art band that utilizes instruments from bluegrass and rock traditions, as well as homemade electronics and other modified instruments...
  
  
• Richard Chartier
  Richard Chartier
  Richard Chartier is a sound/installation artist and graphic designer. Chartier is works in reductionist microsound electronic music, a form of extreme minimalism in which the music is sometimes very quiet, sometimes very sparse, often both.-About:Since 1998, Chartier has created recordings for...
  
  
• Cisfinitum
  Cisfinitum
  Cisfinitum is a post-industrial noise project from Moscow, Russia. It was started in the late 1990s by composer and musician Eugene Voronovsky and has drawn significant attention as one of the most uncommon and distinctive on the national experimental scene...
  
  
• Kim Cascone
  Kim Cascone
  Kim Cascone is an American composer of electronic music who is best known for his releases in the ambient, industrial and electro-acoustic genre on his own record company, Silent Records...
  
  
• Rhys Chatham
  Rhys Chatham
  Rhys Chatham is an American composer, guitarist, and trumpet player, primarily active in avant-garde and minimalist music. He is best known for his "guitar orchestra" compositions...
  
  
• Henri Chopin
  Henri Chopin
  Henri Chopin was an avant-garde poet and musician.-Life:Henri Chopin was a French practitioner of concrete and sound poet, well-known throughout the second half of the 20th century...
  
  
• Club Moral
  Club Moral
  Club Moral is a Belgian noise band formed in 1981 by Danny Devos and Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven based in Antwerp, Belgium . They are known for their controversial performances and imagery. In 2001 "Dylan" briefly joined the band...
  
  
• Cock E.S.P.
  Cock E.S.P.
  Cock E.S.P. is a US-American band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The group draws on the most extreme, subversive and absurdist elements of both popular and experimental Twentieth century music and performance art, creating abstract high-energy entertainment. Influences include noise music, punk...
  
  
• Chris & Cosey
• Clock DVA
  Clock DVA
  Clock DVA are an industrial music, post-punk and EBM group from Sheffield, England. The group was formed in 1978, with two members, Adolphus "Adi" Newton and Steven "Judd" Turner. Along with contemporaries Heaven 17, Clock DVA's name was inspired by the Russian-influenced Nadsat of Anthony Burgess'...
  
  
• Club Moral
  Club Moral
  Club Moral is a Belgian noise band formed in 1981 by Danny Devos and Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven based in Antwerp, Belgium . They are known for their controversial performances and imagery. In 2001 "Dylan" briefly joined the band...
  
  
• Coil
  Coil (band)
  Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...
  
  
• Nicolas Collins
  Nicolas Collins
  Nicolas Collins is a composer of mostly electronic music and former student of Alvin Lucier. He received a B.A. and M.A...
  
  
• Tony Conrad
  Tony Conrad
  Tony Conrad is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer...
  
  
• Controlled Bleeding
  Controlled Bleeding
  Controlled Bleeding is a prolific experimental music group based in Massapequa, New York. The group was founded by Paul Lemos, the group's only consistent member...
  
  
• The Contortions
• Converter
• Eric Copeland
  Eric Copeland
  Eric Copeland is an experimental musician based in New York. He is a core member of Black Dice and forms half of the duo Terrestrial Tones with Animal Collective's Avey Tare....
  
  
• Costes
• Clayton Counts
• Coup de Grâce
  Michael Moynihan (journalist)
  Michael Moynihan is an American journalist, publisher and musician. He is best known for co-writing the book Lords of Chaos, about black metal....
  
  
• Henry Cowell
  Henry Cowell
  Henry Cowell was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario. His contribution to the world of music was summed up by Virgil Thomson, writing in the early 1950s:...
  
  
• Crack Fierce
  Crack Fierce
  Crack Fierce is the name of the Japanese noise music band of Hideki Kato, who runs the record label United Syndicate. Kato is also a bassist, most notably with the free jazz and noise rock band Ground Zero....
  
  
• Crash Worship
  Crash Worship
  Crash Worship or ADRV was a San Diego based experimental-aktionist-industrial-noise performance group formed in 1986. Most renowned for its live shows in which three stand-up percussionists hammered out concussive poly-rhythms to abstract mutated guitar, synthesizers, effects and dualling vocalists...
  
  
• Robin Crutchfield
  Robin Crutchfield
  Robin Crutchfield is an American artist. He is best known as one of the founding musicians of the former New York No Wave scene. He has performed at such hallowed musical grounds as CBGB's, Max's Kansas City and Artist's Space; as well as had his work on display at prestigious venues like MoMA and...
  
  

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• Danny Devos
  Danny Devos
  Danny Devos also known as DDV is a Belgian artist whose work involves body art and performance art and a fascination with true crime....
  
  
• Death Pact International
  Death Pact International
  Death Pact International is a musical concept project created by "power electronics" and "death industrial" project The Grey Wolves during the 1980s. The essential concept behind Death Pact International is that anyone can produce music, perform live, or utilise any other media, under the name...
  
  
• Decomposed Subsonic
  Decomposed Subsonic
  Decomposed Subsonic is the alter-ego of musician Hartmut Wessling. He performs minimal house that uses static, and found noises to create a variety of different sounds...
  
  
• Vladislav Delay
  Vladislav Delay
  Vladislav Delay is one of the pseudonyms of Sasu Ripatti , a Finnish electronic musician. He has also recorded as Luomo, Sistol, Uusitalo and Conoco.-Background:...
  
  
• Walter De Maria
  Walter De Maria
  -Early life and career:De Maria was born in Albany, California on October 1, 1935. He studied history and art at the University of California, Berkeley from 1953 to 1959. Although trained as a painter, De Maria soon turned to sculpture and began using other media...
  
  
• Paul DeMarinis
  Paul DeMarinis
  Paul DeMarinis is an American electronic music composer, sound, performance, and computer-based artist.-Education:In 1971, Demarinis received a B.A. in Music and Filmmaking Interdisciplinary from Antioch College...
  
  
• Fortunato Depero
  Fortunato Depero
  Fortunato Depero was an Italian futurist painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer.Although born in Fondo/Malosco , Depero grew up in Rovereto and it was here he first began exhibiting his works, while serving as an apprentice to a marble worker...
  
  
• Andrew Deutsch
  Andrew Deutsch
  Andrew Deutsch is a sound artist who also teaches at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.-Life and work:Deutsch received his BFA in Video Art and Printmaking from Alfred University in 1990. He obtained his MFA in Integrated Electronic Art from Rensselaer Polytechnic...
  
  
• Diesel Guitar
  Diesel Guitar
  Diesel Guitar is the solo noise music project of Youki Noseyama, who runs the independent noise label Good Microphone. The project originated as a duo called "Diesel Guitars"....
  
  
• Dive
• DNA
  DNA (band)
  DNA was a No Wave band formed in 1978 by guitarist Arto Lindsay and keyboardist Robin Crutchfield. Rather than playing their instruments in a traditional manner, they instead focused on making unique and unusual sounds...
  
  
• Kevin Drumm
  Kevin Drumm
  -Biography:Emerging from the city's improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one of the world's pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since then his work has expanded to include electroacoustic compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers and analog modular synthesizers...
  
  
• Jean Dubuffet
  Jean Dubuffet
  Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.-Life and work:Dubuffet was...
  
  
• Dumb Type
  Dumb Type
  Founded in 1984, the artist collective Dumb Type is based in Kyoto, Japan.Members are trained in varied disciplines, including visual arts, theatre, dance, architecture, music composition and computer programming...
  
  
• John Duncan
  John Duncan (artist)
  This page is about John Duncan the contemporary artist. For the Symbolist artist see John Duncan .John Duncan is an artist who has lived and worked in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Amsterdam, currently lives and works in Bologna...
  
  

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• Edgey
  Edgey
  Edgey is an experimental music, industrial and breakcore musical project from New York City. Stephen James Knight is the production mind behind the creations, also denoting a side project, for this moniker...
  
  
• Einstürzende Neubauten
  Einstürzende Neubauten
  Einstürzende Neubauten is a German post-industrial band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. The group currently comprises Blixa Bargeld , Alexander Hacke , N.U...
  
  
• Leif Elggren
  Leif Elggren
  Leif Elggren , is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm.Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds of audio and visual...
  
  
• Alec Empire
  Alec Empire
  Alec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...
  
  
• Nic Endo
  Nic Endo
  Nic Endo is a Japanese-German-American noise musician who plays with the German digital hardcore group Atari Teenage Riot...
  
  
• Esplendor Geométrico
  Esplendor Geometrico
  Esplendor Geométrico is a Spanish industrial band. The band was formed in the early 1980s by Arturo Lanz, Gabriel Riaza, and Juan Carlos Sastre, who had all been members of El Aviador Dro Y Sus Obreros Especializados. They took the name "Geometric Splendor" from Geometric and Mechanical Splendor...
  
  
• Yamantaka Eye
  Yamantaka Eye
  , real name , born February 13, 1964 in Kobe, is a Japanese vocalist and visual artist, best known as a member of Boredoms. He has changed his name three times, from Yamatsuka Eye, to Yamantaka Eye, to Yamataka Eye, and sometimes calls himself eYe or EYヨ...
  
  

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• Jad Fair
  Jad Fair
  Jad Fair is an American singer, guitarist and graphic artist, most famous for being a founding member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese.-Biography:In 1974, with his brother David, Jad Fair founded the lo-fi group Half Japanese...
  
  
• Farmers Manual
  Farmers Manual
  Farmers Manual is an electronic music and visual art group, founded in Vienna in the beginning of the nineties. The core members of the collective are Mathias Gmachl, Stefan Possert, Oswald Berthold, Gert Brantner and Nik Gaffney...
  
  
• Fennesz
  Christian Fennesz
  Christian Fennesz is an Austrian guitarist active in electronic music, often credited on albums simply as Fennesz....
  
  
• Fenn O'Berg
  Fenn O'Berg
  Fenn O'Berg is an improvisional computer music trio made up of members Christian Fennesz, Peter Rehberg and Jim O'Rourke.The cover art for their first two albums is provided by Chicks on Speed....
  
  
• Luc Ferrari
  Luc Ferrari
  Luc Ferrari was of an Italian heritage but French born composer, particularly noted for his tape music.-Biography:...
  
  
• Henry Flynt
  Henry Flynt
  Henry Flynt is a philosopher, avant-garde musician, anti-art activist and exhibited artist often associated with Conceptual Art, Fluxus and Nihilism.-Background:...
  
  
• Foot Village
  Foot Village
  Foot Village is a tribal noise rock band from Los Angeles, consisting of four drummers of which two also do the vocals.Band members Brian Miller and Grace Lee come from the band Gang Wizard, Josh Taylor was in Friends Forever....
  
  
• Fyfe Dangerfield
  Fyfe Dangerfield
  Fyfe Antony Dangerfield Hutchins is an English musician and songwriter, best known as the founding member of the indie rock band Guillemots.-Early life:...
  
  
• Flying Testicle
  Flying Testicle
  Flying Testicle was an early 90's noise supergroup consisting of Masami Akita, Yamazaki Maso and Zev Asher. The group put out two releases before disbanding.-Discography:*Lamerican Sextom 7" vinyl - ZSF Produkt...
  
  
• Ken Friedman
  Ken Friedman
  Ken Friedman, is a seminal figure in Fluxus, an international laboratory for experimental art, architecture, design, literature, and music. He had his first solo exhibition in New York in 1966. He has also been involved with mail art, and he has written extensively about Fluxus and Intermedia...
  
  
• Ben Frost
  Ben Frost (musician)
  Ben Frost is a musician, composer and producer. Frost is probably most widely recognized for his experimental music drawing widely on influences of minimalism, post-punk, black metal and noise best demonstrated on the 2007 release "Theory of Machines" and 2009's "BY THE THROAT"Frost's...
  
  
• F.R.U.I.T.S.
  F.R.U.I.T.S.
  F.R.U.I.T.S. are a Moscow based cult duo comprising Alexei Borisov and Pavel Zhagun. The duo was formed in 1992 to combine different directions of experimental music, such as abstract electronica, noise music, rhythmical, minimalism, micro and macro sounds and waves, and free improvised...
  
  
• Fushitsusha
  Fushitsusha
  Fushitsusha is a Japanese rock band specialising in the psychedelic rock, space rock and noise rock genres. The band consists of electric guitarist and singer Keiji Haino, and a shifting cast of complementary musicians. The group released the majority of its material in the 1990s.-History:Haino...
  
  

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• Gas
  Gas (musician)
  Gas is a project of Cologne, Germany-based electronic musician Wolfgang Voigt. Voigt cites his youthful LSD experiences in the Königsforst, a German forest situated near his hometown of Köln, as the inspiration behind the project...
  
  
• The Gas Chamber Orchestra
  Gas Chamber Orchestra
  The Gas Chamber Orchestra is a noise music ensemble consisting of Michael Andrade, Mark Grey, Gary Singh, and Ryan Torchia, which was formed in 1991 at San José State University in San Jose, California while the four were electroacoustic music composition students...
  
  
• Gastr del Sol
  Gastr del Sol
  Gastr del Sol was a Chicago band consisting, for most of their career, of David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke. Between 1993 and 1998 they put out seven albums ranging in genre from post-rock to musique concrète....
  
  
• Genocide Organ
  Genocide Organ
  Genocide Organ is a German death industrial group that formed in 1986. Almost all of their records are out of print except for Genocide Organ 虐殺機関, a reissue of Leichenlinie, and In-Konflikt, all three available from Tesco Organisation...
  
  
• The Gerogerigegege
  The Gerogerigegege
  The Gerogerigegege is a music project created in 1985 in Shinjuku, Tokyo by Juntaro Yamanouchi , who runs and maintains the Vis a Vis record label in Japan.- Biography :...
  
  
• Gescom
  Gescom
  Gescom is an electronic music project based in England with close ties to the band Autechre. The name is believed to have been derived from Gestalt Communication...
  
  
• God Is My Co-Pilot
  God Is My Co-Pilot (band)
  God Is My Co-Pilot is a queercore band from New York City that's been recording and playing music since 1991. The two main members of God is My Co-Pilot are vocalist Sharon Topper and guitarist Craig Flanagin...
  
  
• Godflesh
  Godflesh
  Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham, England. Originally known as Fall of Because, they formed in 1988 by Justin K. Broadrick and G.C. Green and disbanded in 2002. Godflesh's innovative music is widely regarded as a foundational influence on industrial metal and post-metal...
  
  
• Gore Beyond Necropsy
  Gore Beyond Necropsy
  Gore Beyond Necropsy formed in 1989 in Hadano-City, Kanagawa, Japan. The group have had a prolific output of releases. They play a hybrid style of chaotic grindcore/noisegrind which they refer to as "Analdrillinggrind Harshit Core!!"....
  
  
• Government Alpha
  Government alpha
  Government Alpha is the name of the Japanese harsh noise project of Yasutoshi Yoshida , also known as S.Isabella, member of Barom One, Mecha-dote-chin & Monster DVD, who also operates his own record label 'Xerxes' out of Tokyo, Japan....
  
  
• Antye Greie
  Antye Greie
  Antye Greie aka AGF is a vocalist, musician, producer, and artist. She was born and raised in East Germany and developed an early interest for music and poetry and philosophy...
  
  
• Jeff Greinke
  Jeff Greinke
  Jeff Greinke is an American ambient music and jazz artist and composer currently based in Tucson, Arizona. He is known as one of the pioneers of dark ambient music, with his earlier solo albums often compared to works by Robert Rich, Brian Eno, and Vidna Obmana...
  
  
• The Grey Wolves
  The Grey Wolves
  The Grey Wolves are a British Industrial music group. They were formed in 1985 by Dave Padbury and Trevor Ward.-History:The band has been credited with pioneering the 'death industrial' subgenre in industrial music. Their work has also been described as 'dark ambient' and as 'power electronics'...
  
  

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• Hafler Trio
  Hafler Trio
  The Hafler Trio is a conceptual and sound art collaborative between Andrew M. McKenzie, the only permanent member, and guest musicians. The project has seen the release of numerous albums and CDs in experimental musical styles ranging from electronica, cut-up, ambient, environmental soundscape,...
  
  
• Half Japanese
  Half Japanese
  Half Japanese is a punk rock band formed by brothers Jad and David Fair in their Coldwater, Michigan bedroom around 1975. Their original instrumentation included a small drum set, which they took turns playing; vocals; and an out of tune guitar...
  
  
• George Harrison
  George Harrison
  George Harrison, MBE was an English musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other...
  
   (Electronic Sound
  Electronic Sound
  Electronic Sound is George Harrison's second album. Released in May 1969, it was the second and final record released on the Beatles' short-lived Zapple Records label, a subsidiary of Apple Records. The album features two lengthy pieces performed on the Moog synthesizer...
  
   project)
• Harry Pussy
  Harry Pussy
  Harry Pussy was a noise rock band from Miami, active from 1992 to 1997. The main members were Bill Orcutt on guitar and vocals and Adris Hoyos on drums and vocals. Other members included briefly Ian Steinberg on accordion, and later either Mark Feehan or Dan Hosker on second guitar...
  
  
• Raoul Hausmann
  Raoul Hausmann
  Raoul Hausmann was an Austrian artist and writer. One of the key figures in Berlin Dada, his experimental photographic collages, sound poetry and institutional critiques would have a profound influence on the European Avant-Garde in the aftermath of World War I.-Early biography:Raoul Hausmann was...
  
  
• Carl Michael Von Hausswolff
  Carl Michael von Hausswolff
  Carl Michael von Hausswolff is a composer, visual artist and curator based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main tools are recording devices used in an ongoing investigation of electricity, frequency, architectural space and paranormal electronic interference...
  
  
• Keiji Haino
  Keiji Haino
  Keiji Haino born May 3, 1952 in Chiba, Japan, and currently residing in Tokyo, is a Japanese musician whose work has included rock, free improvisation, noise, singer-songwriter, solo percussion, psychedelic, minimalism and drone styles...
  
  
• Hair Police
  Hair Police
  Hair Police is an American psychedelic noise band based out of Lexington, Kentucky formed in 2001. They have released records through labels such as Troubleman Unlimited, Hanson Records, Gods of Tundra, Freedom From, and Hospital Productions...
  
  
• Halaka
  Halaka (band)
  Halaka is an American experimental noise rock band that originated in the early 1980s. They have independently released nearly 40 albums in various formats and through various channels.-Discography:* Gelatin, Slightly Used...
  
  
• Hanatarash
  Hanatarash
  Hanatarashi , meaning "sniveler" or "snot-nosed" in Japanese, was a noise band created by later Boredoms frontman Yamantaka Eye and featured Zeni Geva guitarist Mitsuru Tabata. The outfit was formed in Osaka, Japan in 1984 after Eye and Tabata met as stage hands at an Einstürzende Neubauten show...
  
  
• Russell Haswell
  Russell Haswell
  Russell Haswell is a multidisciplinary artist.He has exhibited conceptual and wall based visual works, video art, public sculpture, as well as audio presentations in both art gallery and concert hall contexts. Extreme Computer Music is one specialized area of activity...
  
  
• The Haters
  The Haters
  The Haters are a noise music and conceptual art troupe from the United States. Founded in 1979, they are one of the earliest and best-known acts in the modern noise scene...
  
  
• Tim Hawkinson
  Tim Hawkinson
  Tim Hawkinson is an artist from the United States of America who mostly works as a sculptor.- Education :Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California, and graduated from San Jose State University; in 1989 he earned an MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles.- Work :Hawkinson′s work is...
  
  
• HEALTH
  Health
  Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...
  
  
• Florian Hecker
• Tim Hecker
  Tim Hecker
  Tim Hecker is an electronic musician and sound artist based in Montreal, Canada. Hecker previously recorded under the moniker Jetone, but has become better known internationally for his ambient recordings released through Kranky, Mille Plateaux, Alien8, Force Inc, Staalplaat, and Fat Cat under his...
  
  
• Hella
  Hella (band)
  Hella is an American band from Sacramento, California. They play a technical blend of math rock, noise rock, and experimental rock. The primary members of the band are Spencer Seim on electric guitar and Zach Hill on drums...
  
  
• Guillermo Scott Herren
• Erdem Helvacıoğlu
  Erdem Helvacioglu
  Erdem Helvacioglu is an electronic musician from Turkey. He has collaborated with artists Mick Karn, Kevin Moore, John Wilson, Kazuya Ishigami, and Saadet Turkoz. In addition to his work as an electronic musician, Erdem also composes music for theatre, film and multimedia productions, and produces...
  
  
• Juan Hidalgo Codorniu
  Juan Hidalgo Codorniu
  Juan Hidalgo is a Spanish contemporary composer born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands in 1927. After studying piano and composition in Barcelona and Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Bruno Maderna, in 1957 participates in the XII Internationale Ferienkurse Für Neue Musik festival in Darmstadt with his...
  
  
• Hijokaidan
  Hijokaidan
  Hijokaidan is a Japanese noise and free improvisation group with a revolving lineup that has ranged from two members to as many as fourteen in its early days. The group is the project of guitarist Yoshiyuki "Jojo" Hiroshige its one constant member, who is head & owner of the Osaka-based Alchemy...
  
  
• Kommissar Hjuler
  Kommissar Hjuler
  Kommissar Hjuler works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist and film maker at Flensburg, a town on the German border with Denmark. He often works together with his wife Mama Baer as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. As self-taught artist he began making...
  
  
• Himei Koukotsu
  Himei Koukotsu
  Himei Koukotsu is an experimental noise artist from the United Kingdom. He has released works in many different styles of noise including Japanese style noise, harsh noise, power electronics, ambient and rhythmic noise.-Selected discography:...
  
  
• Cat Hope
  Cat Hope
  Cat Hope is an Australian musician and academic, based in Perth, Western Australia. She is best known as a noise, installation and performance artist. She was a founder of the legendary Perth noise duo Lux Mammoth; was a singer, songwriter and bassist in dark indie band Gata Negra, and she also...
  
  
• Richard Huelsenbeck
  Richard Huelsenbeck
  Richard Huelsenbeck was a poet, writer and drummer born in Frankenau, Hessen-Nassau.Carl Wilhelm Richard Hülsenbeck was a medical student on the eve of World War I. He was invalided out of the army and emigrated to Zürich, Switzerland in February 1916, where he fell in with the Cabaret Voltaire...
  
  
• Hwyl Nofio
  Hwyl Nofio
  Hwyl Nofio is an experimental music group whose only permanent member is Steve Parry. Steve Parry was Hwyl Nofio (from Welsh meaning ‘emotional swimmers’) is an experimental music group whose only permanent member is Steve Parry. Steve Parry was Hwyl Nofio (from Welsh meaning ‘emotional swimmers’)...
  
  

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• If, Bwana
  If, Bwana
  -History:Al Margolis has been working under the musical pseudonym If, Bwana since New Year's Day 1984. He has since earned an international reputation for his experimental noise music.-Recording history:...
  
  
• Imminent Starvation (aka Imminent)
• Incapacitants
  Incapacitants
  are a Japanese noise music group formed in 1981. It consists of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai, whose stated aim is to produce "pure" noise, uninfluenced by musical ideas or even human intention, using primarily feedback, vocals, and various electronics...
  
  
• Martin Irigoyen
  Martin Irigoyen
  Martín Daniel Irigoyen is an Argentine musician best known as a composer and guitarist of Vernian Process...
  
  
• Iszoloscope
  Iszoloscope
  Iszoloscope is an industrial band from Aylmer, Quebec, currently based in Montreal. Iszoloscope's music ranges from harsh, rhythmic noise to ambient soundscapes...
  
  
• Manuel Rocha Iturbide
  Manuel Rocha Iturbide
  Manuel Rocha Iturbide is a Mexican composer and sound artist.-Biography:Manuel Rocha Iturbide was born in 1963 in Mexico City, he started musical studies when he was 13 years old. In 1983, after studying musical pedagogy in Lyon France for one year, he decided to start a career as composer at the...
  
  

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• David Jackman
  David Jackman
  David Jackman is a British musician and visual artist with an extensive catalogue of drone works, mostly as the principal — and often sole — member of Organum....
  
  
• Phil Nyokai James
  Phil Nyokai James
  Phil Nyokai James is a professional shakuhachi teacher and performer as well as avant-garde composer. Born in New York in 1954, James studied shakuhachi with Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin and Yoshio Kurahashi. After receiving his master's license , he began teaching and performing throughout the...
  
  
• Japanther
  Japanther
  Japanther is an art project, established by Matt Reilly and Ian Vanek, then students at Pratt Institute. Japanther was featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and the 2011 Venice Biennale, and has collaborated with a diverse pool of artists such as gelitin, Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, Dan Graham,...
  
  
• Philip Jeck
  Philip Jeck
  Philip Jeck is an English multimedia composer, magician, choreographer, woodsman and taxidermist. He is perhaps best known for his work Vinyl Requiem with Lol Sargent which won the Time Out Performance Award in 1993...
  
  
• Joe Jones
  Joe Jones (Fluxus artist)
  -Formation:Joe Jones grew up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and received a classical musical education at Hartnett Music School in New York City. In the late 1950s he began a short career as a jazz drummer. In 1960 Jones began to study avant-garde experimental composition first briefly with John Cage and...
  
  
• GX Jupitter-Larsen
  GX Jupitter-Larsen
  GX Jupitter-Larsen is an artist, based in Hollywood, California, who's been active in a number of underground art scenes since the late 1970s. Jupitter-Larsen has been involved in punk rock, mail art, cassette culture, the noise music scene, and zine culture...
  
  
• Nana April Jun
  Nana April Jun
  Nana April Jun is one of the personae of Christofer Lämgren , a Swedish artist who works with text, audio, image and installation.-The Ontology of Noise:...
  
  

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• K2
  K2 (Japanese band)
  K2 is the influential noise music project of Japanese musician Kimihide Kusafuka. K2's work typically consists of crashing, creaking, and scraping sounds made with pieces of junk metal, usually edited in a jarring, unpredictable style, and often accompanied by the sounds of various electronics...
  
  
• KK Null
  KK Null
  KK Null is a Japanese experimental multi-instrumentalist. He began as a guitarist, but soon added composer, singer, electronic musician and drummer to his list of talents, and also studied with the Butoh workshop....
  
  
• Kapotte Muziek
  Kapotte Muziek
  Kapotte Muziek is the musical improvisation project of Frans de Waard, Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop. Active since 1984, it is one of the most internationally visible improvisation and experimental project hailing from the Netherlands. The group began as the solo noise music project of Frans de...
  
  
• Thanasis Kaproulias
  Thanasis Kaproulias
  Thanasis Kaproulias is an audio artist who creates noise music under the name of Novi_sad.-Life and work:Thanasis Kaproulias was born in Greece in 1980...
  
  
• Lajos Kassák
  Lajos Kassák
  Lajos Kassák was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, theoretician of the avant-garde and occasional translator, was the father of many modernisms....
  
  
• Istvan Kantor
  Istvan Kantor
  Istvan Kantor is a Hungarian born Canadian performance and video artist, industrial music and electropop singer, and founder of Neoism....
  
  
• Zbigniew Karkowski
  Zbigniew Karkowski
  Zbigniew Karkowski was born in 1958 in Krakow, Poland. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology...
  
  
• Haino Keiji
• Kid606
  Kid606
  Kid606 is the stage name of Miguel Trost De Pedro, an electronic musician who was born 1979 July in Caracas, Venezuela, raised in San Diego and later moved to San Francisco...
  
  
• Andrey Kiritchenko
  Andrey Kiritchenko
  Andrey Kiritchenko is a person known among experimental music fans as author and contributor of various critically acclaimed projects, founder of Nexsound records, producer who has contributed his significant share into the development of electronic music scene in Ukraine and already considered as...
  
  
• Killer Bug
  Killer Bug
  Killer Bug is the moniker used by Kazumoto Endo, off & on, for his solo Japanoise project. Abandoning it for a long while in favor of recording under his given name, Endo has recently adopted the name again for his project in 2005.-External links:***...
  
  
• Gottfried Michael Koenig
  Gottfried Michael Koenig
  Gottfried Michael Koenig is a contemporary German-Dutch composer.-Biography:Koenig studied church music in Braunschweig, composition, piano, analysis and acoustics in Detmold, music representation techniques in Cologne and computer technique in Bonn. He attended and later lectured at the...
  
  
• Milan Knížák
  Milan Knížák
  Milan Knížák is a Czech performance artist, sculptor, musician, installation artist, dissident, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.-Childhood and early life in the Protectorate and in the former Sudetenland :...
  
  
• Knurl
  Knurl (band)
  Knurl is the noise music project of Alan Bloor, Canadian experimental composer and sculptor. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Bloor has been performing and recording Knurl material since 1994, when his seminal harsh noise releases "Nervescrap" and "Initial Shock" were recorded and released...
  
  
• Kode9
  Kode9
  Kode9 is a London-based electronic music artist, DJ, and owner of the Hyperdub record label. An MC, The Spaceape, is a frequent collaborator...
  
  
• Thomas Köner
  Thomas Köner
  Thomas Köner is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. He's been noted for his use of low frequencies...
  
  
• Ron Kuivila
  Ron Kuivila
  Ron Kuivila is an American sound artist from Boston, MA. He is primarily known for his sound installations, which often utilize computers.-Biography:...
  
  

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• Laibach
  Laibach (band)
  Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with industrial, martial, and neo-classical musical styles. Laibach formed June 1, 1980 in Trbovlje, Slovenia . Laibach represents the music wing of the Neue Slowenische Kunst art collective, of which it was a founding member in 1984...
  
  
• Last Exit
  Last Exit (Free jazz band)
  Last Exit was a free jazz supergroup composed of electric guitarist Sonny Sharrock, drummer/occasional vocalist Ronald Shannon Jackson, saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, and bass guitarist Bill Laswell. They were active from 1986 to the early 1990s, releasing primarily live albums recorded in Europe...
  
  
• Yuri Landman
  Yuri Landman
  Yuri Landman is a Dutch experimental luthier who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a list of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars, Jad Fair of Half Japanese and Liam Finn...
  
  
• John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
   and Yoko Ono
  Yoko Ono
  is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
  
   on Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins
  Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins
  Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins is an album released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1968. The result of an all-night session of musical experimentation in Lennon's home studio at Kenwood, John and Yoko's debut album is known not only for its avant garde content, but also for its cover...
  
   and Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions
  Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions
  Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions is an album of noise music released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969, and the successor to 1968's highly controversial Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins...
  
  
• Les Rallizes Dénudés
  Les Rallizes Denudes
  Les Rallizes Dénudés were an influential, yet reclusive Japanese avant-garde band. They originally began in 1962 as a musical theatre troupe, however the formation of the band was not until 1967...
  
  
• Liars
  Liars (band)
  Liars is a three-piece band formed in 2000 consisting of Angus Andrew , Aaron Hemphill , and Julian Gross...
  
  
• Alan Licht
  Alan Licht
  Alan Licht is an American guitarist and composer, whose work combines elements of pop, noise, free jazz and minimalism. He is also a writer and journalist.-Biography:Licht was born in New Jersey in 1968...
  
  
• Lightning Bolt
• Liturgy
  Liturgy (band)
  Liturgy are a black metal band from Brooklyn, New York. Originally the solo project of Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, the band expanded to a four piece in 2008, after the release of the 12" Immortal Life, which was followed in 2009 with their debut album Renihilation. The group call their style...
  
  
• Live Skull
  Live Skull
  -Overview:Live Skull created abrasive no wave music not unlike their 1980s contemporaries Sonic Youth, Swans, Rat at Rat R, The Chameleons, Mars, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and Band of Susans. Their music featured angular guitar parts interspersed with bleak, quieter passages, for a haunting...
  
  
• The Locust
  The Locust
  The Locust is a musical group from San Diego, California, United States known for their unique mix of grindcore speed and aggression, mathcore complexity, and new wave weirdness.- Style :...
  
  
• Locust Sympathizer
  Locust Sympathizer
  Locust Sympathizer is a noise music project based in Western New York, USA, with Benjamin Hockenberry as primary force and Christopher Drysdale on drums...
  
  
• Francisco López
  Francisco López (musician)
  Francisco López is an avant-garde experimental musician and sound artist.He has released a large amount of sound pieces with record labels from more than fifty countries and realized hundreds of concerts and sound installations worldwide; including some of the main international museums, galleries...
  
  
• Lustmord
  Lustmord
  Brian Williams is a British electronic musician often credited for creating the dark ambient genre with albums recorded under the name Lustmord.- History :Williams started recording as Lustmord in 1980 before joining SPK in 1982...
  
  

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• Angus MacLise
  Angus MacLise
  Angus MacLise was an American percussionist, composer, poet, occultist and calligrapher probably best known as the first drummer for the Velvet Underground.-Biography:...
  
  
• Yoshio Machida
  Yoshio Machida
  is an experimental musician, a steelpanist, composer, and visual artist.-Person:A member of ASCAP, Machida studied minimal art, music and film at the Tama Art University under Kuniharu Akiyama, Yoshiaki Touno, Sakumi Hagiwara and Kishio Suga...
  
  
• Macronympha
  Macronympha
  Macronympha is an American noise group formed 1990 by Joseph Roemer and Rodger Stella in Pittsburgh, PA. Tim Oliveira Stimbox and Dominick Fernow Prurient have occasionally appeared on Macronympha recordings and live performances....
  
  
• Maeror Tri
  Maeror Tri
  Maeror Tri was an ambient noise and drone music band from Germany founded in the 1980s which consisted of Stefan "Baraka H" Knappe, Martin "GLIT[s]CH" Git and Helge Siehl....
  
  
• Maldoror
  Maldoror
  Maldoror is a music project consisting of Mike Patton and Masami Akita, also known as Merzbow. The name is derived from a nineteenth century novel entitled Les Chants de Maldoror by the Comte de Lautréamont, the pseudonym of the writer Isidore Lucien Ducasse.The project formed when Patton was on...
  
  
• Man Is the Bastard
  Man Is the Bastard
  Man Is the Bastard were a pioneering hardcore punk band who contributed the name, and perhaps also the ethos, to the punk subgenre known as power violence...
  
  
• Manorexia
  Manorexia
  Manorexia is an experimental instrumental project of composer J. G. Thirlwell . Manorexia was formed in 2001.As opposed to Thirlwell's other instrumental group, Steroid Maximus, Manorexia features no collaborators and eschews musical structure for a more free-form and spontaneous approach. The...
  
  
• Christian Marclay
  Christian Marclay
  Christian Marclay is a Swiss-American visual artist and composer.Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film...
  
  
• Lasse Marhaug
  Lasse Marhaug
  Lasse Marhaug is a Norwegian musician who primarily works in the field of noise music but frequently drifts into other areas such as improvisation, jazz, rock and extreme metal. Marhaug has also been involved in creating music for theatre, dance, art installations and video art...
  
  
• Magik Markers
  Magik Markers
  The Magik Markers are a noise rock band from Hartford, Connecticut. The members, Elisa Ambrogio, Pete Nolan and Leah Quimby started the band in their basement in 2001. After opening for Sonic Youth on their American tour in 2004, the band gained notoriety...
  
  
• Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
  Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti was an Italian poet and editor, the founder of the Futurist movement, and a fascist ideologue.-Childhood and adolescence:...
  
  
• Mars
  Mars (band)
  Mars was a New York City No Wave band formed by vocalist Sumner Crane in 1975. He was joined by China Burg , Mark Cunningham , and artist Nancy Arlen , and briefly by guitarist Rudolph Grey. The band played one live gig under the name China before changing it to Mars...
  
  
• Masonna
• Matmos
  Matmos
  Matmos is an experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisco but now residing in Baltimore signed to the Matador Records label. M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel are the core members, but they frequently include other artists on their records and in their performances, including...
  
  
• Stephan Mathieu
  Stephan Mathieu
  Stephan Mathieu is a German musician and sound artist whose work is based on digital and analog processing techniques. He lives and works in Saarbrücken, Germany.-About:...
  
  
• Mattin
  Mattin
  Mattin is a Basque artist working mostly with noise and improvisation.Mattin also has written about improvisation, free software and against the notion of intellectual property. In 2001 Mattin formed Sakada with Eddie Prévost and Rosy Parlane. He has over 70 releases in different labels around the...
  
  
• Sachiko Matsubara
• Mauthausen Orchestra
  Mauthausen Orchestra
  Musical moniker of Pierpaolo Zoppo, Italian noise musician of the early industrial and power electronics school from the 1980s. Along with M.B. he was one of the pioneers of Italian noise....
  
  
• Melt-Banana
  Melt-Banana
  Melt-Banana is a Japanese punk band that is known for playing extremely fast noise music mixed with experimental electronica and pop-based song structures. They have worked with artists as diverse as Merzbow, John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Discordance Axis...
  
  
• Daniel Menche
  Daniel Menche
  Daniel Menche is a musician from Portland, Oregon. He has released music on labels such as Soleilmoon, Trente Oiseaux, Or Records, Alien8, Antifrost, Tesco Organisation, Blossoming Noise, f e r n s recordings Beta-lactam Ring Records, and Editions Mego...
  
  
• Merzbow
  Merzbow
  is the main recording name of the Japanese noise musician , born in 1956. Since 1979 he has released in excess of 350 recordings.The name "Merzbow" comes from German artist Kurt Schwitters' artwork, "Merzbau”. This was chosen to reflect Akita's dada influence and junk art aesthetic...
  
  
• Metalux
  Metalux
  Metalux is a noise band consisting of M.V. Carbon and J. Graf, both members of Bride of No No. They are occasionally joined by Nautical Almanac member Twig Harper...
  
  
• Microstoria
  Microstoria
  Microstoria is an experimental electronic ensemble from Düsseldorf, Germany.Microstoria was founded in 1994 by Markus Popp and Jan St. Werner . Their first full-length arrived in 1995, released in Europe on the Mille Plateaux label and reissued in America on Thrill Jockey...
  
  
• Mock Turtle
  Mock Turtle
  The Mock Turtle is a fictional character devised by Lewis Carroll from his popular book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Its name is taken from a dish that was popular in the Victorian period, mock turtle soup....
  
  
• Monde Bruits
  Monde Bruits
  Monde Bruits was the Japanese noise music project of Syohei Iwasaki . The project was one of the earliest in Japan's noise scene, and it was Iwasaki who organized Masami Akita's first Merzbow show in Osaka, Japan...
  
  
• Meredith Monk
  Meredith Monk
  Meredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records.-Life and work:Meredith Monk is primarily known for her...
  
  
• Moondog
  Moondog
  Moondog, born Louis Thomas Hardin , was a blind American composer, musician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. Moving to New York as a young man, Moondog made a deliberate decision to make his home on the streets there, where he spent approximately twenty of the thirty years he...
  
  
• Thurston Moore
  Thurston Moore
  Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
  
  
• Morphogenesis
  Morphogenesis (band)
  Morphogenesis is a British experimental music group specializing in improvised music and the use of unconventional instruments and sound-making devices. Founded in 1985, the group usually was composed of ex-Scratch Orchestra member Roger Sutherland Morphogenesis is a British experimental music...
  
  
• David Moss
  David Moss (musician)
  David Moss is an American composer, percussionist and self-taught vocalist, founder of the David Moss Dense Band; co-founder and artistic director of the Institute for Living Voice, Antwerp...
  
  
• MOZ
  MOZ
  MOZ is the dark ambient, power electronics project of American musician/composer JC Brand .-Origins:Founded in Houston Texas in 1997, transplanted to Anchorage, Alaska in 2000, and dubbed Post Power Electronics by Gary of Bed Molt/a sonic deterrent...
  
  
• Mr. Bungle
  Mr. Bungle
  Mr. Bungle was an experimental band from Northern California. The band was formed in 1985 while the members were still in high school and was named after a children's educational film. Mr. Bungle released four demo tapes in the mid to late 1980s before being signed to Warner Bros. Records and...
  
  
• Monotract
  Monotract
  Monotract is a 3-piece experimental music group based in Brooklyn, New York but originated in Miami, Florida. The group consists of Nancy Garcia, Carlos Giffoni and Roger Rimada...
  
  
• Muse
  Muse (band)
  Muse are an English alternative rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The band consists of school friends Matthew Bellamy , Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard...
  
  
• M.S.B.R.
• Musica Elettronica Viva
  Musica Elettronica Viva
  Musica Elettronica Viva is a live acoustic/electronic improvisational group formed in Rome, Italy, in 1966. Over the years, its members have included Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, Frederic Rzewski, Allan Bryant, Carol Plantamura, Ivan Vandor, Steve Lacy, and Jon Phetteplace.They were early...
  
  
• Muslimgauze
  Muslimgauze
  Muslimgauze was a music project of Bryn Jones , a prolific British ethnic electronica and experimental musician, influenced by conflicts in the Muslim world with an emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
  
  

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• Toshimaru Nakamura
  Toshimaru Nakamura
  Toshimaru Nakamura is a Japanese musician, active in free improvisation and Japanese onkyo.He began his career playing rock and roll guitar, but gradually explored other types of music, even abandoning guitar and started working on circuit bending...
  
  
• Nautical Almanac
  Nautical Almanac (band)
  Nautical Almanac are a noise music group based out of Baltimore Maryland with a rotating membership based around Carly Ptak and Twig Harper. -History:...
  
  
• Joseph Nechvatal
  Joseph Nechvatal
  Joseph Nechvatal is a post-conceptual art digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses.-Life and work:Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago...
  
  
• Negativland
  Negativland
  Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! song, while their record label is named after another Neu! song...
  
  
• Neptune
  Neptune (band)
  Neptune is a noise music band from Boston, noted for having built their custom-made guitars and basses out of scrap metal. The band also plays custom-made percussion instruments and electric lamellophones.-Band history:...
  
  
• Nihilist Spasm Band
  Nihilist Spasm Band
  The Nihilist Spasm Band is a London, Ontario-based noise band. The band was formed in 1965 by Hugh McIntyre, John Clement, John Boyle, Bill Exley, Murray Favro, Archie Leitch, Art Pratten, and Greg Curnoe. Leitch has since retired, Curnoe was killed in a bicycle accident in 1992, and McIntyre...
  
  
• Nine Inch Nails
  Nine Inch Nails
  Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
  
  
• Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto
  Alva Noto
  Alva Noto is a stage name of sound artist Carsten Nicolai who uses art and music as complementary tools to create microscopic views of creative processes. Another alias he uses is Noto...
  
  
• Hermann Nitsch
  Hermann Nitsch
  Hermann Nitsch is an Austrian artist who works in experimental and multimedia modes.Born in Vienna, Nitsch received training in painting during the time he studied at the Wiener Graphische Lehr-und Versuchanstalt. He is called an "actionist" or a performance artist...
  
  
• No Age
  No Age
  No Age is a two-person American indie rock group consisting of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer/vocalist Dean Allen Spunt. The band is based in Los Angeles and is currently signed to Sub Pop records...
  
  
• Nocturnal Emissions
  Nocturnal Emissions
  Nocturnal Emissions is a sound art project that has released numerous records and CDs in music styles ranging from electro-acoustic, musique concrète, hybridised beats, sound collage, post-industrial music, ambient and noise music....
  
  
• Noisex
  Noisex
  Noisex is the name of a power noise and industrial music act from Germany. It has long been releasing music on the Ant-Zen record label and Rudy Ratzinger's label, Mental Ulcer Forges.-Members / history:...
  
  
• NON
  Boyd Rice
  Boyd Blake Rice is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and current staff writer for Modern Drunkard...
  
  
• Nordvargr
  Nordvargr
  Nordvargr is the most commonly used name for Swedish musician Henrik Nordvargr Björkk.-Early Influence:In the late seventies Björkk became aware of music recorded by bands such as Kiss. After this he began buying music on a regular basis, staying true to the metal scene throughout his early teens...
  
  
• Nurse with Wound
  Nurse with Wound
  Nurse with Wound is the main recording name for British musician Steven Stapleton. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak...
  
  

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• OOIOO
  OOIOO
  OOIOO are an all-female group founded by Boredoms drummer Yoshimi P-We.According to allmusic's Kieran McCarthy "It's next to impossible to describe their sound, because — by design — it rarely follows consistent patterns"...
  
  
• Yoko Ono
  Yoko Ono
  is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
  
   and John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
   on Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins
  Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins
  Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins is an album released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1968. The result of an all-night session of musical experimentation in Lennon's home studio at Kenwood, John and Yoko's debut album is known not only for its avant garde content, but also for its cover...
  
   and Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions
  Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions
  Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions is an album of noise music released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969, and the successor to 1968's highly controversial Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins...
  
  
• Stephen O'Malley
  Stephen O'Malley
  Stephen O'Malley is a musician, predominantly a guitarist, producer and composer from Seattle, Washington who has conceptualized and participated in numerous drone doom, death/doom, and experimental music groups....
  
  
• Jim O'Rourke
  Jim O'Rourke (musician)
  Jim O'Rourke is an Irish-American musician and record producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene...
  
  
• John Oswald
  John Oswald (composer)
  John Oswald is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. His best known project is Plunderphonics, the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings .-Philosophy:Oswald coined the term "plunderphonics" to describe his craft in a paper called which he...
  
  
• Yoshihide Otomo
  Yoshihide Otomo
  is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist.He first came to international prominence in the 1990s as the leader of the noise rock group Ground Zero, and has since worked in a variety of contexts, ranging from free improvisation to noise, jazz, avant-garde and contemporary classical...
  
  
• Oval

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• P16.D4
  P16.D4
  P16.D4 was a German electronic noise music collective, active primarily from 1980 to 1988, whose work was inspired by the punk and Neue Deutsche Welle scene of the early 1980s, which they ruthlessly mocked in their debut self-released 7", "Bruckenkopf im Neimansland". The group began as the...
  
  
• Nam June Paik
  Nam June Paik
  Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist....
  
  
• P·A·L
  P·A·L
  P·A·L is a German musical project whose style ranges from power noise to ambient. It is a long-time act on Germany’s Hymen Records and Ant-Zen record labels.-Members and history:...
  
  
• Charlemagne Palestine
  Charlemagne Palestine
  Charlemagne Palestine is an American minimalist composer, performer, and visual artist...
  
  
• Pain Jerk
  Pain Jerk
  Pain Jerk is a noise music unit run by Japanese musician Kohei Gomi . Gomi started home-recording in the 1980s as private works. PAIN JERK was one of the more prolific and influential noise artists of the 1990s, and is one of the leading figures in the "dynamic" style of Japanese noise...
  
  
• Pan Sonic
  Pan sonic
  Pan Sonic was a Finnish experimental electronic music duo consisting of Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen.-Music:...
  
  
• Panicsville
  Panicsville
  Panicsville is a Chicago noise music group founded in 1992 by Andy Ortmann with David Forquer and Ryan Kohler. It has become an ongoing project for Ortmann to work with other musicians. Early shows consisted of pelting the audience with items like dry ice, meat, blood and insects...
  
  
• Bernard Parmegiani
  Bernard Parmegiani
  Bernard Parmegiani is a composer best known for his electronic or acousmatic music.-Biography:Between 1957 and 1961 he studied mime with Jacques Lecoq, a period he later regarded as important to his work as a composer...
  
  
• Part Chimp
  Part Chimp
  Part Chimp is a band from Camberwell in London that were formed by Tim Cedar, Jon Hamilton and Nick Prior in 2000. Current line-up is Tim , Jon , Joe McLaughlin and Iain Hinchliffe ....
  
  
• Mike Patton
  Mike Patton
  Michael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the metal/experimental rock band Faith No More. He has also sung for Mr...
  
  
• PBK
  PBK (composer)
  PBK is a composer that works in the genres of Noise and/or Ambient music.-Background:American composer, Phillip B. Klingler, better known as PBK, has been active in the experimental music underground since 1986. His soundwork correlates to electroacoustic, classic industrial and free jazz genres...
  
  
• Pimmon
  Pimmon
  Pimmon is the recording name of Australian musician Paul Gough. He has released records on labels such as Fat Cat Records, Fällt, Tigerbeat6, Staalplaat and Staubgold, and collaborated with Keith Rowe and Oren Ambarchi, among others....
  
  
• Pink and Brown
  Pink and Brown
  Pink and Brown were a noise rock/punk rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1997 when the members moved west from their old home of Providence, RI. The band consisted of two members: Pink and Brown . Pink played guitar and sang while Brown played drums...
  
  
• PRE
  Pre (band)
  Pre, often written as PRE, is a British noise rock band on Skin Graft Records and Lovepump United. It is based in London and was formed around 2005 with singer Akiko Matsuura, known for taking the stage in only her underwear and extensive stage diving. Pre includes former members of Todd and Seafood...
  
  
• Premature Ejaculation
  Premature Ejaculation (band)
  Premature Ejaculation was an experimental music group from Pomona, California in the United States. It briefly existed in 1981, and was reformed in 1987 by Rozz Williams of Christian Death fame and Chuck Collison.-History:...
  
  
• Project Pitchfork
  Project Pitchfork
  Project Pitchfork is an electronic musical group from Hamburg, Germany.-History:Project Pitchfork was formed by Peter Spilles and Dirk Scheuber. Having agreed to work together, they then picked the project's name by picking a word at random from the dictionary. The demo K.N.K.A. was recorded...
  
  
• Franz Pomassl
  Franz Pomassl
  Franz Pomassl is an electronic sound and recording artist and DJ residing in Vienna, Austria, and is a co-founder of the Austrian Laton experimental techno label....
  
  
• Francesco Balilla Pratella
  Francesco Balilla Pratella
  Franceso Balilla Pratella was an Italian composer and musicologist.-Life and work:Pratella studied at the Pesaro Conservatory where he was a pupil of Pietro Mascagni....
  
  
• Prurient
  Prurient
  Prurient is the performing name of Ian Dominick Fernow. He has released material on numerous independent record labels, such as American Tapes, Hanson Records, RRRecords, Load Records, Troubleman Unlimited, Chrondritic Sound, Kitty Play Records, and his own label Hospital Productions...
  
  
• Psyclones
  Psyclones
  Psyclones is an experimental music industrial band started in 1980. Psyclones are a long standing band with a diverse sound, ranging from punk/post-rock/synth-pop to electronic industrial/ambient music. They released their Greatest Hits CD which spans over a decade of intensely rich, enthusiastic...
  
  
• Psychic TV
  Psychic TV
  Psychic TV or PTV, is a video art and music group that primarily performs psychedelic, punk, electronic and experimental music...
  
  

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• Dick Raaymakers
  Dick Raaymakers
  Dick Raaymakers is a Dutch composer, theater maker and theorist. He is known as a pioneer in the field of electronic music and tape music but he has also realized numerous music theater pieces and has published many theoretical essays.-Biography:Raaymakers studied the piano at the Royal...
  
  
• Radio Massacre International
  Radio Massacre International
  Radio Massacre International are a trio of British musicians, Steve Dinsdale , Duncan Goddard , and Gary Houghton . They specialize in improvisational experimental electronic music, utilizing vintage synthesizers and sampled sounds alongside electric guitar. They are also leading exponents of the...
  
  
• Rapeman
  Rapeman
  Rapeman was an American post-hardcore/noise rock group founded in 1987 and disbanded in 1989. It consisted of Steve Albini on guitar and vocals, David Wm. Sims on bass, and Rey Washam on drums.-History:In an interview, Albini reported that "'Rapeman' is .....
  
  
• Rat At Rat R
  Rat at rat r
  -Overview:Noise-rock quartet Rat at Rat R was formed in 1981 by guitarist Victor Poison-tete. Originally hailing from Philadelphia, the band soon relocated to New York City's Lower East Side and became one of the highlights of the NYC noise-rock scene...
  
  
• Red Square (band)
  Red Square (band)
  Red Square is a pioneering free improvising band originally from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England that formed in 1974 and broke up in 1978, before reforming again in 2008 as a result of renewed interest in their music...
  
  
• Richard Ramirez
  Richard Ramirez (musician)
  Richard Ramirez is an American noise music artist from Houston, Texas, recording and performing both as a solo artist and as part of several groups and Houston Noise Bands, including Black Leather Jesus, Priest in Shit, An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter, Oasis of Fear and the "static noise" solo...
  
  
• Lee Ranaldo
  Lee Ranaldo
  Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...
  
  
• Lou Reed
  Lou Reed
  Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
  
   (Metal Machine Music
  Metal Machine Music
  Metal Machine Music, subtitled *The Amine β Ring, is the fifth solo album by Lou Reed. It was originally released as a double album by RCA Records in 1975...
  
   album only)
• Peter Rehberg
  Peter Rehberg
  Peter Rehberg is an author of electronic audio works.He has collaborated with: Jim O'Rourke, Christian Fennesz, Dennis Cooper, Gisèle Vienne, Stephen O'Malley , Tina Frank, Matmos, Tujiko Noriko, Kevin Drumm, Marcus Schmickler, Michaela Schwentner , Matt "Skitz" Sanders, Russell Haswell, Florian...
  
  
• The Residents
  The Residents
  The Residents is an American art collective best known for avant-garde music and multimedia works. The first official release under the name of The Residents was in 1972, and the group has since released over sixty albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects and ten DVDs....
  
  
• Boyd Rice
  Boyd Rice
  Boyd Blake Rice is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and current staff writer for Modern Drunkard...
  
   (NON)
• Robin Rimbaud
  Robin Rimbaud
  Robin Rimbaud is an electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance...
  
  
• Keith Rowe
  Keith Rowe
  Keith Rowe is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter. Rowe is a founding member of both the hugely influential AMM in the mid-1960s and M.I.M.E.O. Having trained as a visual artist, Rowe's paintings have been featured on most of his own albums...
  
  
• Ruins
• Antonio Russolo
  Antonio Russolo
  Antonio Russolo was an Italian Futurist composer, brother of the more famous Futurist composer and theorist Luigi Russolo. The 78 rpm record made by him in 1921 is the only surviving sound recording that features the original intonarumori...
  
  
• Luigi Russolo
  Luigi Russolo
  Luigi Russolo was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises . He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of "noise concerts" in 1913-14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921...
  
  
• Walter Ruttmann
  Walter Ruttmann
  Walter Ruttmann was a German film director and along with Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling was an early German practitioner of experimental film....
  
  

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• Sachiko M
  Sachiko M
  Sachiko Matsubara, who usually records as Sachiko M, is a Japanese musician, but she considers herself to be a "non-musician".She was a member of Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero from 1994 to 1997, where she used a sampler. More recently, she has concentrated on music made from sine waves...
  
  
• Jamie Saft
  Jamie Saft
  Jamie Saft is a keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer and producer living in upstate NY. Saft was born in Flushing Queens, New York in 1971 and is a graduate of both Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music. He has performed and recorded with John Zorn,...
  
  
• Ryuichi Sakamoto
  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...
  
  
• Salem
  Salem (Michigan band)
  Salem is a US-midwest band from Traverse City and Chicago, composed of John Holland, Heather Marlatt, and Jack Donoghue. The band's debut release, Yes I Smoke Crack, was released on Acéphale in summer 2008 - the EP, gaining fast popularity, sold out in pre-sales. Salem formed in Chicago in 2006,...
  
  
• Marcus Schmickler
  Marcus Schmickler
  Marcus Schmickler is a German composer, musician and producer. He is also known under the pseudonym Pluramon....
  
  
• Uwe Schmidt
  Uwe Schmidt
  Uwe Schmidt , is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino, electrogospel and acitón music.- Career :...
  
  
• Conrad Schnitzler
  Conrad Schnitzler
  Conrad Schnitzler was a prolific German experimental musician.Schnitzler was born in Düsseldorf. He was an early member of Tangerine Dream and a founder of the band Kluster. He left Kluster in 1971, first working with his group Eruption and then focusing on solo works...
  
  
• Nicolas Schöffer
  Nicolas Schoffer
  Nicolas Schöffer was a Hungarian-born French artist. He can be considered as the father of cybernetic art. He was born in Kalocsa, Hungary and resided in Paris from 1936 till his death in his Montmartre atelier in 1992. His career touched on painting, kinetic sculpture, architecture, urbanism,...
  
  
• Scratch Acid
  Scratch Acid
  Scratch Acid was an Austin, Texas noise rock group formed in 1982. When they first began, their lineup was Steve Anderson , David Wm. Sims , Brett Bradford , David Yow , and Rey Washam and Win Vitosky...
  
  
• Scratch Orchestra
  Scratch Orchestra
  The Scratch Orchestra was an experimental musical ensemble founded in the spring of 1969 by Cornelius Cardew, Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton....
  
  
• Severed Heads
  Severed Heads
  Severed Heads is an Australian electronic music group based and founded in Sydney in 1979 as Mr. and Mrs. No Smoking Sign. The original members were Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright, and were soon joined by Tom Ellard. Fielding and Wright eventually left the group, leaving Ellard as a singular...
  
  
• Skerik
  Skerik
  Skerik is an American saxophonist from Seattle, Washington. Performing on the tenor and baritone saxophone, often with electronics and loops, Skerik is a pioneer in a playing style that has been dubbed saxophonics. He is a founding member of Critters Buggin, Garage a Trois and Skerik's Syncopated...
  
  
• Skinny Puppy
  Skinny Puppy
  Skinny Puppy is a Canadian industrial musical group, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1982. The group is widely considered to be the founders of the electro-industrial genre....
  
  
• Slicing Grandpa
  Slicing Grandpa
  Slicing Grandpa is an experimental music/noise rock band based in Seattle, Washington. The group formed in the spring of 1993 in Elmira, New York, by John Laux and Lance Tarr. The group's sound is minimalistic, repetitive and harsh, with recordings tending to be produced at high volume on...
  
  
• Smegma
  Smegma (band)
  Smegma is an American experimental noise group formed in Pasadena, California in 1973 and currently based in Portland, Oregon. Originally part of the Los Angeles Free Music Society movement of the 1970s, Smegma is one of the few music collectives of that era still active today. Author Richard...
  
  
• .snd
  .snd
  snd are Mark Fell and Mat Steel, a pair of Sheffield DJs and musicians whose work has been described as glitch. Naming their project after the extension often used for computer sound files, Fell and Steel are both expert programmers who disdain the usual electronics route of audio software or...
  
  
• Michael Snow
  Michael Snow
  Michael Snow, CC is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music.-Life:...
  
  
• Solmania
  Solmania
  Solmania is the Osaka-based noise music project of Masahiko "Masaki" Ohno , who runs the Works Fatagaga noise record label. Formed in 1984, Solmania is one of the earliest noise projects out of Japan...
  
  
• Solypsis
• Sonic Youth
  Sonic Youth
  Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...
  
  
• SPK
  SPK (band)
  SPK, formed in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, was a 1980s and early 1990s industrial music and noise music group. One member, Graeme Revell, would later go on to become a successful Hollywood movie composer.-History:...
  
  
• Moe! Staiano
  Moe! Staiano
  Moe Staiano is an American experimental drummer/percussionist and composer who works in a variety of found sounds and prepared trap set as well as massive orchestra conductions of his own scored compositions.-His style:Mainly an improviser in a solo performance setting, Moe! Staiano Moe Staiano...
  
  
• Steven Stapleton
  Steven Stapleton
  Steven Peter Stapleton is a British musician and the only constant member of experimental improv outfit Nurse with Wound...
  
  
• Howard Stelzer
  Howard Stelzer
  Howard Stelzer is a composer and live performer of electronic music whose work is made primary from sounds generated by cassette tapes...
  
  
• Stendeck
  Stendeck
  Based in Lugano, Switzerland, Stendeck is an electronic music act fronted by Alessandro Zampieri , and is heavily associated with the industrial music scene....
  
  
• Stimbox
  Stimbox
  Stimbox was a noise music project run by Tim Oliveira, and was one of the most established names in the American harsh noise scene. Stimbox's work is noted for its dense, psychedelic sound, usually made with closed feedback loops run through various effects units...
  
  
• Stratvm Terror
• Robin Storey
• Suckdog
  Suckdog
  Suckdog or "Suckdog Circus" was an American underground band. The core members were the married couple Lisa Crystal Carver and Jean-Louis Costes. The troupe toured every state in the continental United States for several years, performing a mix of wrestling, musical performances, film-screenings...
  
  
• Sutcliffe Jügend
  Sutcliffe Jügend
  Sutcliffe Jügend is a power electronics band, which began in early 1982 as a sub-project of Kevin Tomkins' main band, Whitehouse, and instantly gained notoriety as one of the harshest groups of the original power electronics scene.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sunn O)))
  Sunn O)))
  Sunn O))) is an American doom metal band known for its synthesis of diverse genres including drone, ambient, noise, and black metal. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band has two core members: Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson .-History:Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn...
  
  
• Swans
  Swans (band)
  Swans are an influential American post-punk band initially active from 1982 to 1997, led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. The band was one of the few groups to emerge from the early 1980s New York No Wave scene and stay intact into the next decade. Formed by Gira in...
  
  
• Synapscape
  Synapscape
  Synapscape is a German recording duo specializing in the creation of dark noise, teknoid, and power electronics. It is a long-time act of Germany’s industrial music record label, Ant-Zen.-Members / History:...
  
  
• Szkieve
  Szkieve
  Szkieve is the name of an experimental and electronic music act from Canada and Belgium. Formed in 1998, Szkieve is the solo music project of Dimitri della Faille ....
  
  

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• Nobukazu Takemura
  Nobukazu Takemura
  Nobukazu Takemura is a Japanese musician whose style has run from jazz to house to drum and bass to chamber music to electronic glitch within less than a decade. Born in Hirakata, Osaka in August 1968, he became interested in punk and New Wave music when young...
  
  
• Tarmvred
  Tarmvred
  Tarmvred is a music group from Gothenburg, Sweden that is the brainchild of Jonas Johansson.-History:Johansson got his start musically by making his own remixes of tracks by Skinny Puppy and posting them online under the name Triptamine, in 1998...
  
  
• Taskmaster
  Taskmaster
  Taskmaster is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. The character is primarily a supervillain but is often portrayed as an antihero. The Taskmaster first appeared in Avengers vol.1 #195 and was created by David Michelinie and George Pérez...
  
  
• Theatre of Eternal Music
  Theatre of Eternal Music
  The Theatre of Eternal Music, sometimes later known as The Dream Syndicate, was a mid 1960s musical group formed by La Monte Young, that focused on experimental drone music. It featured the performances of La Monte Young, John Cale, Angus MacLise, Terry Jennings, Marian Zazeela, Tony Conrad, Billy...
  
  
• Test Dept
  Test Dept
  Test Dept were an industrial music group from London, one of the most important and influential early industrial music acts. Their approach was marked by a strong commitment to radical socialist politics.-History:...
  
  
• Asmus Tietchens
  Asmus Tietchens
  Asmus Tietchens , who also records under the monikers Hematic Sunsets and Club of Rome, is a German composer of avant-garde music....
  
  
• Times New Viking
  Times New Viking
  Times New Viking is a lo-fi indie rock band from Columbus, Ohio. The lineup consists of guitarist Jared Phillips, drummer Adam Elliott, and Beth Murphy on keyboards. Murphy and Elliott share vocal duties....
  
  
• Jean Tinguely
  Jean Tinguely
  Jean Tinguely was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics...
  
  
• Thirdorgan
  Thirdorgan
  Thirdorgan is the noise music project of the Japanese musician Akihiro Shimizu. Along with Government Alpha and Guilty Connector, Thirdorgan is one of the more prominent acts from the "second wave" of Japanoise acts in the middle to late 1990s. Shimizu also runs the record label Alienation Records....
  
  
• J. G. Thirlwell
  J. G. Thirlwell
  James George Thirlwell , aka Clint Ruin, aka Frank Want, aka Foetus, is an Australian vocalist, composer and record producer...
  
  
• Larry Thrasher
  Larry Thrasher
  Larry Thrasher is an American experimental musician, remixer, and producer. [] Thrasher was an important member of Psychic TV, Thee Majesty and Splinter Test. In addition, Thrasher is in collaboration with Kim Cascone on the experimental noise project Thessalonians. He is credited under the...
  
  
• Throbbing Gristle
  Throbbing Gristle
  Throbbing Gristle were an English industrial, avant-garde music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions...
  
  
• Tomasz Krakowiak
  Tomasz Krakowiak
  Tomasz Krakowiak percussionist, composer. During the last few years, Krakowiak has performed and recorded with artists such as Mike Hansen, John Oswald, Ireneusz Socha, Kaffe Matthews, Mike Snow, Alessandro Bosetti, Ute Völker, Phil Minton, Paul Dutton, John Butcher, Gert-Jan Prins, Pau Torres and...
  
  
• Terrestrial Tones
  Terrestrial Tones
  Terrestrial Tones are Dave Portner of Animal Collective and Eric Copeland of Black Dice. The two were roommates who got together to record when both of their main bands went on temporary hiatus in November 2004.-Albums:* Dead Drunk...
  
  
• Yasunao Tone
  Yasunao Tone
  Yasunao Tone is a Japanese artist who has worked with many different types of media throughout his career. He was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1935, and he graduated from Chiba Japanese National University in 1957, majoring in Japanese literature. He became active in the Fluxus movement in the 1960s and...
  
  
• To Live and Shave in L.A.
  To Live and Shave in L.A.
  To Live and Shave in L.A. is an experimental music collective founded in 1993 by avant-garde composer/producer Tom Smith and Miami Beach musician/producer Frank "Rat Bastard" Falestra...
  
  

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• V/Vm
  V/Vm
  V/Vm is the experimental music and sound collage project of James Leyland Kirby, from Stockport, England. Although starting out mainly in the style of noise music, Kirby is also a composer of original electronic music and remixes. His vast output is released primarily on his own V/Vm Test Records...
  
  
• Mika Vainio
• John Vance
• Vegas Martyrs
  Vegas Martyrs
  Vegas Martyrs is black metal noise music band featuring Dominick Fernow better known as Prurient on guitar, Richard Dunn on vocals & electronics and Joe Potts on drums. They have released records and cassettes on Hospital Productions, Kitty Play Records, and Troubleman Unlimited....
  
  
• Venetian Snares
  Venetian Snares
  Venetian Snares is the main performing alias of Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk .From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Funk is known for making electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures...
  
  
• Vibracathedral Orchestra
  Vibracathedral Orchestra
  Vibracathedral Orchestra is an England-based drone ensemble that has been active since 1998.-Biography:The original group came together when Mick Flower began recording with Neil Campbell and Julian Bradley, who had released a number of homemade cassettes and an LP of their duo work...
  
  
• Violent Onsen Geisha
  Violent Onsen Geisha
  Violent Onsen Geisha is a Japanese noise music group, distinctive among many noise acts for frequently displaying a bizarre, sarcastic, and mischievous sense of humor...
  
  
• Stephen Vitiello
  Stephen Vitiello
  Stephen Vitiello is a visual and sound artist. Originally a punk guitarist he is influenced by video artist Nam June Paik who he worked with after meeting in 1991...
  
  
• Cristian Vogel
  Cristian Vogel
  Cristian Vogel is an experimental electronic musician.-Biography:Cristian Vogel was born in Chile and moved to England in the mid 1970s. Vogel first began working with electronic compositions in the late 1980s with the Cabbage Head Collective...
  
  
• Wolf Vostell
  Wolf Vostell
  Wolf Vostell was a German painter, sculptor, noise music maker and Happening artist of the second half of the 20th century. Wolf Vostell is considered one of the pioneers of video art, environment-sculptures, Happenings and the Fluxus Movement...
  
  

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• Wapstan
  Wapstan
  Wapstan is the name of the main musical project of Canadian noise musician Martin Sasseville based in Montreal, Quebec. Originally formed in Saguenay as a project to create experimental sounds influenced by the experience of coldness, Wapstan based most of his sounds as a tribute of the north...
  
  
• John Watermann
  John Watermann
  John Watermann was an Australian composer, performer and filmmaker. Much of his musical work incorporated field recordings, which were heavily treated by electronics, resulting in highly rhythmic music, through the extensive use of cut ups.-Discography:*Warmth Is The Fifth Room, Nightshift Records...
  
  
• Robert Watts
  Robert Watts (artist)
  Robert Watts was an American artist best known for his work as a member of the international Avant-garde art movement Fluxus. Born in Burlington, Iowa June 14, 1923, he became Professor of Art at Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Jersey in 1953, a post he kept until 1984...
  
  
• Weena Morloch
  Weena Morloch
  Weena Morloch is an electronic music band fronted by Samsas Traum frontman Alexander Kaschte. The name Weena Morloch came from the H.G. Wells book The Time Machine Weena Morloch is an electronic music band fronted by Samsas Traum frontman Alexander Kaschte. The name Weena Morloch came from the H.G....
  
  
• Weird Little Boy
  Weird Little Boy
  Weird Little Boy is a one-off album by a band of the same name consisting of John Zorn , Trey Spruance , William Winant , Mike Patton and Chris Cochrane...
  
  
• Hildegard Westerkamp
  Hildegard Westerkamp
  Hildegard Westerkamp is a German and Canadian composer of electroacoustic music.Many of her compositions deal with the acoustic environment. Particular themes include soundscapes of urban or rural areas, including voices, noise, silence, music and media, and so on...
  
  
• Whitehouse
  Whitehouse (band)
  Whitehouse are a pioneering English power electronics band formed in 1980, largely credited for the founding of the power electronics subgenre.-History and personnel:...
  
  
• Christopher Willits
  Christopher Willits
  Christopher Willits is a musician and multimedia artist located in San Francisco. Willits is "a prominent experimental musician from the San Francisco Bay area" and "a pioneer and a teacher, exploring new methodologies for signal processing.". He has been instrumental in redefining the guitar in...
  
  
• John Wiese
  John Wiese
  -Biography:Born April 18, 1977, John Wiese is an artist and composer residing in Los Angeles, California. In the late 1990s, Wiese moved from St. Louis, Missouri to the west coast in order to study graphic design at the California Institute of the Arts...
  
  
• Oscar Wiggli
  Oscar Wiggli
  -Biography:Oscar Wiggli was born in Solothurn in 1927. After working a few years as a mechanic, he studied architecture at the Zurich University from 1949 to 1951. He created his first wrought iron sculptures in 1955. Since 1956, he livesin Paris and in Muriaux, in Switzerland. In 1980, his works...
  
  
• Wolf Eyes
  Wolf Eyes
  Wolf Eyes is a post-industrial/noise band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.-History:Wolf Eyes began as a solo project of former Nautical Almanac member Nate Young, with Aaron Dilloway joining in 1998, and John Olson in 2000...
  
  
• Wolves in the Throne Room
  Wolves in the Throne Room
  Wolves in the Throne Room is a black metal band based in Olympia, Washington.Their sound is influenced by Scandinavian black metal, doom metal, dark ambient, crust punk, and folk music...
  
  

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• Yellow Magic Orchestra
  Yellow Magic Orchestra
  Sakamoto first worked with Hosono as a member of his live band in 1976, while Takahashi recruited Sakamoto to produce his debut solo recording in 1977 following the split of the Sadistic Mika Band...
  
  
• Yellow Swans
  Yellow Swans
  Yellow Swans were an American experimental electronic noise band from Portland, Oregon. The duo are renowned for their improvisional approach to music, creating a unique experience for each live performance. They describe their music as "a constantly evolving mass of psychedelic noise that is both...
  
  
• Motoharu Yoshizawa
  Motoharu Yoshizawa
  Motoharu Yoshizawa was an influential Japanese bassist known for playing in a distinctive free jazz and free improvisation style, sometimes deploying electronics and using the unusual self-designed five-string bass he referred to as the "Tiritack".Yoshizawa collaborated with innumerable musicians...
  
  
• Otomo Yoshihide
• LaMonte Young (Fluxus
  Fluxus
  Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,...
  
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• Zaj
  Zaj
  Zaj was an experimental music and performance art group formed in 1959 in Milan, Italy by composers and intermedia artists Walter Marchetti and Juan Hidalgo with the support of the American composer John Cage...
  
  
• Zeni Geva
  Zeni Geva
  Zeni Geva is a Japanese heavy metal group led by singer and guitarist KK. Null, together with guitarist Mitsuru Tabata and drummer Tatsuya Yoshida...
  
  
• Z'EV
  Z'EV
  Z'EV is an American poet, percussionist, and sound artist. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts, he began creating his own percussion sounds out of industrial materials for a variety of record labels...
  
  
• Pavel Zhagun
  Pavel Zhagun
  Pavel Zhagun is a Russian poet, musician, record producer, artist, and curator. Zhagun was raised in Ukraine and graduated from R.M...
  
  
• Zoppo
  Yuri Landman
  Yuri Landman is a Dutch experimental luthier who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a list of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars, Jad Fair of Half Japanese and Liam Finn...
  
  
• Zoviet France
  Zoviet France
  Zoviet France is a prolific music group from Newcastle upon Tyne in north east England. While often dissonant and made of industrial textures, their music also falls into the ambient music category...
  
  
• John Zorn
  John Zorn
  John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...
  
  
• Zweizz
  Zweizz
  Zweizz is the primary performing alias of Norwegian musician and composer Svein Egil Hatlevik .Hatlevik started using the Zweizz alias in 2003 after leaving the Norwegian black metal group Dødheimsgard. According to Hatlevik, Zweizz should be considered a one man band, not a solo project...