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concepts", since they did not "grasp a subject". This was an attempt to marginalize, and thereby dismiss various kinds of music that did not conform to established conventions. In 1955, Pierre Boulez identified it as a "new definition that makes it possible to restrict to a laboratory, which is tolerated but subject to inspection, all attempts to corrupt musical morals. Once they have set limits to the danger, the good ostriches go to sleep again and wake only to stamp their feet with rage when they are obliged to accept the bitter fact of the periodical ravages caused by experiment." He concludes, "There is no such thing as experimental music ... but there is a very real distinction between sterility and invention".
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that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, institutionalized compositional, performing, and aesthetic conventions in music. Elements of experimental music include
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In the 1950s, the term "experimental" was often applied by conservative music critics—along with a number of other words, such as "engineers art", "musical splitting of the atom", "alchemist's kitchen", "atonal", and "serial"—as a deprecating jargon term, which must be regarded as "abortive
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In the late 1950s, Lejaren Hiller and L. M. Isaacson used the term in connection with computer-controlled composition, in the scientific sense of "experiment": making predictions for new compositions based on established musical technique
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Starting in the 1960s, "experimental music" began to be used in America for almost the opposite purpose, in an attempt to establish an historical category to help legitimize a loosely identified group of radically innovative,
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John Cage was also using the term as early as 1955. According to Cage's definition, "an experimental action is one the outcome of which is not foreseen", and he was specifically interested in completed works that performed an
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A number of early 20th-century American composers, seen as precedents to and influences on John Cage, are sometimes referred to as the "American Experimental School". These include Charles Ives,
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The term "experimental" has sometimes been applied to the mixture of recognizable music genres, especially those identified with specific ethnic groups, as found for example in the music of
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without any rules beyond the taste or inclination of the musician(s) involved; in many cases the musicians make an active effort to avoid overt references to recognizable musical genres.
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The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City. They often drew inspiration from
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cautions that, as "a combination of leading-edge techniques and a certain exploratory attitude", experimental music requires a broad and inclusive definition, "a series of
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community music, among others, when these activities are done with the aim of finding those musics 'we don't like, yet', in a 'problem-seeking environment' ".
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it". He finds laudable exceptions in the work of David Nicholls and, especially, Amy Beal, and concludes from their work that "The fundamental
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without any rules beyond the taste or inclination of the musician(s) involved; in many cases, the musicians make an active effort to avoid
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also distinguishes between experimental and avant-garde, describing experimental music as that "which represents a refusal to accept the
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Im Zenit der Moderne: Geschichte und Dokumentation in vier Bänden—Die Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, 1946–1966
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worked with other tuning scales based on the physical laws for harmonic music. For this music they both developed a group of
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starts from Cage's definition, and develops the term "experimental" also to describe the work of other American composers (
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on 13 August 1954, titled "Amerikanische Experimentalmusik". Rebner's lecture extended the concept back in time to include
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Piekut, Benjamin. 2008. "Testing, Testing ...: New York Experimentalism 1964". Ph.D. diss. New York: Columbia University.
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and what is more generally called experimental music, especially as that term was defined at length by Nyman in his book
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as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sonorities derived from
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Fluxus was an artistic movement started in the 1960s, characterized by an increased theatricality and the use of
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Palombini, Carlos. 1993a. "Machine Songs V: Pierre Schaeffer: From Research into Noises to Experimental Music".
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was one of the earliest composers to use the term and one of experimental music's primary innovators, utilizing
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Metzger, Heinz-Klaus. 1959. "Abortive Concepts in the Theory and Criticism of Music", translated by Leo Black.
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New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification
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Jaffe, Lee David. 1983. "The Last Days of the Avant Garde; or How to Tell Your Glass from Your Eno".
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no. 236 (Vers une musique experimentale), edited by Pierre Schaeffer, 18–23. Paris: Richard-Masse.
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Lubet, Alex. 1999. "Indeterminate Origins: A Cultural theory of American Experimental Music". In
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The practice became prominent in the mid-20th century, particularly in Europe and North America.
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Benitez, Joaquim M. 1978. "Avant-Garde or Experimental? Classifying Contemporary Music".
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Proceedings of the 25th Annual Congress of the Musicological Society of Southern Africa
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Blake, Michael. 1999. "The Emergence of a South African Experimental Aesthetic". In
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Benjamin Piekut argues that this "consensus view of experimentalism" is based on an
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Silencing the Sounded Self: John Cage and the American Experimental Tradition
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Ballantine, Christopher. 1977. "Towards an Aesthetic of Experimental Music".
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and so on). The theoretical underpinnings of the aesthetic were developed by
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The Groupe de Recherches de Musique Concrète (GRMC), under the leadership of
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Electronic and Experimental Music: Pioneers in Technology and Composition
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Mauceri, Frank X. 1997. "From Experimental Music to Musical Experiment".
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techniques and seeking unknown outcomes. In France, as early as 1953,
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Dialectics in the Arts: The Rise of Experimentalism in American Music
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Rebner, Wolfgang Edward. 1997. "Amerikanische Experimentalmusik". In
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Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and its Limits
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Nicholls, David. 1998. "Avant-garde and Experimental Music". In
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shift that marks experimentalism as an achievement is that from
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Henius, Carla. 1994. "Experimentelles Musiktheater seit 1946".
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Burt, Warren. 1991. "Australian Experimental Music 1963–1990".
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Grant, Morag Josephine. 2003. "Experimental Music Semiotics".
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International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music
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Originally published as "Expérience, autriches et musique".
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Schaeffer, Pierre. 1957. "Vers une musique experimentale".
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Experimental Music: Composition with an Electronic Computer
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Avant-Garde » Modern Composition » Experimental
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Vignal, Marc (ed.). 2003. "Expérimentale (musique)". In
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to describe compositional activities that incorporated
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music
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Index

Experimental Music
Avant-garde music
music genre
indeterminacy
John Cage
indeterminacy
Pierre Schaeffer
tape music
musique concrète
elektronische Musik
computer-controlled composition
Lejaren Hiller
Harry Partch
Ivor Darreg
experimental musical instruments
electroacoustic music
acousmatic sound
Free improvisation
improvised music
clichés
Pierre Schaeffer
unpredictable action
Darmstädter Ferienkurse
Charles Ives
Edgard Varèse
Henry Cowell
Michael Nyman
Christian Wolff
Earle Brown
Meredith Monk

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