Modern, experimental, avant-garde music

Rock?

How does the maker self-identify, genre-wise?

He does not like to label himself. Alternative?

Not sure on the particular sort of rock. Probably not anything experimental or avant-garde though hehe.

As we've had some Schoenberg here already, I thought I'd also share one of his early more tonal and beautiful works. Also notable for having a FRIGGIN HUUUUUGE orchestra.

Wonderful work.

Another work from the same period is Schreker's Die Gezeichneten, which also explores that opulent, impressionism-soaked orchestral sound.

Ned Rorem's Piano Concerto No. 3 in six movements.

I know very few of Rorem's works so I don't know if he has written more in this style. Still, his reputation is that of a composer of elegant art songs... and then, all of a sudden, he composes a harsh, epic concerto like this.

Mythes for violin and pf, by the ever-underrated Karol Szymanowski.

Some arabesque music of Iran-born American composer Reza Vali, inspired by the folk music of his native country. (He's occasionally compared to Bartók.)

edited 18th Aug '13 7:41:12 AM by Fresison

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I was recently introduced to this, one of the most stunning uses of digital sampling I have ever heard:

Their record label I believe took the songs off their awesome new Decline and Fall album off so something from the 80's will have to do. On this song they sound like tribal avant-prog, like Art Zoyd or Univer Zero is they were mixed with primitive heathen religion.

Avant-garde death/black/doom, harmonizing disharmony and embedding sonorous melody within discordance.

[[...and then to bones and dust again, resurrecting the sulphureous past of doom/death mammoths like Disembowelment and (early) Unholy, with a weird experimental and ritualistic revision born from the wounds of their sinister taste for projects like Popol Vuh, Klaus Schulze, Lycia and Paul Chain (to name a few), we present hereby our next coming release: T H A C L T H I "...Erat Ante Oculos".

A band with no names, no faces and no past.]]

http://thaclthi.bandcamp.com/album/erat-ante-oculos

edited 9th Feb '14 5:23:23 PM by StillbirthMachine

So a slight bump to this thread is necessary, I think.

Here is something interesting:

Perhaps one of the most melancholic and emotional compositions by this usually sardonic and sarcastic genius. Can't help but think this is not a coincidence, as it was probably written while already suffering of cancer. That's my conjecture though.

Does this count?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq0rHTo_fZ4

Not embedding partially because don't know how and also because I don't think lagging will do anyone good.

I guess so. Listened to some of it, I like it.

Then again, that concert ends with G-spot tornado.

The Yellow Shark is so goddamn good.

There's also that Boulez conducts Zappa album with its creepy, oh-boy-does-it-ever-do-justice-to-its-title final track, "Jonestown":

Ah yes indeed, that album is great.

However I have to point out that G-Spot tornado was composed quite a bit earlier, it appeared already on the "Jazz From Hell" album, whereas "Get Whitey" doesn't appear before "The Yellow Shark" as far as I know, so I still would support my conjecture.

edited 6th Mar '14 3:13:23 PM by Yachar

George Crumb, musicien américain.

I can't stop listening to his Processional for piano, it kind of hypnotizes me.

Reviving this old thread to share a new discovery of mine, I hope you guys don't mind!

Also I would be more than glad to see some suggestions from other members from this area of music as well!

It's amazing what sounds the strings make here. And all the shapes are so engaging!

edited 26th Aug '14 3:54:27 PM by Yachar

Does this album count?

OORAP OORAP OORAP OORAP OORAP OORAP OORAP

Just created a page for Avantgarde Music. Be sure to check it out and add more examples, if possible...

To bump this thread, I'd like to ask a question regarding this kind of music:

At what point does very Beefheart/Ornette Coleman-inspired music cease being simply difficult for a layman to listen to and become unlistenable garbage?

That is a very loaded question, given the way you've phrased it.

I'm in love with Webern these days. I just can't get enough of the laconic and unpredictable style, the pointillism and the constant variation in timbre that this technique produces. It's like drugs to me.