Elliott Sharp (b. Cleveland, Ohio, March 1, 1951) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer. A key figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years, Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral

20th-century music, Eclectic, Experimental, Mathematical

Absurd, Anal, Architectural, Charming, Clean, Clever, Composed, Contemplative, Dissonant, Ebullient, Eclectic, Enigmatic, Experimental, Flux, Geometric, Industrial, Layered, Machinistic, Mathematical, Minimal, Organic, Quirky, Repetition, Spare, Surface, Whimsical

Intertwining instrumental sounds, texts, and environmental samples, Charles Amirkhanian creates dreamy and disjointed durations of immersive experience. A synthesis of electronic and acoustic effects, voices and background noise, his compositions strive to capture listeners' bodies and minds in tonal

Collage, Dreamy, Eclectic, Intense, Layered, Musique concrete

This Bay Area-based group embodies the "sampledelic" appropriationist ethos of experimental music at the close of the twentieth century: Negativland exists by purloining and retooling the work of others for use in their own songs. Their music comprises hundreds of samples derived from music made ubiq

Citational, Collage, Eclectic, Plunderphonic, Political