Free improvisation

music genre

English musician, composer and improvisor

American musician

British guitarist (1930–2005)

Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player (1930–2014)

British musician (1942–2025)

American guitarist, film director, and scientific diver

subgenre of experimental music

Japanese composer, guitarist (1959-)

American bassist (1934–2024)

American Swiss artist (born 1955)

English saxophonist

Christian Fennesz (born 25 December 1962) is an Austrian producer and guitarist active in electronic music since the 1990s, often credited mononymously as Fennesz. His work utilizes guitar and laptop computers to blend melody with treated samples and glitch production. He lives and works in Vienna, and currently records on the UK label Touch.

English free improvising saxophonist (1932–2012)

American cellist and composer (1953–1998)

British musician

British composer and jazz musician (born 1947)

English experimental music composer and performer

English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist

English musician

British artist

American composer, improvisor, and pedal steel guitarist

Swiss musician

German improvisational guitarist, experimental luthier, inventor, and type designer (1949–2011)

British jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter

music genre

American cello player active in free jazz and free improvisation

Australian musician

American musician

British musician and composer (1968-2021)

English percussionist, drummer, writer, publisher

Mattin is a musician from Bilbao working primarily 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 world. He runs the experimental record labels w.m.o/r and Free Software Series, and the netlabel Desetxea. Mattin publishes his music under the no-licence of Anti-copyright. With Anthony Iles, he edited the book Noise & Capitalism. And in 2022, he released a book titled, Social Dissonance

Austrian trombone player and composer

Japanese guitarist and composer (1959-)

Japanese jazz musician

British musician and dancer

Canadian musician

British jazz musician

Japanese musician

thumb | right | alt=Taku Sugimoto, whose music is commonly associated with Onkyo | Taku Sugimoto, whose music is commonly associated with Onkyo The Onkyo music movement or (translation: "reverberation of sound") is a form of free improvisation, emerging from Japan in the late 1990s. Onkyō can be translated as "sound, noise, echo". Some artists commonly associated with Onkyō include Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Sachiko M, and Taku Sugimoto, among others.

Swiss musician

American musician (1945–2017)

Japanese musician

American jazz musician

Guitarist, Improviser, Composer

German musician

French musician

Polish musician

Japanese composer

American jazz violinist and composer (born 1956)

Japanese musician

Italian musician

German musician