Avant-garde music iceberg

Avant-garde music iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. A text version, "Avant-Garde Music" by RO1213, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 649 views as of 29 October 2026.

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Tiers

Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.

Tier 1

• Avant-Garde Jazz
• Swans
• Ornette Coleman
• John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
• Krzysztof Penderecki
• The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time
• Mr Bungle
• Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
• Scott Walker - Tilt
• The Residents
• Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
• Drone
• Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
• Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
• Steve Reich
• “Experimental Music”
• Frank Zappa
• King Crimson
• Arnold Schoenberg
• Tim Buckley
• Yoko Ono
• Can
• Alban Berg - Wozzeck

Tier 2

• Boredoms
• Sun Ra
• Minimalism
• Boris
• Alice Coltrane
• William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
• Les Rallizes Denudes
• Current 93
• Autechre
• Coil
• Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
• No-Wave
• Eric Dolphy
• Don Cherry
• Philip Glass
• Avant-Garde Metal
• Laurie Anderson
• Krautrock
• Neu!
• Xiu Xiu - A Promise
• Daniel Lopatin (OPN, Chuck Person, etc.)
• Pharoah Sanders
• Throbbing Gristle
• Melt-Banana
• Suicide - Suicide
• Billy Woods / Armand Hammer
• Colin Stetson - New History Warfare
• Moondog
• Silver Apples
• Avant-Prog
• Plunderphonics
• Glitch
• Noise
• Sound Collage
• Max Roach - We Insist
• Nico
• Jean Michele Jarre
• Found sound
• Stars of the lid
• John Fahey
• Keith Jarrett
• This Heat
• John Cage
• Amon Düül II
• The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World
• George Harrison - Electronic Sound
• Magma
• Todd Rundgren - A Wizard / A True Star
• Fripp & Eno - Evening Star
• Soft Machine
• György Ligeti
• Olivier Messiaen
• Public Image Ltd.
• Tuxedomoon
• Einstürzende Neubauten - 1/2 Mensch
• Jon Hassell
• Cabaret Voltaire
• Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
• The Birthday Party
• Psychic TV
• Arthur Russell - World of Echo

Tier 3

• Albert Ayler
• Iannis Xenakis
• John Zorn (Naked City, Painkiller, Masada, etc.)
• Natural Snow Buildings - Daughter of Darkness
• Cecil Taylor
• Musique Concrète
• Sunn O)))
• Microtonal Classical
• Serialism
• Sonorism
• Spectralism
• Stochastic Music
• Maudlin of the Well / Kayo Dot
• Merzbow
• Lingua Ignota
• Drone Metal
• Peter Brötzmann - Machine Gun
• Sonny Sharrock
• Faust
• Dälek
• Clipping.
• Matana Roberts
• Death in June
• Joe Henderson
• James Ferraro
• Lightning Bolt
• The United States of America
• The Red Krayola
• Roland Kirk
• Cardiacs - Sing to God
• Electroacoustic
• Free Improvisation
• Art Ensemble of Chicago
• Gong
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Uboa
• Doopees - Doopee Time
• Ash Ra Tempel
• Sprain - Lamb as Effigy
• Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho - Paebiru
• Henry Cow
• Glenn Branca
• Muslimgauze
• Jim O’Rourke
• Earth - Earth 2
• The White Noise - An Electric Storm
• Hauntology
• James Chance / The Contortions
• Tape / Turntable Manipulation
• Avant Folk / Free Folk
• Terry Riley
• Popol Vuh
• Chelsea Wolfe
• Magma
• Tim Hecker
• Monks - Black Monk Time
• The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
• Fifty Foot Hose
• John Cale
• Tony Conrad
• Kali Malone
• Cluster
• Area
• Alfred Schnittke
• Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music From the Penguin Café
• Lydia Lunch / Teenage Jesus & The Jerks
• Hermeto Pascoal
• The Pop Group - Y
• Robert Fripp - Exposure
• Jandek
• David Lynch & Alan Splet - Eraserhead
• Bill Laswell
• Anton Webern
• Marc Ribot
• Oxbow
• A.R. Kane - 69
• Sun City Girls
• Grazhdanskaya Oborona

Tier 4

• Ground-Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera
• Indeterminacy
• Anthony Braxton
• Shibusashirazu - Shibuboshi
• Yosuke Yamashita Trio - Arashi
• Hanatarash
• The Gerogerigegege
• Joe McPhee - Nation Time
• Jorge López Ruiz - Buenos Aires
• Yellow Swans
• Komeda Quintet - Astigmatic
• Morton Feldman
• Gyorgi Ligeti
• Corea - Los peores 7 km de mi vida
• La Monte Young
• Shoji Aketagawa, Kan Mikami, & Toshiaki Ishizuka - Daikanjyo
• Grachan Moncour III - Evolution
• Andrew Hill
• Tomasz Stanko
• Fushitsusha
• Murmuüre
• Diamanda Galas
• Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting in a Room
• Ramleh
• Bill Dixon
• Sam Rivers
• Keiji Haino - Koko
• Power Electronics / Death Industrial
• Paul Bley
• Archie Shepp
• Jason Lescalleet - The Pilgrim
• Henry Flynt - You Are My Everlovin / Celestial Power
• God
• Foetus
• Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
• Robert Ashley
• Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba
• Keith Rowe
• Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum
• 1/2 Japanese
• Taj Mahal Travelers
• Patty Waters - Sings
• Laddio Bolocko - Strange Warmings of Laddio Bolocko
• Joe Meek
• Fred Frith - Guitar Solos
• Chrome
• Ryoji Ikeda - Dataplex
• Third Ear Band
• Microsound
• Masayuki Takayanagi
• Gorguts - Obscura
• Japanoise
• Luigi Russolo - L'arte dei rumori
• Matmos - Ultimate Care II
• Neptunian Maximalism - Eons
• Aaron Dilloway - Modern Jester
• Sigh
• Skullflower - Form Destroyer
• Negativland
• ONJE / ONJO / ONJQ
• The Necks
• Spooky Tooth & Pierre Henry - Ceremony
• The Fugs
• The Godz
• Robert Rich - Somnium
• Gato Barbieri
• Carla Bley & Paul Haines - Escalator Over the Hill
• The White Noise - An Electric Storm
• Charlie Haden
• Wild Man Fischer
• Nurse With Wound
• Agitation Free
• Harmonia
• Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music
• Edgard Varèse
• Pierre Boulez
• Quiet Sun - Mainstream
• Charlemagne Palestine
• "Blue" Gene Tyranny
• DNA - DNA on DNA
• The Lounge Lizards
• Univers Zéro
• Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me
• Art Bears
• Boyd Rice
• Massacre - Massacre
• Aksak Maboul
• Clock DVA
• Whitehouse
• Blurt
• Flux of Pink Indians - The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks
• Severed Heads
• Present
• Kaija Saariaho
• Jerskin Fendrix
• Sofia Gubaidulina
• Skin
• Grachan Moncur III
• Bongwater

Tier 5

• Luc Ferrari
• Test Dept.
• Hijokaidan
• Julius Eastman
• Butch Morris - Testament
• William Parker - The Peach Orchard
• Evan Parker
• Hitoshi Kojo - Meteoric Eyes
• Pierre Schaeffer
• Roland Kayn - Tektra
• Maria & The Mirrors - Vision Quest
• Billy Harper
• SPK
• AMM
• Derek Bailey
• Manfred Schoof - European Echoes
• Georg Friedrich Haas / Klangforum Wien / Sylvain Cambreling - In Vain
• Black Unity Trio
• Adritti Quartet
• Futurism
• Dreamcrusher
• Alexander Von Schlippenbach Trio - Pakistani Pomade
• Stan Kenton - City of Glass
• Cornelius Cardew / Nima Gousheh - The Great Learning
• George Lewis - Homage to Charlie Parker
• Kaoru Abe
• Caroliner Rainbow
• Rhys Chatham
• Pedestrian Deposit
• Destroy all monsters
• Johnny Dyani - Witchdoctor's Son
• Kazumoto Endo / Killer Bug
• Globe Unity Orchestra
• The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra
• Incapacitants
• Eliane Radigue
• Royal Trux
• Roscoe Mitchell - Sound
• Graham Lambkin
• Iva Bittová & Vladimír Václavek - Bílé Inferno
• Five Star Hotel - Gray Data
• qebrus
• P.O.N.
• Pan Sonic - Kesto
• Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma
• Frank Lowe
• Last Exit
• Supersilent - 1-3
• Effluence - Psychocephalic Spawning
• Li Jianhong - San Sheng Shi
• Prurient
• Takehisa Kosugi - Catch Wave
• Sound Art
• Jerobeam Fenderson - Oscilloscope Music
• Don Salsa - Koolaide Moustache in Jonestown
• Phyllomedusa
• Lowercase
• Blind Idiot God
• Sachiko M / Toshimaru Nakamura / Otomo Yoshihide - Good Morning Good Night
• Cromagnon - Orgasm
• Komara
• Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - The Fascinating World of Electronic Music
• Sissy Spacek
• Sound Poetry
• Cyclo. - Cyclo.
• Taylor Deupree - Stil.
• Pharmakon
• Harry Partch
• Lennie Tristano
• Pierre Schaeffer
• Heldon - Stand By
• Sonny Simmons
• New Complexity
• Bob James Trio - Explosions
• Giuseppi Logan
• New York Eye and Ear Control
• Jack Ruby - Jack Ruby
• Diwan Motihar, Irène Schweizer, Manfred Schoof & Barney Wilen - Jazz Meets India
• Henry Grimes
• Charles Tyler
• Bull of Heaven
• Joseph Jarman - Song For
• Burton Greene
• Noah Howard
• Technical Space Composer's Crew - Canaxis 5
• International Harvester / Pärson Sound
• Black Unity Trio
• The Nihilist Spasm Band
• Muhal Richard Abrams
• Jan Garbarek
• The Keith Tippett Group - Dedicated to You, But You Weren't Listening
• Cornelius Cardew
• David Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds
• Zbigniew Namysłowski
• Mal Waldron
• Horațiu Rădulescu
• Giacinto Scelsi - Natura renovatur
• Pauline Oliveros
• Giacinto Scelsi
• Georg Friedrich Haas - In Vain
• Hermann Nitsch - Island: Eine Sinfonie in 10 Sätzen
• Jakob Ullmann
• Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Osorezan / Dō no kenbai
• Debris' - Static Disposal
• Horace Tapscott
• Mars
• Arto Lindsay
• Arthur Blythe
• George Lewis - Homage to Charles Parker
• Island
• Arachnoïd
• John Greaves / Peter Blegvad / Lisa Herman - Kew Rhone
• MX-80 Sound
• Hans Bennink
• Ghédalia Tazartès
• James Blood Ulmer
• Globe Unity Orchestra
• Circle X - Circle X
• Etron Fou Leloublan
• Gila - Gila
• Lizzy Mercier Descloux / Rosa Yemen
• Renaldo & The Loaf
• Samla Mammas Manna
• Aunt Sally / Phew
• Smegma
• Dün - Eros
• Eskaton - 4 Visions
• Arrigo Barnabé e a Banda Sabor de Veneno - Clara Crocodilo
• Monoton - Monotonprodukt 07
• Minimal Man - The Shroud Of
• Dinosaur L
• Rip Rig + Panic - God
• Warning - Warning
• The Flying Lizards
• Erik Friedlander
• Gérard Grisey
• Material
• Esplendor Geométrico
• Kultivator - Barndomens Stigar
• Dome
• Flaming Tunes - Flaming Tunes
• The Golden Palominos - The Golden Palominos
• Borbetomagus
• John Duncan - Pleasure Escape
• Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill
• Luigi Nono
• Arseny Avraamov
• Alvin Curran
• Elliott Sharp
• Mike Patton - Adult Themes for Voice
• Dave Douglas
• Eyvind Kang
• Camberwell Now
• Grim - Folk Music
• Shub-Niggurath
• Qujaku
• Michael Pisaro-Liu
• C.C.C.C.
• The Beatnigs - The Beatnigs
• Joe Harriott
• Jimmy Giuffre - Free Fall
• Thinking Plague
• Kommunizm - Satanizm
• After Dinner
• John Oswald
• Mick Barr

Tier 6

• Onkyo
• Louis Moholo - Repent
• Everest Trio
• Sutcliffe Jügend - Relentless
• Milford Graves
• Henri Pousseur - Paysages Planétaires
• Noah Howard - The Black Arc
• His Name is Alive - Love Can’t Buy Happiness
• Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic
• Marion Brown
• Jason Crumer - Ottoman Black
• The Rita
• Vomir
• Arthur Doyle Plus 4 - Alabama Feeling
• Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta & Takehisa Kosugi - Improvisation Sep. 1975
• Frank Wright
• Jon Gibson - Two Solo Pieces
• The Cherry Point - Night of the Bloody Tapes
• Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers
• Alfonia Tims - Future Funk / Uncut
• Graphical Sound
• Estradasphere - It’s Understood
• Harsh noise wall
• NON
• Tantric Bile
• Sunny Murray
• Mo*te
• Jana Winderen - The Wanderer
• Justice Yeldham
• Tod Dockstader - Eight Electronic Pieces
• Karel Appel - Musique barbare
• Intersystems
• Andrzej Kurylewicz
• Roswell Rudd
• François Tusques - Free Jazz
• The Sperm
• Alan Silva and the Celestrial Communication Orchestra
• Dave Burrell
• Leon Thomas
• The Mesmerizing Eye - Psychedelia ~ A Musical Light Show
• The Spontaneous Music Ensemble
• Toshi Ichiyanagi - From the Works of Tadanori Yokoo
• Mechanical Music
• Jacques Coursil
• The Music Improvisation Company
• Ivo Malec
• Erica Pomerance
• Amalgam
• Fred Van Hove
• Mikel Rouse - Dennis Cleveland
• New York Art Quartet - New York Art Quartet
• Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.
• The London Jazz Composers Orchestra
• Masahiko Satoh
• ICP Orchestra
• Dreamies - Auralgraphic Entertainment
• Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe - Duo Exchange
• Conrad Schnitzler - Rot
• Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson - Daily Dance
• Hans Koller / Wolfgang Dauner / Adelhard Roidinger / Zbigniew Seifert / Janusz Stefański - Kunstkopfindianer
• Abdullah Ibrahim
• Per Nørgård
• Helmut Lachenmann
• Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers
• Leroy Jenkins
• Billy Bang
• Khan Jamal - Drum Dance to The Motherland
• Black Artists Group
• Various Artists - Improvised Music From Japan
• Henri Chopin - Audiopoems 1956-1980
• Le Stelle di Mario Schifano - Dedicato a...
• Ryu Hankil - Becoming Typewriter
• Iskra 1903 - Iskra 1903
• Tom Prehn Kvartet
• Oliver Lake
• Lady June
• Steve Reid
• The Blue Notes
• Vincent Le Masne et Bertrand Porquet
• Masahiko Togashi
• György Szabados
• Shoji Aketagawa
• Colette Magny & Free Jazz Workshop - Transit
• Joan La Barbara
• Steve Lacy
• Ştefan Niculescu
• Abdul Wadud - By Myself
• Dickie Landry - Fifteen Saxophones
• William Hooker
• Grupo Um
• Lino Capra Vaccina
• The Plastic People of the Universe
• Tony Oxley
• Pataphonie
• Zoogz Rift's Micro Mastodons - Idiots on the Miniature Golf Course
• Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes
• David Murray - Ming
• Anthony Davis
• Matt Johnson
• Horațiu Rădulescu - Intimate Rituals
• Poul Ruders - Corpus cum figuris; Thus Saw St. John; Manhattan Abstraction
• Witold Szalonek
• Iancu Dumitrescu
• Heins Hoffman-Richter - Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease
• George Antheil - Ballet mécanique
• Annie Gosfield
• Chris Brown - Lava
• Mamoru Fujieda
• Gisburg Smialek
• Mark Feldman
• Arnold Dreyblatt / The Orchestra of Excited Strings
• Annie Gosfield - Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
• Jon Rose - Violin Music for Supermarkets
• Stephen Kalm / Ted Mook - 17 Lyrics of Li Po (Harry Partch)
• David Shea
• Chin Sung Li
• Guy Klucevsek
• Ikue Mori
• David Slusser
• William Winant
• David Abel
• San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
• Virgil Moorefield - Distractions on the Way to the King's Party
• Mark Dresser
• Daniel Goode
• Stephen Drury
• Teiji Ito
• Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear)
• Mark De Gli Antoni
• Quartet DeSade
• Heiner Goebbels & Alfred Harth - Frankfurt - Peking
• Letícia Garcia - Magamaquiavérica em canturbano
• Kou Machida / Shifukudan - Wild and Crazy Guys
• Ron Nagorcka - Lovregana: Music From a Tasmanian Forest
• Tokyo Flashback
• Kang Tae-hwan
• Carolyn Yarnell
• Raz Mesinai
• Mark Applebaum
• Anthony Pateras
• Jerry Hunt
• David Simons
• Richard Crandell
• Earle Brown
• The Hub
• Lukas Ligeti
• Bérangère Maximin
• Missing Girls

Tier 7

• Lost Gerogerigegege releases
• Lost Five Starcle Men albums
• Lost early Merzbow tapes
• Lost or Destroyed Luigi/Antonio Russolo Pieces

See also

• Iceberg chart
• The Caretaker iceberg
• Heavy metal bands iceberg

Sources

• IcebergThreads version: RO1213. Avant-Garde Music. IcebergThreads. 25 January 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.