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The term experimental music, unlike other genre descriptions, refers to the creative process of organizing or framing the sounds as “music” not actually what the music sounds like. “Experimental” implies a profound level of inventiveness that lies completely outside the traditions of music. It is not bound by any established rules or formulas. Many times, the outcome of the composers’ creative efforts is unpredictable as the composer “experiments” with various processes and novel approaches to produce sound or contrive a listening experience.



These experiments many times give rise to new genres of music such as: industrial, noise, free jazz, electronica, tape music, noise rock, etc. Once those genres become more established, formulaic and recycled, they no longer strictly fit the definition of experimental music. They may become decidedly unexperimental as norms within the genre solidify. In order to keep experimental experimental, the composer(s) must continuously discard tradition (even tradition established by other experimental composers) and create the unexpected, reimagined, and possibly, the socially unacceptible.
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October 2008
Thursday 9 October 2008
Genghis Tron

HEALTH, Yip-Yip, Clipd Beaks

Knitting Factory
Los Angeles, United States

8 people attending
1 shout

Saturday 11 October 2008
Noise For Obama and The Smell Present: A Barack Obama Benefit Show! at The Smell

The Mae Shi, Bad Dudes, The Widow Babies, Bastidas

The Smell
Los Angeles, United States

4 people attending
2 shouts

Sunday 12 October 2008
No Age

The Tyde, David Scott Stone

Echoplex
Los Angeles, United States

14 people attending
1 shout

Monday 13 October 2008
Damiera

Fear Before the March of Flames, I Am The Ocean, Exotic Animal Petting Zoo

Karma
Los Angeles, United States

2 people attending
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Tuesday 14 October 2008
Wire

Echoplex
Los Angeles, United States

19 people attending
5 shouts

Unearth

Protest the Hero, The Acacia Strain, Whitechapel, Gwen Stacey

House of Blues
Los Angeles, United States

13 people attending
4 shouts
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