The didgeridoo also became a role playing instrument in the experimental and avant-garde music scene.

Its experimental cinematography and mise-en-scène, as well as its avant-garde score by Ichiyanagi Sei, garnered it wide critical acclaim within Japan.

This tradition as an enclave of avant-garde and alternative culture was established during the 19th century and into the 20th century, when small presses, art galleries, and experimental theater thrived.

His music blended rock, blues and psychedelia with avant-garde and contemporary experimental composition.

New experimental and avant-garde music is performed by Ensemble Offspring, Halcyon, The Noise and others, at the recently refurbished Carriageworks and many small inner-city cafes, warehouses, theatres etc.

As Margot Norris highlights, the agenda of this first generation of Wake critics and defenders was " to assimilate Joyce's experimental text to an already increasingly established and institutionalized literary avant-garde " and " to foreground Joyce's last work as spearhead of a philosophical avant-garde bent on the revolution of language ".

Echoes of elements of " The Theatre of the Absurd " can be seen in many later playwrights, from more avant-garde or experimental playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks – in The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World and The America Play, for example – to relatively realistic playwrights like David Mamet – in Glengarry Glen Ross, which Mamet dedicated to Harold Pinter.

* 804noise. org, a collective of artists & enthusiasts from Richmond, Virginia dedicated to experimental noise and avant-garde sounds.

His works have been included among the most important and radical post-World War II avant-garde, experimental, and contemporary music.

While usually considered experimental and avant-garde, free jazz has also oppositely been conceived as an attempt to return jazz to its " primitive ", often religious roots, and emphasis on collective improvisation.

These poets turned to French models rather than either the New Country poets or English-language modernism, and their work was to prove of importance to later English experimental poets as it broadened the scope of the English avant-garde tradition.

( 1947 ) expresses a disenchantment both with established forms of writing and more experimental, avant-garde forms, which he feels alienate readers.

Maya Deren ( April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City ), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (), was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.

In 1967 and 1968 respectively, Mickey Hart and Tom Constanten joined the Grateful Dead, causing the band to take a stylistic turn from the blues toward full-blown experimental psychedelia influenced by avant-garde jazz, surrealism, and world music traditions.

The avant-garde choreographer, director and dancer Dimitris Papaioannou was responsible for the critically successful Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games, with a conception that reflected the classical influences on modern and experimental Greek dance forms.

At its inception, Weather Report was an avant-garde experimental jazz group, following in the steps of In A Silent Way.

Tony Conrad ( born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940 in Concord, New Hampshire ) is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician / composer, sound artist, teacher and writer.

Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker.

Through albums such as Monster Movie ( 1969 ), Tago Mago ( 1971 ), Ege Bamyasi ( 1972 ) and Future Days ( 1973 ), the band exerted a considerable influence on avant-garde, experimental, underground, ambient, punk, post-punk, new wave and electronic music.

Heavy metal subgenres avant-garde metal or experimental metal are umbrella terms that enable description of the career of the band in general.

Heavy metal subgenres such as avant-garde metal or experimental metal are umbrella terms that describe the whole career of the band in general.

Araki himself classified it as " A rag-tag story of the fag-and-dyke teen underground .... A kinda cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and a queer John Hughes flick ".

While the self-titled album was described as " funk metal ", with Disco Volante this label was replaced with " avant-garde " or " experimental ".

Studying avant-garde theatre and mime under Lindsay Kemp, he was given the role of Cloud in Kemp's 1967 theatrical production Pierrot in Turquoise ( later made into the 1970 television film The Looking Glass Murders ).

Critic Lynn Hirschberg declared Stranger than Paradise in a 2005 profile of the director for The New York Times to have " permanently upended the idea of independent film as an intrinsically inaccessible avant-garde form ".

The avant-garde multi-screen film, In the Labyrinth, presents a search for meaning in a symbolic modern labyrinth.

In a play within a play in Neil Simon's 1977 film The Goodbye Girl, Richard Dreyfuss reluctantly portrays Richard as overtly homosexual at the insistence of an avant-garde director.

In this study, the authors pushed for the greater usage of avant-garde music in film, urging that music be used to supplement, not simply accompany, the visual aspect of films.

With the explosion of light-weight and affordable cameras, the underground avant-garde film movement thrived.

Many of the songs on the album display experimentation with unlikely musical genres, borrowing directly from such sources as 1930s dance-hall music ( in " Honey Pie "), classical chamber music ( in " Piggies "), the avant-garde sensibilities of Yoko Ono and John Cage ( in " Revolution 9 "), country-style music ( Ringo Starr's " Don't Pass Me By "), a western-style saloon ballad (" Rocky Raccoon "), and the lush sentimentality of Henry Mancini's film scores ( in " Good Night ").

The avant-garde jazz ensemble Club Foot Orchestra has also re-scored the film, and performed live accompanying the film.

Hindemith wrote the music for Hans Richter's 1928 avant-garde film Ghosts Before Breakfast ( Vormittagsspuk ), although the score was subsequently lost, and he also acted in the film.

Danielewski was born in New York City, New York, the son of Polish avant-garde film director Tad Danielewski and the brother of singer / songwriter Annie Decatur Danielewski, a. k. a. Poe.

The art film / avant-garde opera Koyannisqatsi references both the Hopi term Ko. yan. nis. qatsi (" life out of balance "), and three Hopi prophecies — i. e. warnings or eschatology.

Morrissey's bold, avant-garde direction in film making is often attributed to his relationship with Warhol and The Factory, although Morrissey claimed in his memoir, Factory Days, that this is not the case.

The film served as an intermission piece for Picabia's avant-garde ballet, Relâche, premiered at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, with music by Erik Satie.

The film is a series of three short films made in a variety of styles and is, in many ways, one of his most challenging, avant-garde and unconventional works.

In 2000, they contributed a short film to the BBC's Sound On Film series in which they visualised a 20-minute piece by the avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.

The two starred together for the first time ( along with Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman and Joan Plowright ) in 1990's I Love You to Death and again in Gus Van Sant's avant-garde film My Own Private Idaho.

In a 2005 profile of the director for The New York Times, critic Lynn Hirschberg declared the film to have " permanently upended the idea of independent film as an intrinsically inaccessible avant-garde form ".

It was Buñuel's intention to shock and insult the intellectual bourgeoisie of his youth, later saying: " Historically the film represents a violent reaction against what in those days was called ‘ avant-garde ,’ which was aimed exclusively at artistic sensibility and the audience ’ s reason .” Against his hopes and expectations, the film was a huge success amongst the French bourgeoisie, leading Buñuel to exclaim in exasperation, " What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in something which was basically no more than a desperate impassioned call for murder?

He also contributed the short film Police Car and two scores published in Fluxus Preview Review, July 1963, to the nascent avant-garde collective.

( 1980 ) is the subject of and also is the title of an avant-garde documentary written and directed by feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey and noted semiologist Peter Wollen.