Frank Zappa regularly used the contrabass clarinet in his avant-garde compositions.
The style of these projects was an aggressive blend of art rock and pure avant-garde composition.
It could have seemed, in lesser hands, a study in chaos, a caricature of a 1950's avant-garde composition.
In 1960 Jones began to study avant-garde experimental composition first briefly with John Cage and then Earle Brown.
In recent years, the fields of experimental dance music, ambient rock and avant-garde electronic composition have begun to overlap creatively.
In 1964, pianist Paul Bley first began featuring her avant-garde compositions - ultimately on over 60 records.
And the audience got a chance to hear old avant-garde compositions that prefigured a future now past.
Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra is an avant-garde musical composition written by William Russo in 1968.
Despite his successful career, Rivier's music was often eclipsed by the increasingly avant-garde compositions of more progressive French composers.
"Ceremony in Starlight" is an eerie avant-garde composition with muted trumpet, piano and synthesized bells.
