Experimental rock
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Experimental rock (or avant-rock)[5] is a subgenre of rock music[1] which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique[6] or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.[7] Artists aim to liberate and innovate, with some of the genre's distinguishing characteristics being improvisational performances, avant-garde influences, odd instrumentation, opaque lyrics (or instrumentals), unorthodox structures and rhythms, and an underlying rejection of commercial aspirations.[2]
History
Origins (1960s)
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Professor Bill Martin states that American band the Beach Boys opened a path in rock music "that went from Sgt. Pepper's to Close to the Edge and beyond".[8] He argues that the advancing technology of multitrack recording and mixing boards were more influential to experimental rock than electronic instruments such as the synthesizer, allowing the Beatles and the Beach Boys to become the first crop of non-classically trained musicians to create extended and complex compositions.[8] Drawing from the influence of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and the Beatles' George Martin, music producers after the mid 1960s began to view the recording studio as a musical instrument used to aid the process of composition.[9][nb 1] When the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (1966) was released to a four-month chart stay in the British Top 10, many British groups responded to the album by making more experimental use of recording studio techniques.[12][nb 2]
As progressive rock developed in the late 1960s, experimental rock acquired notoriety alongside art rock.[1] In the opinion of Stuart Rosenberg, the first "noteworthy" experimental rock group was the Mothers of Invention led by Frank Zappa, a composer who demonstrated a mastery of pop idioms ranging from jazz to classical.[1] Professor and Zappa biographer Kelly Fisher Lowe wrote that Zappa appeared to "set the tone" for experimental rock with the way he incorporated "countertextural aspects ... calling attention to the very recordedness of the album" similar to contemporary experimental rock LPs by the Beach Boys (Pet Sounds and Smile), the Beatles (Sgt. Pepper's), and the Who (The Who Sell Out and Tommy).[16]
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The closing track from the 1966 album Freak Out!.
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According to author Chris Smith, the Mothers of Inventions' 1966 debut album Freak Out! inspired the Beatles to make Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), which "opened the door to commercially successful experimental rock".[17] Journalist Richie Unterberger writes that experimental rock bands like the Mothers of Invention, the Velvet Underground, the Fugs, 1967-era Beatles, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience shared the distinction of incorporating avant-garde music, sound collage, and poetry into their records, which was particularly influential to German progressive rock bands, specifically the development of krautrock in the late 1960s and early 1970s.[4]
1970s–present
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Notes
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Rosenberg 2009, p. 179.
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Unterberger, p. 174.
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- ↑ Bogdanov 2001, p. 10.
- ↑ Martin 1998, p. 93.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Martin 2015, p. 75.
- ↑ Edmondson 2013, p. 890.
- ↑ Williams 2003, pp. 15–16.
- ↑ Williams 2003, p. 38.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Gillett 1984, p. 329.
- ↑ Stuessy & Lipscomb 2009, p. 71.
- ↑ Ashby 2004, p. 282.
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- ↑ Lowe 2007, pp. 38, 219.
- ↑ Smith 2006, p. 35.
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