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From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Avant-garde music, or experimental music, is a type of music that is meant to push the boundaries of "what music is." It started in the 1940s and 1950s after World War II. Some famous avant-garde composers were John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Henry Cowell.

Avant-garde in music can refer to any form of music working within traditional structures while seeking to breach boundaries in some manner. The term is used loosely to describe the work of any musicians who radically depart from tradition altogether. [24]

Avant-pop is popular music that is experimental, new, and distinct from previous styles while retaining an immediate accessibility for the listener. The term implies a combination of avant-garde sensibilities with existing elements from popular music in the service of novel or idiosyncratic artistic visions.

Avant-garde music is music that is con­sid­ered to be at the fore­front of ex­per­i­men­ta­tion or in­no­va­tion in its field, with the term " avant-garde " im­ply­ing a cri­tique of ex­ist­ing aes­thetic con­ven­tions, re­jec­tion of the sta­tus quo in favor of unique or orig­i­nal el­e­ments, and the idea of de­lib­er­ately chal­leng­ing or alien­at­ing audiences.

Avant-garde metal (also known as avant-metal, experimental metal, and experimetal) is a subgenre of heavy metal music loosely defined by use of experimentation and innovative, avant-garde elements, including non-standard and unconventional sounds, instruments, song structures, playing styles, and vocal techniques.