Terms that can be used (or not used) when planning to clear a room.

abstract electronic music
action jazz
avant-garde
avante-garde jazz
creative music
danger music
electroacoustic music
ecstatic jazz
energy music
experimental jazz
experimental music
found sound
free improvisation
free jazz
free music
immediate ("in the moment") musical composition
improvised music
musical extemporization
noise music - expressive use of noise within a musical context.
non-idiomatic improvisation
sound sculpture

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No conventional use of melody, harmony, rhythm or pulse
sound-based creative practices
improvisation
extended technique
cacophony
dissonance
indeterminacy

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Extemporaneous composition or free performance of a musical passage, usually in a manner conforming to certain stylistic norms but unfettered by the prescriptive features of a specific musical text. 

Improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician(s) involved. The term can refer to both a technique (employed by any musician in any genre) and as a recognizable genre in its own right. 

To "play or sing (music) extemporaneously, by inventing variations on a melody or creating new melodies, rhythms and harmonies".

How do I Clear a Room?

 Also see a Note to a friend post.

Trying to make up a list of “clear the room music” that may be good for people wanting to check it out.  At first thinking accessible but that does not really give a a good sonic picture.  So I mixed in more adventurous recordings ( marked with a *).

* John Coltrane- Live at the Village Vanguard

The Thing - Garage

Atomic - any recording

Zu and Mats Gustafson - How to Raise an Ox

* Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come

Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz

The Peter Brotzmann Octet - Machine Gun 

Lasso Marhaug - The Shape of Rock to Come

*Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat

Vamdermark 5

William Parker

David S Ware

Matthew Shipp

Dear Blockhead

Dear Blockhead, 

The best creative music is when it strays far from its own basic form. The idea of picking the best music is really counterintuitive to listening to improvised music. Anybody who uses a list to find the best version of a song is missing the point (wanking). Listening to improvised music is to get to know the many versions.  A lifelong pursuit.

Ramble On,

DeadHead

Sabbath

WaslX

Two Bands and a Legend

Pete reminded me of this one the other day and just gave another look over and listen.  Thurston Moore sums it up in the liner notes.  The Thing would rock out some outdoor summer festivals. No rooms to clear there.  Why not?  Who else would mix James Blood Ulmer and PJ Harvey?

T w o  Bands and a Legend   

Cato Salsa Experience, The Thing, Joe McPhee

Billboard Top 10 meets Ornette Brotzmann Beefheart Dolphy Zappa Sun Ra Coltrane

Clear the room or play or a nice little ditty, it's got a good beat ....?

1958
Something Else!!!! - Ornette Coleman
Witch Doctor - David Seville 

1959
The Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman
Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin

1960
Free Jazz - Ornette Coleman
Teen Angel - Mark Dinning

1961
Eric Dolphy - Far Cry
Runaway - Del Shannon

1962
Live at the Village Vanguard - John Coltrane
The Loco-Motion - Little Eva

1963
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra - Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton

1964
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las

1965
Ascension - John Coltrane
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers

1966
Freak Out! - The Mothers of Invention
I'm a Believer -The Monkees

1967
  Safe as Milk - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Happy Together - The Turtles

1968
Machine Gun - Peter Brotzmann
Yummy Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express

1969
Karma - Pharoah Sanders
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies

An avante poem from within the MRI.

MRI

soft, white.
sweet voice over a latin beat.
  Krall
Hannibal and the bulbous sensor.
Rollin', roll in, rollin'.
  Krall
Welcome my son. To the machine. 
Caged in with Lou. Metal Machine Music.
  Krall.
Batta baat baat! 
Full Metal Jacket.
  Krall.
A blue tooth chicken clucks at my feet.
  Krall?
Symmetry, A. Low
freqs run amok.
  Krall.
Reverb.
What would Lasse do?
  Krall.
Check your image.
Paint it black.