Intuitive Music

The French term “avant-garde” means “vanguard” referring to a form of culture that is supposedly ahead of it’s time. The term was coined in Paris in 1863 by a group of innovative artists whose work wad been rejected by the academics. In music, avant-garde is a term originally used to describe a number of European composers from the 40’s headed by Pierre Boulez whom where using a technique of serial composition based in the use of a different range of intervals rather than the formally used eastern scales of 7 tones and 5 half tones.

Today, the term Avant-garde is still used to name artists who are involved in different forms of electronic experimental music, such as John Duncan and Carsten Nicolai.