Do you like noise, power violence, experimental industrial, perhaps no-wave? How about a bit of John Cage?
I'm wondering if there are any other lovers of experimental music hanging around here.

I like people who are willing to take chances and who are thinking in a different way.  I worked with Chrystal Method back in 95, and they were walking half the audience at a lot of places, I thought that took a bit of vision.  I also set up a few weird things with the Flaming Lips who were kind of a rock and roll John Cage in some ways.

Are you involved in music for a living, then?

Pretty much, it's my main job.

Right on! Surely a different way of looking at the whole thing than the collector-snob way of going about it.

And... hehehe, I loved Crystal Method when I was ~12 years old. I thought they were the coolest thing in the known universe.

They were.  It was interesting that in the beginning - 95 or so - so few people liked them, in 97 they release Vegas and it was huge.  People come around eventually.

Oh my goodness, yes! Yay! A compatriot. This is good, very good indeed.

John Cage is interesting in that he explored the idea of letting go of the controls a bit, loosening up, and that scared and excited people in all kinds of ways. I can't possibly give you an overview of his work - from what I've read, his oeuvre is so subtantial and varied that one really has to just take each piece on its own terms. I do know that he did exciting things, though - things like setting up a bunch of microphones listening to sounds like old records and the street outside the performance space, and having dancers glide and pirouette through a maze of light beams, each of which activated a different microphone when interrupted. Surely an artist worth listening to.

*waves*

I love experimental music...stuff like dark ambient like Empusae. Stendeck is sheer awesomeness...in fact I had his second album on continuous repeat for the past week or two (In a moment of sheer synchronicity, I spent yesterday on the train actually reading some of the song titles and they just seemed to fit how my life has been the past few days it's just strange...and awesome). Love Haujobb, new album this year...major yayness. Sigur Ros probably come under the experimental umbrella, love how epic their music is.