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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
People who I generally consider to be experimental are those who worked to push technology forward and often ended up making music that wasn't particularly meant to have any artistic merit per se.
People like your Raymond Scotts and all the electronic music people who worked for tv, radio, movies etc. The majority of these people are/were waged by whoever controls the national media in whichever country they live(d). Their job is to experiment with sound, visuals etc in order to develop new technologies. That to me is very experimental.
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but it's contextual.
yeah, i see that you refer to the people inventing stuff, experimenting to get their desired result. but one can also use these inventions, previously experimented upon, to do something else in another context. (robert moog experiments with his synths to get what he's after, and then someone else can either use his example and build something new or maybe use a moog in an unconventional way for another purpose, this time musical).
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Originally Posted by Torn Curtain
Yes, "experimental" musicians sometimes only care about the process and not the result, so then what's the point ?
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again, contexts; there's people who experiment for the sake of experimentation and there's people that experiment with the intention of creating something objectively.