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The term 'alternative Classical' – or 'alt-Classical' for short is a relatively new movement within the music world among contemporary composers. The movement has roots in american minimalism and the pop indie movement, but has evolved as a global movement. Other terms that has been used about the movement is, Indie-classical or post-classical, post-minimalism.

”Style isn’t a hat you just buy. Style is a weird, growing, plant-like thing that reacts against and works with a bunch of different input sources: experience, age, what you listen to, what you don’t listen to, what you read, what your roommates read, what you heard one time in a car when you were 13, what you listen to now in a car that your 29.” Nico Muhly

Composers that can be labeled within the term around the world is among others:

Nico Muhly (US), Daniel Wohl (US), Olafur Arnalds (ICE), Max Richter (UK), Missy Mazzoli (US), MBD73 aka Carsten Bo Eriksen (DK), Jonny Greenwood (UK), Todd Reynolds (US), Daniel Bjarnason (ICE), Ben Frost  (AUS), Valgeir Sigurðsson (ICE), Niels Frahm (D), Hauschka (D), Johann Johannsson (ICE), Bryce Dressner (US), Matt Marks (US) Gabriel Prokofiev (UK)

Record Labels: FatCat Records / 130701 imprint, Mercury Classics, Cantaloupe Records, New Amsterdam Records, Erased Tapes, Bedroom Community, Deutsche Grammophon / Yellow Lounge, Nonclassical

'''Making Overtures: The Emergence of Indie Classical An examination of the ever-melding worlds of indie and classical music:''' http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/8778-indie-classical