Examples include added electronics, MIDI control, unusual bowinging technique, breath technique, or articulation such as multiphonics, tonguing or flutter tonguing, or continuous breathing.

Well known performers and composers who use a notable amount of extended techniques include:

• composer Sofia Gubaidulina
• vocalist Joan La Barbara
• vocalist Shelley Hirsch
• vocalist and composer Meredith Monk
• composer and multireedist Joseph Celli
• pianist and composer David Tudor in his own work and in the prepared piano techniques of Cage and the New York School
• cellist and improviser Frances-Marie Uitti