| [unknown] | Other | Not applicable | [Worldwide] | 4.2 | instrument |
| Absolute | Group | | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| ACAね | Person | Female | Japan | | instrument (as “electric fan harp”) |
| Mustapha Tettey Addy | Person | Male | Ghana | | instrument (as “Bass-Calimba,”), instrument (as “Bass-Calimba, Tumbadora”), instrument (as “Kpanlogo, drums”), instrument (as “Obonu drum, Pretia”), instrument (as “Obrenten, Patamba”) |
| 秋田昌美 | Person | Male | Japan | | instrument (as “bowed metal”) |
| Bendji Allonce | Person | | | | instrument (as “clap sticks”) |
| America | Group | | United States | 4 | instrument |
| American Bach Soloists | Group | | United States | | instrument (as “period instruments”) |
| Willy Benni Amoussou | Person | | | | instrument (as “gons”) |
| Park An-Ji | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “K'kwaengwari”) |
| Greg Anderson | Person | Male | Seattle | | instrument (as “Electric Wind”) |
| Darryl Anthony | Person | | | | instrument (as “wine glass”) |
| Arca | Person | Non-binary | Spain | 4 | instrument (as “melodies”) |
| John Balance | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “vibrant rays of spiritual psychosis”) |
| Dave Ball | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| Brian Banks | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “special effects”) |
| Richard Barbieri | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “water wheel”) |
| Ivan Barias | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| John Barnes | Person | Male | United States | | instrument arranger (as “rhythm”) |
| Syd Barrett | Person | Male | United Kingdom | 3.75 | instrument (as “wind-up toys”) |
| Pierre Bastien | Person | Male | France | 5 | instrument (as “Branlyneur à ondes courtes”) |
| Billy Beard | Person | Male | Boston | | instrument (as “hand drum”) |
| Michael Beinhorn | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “DMX”) |
| Derek Bell | Person | Male | Northern Ireland | | instrument (as “tiompan”) |
| Henk van Bergen | Person | | | | instrument (as “aeroplane noises”) |
| Christoph Bernewitz | Person | Male | Germany | | instrument (as “Flasche/Stuhl/Tür”) |
| Adrian Berry | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “fans”) |
| Bev Bevan | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “fire extinguisher”) |
| 빅싼초 | Person | Male | South Korea | | instrument (as “Drum Programming”) |
| Hedwig Bilgram | Person | Female | Germany | | instrument (as “continuo (improvisation)”) |
| Wong Bing | Person | | | | instrument (as “da gu”) |
| Thomas Bloch | Person | Male | France | | instrument |
| Bloodshy and Avant | Group | | Sweden | | instrument |
| Marty Bloom | Person | | | | instrument |
| Eirik Glambek Bøe | Person | Male | Norway | | instrument (as “arpeggio”) |
| Myles Boisen | Person | Male | Oakland | | instrument (as “faders”) |
| Boom Bass | Person | Male | France | | instrument |
| Francis Bowdery | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Davin Brainard | Person | Male | Detroit | | instrument (as “bottom”) |
| Philippe Brohet | Person | Male | | | instrument |
| Michael Brook | Person | Male | Canada | | instrument |
| Drew Brown | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “Beautiful Noises”) |
| Michael Brown | Person | Male | San Francisco | | instrument (as “copper”), instrument (as “water”) |
| Bullion | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “esoteric sonics”) |
| Paul Burgess | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “piano stool”) |
| Malcolm Burn | Person | Male | Canada | | instrument |
| Ashley Cadell | Person | | Australia | | instrument |
| Claudia Caffagni | Person | Female | | | instrument (as “pompage”), instrument (as “symphonia”) |
| John Cale | Person | Male | Los Angeles | 5 | instrument (as “chord pattern”) |
| Joe Camacho | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “chanter”) |
| David Campbell | Person | Male | Los Angeles | | conductor (as “Symphony Orchestra”), instrument arranger (as “Symphony Orchestra”) |
| Carolina Liar | Group | | United States | | instrument |
| Jerry Carrot | Person | | | | instrument (as “Ep”) |
| Ryan Castle | Person | | | | engineer (as “pro-tools”) |
| Dom Chacal | Person | Male | Brazil | | instrument (as “gourd”) |
| Chris Chafe | Person | Male | Switzerland | | instrument (as “celleto”) |
| David Chalmin | Person | Male | France | | instrument (as “drum processing”) |
| Christine and the Queens | Person | Male | France | 4.35 | instrument (as “emu”) |
| Peter Christopherson | Person | Male | United Kingdom | 5 | instrument (as “fundamentals”), instrument |
| Shi Chunlei | Person | | | | instrument (as “yoo gu”) |
| Gary Cirimelli | Person | Male | United States | | programming (as “Akai”), programming (as “Macintosh”), programming |
| Jack Clement | Person | Male | United States | 5 | instrument |
| Mark Clifford | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “splinters”) |
| Nels Cline | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “loops”) |
| Concepta Collins | Person | Female | | | instrument (as “heels”) |
| Byron Con | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “some weird Greek instrument”) |
| Charles Cooper | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “hammers”) |
| Elvis Costello | Person | Male | United Kingdom | 4.65 | instrument (as “sounds”) |
| Dexter Coward | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “gunshots”) |
| Graham Coxon | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “Black & Decker”), instrument (as “background noise”) |
| Andy Creeggan | Person | Male | Canada | | instrument (as “secret noises”) |
| Jim Creeggan | Person | Male | Canada | | instrument (as “secret noises”) |
| Ronnie Cuber | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “syntharmonica”) |
| Ren Cuicui | Person | | | | instrument (as “yoo gu”) |
| Danny Cummings | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “snare drum”) |
| Ian Curnow | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | programming (as “fairlight”) |
| Pat Daley | Person | | | | instrument (as “scalpel”) |
| Drew Daniel | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “dice”) |
| Daran | Person | Male | France | 5 | instrument (as “cordes du piree”) |
| Thurston Dart | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument (as “continuo”) |
| Kelley Deal | Person | Female | United States | 5 | instrument (as “Kenmore 12-stitch”) |
| Warren Defever | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “time”) |
| Ryan Delahoussaye | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “InTune Picks”), instrument (as “aguilar FX pedals”) |
| Victor DeLorenzo | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “fire extinguisher”) |
| Christophe Devillers | Person | Male | France | | instrument |
| Turk Dietrich | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “wall”) |
| Simon Dine | Person | | | | instrument (as “all”) |
| Derek Dixie | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “sfx”) |
| DJ Rek | | | | | instrument (as “cuts”) |
| Michael Doman | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “drum case boogie”) |
| Mike “Handz” Donaldson | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| Michael Dorsett | Person | Male | | | instrument (as “Digitar”) |
| George Drakoulias | Person | Male | United States | | instrument |
| George Duke | Person | Male | United States | | instrument (as “all other instruments”) |
| EDEN | Person | Male | South Korea | | instrument (as “Computer Programming”) |
| Dave Edmunds | Person | Male | United Kingdom | 3 | instrument (as “"everything"”) |
| Elías Davídsson | Person | Male | Iceland | | instrument |
| Brian Eno | Person | Male | United Kingdom | 4.8 | instrument (as “rhythm bed”), instrument (as “transistor radio”), instrument (as “treatments”) |
| Paul Epworth | Person | Male | United Kingdom | | instrument |
| Mikkel Storleer Eriksen | Person | Male | Norway | 2 | instrument |