Re: Off-topic - related to (relatively) modern music

I think the answer to your question is 'The Scratch Orchestra'. Though some of those involved certainly did know what they were doing (though why the hell they were doing it is another question.)

http://www.musicnow.co.uk/scratch.html

and

http://www.composer.co.uk/composers/cardew.html

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"Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Apologies for abusing the group, but

> I've been trying to search the internet

> for the answer to the following question:

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>   Which orchestra thrived from 1969 to the

>   mid-seventies making several recordings ?

>   The unique sound was made by performers

>   who had little or no knowledge of how to play

>   an instrument.

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> I haven't yet been able to select a set of key

> words that produces a list of fewer than 4,000

> hits on any of the search engines I use.

>

> So I thought that the world of Oracle specialists

> is bound to cover enough people with a wide range

> of interests such that someone will know the

> answer.

>

> Thoughts to date - noting the careful wording of

> the question -

>  a) the orchestra is a pack of trained seals

>  b) the orchestra uses voices to mimic instruments

>  c) the orchestra does not play instruments, it plays

>      milk bottles, vacuum cleaners etc.

>  d) the whole thing is done by computer

>

> thanks.

>

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> Regards

>

> Jonathan Lewis

> http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk

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