CubeOrchestra

• [Music and Downloads] :: Orchestra recordings, available to stream and download. It's what we're all about, after all

• [Images and Videos] :: Pics and vids for your delectation

• UpcomingEvents :: Where to catch the next jaw-dropping performance of Orchestra Cube
• UpcomingRehearsals :: Dates of the next rehearsals where Members of the Orchestra Cube continue to confound and amaze each other
• MemberArea :: Read the fascinating biographies of the raggle-taggle collective that is the Orchestra Cube (well, the computer-literate ones anyway)
• LinkS :: Where you can find orchestra members and other artists we like in cyberspace.
• [Orchestra Cube Blog] :: Maintained by Orchestra Cube drummer Captain Richie Paradise & Turntablist Mr Hopkinson,
• [Ale Fernandez's Blog] :: What it says on the tin
• TransposingInstruments :: Help understand the range and transposing of the brass & saxes in the orchestra

• JoiningCubeOrchestra :: Thinking of leaving your clothes on the beach? Join Orchestra Cube instead. No previous experience required.
• ForNewishMembers :: A summary of the Orchestra Cube Ethos
• Don't TryThisAtHome :: Can't make it to a Orchestra Cube Rehearsal? Fret not! Simply gather a few musicians together and use these handy instructions from Orchestra Cube maestro Peter Swaffer-Reynolds to create an orchestral masterpiece in the comfort of your own home ... ( MoreImproExercises )

• PressCuttings :: Naughty mags writing about us
• [Top of the Pops] :: Try your hand at interpreting our web stats ...
• [Recording Sessions] :: A how-to guide to recording our sessions
• ProcessingRecordings :: Guidance on processing cube orchestra recording and making them accessible on the cube orchestra web site
• HowToDriveThisWiki :: Step-by-step instructions on driving the Orchestra Cube Wiki, using the MemberArea page as an example
• HowToEditThisWiki :: to those of you in possession of the appropriate password
• [RSS Feed for this wiki] [What is an RSS feed anyway?]

What is Orchestra Cube?

Orchestra Cube sometime conductor Peter Swaffer-Reynolds writes:

Orchestra Cube, as a phenomenon, has given rise to many interesting and unexpected developments. When I consider what we are doing then certain things come to mind and it is these that I would like to give note in this letter. It is a study of:

1. the way the improvised can meet the compositional
2. the responsibility of the musician to the art of listening
3. the acumen of intention defined by the harmonics of many
4. the allowance of the unexpected as a potential zone of invention
5. the acceptance that error is a composite part of perfection
6. the expectation that at times we will chance upon narrow openings
7. the acceptance that fork can sometimes mean knife
8. the a guide towards future living
9. the hope that structure imposed will liberate the tonal implications of modular knowledge
10. the elaboration of an emotional response as a means of triggering an associative response to lateral memory.