- 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]
- [Orchestra Cube Forum] See Orchestra Cube do their dirty laundry in public
- TransposingInstruments :: help understand the range and transposing of the brass & saxes in the orchestra
- [Top of the Pops] Try your hand at interpreting our web stats ...
- PressCuttings :: Naughty mags writing about us
- 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 )
- [Downloads] :: Load up your ipod and assault your aural senses with this selection of strong stuff from Orchestra Cube
- OrchestraRehearsal 23 Jun 10 :: A small, acoustic group. We wrote ringtones, ragas and hold music. It's all in the police transcript.
- OrchestraWorkshop 02 Dec 09 :: Facilitated by legendary self taught improvising pianist Stephen Grew, passing through the Cube on the way to Bratislava
- BlueScreen 17 June 09 :: Rocking accompaniment to flashes of blue light from Formula by Ryoji Ikeda
- OrchestraRehearsal 10 June 09 :: Dangerous invocations. Anne Elk bounded into the forest clearing ...
- OrchestraRehearsal 22 Apr 09 :: Featuring the hard-blowing Stokes Croft horns
- OrchestraRehearsal 01 Apr 09 :: Top
- OrchestraRehearsal 25 Mar 09 :: Let's go disco!
- OrchestraRehearsal 11 Feb 09 :: Featuring inspired vocal contributions by Andy Duncan, Ale Fernandez. Newcomers Chloe Harris and Seb add to excitement.
- OrchestraRehearsal 6 Aug 08 :: One of the top 5 sessions of all time. Featuring superb guitar and harmonica work from newcomers Matt Lord and Moses Jones respectively
- OssuaryRescore 29 June 08 :: The Orchestra joins forces with a quintet from the Bristol Feral Choir for a live improvised Rescore of Svankmajer's 'The Ossuary'
- OrchestraRehearsal 9 April 08 :: A hat trick of percussionists enlivens another genre busting rehearsal
- OrchestraRehearsal 2 April 08 :: A strong session featuring the cube orchestra début of improvising vocalist Amy Parkhouse
- OrchestraRehearsal 6 Sep 06 :: featuring cool licks from newcomer Mark and the welcome return of bassist Ron Phelan and Simone Angel flown in fresh from 'nam
- OrchestraRnP 1 Sep 06 :: rehearsing and performing "The man who sold the world" for the Greatness of the Magnificence Bowie night.
- OrchestraRehearsal 16 Aug 06 :: recording the soundtrack to Liam Kirbys's film "Grindhouse Romance"
- SunriseFestival :: Various recordings collected during the [Sunrise Summer Solstice Celebration], June 2006
- [OrchestraRehearsal 1 Feb 06] :: Micro rehearsal from the gang of three (Ale, Leo and Marcus)
- OrchestraRehearsal 14 Dec 05 :: featuring a brace of violas courtesy of Liam and newcomer Philip
- OrchestraRehearsal 7 Dec 05 :: featuring newcomers Mike and Kushal Gaya
- OrchestraRehearsal 23 Nov 05 :: A barn-storming session introducing four new members to the orchestra ...
- OrchestraRehearsal 16 Nov 05 :: This week, the orchestra creates some very short pieces. And some long ones as well ...
- OrchestraRehearsal 9 Nov 05 :: featuring attempts at some complicated time signatures, plus some pervy instrument swapping ...
- OrchestraRehearsal 2 Nov 05 :: featuring the loop of effects pedals experiment
- OrchestraRehearsal 19 Oct 05 :: ye Gods - we were on good form this evening ...
- OrchestraRehearsal 5 Oct 05
- OrchestraRehearsal 21 Sept 05 :: including the Fred Maintenant collaboration
- OrchestraRehearsal 14 Sept 05 :: featuring some new talent
- OrchestraRehearsal 7 Sept 05 :: Seagulls, jet aircraft - Mr Hopkinson has it all ...
- [Live, 3 September 2005] :: Live multi-tracked performance by a tiny Orchestra at a Here gallery exhibition opening (10 MB MP3)
- OrchestraRehearsal 10 August 05 :: Again, the creative juices were flowing this evening
- OrchestraRehearsal 27 July 05 :: A particularly successful collaboration
- [Ophelia's Song] Witness Orchestra Cube struggling to follow Peter Reynold's accordion-based ballad
- [Orchestra Cube Live :: A Windy Night :: 22 Jan 2005] [Cube Blog entry for this event]
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:
- the way the improvised can meet the compositional
- the responsibility of the musician to the art of listening
- the acumen of intention defined by the harmonics of many
- the allowance of the unexpected as a potential zone of invention
- the acceptance that error is a composite part of perfection
- the expectation that at times we will chance upon narrow openings
- the acceptance that fork can sometimes mean knife
- the a guide towards future living
- the hope that structure imposed will liberate the tonal implications of modular knowledge
- the elaboration of an emotional response as a means of triggering an associative response to lateral memory.
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