The Scratch Orchestra and the Democracy of the Sixties

One of the great experiments in democratic music making to come out of the avengard of the sixties was a organization called the scratch orchestra. The idea was completely untrained musicians would participate in playing these musical pieces, which i think were sometimes composed or semi-commissioned. I think people like eddy prevost from amm were involved, but the real leading light was the avent gard composer and musical act ofis cornelius cardieu. He went from being a sort of sixties countercultural radical to being a committed mauist. They're examples, re liketh, of democratic music making.