Background
BackgroundMusic/sound performance, rhythmic invention and experimental instruments have been a feature of FROM SCRATCH since the 1972 manifesto VOM. This was the original probe-and-hatch plan devised by Phil Dadson for the Auckland Scratch group as an alternative to the mainly improvised activities of SCRATCH ORCHESTRA (NZ)- an off-shoot of Cornelius Cardew's foundation group for a scratch orchestra which he was involved with in London during the late 60s. The rhythm stress implicit to VOM prompted a drift from large scale pieces to smaller scale tightly-structured rhythm works and to the formation of the first FROM SCRATCH group in 1974. The politics of FROM SCRATCH are reinforced by it's Pacific context. Egalitarian and co-operative ideals are embodied in the music and the performance with players sharing equal and similar roles. 
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