7 We had just heard about, and were inspired by, Cornelius Cardew, who had started a scratch orchestra in the north of England with a bunch of nonmusician, working class people. They played all sorts of music with whatever was handy, in a collaborative spirit, and eventually acquired a house in Berlin. When the members realized how many homeless there were in Berlin they turned the house over to the homeless. That was the end of the scratch orchestra. Cardew came through Vancouver playing songs of the IRA shortly after this. P What inspired us was the thought that we were at the end of the era of the masterpiece, the avant garde and the individual creative genius. What mattered now was to be a part a network (Fillious Eternal Network) that would have its effect through a kind of spontaneous combustion of the social imagination. HB