Experimental Band Name Generator

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Generate experimental band names that break the usual rules: found phrases, inventories, instructions, catalog codes and invented institutions such as A Lighthouse for Furniture, Unlabeled Reel No. 4 and The Committee for Quieter Weather. 1,000 original names for avant-garde, noise, drone and art-rock projects.

About experimental band names

Experimental band names work by refusing to sound like band names. Where a rock band picks a plural noun, an avant-garde, noise or drone project picks something that was never meant to be a name at all: a sentence nobody asked for (Nobody Signed for the Thunder), a line from a label or a form (Contents May Have Settled, Tick One Box Only), an archive reference (Unlabeled Reel No. 4, Batch 0031) or an office that does not exist (The Committee for Quieter Weather).

The 1,000 names here are spread across those registers and several more. There are inventories (Thirty Clocks and a Wet Field), objects with the wrong purpose (A Lighthouse for Furniture), mock score titles (Piece for Nine Kettles), noise names built from tools and faults (Angle Grinder Recital), drone names about duration and tuning (One Chord Until Morning), tape and field-recording terms (Hydrophone in the Duck Pond), phrases that read like a stiff translation (The Soup Is of Yesterday), and flat single words such as Grout and Approximately.

These are original suggestions that have not been compared with any streaming catalog or band directory. Experimental scenes are large, so search Bandcamp, Discogs and your streaming service before you print a tape insert.

How to choose experimental band names

  • Match the register to the sound: tool and fault names (Angle Grinder Recital) suit harsh noise, duration names (Harmonium Left Running) suit drone, and long sentences suit slow pieces with room on the sleeve.
  • Decide how the name is spoken. Fig. 7: The Hinge looks right on a poster, but a promoter has to say it out loud, so settle the spoken version before the first show.
  • Keep the typography plain. Ordinary letters, digits, commas and periods survive streaming services, search boxes and ticket sites; symbols and special characters often do not.
  • A flat single word such as Grout or Approximately is easy to remember and hard to search for. Pair it with a place, a release title or a consistent look so people can find you.
  • Search Bandcamp, Discogs and your streaming service for the exact name and for close spellings before you commit to it.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a band name sound experimental?

It reads as something other than a band name: a sentence, a list, an instruction, a reference number or the name of an office that does not exist. Exhibit 12, Slightly Damp and Bureau of Unfinished Staircases both work because they borrow the tone of a document and point it at nothing. The less a name tries to sound cool, the better it fits.

Are these experimental band names already in use?

Some may be. They are original suggestions, but nobody has compared them with streaming catalogs, label rosters or band directories, and experimental music has a very long tail of small projects. Search Bandcamp, Discogs and your streaming service before you settle on one.

Which names suit noise and drone projects?

The noise names in the list come from tools, faults and overloaded equipment, such as Angle Grinder Recital and Ground Loop Congregation. The drone names are about duration, tuning and stillness, such as One Chord Until Morning and Sine Wave Vigil. Both kinds also work as the title of a tape or a single long track.

Can a band name be a whole sentence or a code?

Yes. A sentence such as Nobody Signed for the Thunder gives a poster something to read, while a code such as Batch 0031 looks like an item pulled from an archive. Choose a short form for handles and file names as well, because a long name is cut off in many apps.

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A: 126 names

  • A Bandage for the Bridge
  • A Blueprint for a Puddle
  • A Brick and Its Understudy
  • A Bucket Held the Entire Concert
  • A Budget for the Echo
  • A Calendar of Small Collapses
  • A Chapel for Lost Buttons
  • A Choir of Light Switches
  • A Cloud Got Caught in the Loom
  • A Coat for the Kettle
  • A Compass for the Wardrobe
  • A Cradle for the Anvil
  • A Curtain for the Sea
  • A Dictionary of Coughs

A, continued

  • A Door Was Found Without Its House
  • A Dozen Eggs and One Organ
  • A Fence, a Flute, Forty Geese
  • A Field Guide to Radiators
  • A Fire Escape for Fish
  • A Fog of Violas
  • A Glacier Seen From the Bus
  • A Glossary of Rattles
  • A Grammar of Drips
  • A Grocery List for the Afterlife
  • A Guest Book for Storms
  • A Gymnasium for Statues
  • A Harp, Some Gravel
  • A Horse Was Seen Reading the Minutes

A, continued

  • A Hospital for Clocks
  • A Hum Beneath the Floorboards
  • A Kennel for the Draft
  • A Kite, a Kiln, a Kettle Drum
  • A Lamp, a Lemon, a Lawsuit
  • A Lectern for Rain
  • A Library for Left Shoes
  • A Lighthouse for Furniture
  • A Lighthouse Kept in the Pantry
  • A Map of the Inside of a Bell
  • A Microphone Buried in the Garden
  • A Minus B Equals Weather
  • A Monument to the Middle Drawer
  • A Museum for One Chair

A, continued

  • A Nest of Cables
  • A Net for Catching Evenings
  • A Parliament of Lampshades
  • A Passport for the Piano
  • A Pond With Several Lids
  • A Pulpit for the Radio
  • A Quilt for the Generator
  • A Raincoat for the Organ
  • A Recipe for Concrete
  • A Requiem for the Photocopier
  • A Saucer for the Flood
  • A Scaffold for the Moon
  • A Short History of the Extension Cord
  • A Sink Full of Wristwatches

A, continued

  • A Small Mistake Has Occurred Beautifully
  • A Speech for the Unveiling of Nothing
  • A Staircase for Water
  • A Staircase Kept Warm for Guests
  • A Telescope for the Cellar
  • A Tent, a Tuba, a Tide Table
  • A Theory of Curtains
  • A Thousand Small Thank Yous
  • A Trellis for Smoke
  • A Trombone Fell Down the Well
  • A Tune for Unpacking
  • A Uniform for the Fog
  • A Very Long Amen
  • A Waiting Room for Rivers

A, continued

  • A Wardrobe for the Wind
  • A Welcome Mat for the Tide
  • A Wheel, a Drum, a Missing Dog
  • A Whistle for the Fog Bank
  • A Whistle, a Sack, a Long Field
  • Abrasive Wheel Regulations
  • Academy of Applied Waiting
  • Accession 1187.B
  • Adjacent
  • Adult Education
  • Affix Stamp Here
  • After You, Landslide
  • Agency for Lost Momentum
  • Aisle 5, Preserves and Drones

A, continued

  • All Our Furniture Leans Left
  • All Rise for the Boiler
  • All the Chairs Face the Radiator Now
  • Allow Six Weeks for Delivery
  • Allow the Glue to Decide
  • Amalgamated Union of Door Listeners
  • Ambience of a Shut Library
  • Amended Copy
  • Among Others
  • An Almanac of Creaks
  • An Anthology of Dial Tones
  • An Atlas of Hallways
  • An Embassy for Weeds
  • An Encyclopedia of Dust

A, continued

  • An Envelope Full of Corridor
  • An Index of Sighs
  • An Orphanage for Umbrellas
  • An Umbrella for the Inside
  • Angle Grinder Recital
  • Annex
  • Answer Any Three Questions
  • Answer Me, Dial Tone
  • Answering Machine From a House Sale
  • Antechamber
  • Antimacassar
  • Appendix C, Missing
  • Apple Core Reactor
  • Applicant Must Not Whistle

A, continued

  • Apply to Dry Surface Only
  • Approximately
  • Aria for Projector Bulb
  • Arise, Upholsterer
  • As Above
  • Ash Fall on a Washing Line
  • Ash, Milk, Aluminum
  • Ask Inside for Key
  • Aspic
  • Assembly Required, Tools Unknown
  • Association of Retired Thunder
  • Attach a Recent Photograph of the Sea
  • Attention, All Shipping
  • Authorized Voices Only

B: 43 names

  • Baby Monitor Interference
  • Backlog
  • Bagatelle With Pliers
  • Bagpipe Bag, No Chanter
  • Ballet for Scaffolders
  • Bandsaw Minuet
  • Bass Clarinet in a Water Tank
  • Batch 0031
  • Bath Plug Diaspora
  • Batteries Not Included, Nor Expected
  • Be Seated, Thunder
  • Beat Frequency Almshouse
  • Beautiful Is the Careful Driver
  • Beg Pardon, Avalanche

B, continued

  • Best Before the Thaw
  • Beware the Friendly Stairs
  • Binaural Bus Depot
  • Biscuit Tin Reliquary
  • Black Ice Lullaby
  • Blender Full of Keys
  • Bless This Photocopier
  • Board of Inquiry Into the Hum
  • Bobbin
  • Bolster
  • Bone China Radar
  • Bow the Shelf Bracket
  • Bowed Cymbal Weather
  • Bowed Girder

B, continued

  • Box 77, Contents Unknown
  • Brackish Water Hymnal
  • Breakwater and Nothing Else
  • Brick Through a Mixing Desk
  • Broken Fan Belt Ensemble
  • Bulk Collection
  • Bulk Eraser Baptism
  • Bureau of Unfinished Staircases
  • Bureau of Weights and Sighs
  • Burlap
  • Burr and Swarf
  • Bus 38 Does Not Stop Here
  • Buttons and a Small Fire
  • Buzzing Fluorescent Tube
  • Bylaw

C: 68 names

  • Cadenza for Dropped Tray
  • Calm Yourself, Kettle
  • Candle Stub Empire
  • Candles, Cables, Cabbages
  • Capstan Motor Waltz
  • Car Park Atmos, Level Three
  • Carbon Paper
  • Care of the Harbor Master
  • Carpet Tack Zodiac
  • Cartilage
  • Cassette Found in a Rental Car
  • Catchword
  • Caution, Floor Is Humming

C, continued

  • Cement Mixer A Cappella
  • Census Bureau of Moths
  • Central Office of Peripheral Matters
  • Chainsaw in the Next Valley
  • Chalk Dust and Eleven Bicycles
  • Chalkboard Sonata
  • Chamber Music for Large Rooms
  • Chamber of Unofficial Echoes
  • Change Here for the Coast
  • Channel 9 After Midnight
  • Check the Fuse, Then the Stars
  • Chipboard
  • Chorale for Extractor Fans
  • Circuit 7, Open

C, continued

  • Circular Saw Nocturne
  • Civic Amenity
  • Clockwork Portable Recorder
  • Closed for the Private Function
  • Clothes Peg Synod
  • Coat Hangers, Mostly
  • Coat Hook Meridian
  • Cold Front Stalled at the Border
  • Collage for Scissors and Choir
  • Collar Stud Constellation
  • Collective Farm of Spare Parts
  • College of Unlicensed Surveyors
  • Come Back, Surveyor

C, continued

  • Come In, Number Nine
  • Commission on Misplaced Afternoons
  • Common Ground Rent
  • Complete in Block Capitals
  • Composition With Yellow Bucket
  • Concerto for Stapler and Strings
  • Conductor Facing the Wall
  • Conservatory of Household Hum
  • Contact Mic in a Gravel Bag
  • Contact Print of a Thunderstorm
  • Contents May Have Settled
  • Continue on a Separate Sheet
  • Continuous Tone Policy
  • Cooperative for Unused Hours

C, continued

  • Corks, Springs, a Little Rain
  • Corroded Jack Socket
  • Count to Forty, Then Lower the Piano
  • Courage, Bell Founder
  • Courtesy of the Water Board
  • Crackle From the Inner Groove
  • Credenza
  • Crosswind on the Viaduct
  • Crushed Limiter
  • Curtain Ring Orbit
  • Curtains, Ladders, Other Verticals
  • Custodians of the Spare Key
  • Cuticle
  • Cylinder 11, Cracked

D: 44 names

  • Darning Egg Eclipse
  • Dawn Chorus With Reversing Lorry
  • Daylight Saving Lost at Sea
  • Dear Occupant
  • Dear Sir or Stairwell
  • Declare the Contents of the Drum
  • Dedicated to the Third Violin
  • Delegation From the Coat Room
  • Deliciously the Evening
  • Deliveries at the Rear
  • Dental Drill Chorale
  • Department of Corridors and Annexes
  • Department of Further Delay
  • Describe the Noise in Your Own Words

D, continued

  • Detach Before Posting
  • Details to Follow
  • Diagram of a Possible Song
  • Dial 3 for the Basement
  • Dictation Belt From the Charity Shop
  • Dishcloth
  • Dishwasher Full of Cutlery
  • Dispose of Thoughtfully
  • Distortion as a Second Language
  • Ditto Marks
  • Do Not Begin Until the Light Changes
  • Do Not Stack Above the Line
  • Docket
  • Door Knob Cosmology
  • Dowel

D, continued

  • Downpipe
  • Draft of an Anthem for Nowhere
  • Drain Cover Mandala
  • Draining
  • Drawer 3, Lower Cabinet
  • Drift Ice in the Shipping Forecast
  • Drizzle, Then Motorway
  • Drop the Needle Anywhere
  • Dry Goods
  • Dry Lightning Over the Depot
  • Duet for Tap and Drain
  • Dunnage
  • Dust and Its Several Uses
  • Dust Sheet Matinee
  • Dust Storm in the Sorting Office

E: 26 names

  • Easement
  • Easy, Glacier
  • Edit Decision List
  • Egg Cup Monolith
  • Egg Timer, Fog Horn, Apology
  • Eight Hours of E Flat
  • Eight Pencils and a Flood
  • Elbow Room Cathedral
  • Eleven Nurses Hum One Note
  • Empty the Tray Daily
  • Encore Before the Concert
  • Endless Bourdon
  • Endpaper

E, continued

  • Enter Your Height in Seconds
  • Enter, Stenographer
  • Entry 61, Withdrawn
  • Envelope Glue Harvest
  • Erase Head Stuck On
  • Et Cetera
  • Etude for Left Foot
  • Evening in One Pitch
  • Every Bell Rung Once, Slowly
  • Every Spoon in the House Points North
  • Exhibit 12, Slightly Damp
  • Exit Through the Cloakroom
  • Eyelid Parliament

F: 49 names

  • Faculty of Applied Rust
  • Fantasia on a Fire Drill
  • Farewell, Mrs. Radiator
  • Father Mended the Horizon With Twine
  • Faulty Earth
  • Federation of Damp Librarians
  • Feedback Allotment
  • Felt, Lead, Beeswax
  • Fen Country Dial Tone
  • Ferric Oxide Communion
  • Ferrule
  • Field Notes From the Linen Cupboard

F, continued

  • Fig. 7: The Hinge
  • Fish Scale Mosaic
  • Five Radios in a Wheelbarrow
  • Fixed Penalty
  • Flat Rate
  • Floodwater in the Organ Loft
  • Floorcloth
  • Flutter and Dropout Society
  • Fog Bank Savings and Loan
  • Fold Twice and Return to Sender
  • Folder 8, Rain
  • Foley for a Missing Film

F, continued

  • For a Tall Friend, Briefly
  • For Agnes, Who Disliked Music
  • For Display Purposes
  • For Office Use Only
  • For Ruth and Her Seven Radios
  • For Whoever Left the Gate Open
  • Forgive Us, Typesetter
  • Forklift Reversing Tone
  • Forks and Some Lesser Cutlery
  • Forty Hertz for Margaret
  • Foundation for Abandoned Hobbies
  • Four Brothers Share One Shadow

F, continued

  • Four Cellos Agreeing Slowly
  • Four Cousins and a Tape Machine
  • Four Hours of Kettle
  • Fourteen Knives and a Lullaby
  • Fragile, Handle as Glass
  • Free to a Careful Home
  • Fresh Daily Since Tomorrow
  • Friend of the Honest Lamp
  • Friends of the Disused Reservoir
  • From All of Us at the Depot
  • Fugue for Typing Pool
  • Further Reading
  • Fuse Box Hymnal

G: 25 names

  • Gale Warning for Small Rooms
  • Gate 22, Final Call for Nobody
  • Gelatin
  • General Stores
  • Gentle Notice to the Loud Shoes
  • Geophone Under the Ballroom
  • Give Dates Where Known
  • Glacial Bagpipe
  • Gloves, Pliers, Evening
  • Good Evening, Substation
  • Good Morning to All the Tables
  • Goodnight, Switchboard

G, continued

  • Goose Fat Altimeter
  • Gooseberry Antenna
  • Gramophone With a Thorn Needle
  • Grandmother Tunes the Fence Wire
  • Gravel in the Tumble Dryer
  • Gravel, Linen, Voltage
  • Gray Area Rug
  • Greetings From the Other Station
  • Grit in the Gate
  • Ground Loop Congregation
  • Grout
  • Guild of Unpaid Bell Ringers
  • Guttering

H: 31 names

  • Hairpin Archipelago
  • Half Speed Vespers
  • Half the Audience Is Made of Wool
  • Hand Wash, Dry Flat
  • Happening in the Coat Check
  • Hardstanding
  • Hark, a Compressor
  • Harmonium Left Running
  • Harsh Pantry
  • Hasp

H, continued

  • Hat Stand Equinox
  • Head Cleaning Ritual
  • Heat Haze Above the Scrapyard
  • Heavy Plant Crossing
  • Heddle
  • Held Breath Orchestra
  • Hello, Is This the Ocean
  • High Tide in the Underpass
  • Hiss Majority
  • Hitherto

H, continued

  • Hold Still, Horizon
  • Hold the Note, Release the Dog
  • Home Taping for the Bereaved
  • Honored Guest of the Small Bridge
  • Horizon Line in C
  • Hot Water Bottle Requiem
  • Hotel of the Seven Lukewarm Springs
  • Hum of the Sodium Lamp
  • Hurdy-Gurdy Under Anesthetic
  • Hush, Turbine
  • Hydrophone in the Duck Pond

I: 24 names

  • I Have a Pen in the Garden of My Aunt
  • If Lost, Return to the Middle
  • Impromptu, Carefully Rehearsed
  • In Memory of a Good Ladder
  • In Praise of the Stopped Clock
  • Incidentals
  • Infirmary for Tired Instruments
  • Infrasound for Greenhouses
  • Insert Tab A Into the Evening
  • Insofar
  • Institute for Sideways Rain
  • Institute for the Study of Corners

I, continued

  • Institute of Beige Research
  • Interim Measures
  • Interlude for Scene Changers
  • Intermezzo With Hammering
  • Intermission as the Main Work
  • Interval Held Past Reason
  • Ironing Board Raft
  • Isobars Over the Allotment Shed
  • It Is Forbidden to Become Lost
  • It Rains From Bottom to Top
  • It Took Nine Men to Carry the Whisper
  • Item 208, Unclaimed

J: 3 names

  • Jackhammer Pastoral
  • Jam Jar Lighthouse
  • Joist

K: 6 names

  • Keep Away From Direct Light
  • Keep Clear of the Moving Parts
  • Keep This Portion for Your Records
  • Kettle Lead Hum
  • Kindly Do Not Feed the Clock
  • Knitting Needle Compass

L: 39 names

  • Laboratory for Domestic Acoustics
  • Lagging
  • Laminate
  • Lampshade Tectonics
  • Lanterns, Ledgers, Larks
  • Lard Tin Carillon
  • Larder
  • Larder Shelf Aurora
  • Last Collection Has Gone
  • Later, Meteorologist
  • Lathe Cut for One Listener
  • Lathe Shavings
  • Leader Tape Elegy

L, continued

  • League of Reluctant Cartographers
  • Lean-To
  • Leave This Field Blank
  • Ledger 9, Column D
  • Let the Kettle Finish First
  • Library of Returned Envelopes
  • Libretto in Semaphore
  • Light Industry
  • Limited Stop
  • Liniment
  • Lint
  • Listen for the Second Click
  • Listen, Bricklayer

L, continued

  • Locker 53
  • Long Tone Committee
  • Long Wave After Closedown
  • Loop of a Closing Door
  • Loose Chippings
  • Loose Leaf
  • Loosen the Four Screws Marked C
  • Lot 44, Assorted Bells
  • Low Ceiling, High Voices
  • Low Cloud Over the Gasworks
  • Lowlands Under Tarpaulin
  • Lozenge
  • Luck Is Inside the Second Drawer

M: 38 names

  • Machine Wash Cold, Alone
  • Mains Hum Gospel
  • Manifesto Against Encores
  • Many Thanks From the Kitchen of Clouds
  • Margarine
  • Mark the Spot Where the Sound Stopped
  • Matrix No. 2217
  • Mattress Spring Liturgy
  • May Your Spoon Be Long
  • Metronome Found in a Hedge
  • Milk Teeth Semaphore
  • Mind the Step Down

M, continued

  • Mind Yourself, Signalman
  • Ministry of Lukewarm Water
  • Minor Works
  • Miscellaneous
  • Mislabeled Master
  • Mist Rising off the Car Park
  • Mixed Use
  • Modest Proposal Form
  • Monochord for Motorway Bridge
  • Moorland Behind the Retail Park
  • Moreover
  • Morning Has Gold in the Mouth
  • Moss, Brass, Static

M, continued

  • Motet for Forty Radios
  • Moth Wing Ledger
  • Mother Kept the Thunder in a Drawer
  • Mother, the Barometer
  • Motionless Parade
  • Movement Without Title
  • Municipal Beige
  • Municipal Fog Trust
  • Museum of Unremarkable Stones
  • Mustard Seed Foundry
  • My Brother Is a Good Staircase
  • My Heart Is a Slow Bicycle
  • My Uncle Collects the Sound of Doors

N: 26 names

  • Nail Jar Maracas
  • Nails, Hymns, Sandwiches
  • National Registry of Lost Gloves
  • Negative 26, Scratched
  • Net Weight When Packed
  • Newel
  • Night Deposit
  • Night School for Weather Vanes
  • Nil Return
  • Nine Doors and the Draft Between
  • Nine Minutes of Linoleum
  • Nine Umbrellas Open in an Empty Hall
  • Nineteen Seconds of Carpet

N, continued

  • No Ball Games in the Nave
  • No Entry Except for Access
  • Nobody Came to Collect the Moon
  • Nobody Signed for the Thunder
  • Nocturne for Car Alarm
  • Not Applicable
  • Not Every Day Is a Sunday of Cheese
  • Not for Individual Resale
  • Not My Circus, Not My Trombone
  • Not Now, Organist
  • Notwithstanding
  • Now Turn the Page Without a Sound
  • Nutmeg Grater Psalm

O: 31 names

  • Observatory of Ordinary Ceilings
  • Offcut
  • Offprint
  • Oh, Cartographer!
  • Oilcloth
  • On Behalf of the Wallpaper
  • On the Occasion of a Power Cut
  • One Chord Until Morning
  • One Hand Washes the Weather
  • One Hundred Unanswered Phones

O, continued

  • One Trumpet and Its Consequences
  • Open the Lid and Count the Hammers
  • Opera Without the Singing
  • Opus Minus One
  • Or Similar
  • Ordinary Level
  • Oscillator Left on the Windowsill
  • Other Business
  • Our Drummer Is a Filing Cabinet
  • Our Elevator Is Shy Today

O, continued

  • Our Singer Is Mostly Scaffolding
  • Out of Order Until Further Notice
  • Outbuilding
  • Outflow Pipe at Dawn
  • Overcast With Sunny Intervals Cancelled
  • Overdub in a Stairwell
  • Overspill
  • Overtone Survey
  • Overture to a Closed Shop
  • Oxide Shedding Season
  • Oyster Shell Typewriter

P: 63 names

  • Page 212 Is Blank
  • Page Turn Ensemble
  • Pallet 12, Mixed Hymnals
  • Paper Clip Solstice
  • Paper, Scissors, Reservoir
  • Parabolic Dish Pointed at the Neighbors
  • Paragraph 6, Clause Nothing
  • Pardon the Interruption, Tide
  • Parish Council of the Seabed
  • Partial Refund
  • Partita for Dented Trumpet
  • Patience, Glassblower

P, continued

  • Pavane for a Parked Van
  • Peak Level Picnic
  • Pebbles, Postcards, Pulleys
  • Pedal Point Hospice
  • Pelmet
  • Pencil Shaving Liturgy
  • Pending
  • Perfect Fourth in an Empty Silo
  • Performance for an Audience of Chairs
  • Petrichor on Hot Concrete
  • Phonograph Needle Census
  • Photocopy the Silence in Triplicate
  • Pianos, Mostly Legs

P, continued

  • Piece for Nine Kettles
  • Pigeon Loft Telegraph
  • Pins, Needles and a Tugboat
  • Pipe Organ With the Keys Weighted
  • Plain Cover
  • Planning Permission
  • Plate XIV: Fog
  • Platform 0
  • Play as Slowly as the Room Allows
  • Please Clap With One Careful Hand
  • Please Enjoy the Careful Elevator
  • Please Queue on the Other Side

P, continued

  • Please Take a Number
  • Plums, Hammers, Sundays
  • Pneumatic Lullaby
  • Pocket Lint Nebula
  • Polytechnic of the Lower Marsh
  • Portrait of a Mixing Desk
  • Postscript, the Geese Are Fine
  • Poultice
  • Pour the Gravel From Shoulder Height
  • Prelude to a Fuse Blowing
  • Prepared Piano, Unprepared Pianist
  • Present This Slip at the Door
  • Press and Hold for Rain

P, continued

  • Pressure Dropping Over the Allotments
  • Pressure Washer Cantata
  • Print 4 of 4, Overexposed
  • Print-Through Ghosts
  • Printed on the Back of Something Else
  • Proceed to the Next Window
  • Program Note, Unsigned
  • Property of the Night Shift
  • Proviso
  • Public Footpath
  • Pudding Basin Halo
  • Purlin
  • Putty

Q: 4 names

  • Quarry Pond in March
  • Quarter Inch of Somebody's Wedding
  • Quartet for Three Players
  • Quorum

R: 42 names

  • Radiator Bleed Valve
  • Railway Brake Aria
  • Rain Gauge Overflowing
  • Read All Instructions Before Singing
  • Recitative for Announcer
  • Record the Room Before You Enter
  • Recorded Through a Letterbox
  • Recording of a Recording of Rain
  • Red Lights on Every Meter
  • Reduced Service
  • Reduced to Clear
  • Reed Organ in a Disused Bank
  • Reel 6 of 5
  • Refer to the Enclosed Leaflet

R, continued

  • Regional Board of Small Hours
  • Rehearsal Mark Q
  • Rejoice, Plumber
  • Remainder
  • Remove All Packaging From the Violin
  • Repeat Until the Neighbors Move
  • Replace Lid After Use
  • Requisition
  • Reservoir Drained for Inspection
  • Resonant Frequency of the Hall
  • Retrospective of the Unfinished
  • Rewind to the Beginning of the Cough
  • Rhubarb Semaphore
  • Ring Twice for the Caretaker

R, continued

  • Rinse and Leave to Stand Overnight
  • Rivet Gun Ballet
  • Road Ahead Has Changed
  • Roll 2, Frames 9 to 14
  • Rondo for Revolving Door
  • Room 104 Is a Cupboard
  • Room Tone, Kitchen, 3 a.m.
  • Rooms Above, Inquire Below
  • Root Note Residency
  • Ropes, Pulleys and a Good Excuse
  • Rotate the Audience a Quarter Turn
  • Roughly
  • Runout Groove Message
  • Rust Belt Sander

S: 118 names

  • Salt Flats After Hours
  • Salt, Wire, Feathers
  • Salute the Weighbridge
  • Same Again
  • Sample B (Do Not Use)
  • Sample, Not to Be Played
  • Sandpaper Madrigal
  • Sardine Tin Basilica
  • School of Thought for Radiators
  • Score for Prepared Wardrobe
  • Scrap Bin Symphonette
  • Scraped Cymbal Inquiry
  • Scree Slope With Deck Chairs
  • Screech Owl Transformer

S, continued

  • Screed
  • Scullery
  • Sea Fret on the Promenade
  • Sealant
  • Seat Reserved for the Weather
  • Second Class Post
  • Second Draft of the First Silence
  • Second Movement, Unattended
  • Secretariat for Unsent Letters
  • See Below
  • See Diagram on Facing Page
  • See Reverse for Details
  • Semolina
  • Septet Minus Six
  • Serenade to a Skip

S, continued

  • Serial 44-K-19
  • Seven Hats and a Barometer
  • Seven-Inch Reel of Bees
  • Shake Well Before the Interval
  • Sheet 14, Coffee Ring
  • Shelf 9, Left of the Sink
  • Shellac Sweepings
  • Shim
  • Shingle Bank Arithmetic
  • Shoelace Aqueduct
  • Short Circuit Picnic
  • Shortwave Under a Pillow
  • Shovels and Other Clarinets
  • Shredded Cone
  • Shruti Box at the Bottom of a Stairwell

S, continued

  • Shut the Piano Lid on Step Nine
  • Side C
  • Sideboard
  • Signature Mark
  • Sincerely, the Management of Rain
  • Sine Wave Vigil
  • Sing Only the Consonants
  • Six Aunts and a Projector
  • Six Pianos in a Skip
  • Sixteen Coats on One Hook
  • Sixty Cycles and a Cough
  • Sixty-Cycle Monastery
  • Sketch for a Louder Building
  • Sleep Well Inside the Music Box
  • Sleet on the Substation

S, continued

  • Slide 40, Upside Down
  • Slow Cloud, Fast Shadow
  • Slow Raga for Cooling Towers
  • Smoke Alarm With a Flat Battery
  • Snow Falling on Parked Excavators
  • So Long, Printing Press
  • Soap Dish Oracle
  • Society for the Preservation of Drafts
  • Soft Departure, Hard Arrival
  • Somebody Has Alphabetized the Fog
  • Somebody Sanded the Edges off Tuesday
  • Someone Has Varnished the Rain
  • Someone Is Ironing in the Orchestra Pit
  • Sound Effects for Amateur Dramatics

S, continued

  • Spare Rib Almanac
  • Speak Clearly After the Second Bell
  • Speak Up, Seabed
  • Speaker Cone Autopsy
  • Splice Block Diary
  • Spoil Tip Under Snow
  • Squall Line Above the Ring Road
  • Squeal of the Lesser Hinge
  • Squelch Control
  • Staff Only Beyond This Point
  • Stair Rod Divination
  • Stamps, Staples, Starlings
  • Standard Deviation
  • Standing Wave in the Refectory
  • Stasis for Brass

S, continued

  • State Your Reason for Humming
  • Static Discharge Etiquette
  • Station 5 Calling Nobody
  • Steady Now, Chandelier
  • Step Four Has Been Omitted
  • Stereo Pair in a Wheat Field
  • Sticky Shed Syndrome
  • Still Air Ensemble
  • Stir the Feedback Clockwise
  • Stocktake
  • Store in a Cool Dry Place
  • String, Chalk, Ladder, Bell
  • Stripped Thread
  • Stubble Fields Burning Politely
  • Study in Stacked Chairs

S, continued

  • Subcommittee for Carpet Pattern Research
  • Subharmonic Parish
  • Subheading
  • Subsoil
  • Suet
  • Sugar Tong Gospel
  • Suite for Unplugged Organ
  • Sundries
  • Surcharge
  • Surface Mail
  • Sustain Pedal Taped Down
  • Swap Hands at the Bell
  • Sympathetic Strings
  • Symphony for Unpaid Extras
  • Synod of Unlit Stairwells

T: 137 names

  • Tableau With Extension Cord
  • Tablecloth Glacier
  • Take 93
  • Take Care of the Careful Glass
  • Take Leader, No Slate
  • Tanpura in an Aircraft Hangar
  • Tap the Glass Until It Answers
  • Tape Hiss Harvest
  • Tape Piece for Empty Pool
  • Tarp
  • Tax Disc
  • Tea Towel Eclogue
  • Teacup Seismograph

T, continued

  • Tear Along the Dotted Line
  • Teeth, Twine, Telephone
  • Temporary Road Surface
  • Ten Ladles and a Mattress
  • Test Pressing 009
  • Test Tone and Countdown
  • Text Score, Third Draft
  • Thank You for Your Patience With the Rain
  • Thank You, Night Bus
  • Thaw Water Under the Bandstand
  • The Ad Hoc Panel on Gravel
  • The Applause Is Part of It
  • The Appliances Have Formed a Union
  • The Archive of Wrong Numbers

T, continued

  • The Attic Is Full of Borrowed Weather
  • The Bread Has Good Opinions
  • The Bridge Was Built from Its Own Blueprint
  • The Carpet Was Rolled Up With the Guests Inside
  • The Choir Arrived as a Parcel
  • The Clinker Heap in Blossom
  • The Clocks Agreed to Disagree
  • The Committee for Quieter Weather
  • The Curtain Opens on Another Curtain
  • The Dog Barked in Perfect Fifths
  • The Dog of My Neighbor Is Infinite
  • The Elevator Only Goes Sideways
  • The Estuary at Low Battery
  • The Fifth That Never Resolves

T, continued

  • The Fish Is Thinking of You
  • The Gradual Bell
  • The Grass Hears Everything
  • The Hallway Kept Growing Overnight
  • The Hills Are a Rumor
  • The Hinge Inspectorate
  • The Honey Speaks for Itself
  • The Interim Fog Board
  • The Kettle Sings in a Dead Language
  • The Lake Has Been Moved Indoors
  • The Lesser Canal Authority
  • The Long Dusk at Sixty Degrees North
  • The Map Was Folded Around a Pear

T, continued

  • The Mirror Was Hung Facing the Wall
  • The Moon Has Its Own Reasons
  • The Night Is Still a Young Potato
  • The Onion Has Many Coats
  • The Orchard Applied for a Passport
  • The Orchestra Is Still in the Lift
  • The Organist Was Paid in Gravel
  • The Patient Oscillators
  • The Photograph Developed a Limp
  • The Piano Was Delivered to the Wrong Lake
  • The Postman Delivers Only Rooms
  • The Provisional Wind Authority
  • The Quiet Is Included in the Price
  • The Refrigerator Choir

T, continued

  • The River Was Returned Unopened
  • The Same Note, Further Away
  • The Slowest Possible Fanfare
  • The Soup Is of Yesterday
  • The Staircase Ends in a Smaller Staircase
  • The Standing Subcommittee on Dust
  • The Stone Laughs Last
  • The Tall Grandfather of Bells
  • The Tea Is Without Regret
  • The Telephone Rang Inside the Cello
  • The Tent Was Pitched Inside a Larger Tent
  • The Typewriter Types Only Vowels
  • The Unofficial Tide Commission
  • The Violin Was Mostly Varnish

T, continued

  • The Wallpaper Has Learned Our Names
  • The Window Faces a Larger Window
  • The Window Is Smiling Too Much
  • They Painted the Silence Beige
  • Thimble Volcano
  • Thirteen Tuning Forks
  • Thirty Clocks and a Wet Field
  • Thirty Feet of Tape Around the Banister
  • Thirty-One Varieties of Hiss
  • This Door to Remain Shut
  • This Side Toward Screen
  • This Train Is for Remembering
  • Thread, Thimble, Earthquake

T, continued

  • Three Buckets, One Leak
  • Three Wardrobes and a Draft
  • Thumbnail Eclipse
  • Tick One Box Only
  • Tidal Harmonium
  • Tin Bath Regatta
  • Tin, Tar, Trombone
  • To Be Confirmed
  • To the Dentist, With Gratitude
  • To the Lady in Seat Fourteen
  • To Whom It May Concern, Regarding Hail
  • Toccata for Loose Floorboard
  • Today the Door Is Tired
  • Tomorrow Comes Also a Day

T, continued

  • Tone Poem for Asphalt
  • Too Late for the Early Bird
  • Topsoil
  • Total Harmonic Dismay
  • Track 0
  • Transcription Disc, Side Unknown
  • Transformer Hum Liturgy
  • Tray 17, Keys Without Locks
  • Treadle
  • Treble Wound
  • Tribunal of Minor Vibrations
  • Trio for Wind and Fence
  • Triptych in Gray Flannel
  • Trouser Press Elegy

T, continued

  • Trowel
  • Trustees of the Dripping Tap
  • Tundra With Cooling Towers
  • Tune Each String to a Different Room
  • Turn Counterclockwise Until Sad
  • Twelve Bottles and a Committee
  • Twelve Feet of Splicing Tape
  • Twelve Open Strings
  • Two Keys, No Doors
  • Two Ladders and an Argument
  • Two Pianos Meet in a Corridor
  • Two Rivers Meeting Reluctantly
  • Two Thousand Staples
  • Two Violins and a Lawnmower

U: 12 names

  • Under the Table Lives a Winter
  • Undercoat
  • Underwater Level Crossing
  • Union Local 12, Organ Blowers
  • Unison, Roughly
  • Unlabeled Reel No. 4
  • Unless Otherwise Marked
  • Unshielded Cable
  • Unsuitable for Small Rooms
  • Until Otherwise Stated
  • Until We Meet Again Yesterday
  • Use No Hooks

V: 10 names

  • Vacuum Cleaner Requiem
  • Valance
  • Valid Until Wednesday
  • Varispeed Aunt
  • Vault Copy 2
  • Vibration Felt Through the Bench
  • Vinegar, Copper, Sleep
  • Visibility Poor, Becoming Furniture
  • Vole Skull Abacus
  • Voucher 88

W: 31 names

  • Wainscot
  • Wait for the Tone, Then Wait Again
  • Wait Here Until Called
  • Wake Up, Projectionist
  • Walk the Cable to the Window
  • Warmly Recommended by the Fog
  • Warning, Contents Under Silence
  • Wax Paper Observatory
  • Wax, Hair, Receipts
  • We Measured the Barn in Sighs

W, continued

  • We Rented the Echo by the Hour
  • Weak Bridge Ahead
  • Weather Station Left Running
  • Welcome Home, Diving Bell
  • Welcome to the Second Best Mountain
  • Welding Mask Opera
  • Wet Paint on Both Sides
  • Whey
  • Whichever Is Sooner
  • Wicker Dynamo

W, continued

  • Wild Track of an Argument Next Door
  • Wind Farm in a Whiteout
  • Windshield Removed for Effect
  • Wire Recorder Reunion
  • Wire Wool Serenade
  • With All Respect to the Potato
  • With Thanks to the Night Porter
  • Wolf Interval
  • Working Group on Puddles
  • Workshop for Probable Music
  • Wren Bone Flute

Y: 3 names

  • Yes, Minister of Wool
  • Your Call Is Important to the Sea
  • Yours Faithfully, the Boiler Room

Z: 1 name

  • Zero Decibels, Approximately