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Big City Orchestra

American art/anti-art group based generally in California
Organization Musical Group Q4905461

Facts

7 properties

Identity

Instance of
musical group
Official name
Big City Orchestra[6]

Status and dates

Inception
1979[4]

Location

Location of formation
Los Angeles[5]
More facts +3
Genre
experimental music[2]
Country of origin
United States[3]
Start of work period
1979[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Big City Orchestra
🔖 Identifiers · 9
VIAF cluster ID
305377645
Library of Congress Authorities ID
no2013122333
Bandcamp profile ID
ubuibi
Discogs artist ID
99064
Freebase ID
/m/01r57z2
MusicBrainz artist ID
44db62b4-8572-43cf-8ea2-6492c91b4db9
Rate Your Music artist ID
big_city_orchestra
Songkick artist ID
332029
Yale LUX ID
group/41173151-2aac-41ab-ae5f-91cb4f362179

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Summary

Big City Orchestra is a musical group[1].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[8]

  • Country: US[9]

  • Began / founded: 1979[10]

  • Genre(s): ambient, drone, industrial, noise, plunderphonics, sound collage[11]

  • Community tags: ambient, drone, industrial, noise, plunderphonics, sound collage[12]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 44db62b4-8572-43cf-8ea2-6492c91b4db9[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [8] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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