The Fragmented Orchestra is a collaboration between artist, Jane Grant, composer-musician-physicist, John Matthias and composer-sound-designer Nick Ryan and is the winner of the PRS Foundation New Music Award 2008.

The Fragmented Orchestra is a huge distributed musical structure modelled on the firing of the human brain's neurons. The Fragmented Orchestra will connect 24 public sites across the UK to form a tiny networked cortex, which will adapt, evolve and trigger site-specific sounds via the FACT Gallery in Liverpool, the current European Capital of Culture from December 11th 2008 - February 9th 2009.

The Local is proud to present an event at each of the 24 locations in 2009.