Wooden Elephant's mission is to reimagine classic electronic-based albums for contemporary string quartet and the concert hall. Their first piece was a 2017 take on Björk's Homogenic. Beyoncé's Lemonade was among subsequent orchestrations. In 2021, the Radiohead-approved LANDSCAPES, KNIVES & GLUE: Radiohead's Kid A Recycled added everyday objects and small instruments like harmonica, tuning forks, and toy handbells to the mix on their first recording.
A major inspiration for Wooden Elephant founding violist Ian Anderson was his work with the London Contemporary Orchestra in c...