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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
2025-05-01 17:15:18
Serendipitous Symphony, also look at Everything Is an Instrument and Trash-Can Band
ambiguousCase
Since: Apr, 2014

Is there a trope for when a bunch of random sounds come together to make music? Like one person starts rattling a jar of change, another taps their foot rhythmically, the stop-start of an engine in the street adds to it, and then it all somehow becomes a song.
Notable examples I can think of are the laundrette scene from "Elmo In Grouchland", and arguably the whole musical "Stomp".