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title: "Come on, Feel (and Make) the Noise"
date: 2025-03-28T05:30:00-04:00
author: University of Maryland
canonical_url: "https://today.umd.edu/come-on-feel-and-make-the-noise"
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# Come on, Feel (and Make) the Noise

*March 28, 2025* — by [Maggie Haslam](/author/maggie-haslam)


> UMD Community Bands Together for Crowdsourced Orchestra

*Regenerate Orchestra 03262025 RS 0353 1920x1080 — Symphonic sounds collide with performance art, vocals and “found percussion”—jars of beans, kazoos, chopsticks and more—in Regenerate! Sound in Place, a musical placemaking event on Wednesday in the Architecture Building.*

The packet of unfamiliar sheet music was a signal that I might be in over my head as a rookie guitar player. (And by unfamiliar, I mean the actual symbols on the page—is that a parenthesis on its side?)

I looked warily at my colleague, Ken Filler, who sat next me with an enormous plastic bowl of rice and mouthed, “What did we get ourselves into?”

We had just joined the most unconventional makeshift orchestra to hit the University of Maryland’s music scene. A merry band of over 50 students, faculty and staff from across campus, of greatly varying musical skills and wielding sometimes unorthodox instruments, had come together for a single rehearsal on Tuesday before a live performance—Regenerate! Sound in Place—in front of campus leadership, colleagues and friends the next evening.


*musicians play guitar and pour bowl of rice — Assistant Clinical Professor Ken Filler (arm) creates a rain effect with rice and beans, as architecture student Conell Brandner '25 (center) and the author (far right) jam along.*


*musician plays triangle — Mechanical engineering major Daniel Danko ’26 plays the triangle during Regenerate! Orchestra: Sound in Place at the Architecture Building on Wednesday.*




**Topics:** [Arts & Culture](https://today.umd.edu/tags/arts-culture)


**Tags:** [Music](https://today.umd.edu/topic/music), [Arts](https://today.umd.edu/topic/arts)


**Units:** [College of Arts and Humanities](https://today.umd.edu/topic/college-arts-and-humanities), [School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation](https://today.umd.edu/topic/school-architecture-planning-and-preservation)