What do you say when world famous artist and writer Bill Drummond invites you to assist with his art project?

Well, you say "Yes!" very quickly and eagerly await a response.

Having a reputation for grand schemes, generally sticking two fingers up to convention and quite literally wrote the book on how to make a Number 1 single (though he still has trouble explaining to his kids why he burnt a million quid), we knew whatever it was, it would be something intriguing and eventful but all the information we had was that there would be seventeen of us, it might involve everybody singing, it will be recorded and it would then be destroyed.

We were then given this document entitled 'The Future Of Music' and the statement below:

Imagine waking up tomorrow,
all music has disappeared.
All musical instruments,
all forms of recorded music,
gone.
A world without music.
What is more,
you cannot even remember what music sounded like or how it was made.
You can only remember that it had existed, that it had been important to you and your civilisation.
And you long to hear it once more.
Then imagine people coming together to make music with nothing but their voices,
and with no knowledge of what music should sound like.

The17 is a choir of the future in Bill Drummond ambitious imagination. Creating music, as he says, that "opens a door in my head like 'Strawberry Fields Forever' did the first time I heard it", a choir that "did not sing songs but made great sweeping sounds and huge harmonies", creating music that could not be listened to anywhere or anytime or "just downloaded from the Internet". To hear The17 choir you have to be in The17 choir.

So, proudly taking our place alongside previous incarnations including 17 road sweepers, 17 dinner ladies, 17 Rolls Royce workers, 17 Primary School children; the Domino 17 (Ed - sounds like a political movement – "Free the Domino 17!") - equipped with only a few bottles of white wine to loosen vocal chords and the feelings of cringing anticipation singing in front of your co-workers - began its first and only recorded live performance.

Now, though we all LOVE music at Domino, none of us are really 'natural singers' but that didn't matter. Listening back afterwards, the recording sounded like a huge wall of warm noise, looping rough and lush textures and moments of harmonized Zen that genuinely sounded like nothing else. There's a natural communal energy of combined voices and there's a strange poetry in creating music that is unique and just of the moment and of the people there, and then gone forever.

Some of you might be thinking "this sounds like a load of pretentious rubbish" but we all really enjoyed it. Meeting the legendary Mr. Drummond and his colleague John Hirst was a real pleasure and anything that makes you think and feel differently about how we listen to Music and just what is Music even, is all good in our book.

Speaking of which; Bill Drummond's new book 17 is to be published in the UK in July 2008 and to learn more visit www.the17.org.