 Accompanied by a small chamber orchestra, Scrivner banged on a reverberating metal salad bowl with mock solemnity as he recited excerpts from "The Cantos" of Ezra Pound interspersed with his original commentary and occasional headlines from the "Financial Times".Scrivner has released two albums of music with his band Inviolet Row, "Consolation Prizes" (2002) and "Nevertheless" (2005).He has also been involved in musical projects with "Voiceworks" (a collaboration between Wigmore Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre).