Ring cycle: how I joined in the bicycle-bell orchestra

It's not quite the Albert Hall, but Spitalfields Market was ringing with music this morning as cyclists teamed up to perform Kagel's symphony for bicycles

I got up at the crack of dawn this morning to pedal down to Spitalfields Market in east London to make my symphonic debut. I haven't done anything more musical than karaoke since I gave up honking on my oboe 12 years ago, but I decided it was about time I got back into it. Plus I was told musical talent was superfluous to today's performance: as long as I could ride a bike and had a bell that dinged, I was in.

Eine Brise (A Breeze) is a 90-second composition by the eccentric Argentinian composer Mauricio Kagel, who died aged 76 last autumn. Kagel described the work as a "fleeting action for 111 cyclists: a musically enriched sport event in the open".