Portsmouth Sinfonia has been played on NTS in shows including The Uline Catalog w/ Calvin LeCompte, featured first on 1 November 2013. Songs played include Also Sprach Zarathustra, God Only Knows and (I Can´t Get No) Satisfaction.

The Portsmouth Sinfonia was a real orchestra founded by a group of students at Portsmouth School of Art in Portsmouth, England, in 1970—however, the Sinfonia had an unusual entrance requirement. Players had to be either non-musicians, or if a musician, play an instrument that was entirely new to them. Among the founding members was one of their teachers, English composer Gavin Bryars. The orchestra started as a one-off,…