http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-26634720
Dead Rat Orchestra's meat cleavers recreate vigilantes' music
A musician is using specially crafted meat cleavers to reproduce music - a tradition that is up to 300 years old and once made by groups of vigilantes.
Nathaniel Mann, 31, is overseeing the production of 12 bronze tuned cleavers, to be used in a show called Rough Music.
The term was used in Suffolk to describe the process of "assaulting people with sound", by making a racket and singing about their alleged offences.
Vigilantes would gather outside the home of someone perceived to have done wrong, and "give them the rough music" - sometimes banishing them from their village.
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Dead Rat Orchestra's meat cleavers recreate vigilantes music
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Art. 
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Terry Pratchett used the term Rough Music in one of his books, in the same context as described in the OP...
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We've got a percussion group over here that uses knives, cleavers, etc:
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And they prepare the veggies for dinner at the same time! Cool! 
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I wonder if they feed the audience after the show... 
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I'd eat off her belly... 
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Damn straight...
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
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