Chris Cutler met Stevan Tickmayer in 1981 in Novi Sad in the former Yugoslavia while touring with Geoff Leigh's band, Black Sheep.
Using Cutler's texts, Tickmayer composed the music for a suite of songs that became the Science Group's first album, A Mere Coincidence.
After the tapes were returned to the studio in France, Amy Denio (from Tone Dogs) joined them and sang the texts.
The group remained dormant until 2002 when they reassembled as a quartet of Cutler, Tickmayer, Drake and Mike Johnson (from Thinking Plague) to record their second album, Spoors.
The texts focused on science related topics, including theoretical physics, cosmology and genetic engineering.