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Composed of young people from different communities who played instruments made from recycled material in the Cateura Luteria Workshop, they presented several concerts in Paraguay. [16] The orchestra played a program entitled "Melodies From Garbage" in 35 concerts in Austria, Germany and Switzerland in November of that year. [17]
The Garbage-Men is an American musical group of youths from Sarasota, Florida teaching sustainability through music. [3] The band promotes recycling, a green eco-friendly message, by playing music on instruments they make from garbage and recycled materials. [ 4 ]
Landfill Harmonic (stylized as land f illharmonic) is a 2015 documentary film directed by Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley. [1] It stars and tells the story of Paraguayan music teacher Favio Chavez and his Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a children's orchestra in Paraguay which performs with materials recycled from a trash landfill near Asunción.
Les Luthiers are known in particular for employing a diverse ensemble of invented instruments created from common, everyday materials. The group's first home-made musical instrument, the bass-pipe a vara (a sort of trombone), was created by Gerardo Masana, the founder of the group, by joining paperboard tubes found in the garbage and miscellaneous items.
Two inmates were granted leave to see the concert featuring 14 prison-made stringed instruments playing a program that included works by Bach and Vivaldi. ... “The beauty is that music overcomes ...
Iner Souster (born in 1971) is a builder of experimental musical instruments, visual artist, musician, fauxbot designer and film maker who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Souster builds most of his instruments from trash, found, and salvaged materials. Some of his instruments are one-string string instruments, or thumb pianos. One of his ...
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One of the musical instruments that we are all looking forward to which will be arriving from Newfoundland is the Ugly Stick. A home-made device that is bound to produce a definite beat of its own, the ugly stick is made of a broom handle with a boot on one end and beer caps tied along the handle which creates a unique sound.