Musicians Who Recycle Trash Into Playable Instruments
Great Big Story spoke with three different musicians about their passion for recycling trash and turning it into incredible instruments of their own design
First up is Ken Butler of Hybrid Visions, a prolific musician who makes amazing hybrid instruments from everyday items that he finds on the streets of his Brooklyn neighborhood.
I'm an artist and musician and known for building my own experimental instruments since 1978. I I think I've made around 400 instruments.
They also spoke with master piano builderDavid Klavinsat his studio in Vac, Hungary. Klavins is known for building the tallest piano in the world.
I'm a piano builder. During my education I was told that pianos are made only one way. That's the way you see all over the planet today and I was very dissatisfied with such an answer, of course. So I began to wonder how the piano could be improved or made different I wanted to hear the sound which I had in my head.
And finally, they spotlight Kolja KuglerofThe Wild Waste Galleryin Berlin, who creates fabulous anthropomorphic punk rock robots made of recycled metal parts.
I stumbled into making robots. I was making sculptures out of scrap metal and foam, and then I started to move those moving parts with air pressure pistons. It started with a hat moving the jaw, and before I knew it I had a robot I find my scrap pretty much everywhere. I have got my eyes open all the time.
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