Music from Bamboo, Music of Vietnam | The Bamboo Ensemble Suc Song Moi 

TEDx | 2017 | 12 mins

Listen to the beautiful sounds of Vietnam's only ensemble that performs its repertoire purely with bamboo music instruments.

1st song: Diễm Xưa | Trịnh Công Sơn
2nd song: Turkish March | Mozart

Suc Song Moi (The New Vitality) is the only bamboo ensemble in Vietnam that performs its symphonically orchestrated repertoire purely with bamboo music instruments. It was established in 2013 by the young conductor Dong Quang Vinh – the principle conductor of the Vietnam National Opera & Ballet & Hanoi Voices Choir, who had been trained for 9 years in Shanghai Conservatory of Music – China. The Ensemble’s music instruments were all made from bamboo by Artist Dong Van Minh (father of Dong Quang Vinh) – a prominent bamboo music maestro and its reperoire, includes Vietnamese folk music and world’s academic classical masterpieces by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, Ravel, Saint-Saens, Offenbach, Elgar etc., were all orchestrated by Dong Quang Vinh himself. Inherited the passion for academic music from his father, combined with the unfettered mind of a young professional, Vinh set up the Bamboo Ensemble with an ambition to bring academic music closer to the young generation in his unique and original style.

This organ is completely made of paper and cardboard, except of one transparent plastic side to view internals. Build process described here: http://only-paper.ru/forum/38-22814-1 - a couple of sketches for the valves and key levers model are placed there I'm not going to make a templates for this model, at least in the nearest future , because it is too hard to just print and assemble a working thing - pretty much tuning should be made for each pipe, even paper thickness is matters

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/09/paper-organ/

 " Musical zip-line" is an interactive meditative walking path guided by sound that brings calmness and relaxation to Cambridge residents. Bells are placed along a path, and can be glided along in order to create song. 

Whether it be the stress of school, the fast paced nature of work, or simply the hustle and bustle of everyday life, people need a way to relax and decompress. Meditation has been proven to be an effective way of relieving stress with numerous positive effects. Meditation Maze works to bring meditation to the lives of Cambridge residents, by acting as a tool used for walking meditation. The installation consists of metal posts connected with dowels, that allow a sliding piece with attached bells to move back and forth. As residents, walk along the path, they are easily able to move the bells along with them in order to produce sounds to guide their walk. With musical zip-line installed, Cambridge residents will have more access to meditation, and therefore decrease the overall stress in the Cambridge area.

The Music Box is a project worked on in collaboration with the Karam school, located in Reyhanli, Turkey. The town is mainly occupied by Syrian refugees, who are creating a musical playground to give back to the community that welcomed them. The Music Box allows children to play and explore the creation of music. It has been shown that both play and music accelerate brain development in the language and sound processing centers of the brain. For many refugees, who are learning new languages, this could be very helpful. The music box is made up of two cylinders. The inner cylinder holds the comb, which is a series of flat steel pieces that get plucked by the pegs positioned in the outer cylinder when the kids spin it. The kids can ride on the pegs as it spins around. The design takes into account that there will be many different users with a range of ages, by including components that are fun and engaging for everyone, Such as the spinning aspect for the kids and the platform to sit for parents.