Scrap wood, rusty nails, old busted tv, radio from outside in the rain. "Foxhole" Modular Synth.

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Ken Butler is a Brooklyn-based artist and musician who has built over 400 musical instruments. But these aren't just any custom-built instruments. Butler builds his pieces from discarded items he finds on the streets of New York City. Hockey sticks, tennis rackets, brooms, golf clubs, pieces of furniture, styrofoam, toothbrushes: all are fair game for his masterpieces. It's musique concrète... jungle.

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Landfill Harmonic | documentary film | 25 mins | by Brad Allgood + Graham Townsley | 2015

Landfill Harmonic, focuses on one remarkable group in Paraguay: an orchestra that plays instruments created out of literal trash, made lovingly for them by their community.

The young musicians all come from Cateura, a slum that's built upon a landfill; the 2500 families who live there survive by separating garbage for recycling. A 2010 UNICEF report about this slum notes that more than 1500 tons of solid waste arrives each day. Illiteracy is rampant there, and Cateura's youngest inhabitants are often the ones responsible for collecting and reselling the garbage. The water supply is very dangerously polluted; on rainy days, the town floods with contaminated water. "A violin is worth more than a house here," says Favio Chavez, the orchestra's director and founder.

Smart Surface for Spatial acoustics
Laura Wickesberg - Peter Yeadon - Jesse Asjes

The Singing Ringing Tree is a musical sculpture situated at Crown Point above the town of Burnley, Lancashire, United Kingdom. It is one of a series of "Panopticons"  in the Lancashire Pennine Hills.  It was created by artists Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu and completed in 2006.  This video is primarily intended to give an impression of the sounds created by the wind interacting with the sculpture.

Deaf since birth, Christine Sun Kim explores her unique subjective experiences with sound in her work. MoMA PS1 included her piece Game of Skill 2.0 in its recent “Greater New York” exhibition, an interactive piece where viewers were invited to touch a staff-like device attached to a velcro strip hung above their heads. As they walked, dragging the device along the strip, a radio played sound at levels and speeds depending on the direction and speed of the participant.