So great: Brooklyn-based artist Nina Azzarello is making a hand-cut paper icon set for a computer interface.
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Landfill Harmonic – in a small Paraguay town, a youth chamber orchestra plays Beethoven and The Beatles on instruments made out of scraps from the local landfill.
See more music made with unusual objects here.
“If you ever question that music is the universal language, watch this: A German-speaking teacher tutoring a French-speaking African how to sing an aria in Italian.”
The inspired story of the Kimbanguiste Symphony Orchestra, the only symphony orchestra in Central Africa, which practices in a rented warehouse in the Congo and got its start with no instruments and no professional musicians who knew how to read music – a wonderful addition to other recent innovation in orchestras.
