Landfill harmonic (la orquesta reciclada)


Published on Dec 10, 2012

Landfill Harmonic is an upcoming feature-length documentary about a remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay, where the musicians play instruments made from trash
Cateura, Paraguay is a town essentially built on top of a landfill. Garbage collectors browse the trash for sellable goods, and children are often at risk of getting involved with drugs and gangs. When orchestra director Szaran and music teacher Fabio set up a music program for the kids of Cateura, they soon have more students than they have instruments.

That changed when Szaran and Fabio were brought something they had never seen before: a violin made out of garbage. Today, there's an entire orchestra of assembled instruments, now called The Recycled Orchestra.

This film shows how trash and recycled materials can be transformed into beautiful sounding musical instruments, but more importantly, it brings witness to the transformation of precious human beings.

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Landfill Harmonic teaser

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Kids play Mozart with violins made from garbage
Published: December 15, 2012
By PEDRO SERVIN — Associated Press


In this Dec. 11, 2012 photo, a young musician tunes his cello, made from recycled materials,
during a practice session with "The Orchestra of Instruments Recycled From Cateura" in Cateura, a vast
landfill outside Paraguay's capital of Asuncion, Paraguay. Children from the orchestra use instruments
fashioned out of recycled materials taken from a landfill where their parents eke out livings as trash-
pickers, and about 20 of them regularly perform the music of Beethoven and Mozart, Henry Mancini
and the Beatles. - Jorge Saenz — AP Photo


CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks from what must have been an elegant table make a violin. Bottle caps work perfectly well as keys for a saxophone.

A chamber orchestra of 20 children uses these and other instruments fashioned out of recycled materials from a landfill where their parents eke out livings as trash-pickers, regularly performing the music of Beethoven and Mozart, Henry Mancini and the Beatles. A concert they put on for The Associated Press also featured Frank Sinatra's "My Way" and some Paraguayan polkas.

...more at link
http://www.kentucky.com/2012/12/15/2444 ... rylink=cpy

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