Monday 14 January 2013

Landfill Harmonic – Turning trash into music






My New Year resolution as a journalist is to try to focus more on solutions rather than on showing problems, and write stories that leave people with hope and the will to do something rather than feeling helpless.

Here is a perfect example: a beautiful story about people turning trash into music.  The people of Cateura, Paraguay, make their living scavenging through a huge landfill on top of which their slum was built. One day, one of them found a discarded violin shell. It gave them the idea of building recycled musical instruments out of rusting oil cans, pieces of wood and metal, old tools and other trash.  They soon managed to put together a whole orchestra made out of recycled instruments (it sounds amazingly good!) and it has transformed their lives.  

  “The world sends us garbage. We send back music,” says Favio Chavez, the orchestra’s director.

Beautiful, isn’t it?

2 comments:

  1. Quite. I love seeing how the rest of the world innovates as others are caught up in the consumerist world.

    -Land Source Container Service, Inc.
    Rubbish Removal NYC

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  2. Thanks for your comment.Do you find interesting, useful things people throw away? What do you do with them?

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