Unusual, Little-known Musical Instruments - Musical Sculpture

Amazon’s rainforest may be disappearing, acre by using acre, however its slow passing has now not escaped The Burned Instruments Orchestra, whose participants, composers Marco Scarassatti and Livio Tragtenberg, create “tune from the silent witnesses of [its] destruction,” writes Eduardo Simantob. A mix of Brazilian and African rhythms with British and American psychedelia and rock, the orchestra’s sounds are produced by way of musical sculptures constituted of the burned and deadwood of the rainforest fires and are supposed to increase listeners’ “cognizance of the plight of the rainforests.”