Welcome to my online journal. Here I share my findings on the WWW as well as from the real world. The topics displayed are unrelated and mostly random things that interest me, that I find inspiring or worth mentioning. I hope you find the entries fascinating and insightful too.
The world sends them garbage, they send back music.
One man's trash is another man's music and now. Have you ever heard of the Landfill Harmonic? It is a remarkable documentary film that tells the story of a group of children from Cateura, a slum in Paraguay that is built on a landfill. These children, with the help of [...]
Finally, a senseful use for weapons.
The transformation of weapons into musical instruments. Pedro Reyes Pedro Reyes's Disarm is a remarkable artistic project that transforms illegal firearms into musical instruments. The Mexican artist collaborated with the Mexican government, which donated over 6,700 confiscated weapons to him, and a team of musicians and engineers, who helped him create eight [...]
Viola Leonarda da Vinci
Slawomir Zubrzycki and his version of the viola organista The viola organista is a musical instrument that was designed by Leonardo da Vinci, but never built in his lifetime. It combines the features of a string instrument and a keyboard instrument, using a friction belt to vibrate the strings when the keys are pressed. [...]
Anna-Maria Hefele – Polyphonic Overtone Singing
A demonstration in polyphonic overtone singing. Anna-Maria Hefele is a German singer who specializes in polyphonic overtone singing, a technique that allows her to produce two or more notes at the same time with her voice. She has been practicing this technique since 2005 and has written compositions and arrangements for polyphonic solo [...]
The producer and composer of train melodies
Meet Minoru Mukaiya, the mastermind behind around 200 distinct chimes for over 110 stations. Minoru Mukaiya is a Japanese composer, musician, and entrepreneur. He is best known for his role as the keyboardist of the jazz fusion band Casiopea, and for creating train departure melodies for railway stations in Japan and other countries. [...]