Should you shut your eyes and hear, the sound of Orquesta Reusónica Trio is pleasantly acquainted.
The Barcelona-based group defines their sound as “world jazz”. Rocco Papía plucks the strings, Antonio Sanchez Barranco handles percussion and Xavi Lozano is the grasp of wind devices.
However if you open your eyes, the spell is damaged. You realise that as an alternative of a guitar, Papía is enjoying a surfboard fitted with strings. The ‘thump, thump’ emanating from Barranco isn’t made by a drum, however a plastic jug crammed with water. And Lozano’s dulcet whistling is definitely coming from a metallic crutch.
“This isn't the strangest instrument I’ve made,” Lozano informed Euronews Tradition. “Nevertheless it’s the primary one - my grandfather’s crutch. He broke his femur in 1992 and from that second on, effectively, I play his crutch”.
Different jaw-dropping devices embrace a flute made out of the wheel from a wheelchair, a xylophone made out of plastic soda bottles and a type of banjo created from a polystyrene field and a few elastic bands.
The band’s raison d’être is discovering new methods to provide high-quality music, utilizing salvaged objects that might have in any other case ended up in a landfill.
It’s greater than a gimmick, says Papía, the group’s founder. For him, the band is taking the age-old apply of instrument-building and adapting it to the trendy age.
“I feel in actuality we’re not likely doing something new,” Papía informed Euronews Tradition. “Human beings have at all times constructed and made devices utilizing what was round them. What's new is the supplies we’re utilizing”.
The primary devices in recorded historical past have been created from discarded animal bones, Papía factors out. Nowadays, our discarded objects occur to be created from man-made supplies like plastic or metallic.
Lozano says that plastic tubing is among the important supplies he makes use of to make flutes and different wind devices.
“At the very least for making devices, plastic is superb since you take it out of nature and it’s not single use,” he stated. “You’re going to play it your complete life. We’re all going to die and this instrument will likely be identical to it's at this time”.
New sounds for a brand new world
On high of the musical component of their group, Orquesta Reusónica Trio can also be devoted to elevating consciousness about residing a extra sustainable life-style by a workshop referred to as “New Sounds for a New World”.
The musicians host a workshop the place they present youngsters methods to create devices from garbage.
“Via this course of of remodeling an object, the concept is to speak a imaginative and prescient of the world the place objects don’t grow to be garbage so shortly,” Papía stated. “That’s why we name it a brand new world, as a result of it’s a world made with a extra sustainable and ecological imaginative and prescient”.
Papía says his imaginative and prescient for the longer term has grow to be a bit gray, however that he hopes to make a small distinction by exchanging with audiences by “good music that talks about actual points”.
“I don’t assume any artist at this time can afford to not discuss this stuff,” he stated. “The artist, the mental, has to take accountability for the historic second we’re residing in”.
For Lozano and Barranco, the objective is to alter audiences’ views on what music can seem like.
Lozano says that when he performs certainly one of his peculiar devices, the thing is taken out of its context and it turns into nearly invisible as folks as an alternative give attention to the sound.
“If somebody closes their eyes, they cease seeing the thing and give attention to the music,” Lozano stated. “Meaning the thing is essential, however on the similar time it’s not essential. I'm nonetheless within the technique of understanding what meaning”.
“Music doesn’t should be one thing severe and strict and boring,” Barranco says. “It may be a enjoyable factor you are able to do with the issues which might be round you, the objects you have got in your own home”.
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