Sustainable holidays and musical instruments
Written by Solar Power Roadshow
on 2 January, 2007
I though a bit and came up with ideas on how to recycle some trash into educational materials for students, and will get students to do this. Here's a link to photos of sustainable music during the Christmas holidays:
http://musical-pipes.blogspot.com/
http://sustainable-factory.blogspot.com/
UPDATE: Workshops on using recycled materials into homemade musical instruments will run in North Vancouver this year. It's called Sustainable Music Factory.
Parents can respond to the
Parents can respond to the GVRD's Zero-Waste initiative, by enrolling their kids from ages 7-14 at the Sustainable Music Factory workshops. Kids from 7-12 learn how manufacture tuned musical instruments, from recycled materials, using digital orchestral-tuning devices, powered by earth-friendlier, revived batteries. After making their artistic/creative fully-tuned instruments, which operate over the diatonic scale, they will perform a concert using their own instruments, with either comical or classical flair. Solar-powered stress meters will be used before and after the concert. 604-739-7717,http://musical-pipes.blogspot.com/
"Anybody Can Make Energy" is what we demonstrate in a fun way to kids from 6 to 60