One man's trash is a child's hope. A few years ago, music teacher Favio Chávez set up a music program for children living in Cateura, Paraguay, "a town essentially built on top of a landfill." "One ...

Few things sound sweeter to an Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI) member than people talking about recycling. For real music to their ears, however, recyclers need to tune into the ...

Shady Rabab, 27-year-old founder of the Garbage Music Band, uses garbage to make musical instruments at his workshop in Luxor, Egypt on Oct. 11, 2019. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) "Instruments are too ...

CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

While many music enthusiasts switch to better paying conventional careers, some take up mainstream music, and a few like Sirish Satyavolu pursue music technology and the art of building instruments.

These Florida teenagers entertain by playing handmade musical instruments. We try to encourage recycling, reuse and giving back to the community by playing classic hits from the ’60s and ’70s on ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Close your eyes and listen to Juan Manuel Chavez launch into the Prelude of Bach’s ...

In the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion, there is a village called Cateura built practically on top of the city's main landfill. Families eke out a living sorting through the trash and selling whatever ...

LUXOR, Egypt, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- "One man's trash is another man's treasure," said Shady Rabab, 27-year-old founder of the Garbage Music Band. "Music could come out of anything, even dismissed ...