Make music, not trash!

All over the world humans leave their traces. Rubbish, litter and trash destroy the environment everywhere on the planet.

We want to make more than just watch.
We want to start to be creative and find new ideas how to re-use old material.

For this Gregor A. Mayrhofer created a concerto for
recycled percussion and symphonic orchestra 
dedicated to the young percussionist Vivi Vassileva

But its not only a concerto for big orchestras: Parts of the piece can be presented as solo pieces for example in schools or other education institutions. Like this we can start to inform our youngest about this urgent subject. We can show them how many solutions there are to re-use trash in a musical way and create our own recycling-orchestra …


Recycled Instruments

For this unusual composition we invented many new instruments out of
TRASH
All these percussion instruments where built of:

recycled MATERIALtrashplastic bottlesglass bottlesplastic foilscrown capscorksplastic capsmetal potsfrying panscoffee capsulesradiator grillstooth picssaw bladespaper clipstin canslamp shadesbicycle valvesflower potsdust pans

Our instruments:

Plastic bottle – Marimba

A complete marimba built of lemonade and water bottles?

Just put an old bicycle valve into the cap, fill them up with air. The air pressure lets you tune them to whatever pitch you want.

Our stand is built of wooden boards and drain pipes.

Click on the play button to see in the video, how we built it…

Glass bottle – vibraphone

For a brighter sparkling sound, have a few more sparkling drinks…! Fill the bottles with water to tune them and hang them up in a row.


See here our “glass bottlophone” made out of water bottles, beer bottles, wine bottles, liquer bottles and some old flower pots.

Marmelade glass- Shaker

You’d like to have a “sticky groove”?

Just fill glass of marmelade or pickles with crown caps, paper clips or rice.

Using different filling materials and different sizes of glasses or alternatively plastic bottles, you will get a huge variety of wonderful
jam-glass-caxixis and recycling-shakers.

Coffee capsule – chimes

Enjoyed your morning coffee? 

Keep the empty coffee capsules for an extraordinary, recycled chimes. 

All you need is a needle, a thread and a sieve! 

If you are not a coffee lover, you can also use crown caps or plastic bottle caps to create your own chimes with a great rustling sound. 

Performances

11.10.2024

Konzil, Konstanz

19:30 Uhr

Percussion: Vivi Vassileva
Direction: Gabriel Venzago

12.10.2024

Entsorgungsbetriebe Konstanz

18:00 Uhr

Percussion: Vivi Vassileva
Direction: Gabriel Venzago

13.10.2024

Graf-Burchard-Halle, Frickingen

19:30 Uhr

Percussion: Vivi Vassileva
Direction: Gabriel Venzago

15.10.2024

Milchwerk, Radolfzell

19:30 Uhr

Percussion: Vivi Vassileva
Direction: Gabriel Venzago

16.10.2024

Konzil, Konstanz

19:30 Uhr

Percussion: Vivi Vassileva
Direction: Gabriel Venzago

20.11.2024

Konzerthaus Freiburg

11:00 Uhr

Percussion: Vivi Vassileva
Direction: Gregor A. Mayrhofer

21.11.2024

Theaterhaus Stuttgart

11:00 Uhr

Percussion: Vivi Vassileva
Direction: Gregor A. Mayrhofer

07.02.2025

Theater Kerkrade

20:00 Uhr 

Percussion: Vivi Vassileva
Direction: Gregor A. Mayrhofer

08.02.2025

Chassé Theater Breda

20:30 Uhr 

Percussion: Vivi Vassileva
Direction: Gregor A. Mayrhofer

09.02.2025

Muziekgebouw Eindhoven

14:15 Uhr 

Percussion: Vivi Vassileva
Direction: Gregor A. Mayrhofer

08.05.2025

Theater Magdeburg

19:30 Uhr 

Percussion: Vivi Vassileva
Magdeburgische Philharmonie

09.05.2025

Theater Magdeburg

19:30 Uhr 

Percussion: Vivi Vassileva
Magdeburgische Philharmonie

26.05.2025

Staatstheater Braunschweig

20:00 Uhr 

Percussion: Vivi Vassileva
Direction: Gregor A. Mayrhofer

Past Performances

04.02.2022 world premiere in Weikersheim with Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
More concerts in Reutlingen, Coesfeld and Lahr

19.06.2022 English premiere with Britten Sinfonia at Aldeburgh Festival 
21.09.2022 Austrian premiere
with konsTellation plus at Klangspuren Schwaz Festival 
31.03.2023 Dutch premiere with Residentie Orkest in den Haag 
10.05.2023 Münchner Symphoniker at Prinzregententheater
09.09.2023 Dresden Philharmonie 
23.09.2023 Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Oslo 
08. / 09.11.2023 hr-Sinfonieorchester in Frankfurt
28. / 29. / 30.09.2024 Musikkollegium Winterthur
15.09.2024  Robert Schuman Philharmonie at Theater Chemnitz
21.09.2024  Sinfonietta Riga, Latvia 

Live Performance with Britten Sinfonia 

Reviews

Meet the artists

Gregor A. Mayrhofer

The composer, conductor and pianist
Gregor A. Mayrhofer was assistant conductor of Sir Simon Rattle and Kirill Petrenko at the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a conductor and composer he worked with many internationally renowned ensembles such as SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Bavarian State Opera, Ensemble Intercontemporain and soloists like Daniil Trifonov and Patricia Kopathinskaja.

Vivi Vassileva

The young bulgarian percussionist Vivi Vassileva is one of the upcoming stars among the percussion players.

She played as a soloist with many orchestras, such as Hofer Symphoniker, Symphonieorchester Wuppertal, Nürnberger Symphoniker and is performing in different smaller ensembles.

She had her debut in the Berlin Philharmony with her percussion quartett.

Photos

Photos by Lucas Campara, Magdalena Zieba-Schwind, Urban Ruth, Adriana Yankulova, Reiner Pfisterer and Marcus Roth 

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Connect

All over the world the idea of a sustainable way of life connects people.
See how recycling triggers the creativity of so many people and how other artists created new ideas, projects and concepts out of recycled material:

Der Priester auf dem Müll 
– eine Reportage von den Philippinen – 

Ein Film vom Max Kronawitter

Weapons to Instruments

See how Nicola Makaru builds music instruments out of old weapons

Recycling Orchestra

Discover how Favio Chavez and his Recycling Orchestra in Paraguay built their instruments

Karen Lu – The Vigil of debris

An event to “mourn” disposed and forgotten debris that will continue to exist as a reminder of us

Büro für Weltgestaltung

German artist and stage designer Christoph Gehre founds a new office to connect sustainable creative ideas

Recycling Art

See a collection on pinterest of recycled art:

Kunst-Stoffe

Central colletion of reusable material Berlin

Zentrum für Zirkul@re Kunst

Platform for artists including a competition for upcycling art.

Lübzer Kunstspeicher

Upcycling, exhibitions and accomodation in an upcycled storage building

Contact


You want to hear our Recycling Concerto in a live performance?

Or you have other ideas of new artistic projects to connect the recycling idea with arts?

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    Management Vivi Vassileva worldwide

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