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
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
11. / 12. / 13./ 15./ 16.10.2024 Bodensee Philharmonie
20. /21.11.2024
SWR Symphonieorchester in Freiburg and Stuttgart
07.–09.02.2025 PhilZuid at Theater Kerkrade, Chassé Theater Breda, Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, Netherlands
10.–14.03.2025 SWR Symphonieorchester, Studioaufnahmen
02.04.2025 Musiker*innen der Hochschule für Musik Basel (Pfandflaschenkadenz)
08. / 09.05.2025 Magdeburgische Philharmonie at Theater Magdeburg
26.+27.05.2025 Staatsorchester Braunschweig at Staatstheater Braunschweig
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
For download click right and select “safe target as…”
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
www.youtube.com
Karen Lu – The Vigil of debris
An event to “mourn” disposed and forgotten debris that will continue to exist as a reminder of us
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?
Send us a message here:
Gregor A. Mayrhofer is represented worldwide as a conductor with
Keynote Artist Management
Libby Abrahams (Managing Director)
Mobil: +44 7950 150601
Email:
libby@keynoteartistmanagement.com
80-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE
https://keynoteartistmanagement.co
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