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 …

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…

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.

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.

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. 

Britten Sinfonia 
Snape Maltings Concert Hall 19.06.2022 / Aldeburgh Music Festival 2022