Paulo Salmaci
Founder and director of Rádio Sucata.
Musician, music educator, researcher, music producer and luthier.
“People are enchanted when they are faced with a disposal object that produces sounds similar to those of conventional musical instruments. This is what happened to me, when I made the first instrument using materials that would go to waste”
Creation of musical instruments using typical disposal materials
Why build musical instruments?
The goal here is to find out to what extent materials considered garbage by society can produce musical sounds.
How are musical instruments made?
The basis of this process is the selection of materials, which cannot be used conventionally in traditional instruments, such as wood or leather.
Another point is that both materials and tools and techniques must be easily accessible.
The results?
You can check it below
VIDEOS
Know some of experiments
Surdo
Paper and brass barrel bass drums
Triângle
Instrument made of rebar (construction iron)
Snare drum
Paper barrel and radiography membrane
Chimes
Keys, caps and machine coffee capsules
Tamborim
Preserve can and pet bottle membrane
Ocean drum
Gallon of water, X-ray membrane and bearing balls
Can bass
Soda cans, pet bottles and preserve cans
Timbal
Traffic cone and radiography membrane
Congas
Tin drums with X-ray sheet membrane and baner
Guitar
Instrument with body of gallons of water and discs, broomstick arm and bicycle brake steel strings
Bongo
Tin drums with pet plastic membrane and plastic feed bag
Carrirola
Chime of keys and bottle caps, to be played with drumsticks
Vibraslap
Rebar and Tic-Tac packaging
Headless tambourine
Instrumento com corpo de lata de biscoito, braço de cabo de vassoura e cordas de cabo de aço de bicicleta
Xequere
Tambor de papelão com membrana de plástico pet de garrafa
Headed tambourine
Tambores graves de pvc, com membrana de chapa de radiografia e sacola plástica
Repique
Paint can and PET bottle plastic membrane
Berimbau
Made with pvc pipe, wire and pet bottle
Balafon
Ceramic keys and resonant cans
Rain stick
Cans, wires and stuffing of several different materials
Caxixi
Braided ribbons made from pet bottle and canning or mayonnaise cap
Balavaco
Instrument with biscuit can body, broomstick arm and bicycle brake steel cable
Tambores de jongo
Bass drums PVC with radiography plate membrane and plastic bag
Tubak
Paper tube with plastic bottle pet membrane
PHOTOS
Drums
The drums can have plastic, cans, paper or glass bodies, and plastic pet membranes or radiography plates
Rattles
Rattles of the most diverse models
Percussive keyboards
Percussive keyboards with glass or ceramic keys
Plucked strings
Bicycle brake wire rope instruments, with metrics extracted from conventional models
Others
Other miscellaneous categories
