Director Víctor Gil and Luthier Fernando Soler have dedicated their time to teaching youths from one of the poorest areas of Madrid to play instruments that Soler has crafted using recycled trash.

Young musicians from South America are going from the slums to the biggest stages of classical music by turning trash into melody. The group is tuning up for a concert in the Valley this summer.

Dendê Macêdo plays a berimbau made from a broom, a bell, a coconut and a spring during a performance of his Recycled Sounds workshop at St. Edmond’s Home for Children. Dendê Macêdo drove his silver ...

UA students displayed their engineering innovations Friday afternoon as they presented instruments they designed and created entirely out of scrap metal to a group of about 30 onlookers outside the ...

The Orquesta de Intstrumentos Reciclados de Cateura, or Recycled Orchestra, the Cateura, Paraguay-founded youth orchestra who perform with instruments made from recycled materials, performed at the ...

OMAHA - Tavionne Turner grabbed a pair of chopsticks and began banging on junk. His instrument was a mishmash of scrap - cardboard tubes, old metal cans, string, duct tape, feathers and beads - ...