In the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion, there is a village called Cateura built practically on top of the city’s main landfill. Families eke out a living sorting through the trash and selling whatever ...

Ken Butler is a Brooklyn-based artist and musician who has built over 400 musical instruments. But these aren't just any custom-built instruments. Butler builds his pieces from discarded items he ...

Shady Rabab, 27-year-old founder of the Garbage Music Band, uses garbage to make musical instruments at his workshop in Luxor, Egypt on Oct. 11, 2019. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) "Instruments are too ...

CATEURA, paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

North of San Francisco, a few dozen families flocked to a performance with instruments made from trash located at a dump. Anne Makovec has the story.

The members of Paraguay’s Cateura Orchestra of Recycled Instruments are no older than 20 years of age but these inventive musicians make their own instruments out of solid waste including cellos, ...

One man's trash is another man's trombone. An internationally-renowned orchestra from Cateura, Paraguay, that has played with the likes of Metallica brought the sweet sound of music to East Los ...

CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

The hills of Griffith Park are lush and green, and a wildflower superbloom is just a day-trip away, but down in the bed of the L.A. River, a different remnant of winter rains lingers: trash. Clinging ...

While many music enthusiasts switch to better paying conventional careers, some take up mainstream music, and a few like Sirish Satyavolu pursue music technology and the art of building instruments.

In the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion, there is a village called Cateura built practically on top of the city's main landfill. Families eke out a living sorting through the trash and selling whatever ...

LUXOR, Egypt, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- "One man's trash is another man's treasure," said Shady Rabab, 27-year-old founder of the Garbage Music Band. "Music could come out of anything, even dismissed ...