Landfill Harmonics: rethinking/reusing what we’re throwing away…

Transforming garbage into good-quality musical instruments – forget flying cars, this is the more relevant future. Thanks to Joseph Rowe for sending this my way. Joseph says of this sort of good news: “… most media (big or small), if they report it at all, class it condescendingly as ‘entertainment’ or ‘human interest. When will those with power and influence start to realize that art is not an ornament, nor a luxury, but a necessity of life?”

Author: Jon Lebkowsky

Co-wrangler of Plutopia News Network, cohost Radio Free Plutopia. Podcaster, writer, dharma observer, enzyme. Former editor/publisher, FringeWare Review; associate editor at bOING bOING and Factsheet Five; writer at Mondo 2000, 21C, Wired, Whole Earth Review, Austin Chronicle; sub-editor at Millennium Whole Earth Catalog; blogger at Worldchanging. Digital culture maven, podcaster, writer, dharma observer, enzyme. On The WELL, Cohost of VC (virtual communities), Media, and Civil War (.ind) conferences.