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Building streetstruments: paint-bucket-bass, drain-trombone and sewer-chimes

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First workshop: constructing streetstruments

Street art workshops at vesterbro facilitated by sound artist Casper Hernández Cordes
The street dressed for the streetstrument workshop

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Materials from the construction site are lined up according to their characteristics

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The participants are constructing streetstruments

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sewer chimes - street workshop at Vesterbro, Copenhagen, 2012, facilitated by sound artist casper hernández cordes

Second workshop: Collective improvisations on electrified streetstruments

Young people participating in building instruments from metro construction trash, at a street art festival at vesterbro, Copenhagen, 2012. Facilitated by sound artist Casper Hernández Cordes
Improvising using the paint bucket bass

After the workshops: The streetstruments are left in their street, inspiring passers by to make their own street improvisations

Musical instruments build from metro construction trash at street art festival in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, 2012. Facilitated by sound artist Casper Hernández Cordes.

Paint bucket bass and drain-trombone entrusted the passers by

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