Diego Stocco, The MacGyver Of Music, Makes Music From A Bonsai Plant

If there’s a MacGyver of music, it’s probably Diego Stocco.

Stocco’s a sound designer and composer who likes to explore new sound opportunities afforded by unusual instruments and non-instruments.

Give the guy a tree, a pile of sand or maybe a burning piano, and he’ll make music with it.

Here, he makes music from a bonsai plant:

To determine the key I used the lowest note I could play and recorded the rest around it. Besides playing the leaves, I used bows of different sizes, a piano hammer and a paint brush. As far as microphones I used my RΓΈde NT6, a customized stethoscope and tiny MEAS piezo transducers.

I played all the sounds and rhythms only with the bonsai, I didn’t use any synthesizer or samplers to create or modify the sounds. I hope you’ll like it

Check out Stocco’s page on Behance for more details!

12 thoughts on “Diego Stocco, The MacGyver Of Music, Makes Music From A Bonsai Plant

  1. @ AaA: Sure thing, it is clearly visible from the gesture of its root.

    Could somebody estimate Stocco's direction please? I mean first the burning piano, then this tree, maybe next time we can enjoy an experiment on a cat, then on a lovely baby…
    Anyway an examination on a cat could be funny. Just gently. πŸ™‚

  2. @ AaA: Sure thing, it is clearly visible from the gesture of its root.

    Could somebody estimate Stocco's direction please? I mean first the burning piano, then this tree, maybe next time we can enjoy an experiment on a cat, then on a lovely baby…
    Anyway an examination on a cat could be funny. Just gently. πŸ™‚

  3. @ AaA: Sure thing, it is clearly visible from the gesture of its root.

    Could somebody estimate Stocco's direction please? I mean first the burning piano, then this tree, maybe next time we can enjoy an experiment on a cat, then on a lovely baby…
    Anyway an examination on a cat could be funny. Just gently. πŸ™‚

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