Judy Dunaway, also known as “The Mother of Balloon Music,” is an experimental composer, conceptual artist, social activist, and noise enthusiast. She has created over thirty works using latex balloons as her instrument of choice!

One of my favorite pieces, “Surabaya,” can be heard below:

More balloon music
Through POPPING, squeezing, and rubbing, Judy has carved quite [...]

The Glass Duo is composed of Polish musicians Anna and Arkadiusz Szafraniec. Apparently they have built the largest glass harp in the world which covers four and a half octaves!

A beautiful glass harp melody entitled “Promenade” by the Glass Due:
Please enjoy several more recordings by the Glass Duo.

L’Atrapa-sons is a television program from the Tv3 network in Catalonia. Check em out..

From Wouter Baeck, an amazing musician, sculptor, painter, and musical instrument creator.
“An ancient instrument came to live. Based on a thin long straight bamboo reed tied up with a thread on a small bamboo mouth piece. Protected by a gourd. Double pipe made out of bamboo or elder wood, and always with [...]

iBand is a trio of techie musicians who play two iPhones and an iPod Touch (and occasionally a Nintendo DS).

Speaking of animal musicians, The Thai Elephant Orchestra is just that. Composed of up to sixteen elephants, this wild group of musicians perform human-guided musical improvisations on enormous xylophones, harmonicas, drums, gongs and other instruments.

The animation below is a 4 minute music video featuring The Thai Elephant Orchestra’s music and paintings.

“Temple Music” from the [...]