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The PROJECT
“All sounds can be turned into music.
Here is the new orchestra and here are its new musicians:
anyone with anything that can make a sound”
(R.M. Shafer, “The soundscape”, 1977)
Creative re-use of materials, world-jazz and traditional music in a unique and fascinating concept.
Three musicians playing a chair, a bicycle wheel, a surfboard with strings or a suitcase and marbles…music, ecology and creativity come together in a unique
and fascinating concept, raising awareness of sustainability in a show that has already surprised Spanish and Italian audiences.
A concert of world music and jazz where original compositions alternate with popular pieces from the Iberian peninsula, the Mediterranean and South America, transporting the audience on a journey of sounds and stories that come to life from the objects and materials from which the unusual instruments used are made.
photo by Carolina Kowarik
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WHO WE ARE
Rocco Papìa
7-string guitar, Reusonic Strings, vocal.
Founder of the group Jacaré, the duo Arduo and many other projects, Papìa is a multifaceted musician. In addition to being a composer, instrumentalist and singer, he is a designer of educational workshops and inventor of instruments made from recycled materials. A restless researcher, his aim is to combine his music with his passion for ecology.
Xavi Lozano
Reusonic and traditional winds, vocal.
Multi-instrumentalist in a variety of formations and projects (Coetus, Bufa&Sons, Eliseo Parra, Jorge Drexler...) he is a true reference in the insolite lutherie of winds. Advisor, presenter and collaborator in music education programmes on radio and television, he dedicates a large part of his work to research on how to build aerophones with all kinds of materials.
Antonio Sánchez Barranco
Reusonic and traditional percussion, vocal.
Eclectic percussionist, member and collaborator of groups such as Coetus, Silvia Pérez-Cruz, Maria del Mar Bonet, Miguel Poveda, Chicuelo and many others. Great connoisseur of traditional percussion and researcher of the world of percussion with everyday objects.
VIDEO
“La danse du bonheur”
(Shakti cover)
Live @ Posidonia Green Festival Barcelona 2019
Since the 70’s Shakti is one of the most interesting projects of encounter between Indian and Western musicians and this piece was too beautiful not to do it!
Reusonics instruments:
chair, reusonic percussion
“El Pescador”“
Live @ Cotignola Fest 2021 (Italia)
This traditional cumbia got caught in ORT’s atarraya and transformed into something else. This video comes from ORT’s Italian tour of summer 2021 that we did with the Italian musician Marco Zanotti on reusonic percussion.
Reusónic instruments :
Bottlephone, tubesax, reusonic percussion
participation of ORT at “The Weekly Mag” of La Xarxa Tv. Watch the whole show and interview en EN here.
‘Bom dia’ I wrote it in Brazil many years ago, then I brought it to Italy and it was called “Ben Svegliati”. When I arrived in Barcelona, it was called ‘Bom Dia’ again, sounding almost Catalan and closing the turn…
Reusonics instruments: coffee cups and plats, baloons, SurfStrings, Futbolín, Wheel and MicStand Flute, reusonicprecussions
“El Baile Entero”
(Xavi Lozano)
Live @ Barcelona 2020
Se puede componer hoy una musica “tradicional”? El Xavi lo hizo utilizando un hula hop ReuSónico! Grabado en directo en el ultimo concierto del 2020 “el baile entero” nos convida a seguir bailando…
Reusonics instruments:
Hula Hop, marbles, CajaGoma, Majadero, Reusonic Percussion
(L. Dalla cover)
Live @ Posidonia Green Festival Barcelona 2019
Una de las canciones mas intensas del artista boloñese: una reflexión sobre la historia del pensiero crítico. Puedes encontrar la traducción en castellano de la letra aquí.
Instrumentos reusónicos: Laterimbau, Vallansuri, Objetos Acuáticos
Reportage de FILDMEDIA (France) sobre ORT
Reportage realised for the French magazine FILDMEDIA by Francis Mateo and Niccoló Bruna.
FildMedia journalists have followed us through the whole process of making a very particular reusonic instrument: the SIRFTUR, made from a broken surfboard found in a rubbish dump near Barcelona… until we played it on stage!
Reusonics instruments: Surftur, PVC Flute, Reusonic precussions
Culture programme of the Catalan broadcaster BETEVÉ
The particularity of the artistic concept and the communicative power of the Orquesta ReuSónica – the environmental message, the unusual lutherie and the musical quality – have attracted the attention of several media, which have already dedicated reports to it:
reusonic instruments: many ;-)
(P. Daniele)
Live @ Barcelona 2020
‘…and the sea is always there, all dirty and full of rubbish, and nobody wants to look at it….’. A song in which the great Neapolitan singer-songwriter Pino Daniele uses the sea as a metaphor for society…or does he?
reusonic instruments : Micro-stand-Flute, reusonic percussions, lataphone
Episodes of 22 de maig de 2023
The RTVE crew came into our Barcelona workshop and followed us as we built a new reuonic instrument inspired by the traditional Moroccan Gimbri.
reusonic instruments : Flutewheel, reusonic percussions Rusonic Gembri
UPCOMING
| Data | Città | Sede dell'evento | Nazione |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21/06/25 | Madrid | Collado Mediano | Spain |
| Orario: 21:00. Restrizioni età: All Ages. | |||
ORT for SCHOOLS
The Orquestra Reusonica project is presented to schools offering two different and complementary proposals:
– Performative, with the eclectic ensemble ORT – Orquestra ReuSònica Trio in the show/concert “Music of the Unusual“.
The ORT concert can be performed in equipped spaces such as theaters, auditoriums, or concert halls, with no audience limit, as well as in smaller spaces with reduced audiences or even in semi-acoustic settings.
– Playful-creative, with the workshop for constructing musical instruments through the creative reuse of waste and everyday objects “New Sounds for a New World“
No prior musical knowledge is required. The recommended age is 8 years and up, to ensure adequate manual dexterity and a sufficient level of autonomy to perform the activities safely.
An integral, versatile project committed to musical quality, content, and methodology, developed by artists with extensive professional experience.
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