junk4funk: my music is rubbish!
The Nottingham-based music recycling company, junk4funk, has sustainability at the centre of its ethos and gives average household waste packaging new life as musical instruments. It seems that people are very willing to start thinking creatively about how else they can make use of things they usually throw away without a second thought - junk4funk has facilitated more than 300 Recycled Music Workshops throughout the country, in schools, at festivals, for council events, and organisations such as Fair Trade and Biffa. All over the country people are strumming their "green guitars"...
On 18th February junk4funk will be joining the festivities at Nottingham's Light Night - a festival of surreal light installations, music and activities. Commissioned through The Big Wheel in Nottingham, junk4funk will be contributing to the "Light Bikes" section of the evening's events, where the focus is on sustainable transport and energy production. Armed with woks, tin trays and assorted other recycled instruments junk4funk director, Victor Scott, will lead an outdoor performance to raise awareness on recycling and creativity.
Sitting along side various pedal-powered attractions in Nottingham’s recently developed Trinity Square, passers by will be able to discover, listen to, and maybe even join in with Victor's homemade musical instruments recycled from rubbish – throwaways that might otherwise be burnt or sent to landfill.
