MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 30/01/2025 - 30/01/2025
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00:00Music
00:30Welcome to Mediane TV, in the direction of Paraguay,
00:33in this chroniculture where a Paraguayan orchestra
00:36transforms the waste of a landfill into music.
00:39Surrounded by the opulence of the Lancaster House in London,
00:43this young orchestra arrives on stage to play music
00:47and use instruments made from waste,
00:51all collected in the largest landfill in the Paraguayan capital, Asuncion.
00:57The motto of the Orchestra of Recycled Instruments of Cautera
01:01is that you send us your waste, we send you music.
01:05And it all started in 2006,
01:07when the environmental technicians at the disposal of Cautera,
01:10Fabio Chavez, proposed to the children of the recyclers
01:14the disposal of their teachers of music.
01:16And to make accessible the practice of music to the greatest number of them,
01:20the instruments became essential.
01:23Nicolas Gomez, a municipal employee of the so-called disposal,
01:26then imagined the manufacture of musical instruments
01:29by recycling waste collected on the site of the disposal.
01:34I suggest you listen to Fabio Chavez,
01:37he became the director of the Recycled Orchestra of Cautera.
01:45The project of the Recycled Instruments Orchestra
01:48was born 18 years ago in Cautera, the disposal of Asuncion,
01:52with the idea that culture is a fundamental need for all,
01:55including for these children who live in conditions of extreme vulnerability
02:00and risk social exclusion.
02:02In this community, of course, the essential thing is the recycling of waste,
02:06and we have therefore used this principle to make musical instruments
02:10in order to allow these children to learn music.
02:14During these 18 years, we have managed to set up a music school
02:19and to create an orchestra with these recycled instruments.
02:22This has attracted the attention of the whole world,
02:25not only because of the originality of the instruments,
02:28but also because of the talent and skill of these young people
02:31and their children to transform waste into music.
02:38Instruments made of bricks and blocks,
02:41a drum kit made with a medical radio,
02:44trumpet pistons designed from coins,
02:48or a cello made from an oil can.
02:50These instruments form a real orchestra known all over the world.
02:5425 young musicians from a city
02:57where the only way to get by is to make trash.
03:00We are now part of it.
03:02The Cautera Orchestra is a magnificent project
03:05of social and sustainable development.
03:08I suggest you listen to William Wilson Lopez,
03:11he is the luthier of the orchestra,
03:13and we listen to Fabio Chavez, who is the director.
03:17Fabio Chavez was my first guitar teacher,
03:20and then I studied the violin.
03:22He opened the doors to me,
03:24he told me almost from the beginning
03:26that he had an important project
03:28that would allow children to realize their dreams in music.
03:31And I said, it's fantastic,
03:33I'm going with all my heart.
03:35We made music and prepared the instruments,
03:38but we would never have thought
03:40that it would create a bridge that would take us so far.
03:43The beneficiaries learn practically from scratch with us,
03:46most of them,
03:48then they gain their place in the orchestra, of course,
03:51by producing locally,
03:53first in Paraguay,
03:55in the community of which they are original,
03:58then they apply to form the orchestra
04:01and tour the whole world.
04:03The orchestra now has about 60 members
04:06and 450 people who participate.
04:09Gradually, many RIVRA members joined the project.
04:12This is how the Orchestra of Recycled Instruments in Cautera was formed.
04:16Today, the training includes more than 35 musicians,
04:19meeting a large success.
04:21It has already taken place in Brazil,
04:23Colombia, and in all the major venues in Latin America.
04:26A documentary by the Latin American director,
04:29Fabio Chavez,
04:31is already in the works,
04:33and we are very proud of it.
04:35and in all the major venues in Latin America.
04:38A documentary, The Landfill Harmonic,
04:40funded by Internet users,
04:42tells this adventure from instrument to instrument.
04:45In a few years, concerts have multiplied
04:48and the Orchestra of Recycled Instruments
04:50now plays in front of crowned heads,
04:53UN personalities,
04:55and in the first part of rock concerts in 2018,
04:58it has held 14 tours around the world.
05:01We listen again to Fabio Chavez,
05:03the director of the orchestra.
05:10At the same time, we have a luthier's workshop,
05:13where the main luthier is Wilson,
05:15who plays the double bass
05:17and creates the recycled instruments
05:19based on the models and sizes
05:21that we have developed over the years.
05:23He makes violins, altos, and cellos.
05:26In fact, we inaugurated the double bass
05:29during this tour.
05:31It is a new double bass,
05:33a new model, if you will,
05:35and according to the needs of the orchestra,
05:37we are also developing other instruments
05:39with the help of other people,
05:41like Tito Romero,
05:43who makes instruments before us.
05:45You have to understand that everything that vibrates
05:47produces a sound,
05:49and that every sound is a vibration.
05:51Thus, all these elements that vibrate,
05:53the cans, the oil cans, the paint cans,
05:55the fuel cans, the drums,
05:57the membranes for the percussions,
05:59for example, the X-ray sheets and others,
06:01or the water pipes,
06:03all these elements
06:05are added to the different types of instruments
06:07that we will need.
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