{"id":49628,"date":"2025-10-03T03:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/documentary-profiles-young-musicians-from-paraguay-turning-trash-into-music\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:05:56","slug":"documentary-profiles-young-musicians-from-paraguay-turning-trash-into-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/documentary-profiles-young-musicians-from-paraguay-turning-trash-into-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary profiles young musicians from Paraguay, turning trash into music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-vimeo-video embed--float-left embed--size-medium embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/52711779\" data-optanon-category=\"social\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/videos\/52711779\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Landfill Harmonic<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/landfillharmonicmovie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Landfill Harmonic<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vimeo<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A group of young musicians in&#13;<br \/>\nParaguay live in a village formed from a municipal landfill. Its residents used&#13;<br \/>\nto be known as trash pickers, but today, they\u2019re known for the\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/recyclers-from-trash-comes-triumph-2\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">incredible music<\/a><\/span> they make. <\/p>\n<p>At first glance, there\u2019s nothing unusual about the&#13;<br \/>\nensemble\u2019s&#13;<br \/>\nwarmup session when they tune their instruments, until you get a closer look at&#13;<br \/>\nwhat exactly they\u2019re&#13;<br \/>\nplaying, reports\u00a0Vladimir Duthiers of CBS News\u2019 digital network, CBSN.<\/p>\n<p>What looks like a\u00a0Stradivarius\u00a0is&#13;<br \/>\nactually a violin\u00a0created from a fork, paint can and baking tray. A flute is&#13;<br \/>\nmade up of discarded pipes,\u00a0keys, coins and caps, and an electric guitar out of&#13;<br \/>\na wax tin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0instruments are made entirely of trash.<br \/>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2016\/09\/27\/d2011b71-f373-46f9-8756-9c690487ddd5\/thumbnail\/620x413\/c7198883cf83c1c371ce7d459608bf9b\/img-3471-recycled-violins.jpg#\" alt=\"img-3471-recycled-violins.jpg \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2016\/09\/27\/d2011b71-f373-46f9-8756-9c690487ddd5\/thumbnail\/620x413\/c7198883cf83c1c371ce7d459608bf9b\/img-3471-recycled-violins.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2016\/09\/27\/d2011b71-f373-46f9-8756-9c690487ddd5\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/30cf2f1724c3d592cebd852e82b4afde\/img-3471-recycled-violins.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Violins made of landfill trash\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Meetai Films, &#8220;Landfill Harmonic&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\nyoung musicians from the impoverished country form the recycled orchestra. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDescribe for me what it\u2019s like to play with the orchestra,\u201d Duthiers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people are dying to play with us. And the truth is\u00a0it\u2019s a very beautiful thing that has no price,\u201d said one musician.<\/p>\n<p>When we met them recently in New York City, they were more than 4,500 miles from their home in Cateura, a small village built around a landfill on the outskirts of Paraguay\u2019s capital city,\u00a0Asunci\u00f3n.\u00a0Garbage provides a livelihood for many of the 2,500 families who live there. They sift through the mounds looking for stuff to sell.<\/p>\n<p>Former environmental technician Favio Chavez came up with the idea to make music in the junkyard. He gives lessons for free to any child looking to escape the misery of poverty. He said music is a basic necessity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause culture is very important, it\u2019s as important as eating,\u201d Chavez said. \u201cCulture is as important as having a home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A local carpenter named Don Cola Gomez picks through the trash heap for the raw materials to make the\u00a0instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Sisters Ada and Noelia Rios were among the music school\u2019s first students, where 70 kids now\u00a0study music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2016\/09\/27\/2efad878-17c3-4ef1-9a46-c214ccb6f8a9\/thumbnail\/620x387\/6fac2e7353c18732daefdf157ae16815\/childrens-big.png#\" alt=\"childrens-big.png \" height=\"387\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2016\/09\/27\/2efad878-17c3-4ef1-9a46-c214ccb6f8a9\/thumbnail\/620x387\/6fac2e7353c18732daefdf157ae16815\/childrens-big.png 1x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Musicians of the Recycled Orchestra \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Meetai Films, &#8220;Landfill Harmonic&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is that at first, people would make fun of us because we didn\u2019t have instruments and now they\u2019ve realized that thanks to the orchestra, us or any other child can change his or her life through music,\u201d Noelia said.<\/p>\n<p>The sisters\u2019 grandmother, Miran, enrolled them in the music lessons. She grew up listening to the Beatles and dreamed of becoming a singer. Now, her granddaughters play John Lennon\u2019s \u201cImagine\u201d at the United Nations in New York.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-vimeo-video embed--float-left embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/52711779\" data-optanon-category=\"social\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/videos\/52711779\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Landfill Harmonic<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/landfillharmonicmovie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Landfill Harmonic<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vimeo<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNow my main objective and biggest dream as a family is that I am able to become a professional musician and to help children who want to grow in the community,\u201d Ada said.<\/p>\n<p>That dream is coming true, largely thanks to a documentary about the orchestra, called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/landfillharmonic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Landfill Harmonic<\/a>.\u201d In 2012, the producers posted a teaser on YouTube, which reverberated around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never thought that we would get the response that we had. We were already inspired by this story but this really pushed us and pushed the orchestra even more,\u201d said Alejandra Amarilla, the documentary\u2019s\u00a0founder and executive producer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are helping to tell their story to the world and it\u2019s a privilege,\u201d said Juliana Penaranda-Loftus, producer and co-director of the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The orchestra is receiving invitations to perform at music halls across the globe, even playing with the kids\u2019 rock idol Megadeth in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s been the most surprising thing for you in watching the children over the last six years?\u201d Duthiers asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most surprising thing I\u2019ve seen in these children is the change in their eyes &#8212; from living in hopelessness to living in hope of a better future,\u201d Chavez said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLandfill Harmonic\u201d is currently playing in Los Angeles and several other cities around the world. 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