Diego Stocco makes music with the help of Mother Nature
What do oranges, nuts and bark have in common? They all can make incredible music.
To commemorate Earth Day this year, Burt's Bees teamed up with composer Diego Stocco to celebrate Mother Nature in all her glory.
As it says in the video's description, "All the sounds you hear in this piece were created [in] real-time using instruments provided by Mother Nature herself."
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Stocco writes on his website that he created the video without the addition of any synthesizers or samplers and only relied on natural elements.
To create the melody and other tonal components, the composer constructed a custom-made double bass bow and attached a tiny microphone to it. He then played a small orange tree and pinched twigs in a variety of ways to create sound.
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He also used things like orange peels, a coconut, almonds and empty Burt's Bees containers to mimic a low bass drum and a variety of tonal percussive sounds, which he amplified using contact and finger microphones. A bumblebee even makes an appearance for buzzing solo!
One of the coolest inventions that Stocco used when making this video is his customized stethoscope with an attached microphone. We first saw this technique used when he released his video, "Music from a Tree" in 2009 and says on his website that he uses it to "allow [him to] turn tiny sounds into larger ones."
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