Music from rubbish

[tWITCH]

Hello all

I just have to share this with you.

I met my sister in town for a coffee, just before we planned to go bird watching, so luckly I had my camera with me. As we walked though the centre of town we heard music, I was amazed to see what was producing it. I think they might be part of WEAPONS OF SOUND.

What a fantastic idea.

[Hedge Witch]

Very inventive way to produce music.

Pity we can't hear the sound they made - was it good?

[tWITCH]

There is a website for Weapons of Sound and from the look of some of the photos on the site they may be the same musicians.

Weapons Of Sound - Junk Band Extravaganza!

There are sound clips on there.

[Hedge Witch]

Wow - that's excellent

[Dutchess]

Saw something like this on Blue Peter years ago. The music they make is rhythmic, earthy and tribal if I recall correctly. Just my sort of stuff! Makes me want to get and and move...

D.

[diggleken]

Just to go off track a little - a few years ago on Islay in Scotland, in the middle of nowhere, there was a strange moaning but musical noise, quite scary.(no it wasnt the whisky).
Thought it might be an injured animal, but tracked it to a gatepost, which had some holes in it.
The noise was being made like blowing in a bottle, cos it was quite windy! It made its own symphony and now we knew what it was , was then really good to listen to. Free too.
The weird thing was, there were orange sheep in the field too (a local jape for Islay festival that year).
PS Dutchess - I liked your Dutch pic best.
Cheers
Ken

[Dutchess]

lol! Ken! Do you expect us, in all honesty, to believe you met a singing gatepost, quickly followed by a sighting of orange sheep? You'll be telling us you shot a wild haggis next

I believe you really, lol. It's easy to see how myths and legends of wailing spooks and the like develop when nature plays tricks like that.

And thanks, but am a bit confused as to which Dutch pic you mean...have pm'd you

D.

[seamusagleann]

the orange sheep would be a tup (male). it's a thing called lumidip,it shows the shepherd ,at a glance where it is,and how close it is to the ewes,so that after nature takes its course there are lambs next year

[Hedge Witch]

Reminds me of the red sheep in the news lately:

Drivers see red as farmer dyes flock to beat tailback blues - Scotsman.com News

They're supposed to cheer the motorists up, but I reckon it's going to cause a crash sooner or later

[diggleken]

Originally Posted by seamusagleann

the orange sheep would be a tup (male). it's a thing called lumidip,it shows the shepherd ,at a glance where it is,and how close it is to the ewes,so that after nature takes its course there are lambs next year

Hi Seamus - aye, I know, we see it here a lot, I prefer red (for the sheep that is, not us humans) - what this guy was doing was messing about for fun so the american whisky tourists would gawp! All the flock were orange!
Ken