Your Culture Is Your Instrument | Daniel Custódio | TEDxVCU
TEDx Talks·2026-05-12 15:35
There's a story about a youth orchestra in Paraguay whose entire community is built on a landfill. A place where the sound of a violin shouldn't even exist. But the children do something extraordinary.They take the materials that the world throws away and turn them into instruments. A violin made from a rusted metal can. A cello made from scrap wood and aluminum. Percussion made from old buckets and bottle caps.Nothing about that environment says beauty should come out of it. And yet when the children begin ...