http://will.atlas.uiuc.edu/prairiefire/segment/pf2008-04-03-a WILL Public Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Series Segment Arts/Culture, Music, Champaign, WILL Custom Prairie Fire Subject Headings By producer Alison Davis Wood I first met Chad Dunn when I was producing a story on another band that he plays with called Desifinado. After talking to him, I quickly realized that Chad should be his own story for Prairie Fire. His talents include hand crafting instruments that are used by Sting and members of Paul Simon’s band, and he teaches Brazilian percussion to young and old. But Chad is also a lover of trash. He looks at old bottles and paint drums and hears music. What also is incredible is that he inspires others to do the same. Chad’s musical mission of keeping things out of landfills led to him forming Recycled Rhythms. The band is unlike anything you’ve seen before. It is part musical group, part perfomance art, part environmental activism. But most of all the band is fun to watch. You can’t help but move to the beat and maybe even join the band on stage with a pair of “dancing hands” (empty boxes with scrap paper attached). Chad’s vision for the future of the band is that Recycled Rhythms will do extensive workshops within communities across the country. The group would help organize a community “clean-up” with a local school. Then Chad would work with school children to turn the items collected into musical instruments. They would teach the kids how to play tradtional Brazilian rhythms on the new instruments. All the work would result in a performance between the school children and Recycled Rhythms after which the instruments would be donated to the school. I hope this story inspires people check out a performance of Recycled Rhythms or possibly make their own instruments. Maybe you will think twice before you throw something away ... there could be music in that old cereal box or coffee can. You just have to let it out!  Abstract Magazine PBCore Genre Picklist Is Part Of http://will.atlas.uiuc.edu/prairiefire/episode/pf2008-04-03 Illinois, Indiana Spatial Intermediate (grades 7-9)|High School (grades 10-12)|Primary (grades 1-6)|College|Post Graduate|General Education|General TV-G Alison Davis Wood Producer Julius Bolton, Brian Paris, Virginia Steffen Chief Camera - Segment WILL-TV, University of Illinois Copyright Holder Publisher © 2008 University of Illinois 2008-04-03T20:30:00-06:00 2008-04-03T20:30:00-06:00 video/x-pn-realvideo http://will.atlas.uiuc.edu/prairiefire/segment/pf2008-04-03-a Moving Image RealSystems Real Media 9 57794974 00:09:19 eng http://willmedia.will.uiuc.edu/ramgen/pf2008-04-03-a.rv WILL Public Media, University of Illinois 2008-04-03T20:30:00-06:00 2008-04-03T20:30:00-06:00 video/mp4 http://will.atlas.uiuc.edu/prairiefire/segment/pf2008-04-03-a Moving Image MPEG video MPEG-4 35134303 00:09:19 eng http://willmedia.atlas.uiuc.edu/mpeg4/pf2008-04-03-a.mp4 WILL Public Media, University of Illinois 2008-04-03T20:30:00-06:00 2008-04-03T20:30:00-06:00 video/x-flv http://will.atlas.uiuc.edu/prairiefire/segment/pf2008-04-03-a Moving Image Flash Video Flash Media 8 37127655 00:09:19 eng http://willmedia.atlas.uiuc.edu/flash/pf2008-04-03-a.flv WILL Public Media, University of Illinois