Summary
The band built a course of over a thousand instruments in the desert, then drove a car past them with mechanical arms that struck each one to play the song. Every guitar, bottle, and pipe makes sound because something makes it vibrate. A playful gateway into how sound is made.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Every sound in this video comes from an object being hit, plucked, or struck.
- Pick one instrument in the video — what is vibrating to make its sound?
- How could you make a high sound and a low sound from the same object?
- What ordinary objects around you could become instruments?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: vibration, sound, pitch, instrument.
Try it: Find three objects that make sound when you tap them. Put them in order from lowest to highest pitch and tap out a short rhythm.