Andy Thurlow has passed away March 2022. Luckily his work has made it into a Museum - the 10 Forward Museum in Green field MA - also check out the follow up 2nd documentary I made about his more recent musical inventions: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rLyEic2r08yrYHk.html

"Anyone can play these because there is no burden of expectation" This is why this guy is a legend.

I love his philosophy about people learning instruments that don’t have expectations behind them

I genuinely want to hear a full composition made with these instruments.

I immediately recognized the "instrument" at 0:55, the first "out of this world" instrument. It's an exhaust mixer for an internally bypassing turbofan engine. Most likely for a Pratt & Whitney JT8D, used on the MD80-88, B727, and B737-200.

sounds like post apocalyptic tribal instruments to me

These instruments are like the type of ideas we have while we're stoned but never follow thru with... It appears he's committed.

2:08 sounds absolutely fantastic!

"So if you just hand a person a guitar he'll say wow I can't play that but with these that doesn't happen because no one else has played them before and so they don't have that burden of expectation on them" That's a great idea.

I wish more people had access to unusual instruments! I wonder what children growing up with these instruments would make as adults.. so cool!

It takes so many years to understand a single note.and this man has innovated hundreds of instruments

"This one is DJ Flatus" "It sounds like farts!" Flatus: gas generated in the stomach or bowels

I think Tim Burton just found his music composer

His purpose behind making these instruments completely amazes me. Through his method of creating new instruments, he re-ignites people's curiosity.

I want to have a soundtrack made exclusively by these instruments

How fun! I can just imagine what this guy’s mother went through when he was a toddler - probably couldn’t keep him out of the pots and pans. Thanks for posting this.

I really like that Dron.

Tom Waits needs to go to this guy's shop and make an album.

Someone: Sleeping.... Their IPhone alarm: 4:09

Yeah! Over ten years ago, some of these instruments were set up at High Mayhem festival in Santa Fe, NM. I played them, and sampled some of them, unplugged during the day. But others played them at night in a giant jam at full levels of amplification and plenty of libations. A blast was had by all, as Andy has made it so ANYONE can partake in the joy of music-making.

John Malkovich spends his free time making fart noises, cool

If Frank Zappa was still alive he would immediatly invite this guy to come over and invent some things for him or he would go to the guy's workplace to start recording for a new album.

So incredible. I love the part where a group of people were invited to come in and play. Awesome.

Andy is flat-out brilliant! How I would love to go see and even play his works. Thanks for sharing this video.

Konami should contact this man for the soundtrack of their next Silent Hill.

I see this and my mind immediately goes to Mad Max. This is seriously like Post-apocalypse tribal rhythm-music. I don't care how high you were when you made these instruments, props for creating something truly unique and inspired.

Rest in peace Andy🙏 Thanks SH for showing us this unique and interesting man and his creations!

Beautiful , exotic and out of this world sounding music. Now we just need a worthy composer to write a symphony for these instruments.

Creator is Andy Thurlow. Read what he writes on his Anarchestra bandcamp page: "I price all of my music at $0.00, but Bandcamp only allows a limited number of free downloads per month. If you see a price it means that the free downloads have been used up for the month. If I set a price lower than the $7.00 default, there won’t be any free downloads ever. If there are more sales there end up being more free downloads. I’m not trying to get anybody to spend money (I loathe capitalism and the comercialzation of everything, especially the arts). I make music, not product. If you end up buying something, at least you have enabled 2 other people to get something for free (which is a good thing). Or check back until it’s free again. Please feel free to duplicate and pass along." What an awesome guy! I recommend everybody to listen to his music online anarchestra.bandcamp.com It's unexpectedly nice for my ears and mind.

This is nuts, and the names he gives to his instruments are beyond epic ahah! Hendecq, basok, sprymbal, kyzyl kym, I love that guy!

imagine being on acid in there

This man walks a fine line between madness and genius!

This guy would be perfect making sound effects for films with all that stuff.

Alot of these instruments sound like they could make a Zelda temple theme lol

Good job these are made from scratch it's obvious this man is smart

This is awesome, I don't have words to describe the feeling I got from these instruments and the idea behind of it - just try and play

If you're interested in handmade and experimental musical instruments, I'd suggest finding a copy of _Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones_ (and also the follow-up, _Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones_). It's a book/CD combo written by Bart Hopkin, the publisher of _Experimental Musical Instruments_ magazine and an avant-garde musician himself. This is not a plug, by the way. I picked up a copy of _Orbitones_ about 15 years ago at Harmony House because it caught my eye. It was great and kickstarted my interest in the subject.

get a team of musicians to work with all these instruments and u could probably create some of the greatest effects and emotional tones for movies, games, or anything

2:45 left speaker blow-out. Really cool video, thanks. The ending music sounds like background music for an old Twilight Zone episode.

Beautiful ingenuity! I love the new assortment of tones. It's energizing! Thanks for sharing your talents online. Blessings

2:07 I thought he was going to play Toxicity

I like his reason for creating these works of art. way to think out of the box

00:54 That one looks like a trimmed turbofan engine exhaust mixer, like the one in Rolls-Royce RB211 turbofan.

This is the most chaotic hippy ass thing I've ever seen, & I love it

great for horror/psychedelic or culture movies/sounds/music...

These are awesome. It's so amazing to think about how different we all are from each other and what we each are capable of with our different styles of creativity. There's a ton of undiscovered, beautiful talent among us.

Amazing

I've enjoyed creating such things too. My family has a power equipment business, so there is a lot of parts and materials, as well as the tools to create them. I also enjoy taking half assembled engines and playing the different parts of them to make one piece of percussive music. I enjoy fashioning metal like in this video too.

if i was making horror movies, i would definitely visit this guy

pretty sure this dude did a lot of drugs in the 70s

I would LOVE to go there and get this amazing experience! Putting this on my destination list.

Anything can be a musical instrument, you just have to play it in such a way that is pleasant to the ears

Sounds like a Primus song

What a genius! I initially felt inclined to call him a crackpot but after watching I totally get where he's coming from. He'd be great to work with for a film or something, I mean really - that's what he's doing. Like a lot of old films that couldn't digitize their audio, they'd come up with weird instruments like these to make the sounds needed. Really cool.

This man is a legend, I love him.

thank you special head for this great video

as a music producer this would be heaven when coming up with a sound/drum kit!

I'm glad that Malkovich is being so creative with his explorations beyond acting

That was the best vid I have seen in a long time, thanks

imagine combining some of those instruments as a band

1:24 sounds like some Zelda temple music.

So this is how it feels being John Malkovich....

2:07 That's actually how a sitar basically works.

Amazing! I would love to have some of those instruments. They would fit my music pretty well.

so this is how they make the soundtracks for the zelda games

where can i download the .mp3?

Some of these sounds reminded me of post apocalyptic video game soundtracks.

Studio recorder: hi, I heard that you are a very unusual musician, so I am here to record your work. This guy: plays Studio recorder: Da fuq Dey doin ova der

That thing at 2:05 sounds amazing. Like one of those Western cutaways themes

This is stuff you'd hear in a Tool song

Now I really want him to get a whole bunch of artists together and have them make music using only his instruments

I wish there was footage of all of Moondog's instruments. That man was a pioneer...and he did it all without sight.

some of those actually sound great!

the lead singer of tool needs to visit and work with this man.

Man, I was musical instrument inventor as a kid and did not even know it. Awesome!

We need some songs made with these instruments.

He looks like a homeless verison of John Malkovich. Awesome instruments tho

The Daisy, Dron, Sprymbal, Hendecq and Smelly Old Hary were my personal favorites. Great sounds coming from them. Also, though I'm sure these are prototypes and manufactured versions would be cleaner and shinier, I like the scrap-metal makeshift look of these instruments. It's like as if they were made for the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max. Keep up the good work.

Lots of really nifty percussion instruments, I'll say ! I loved the Dron, had a really sweet, unearthly tone. I like the modified kalimbas/mbiras.

I LOVE this. I really enjoy unique things.

I want to see a movie where the entire soundtrack is done using these instruments

@0:54 That's an exhaust mixer from a JT8D jet engine. Ironically, it's part of a "hush kit" retrofitted to the engines to make them quieter.

The instruments sounds like tinkering, and I like it. Give this guy 5000 years of building instruments and he’ll hand you a violin.

Thanks foro this video, that man is a genius of feeling the sounds

Very strange, but awesome :O sounds like horrormovie or other paranormal films =) really cool!

Very Tom Waits, very good

4:19 Instant remind of Age of Empires sound lol

lol all the negative comment. this musical instrument are better than computer music nowadays

Breaking bad on that sitar thing, I see you

These sound like the ost for machinarium or samorost

My left ear really enjoyed the narration

I fricken love this! This made my day

This guy reminds me of Panamarenko, the artist that was/is obsessed by aviation and flying objects and thought he would "invent" new aircrafts. All his work ended up in museums and are going for insane prices. I wouldn't be surprised if these instruments will end up in a museum as well. This is pure art. Make the investment now before it is too late! Were can I buy this?

I'd love to see some cheesy sci-fi soundtrack made with stuff like this :) That'd be sweet. Some Tatooine Cantina type thing.

The guy that made these is a genius. Seriously creative

literally unlocking the sounds of the universe that would never otherwise be discovered.

I could listen to that band play that grove all day

Sounds like something Tom Waits would talk over.

I love the musicians being let loose on the room of instruments

The line between genius and insanity is nonexistant