• Suzanne Jacobs
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• January 9, 2016
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This guy started an e-waste band, and it’s actually amazing

You know what they say — when life gives you e-waste, start a band and make sick tunes with it. Together with his band Open Reel Ensemble, Japanese programmer and musician Ei Wada uses old projectors, cathode ray television sets, tape recorders, ventilation fans, discarded computers, and any other vintage tech with bizarre noise potential to make the kind of electronic music that would make a cyberpunk swoon. According to Motherboard, Wada’s interest in music began when he was four years old and attended a gamelan concert with his family. (The influence of gamelan, a traditional form of music from Indonesia, on electronica has been well-documented.) Here’s more from Motherboard: The memory stuck, and several years later, when Wada started tinkering with…