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Watch Sound Designer Diego Stocco Build a 'Mad Max'-Style Bass With Pipes

A special rebroadcast of episode two of the first season of Sound Builders, our show about noise.

Listen up: We're running a special rebroadcast of the first season of Sound Builders, our show about noise (and the people rethinking how to make it), all week on Motherboard. We hope it tides you over until the forthcoming season of Sound Builders, which you can catch on Motherboard next month.

First, here's Italian sound designer Diego Stocco. Perhaps best known for sonifying the elements—trees, dirt, sand—in lieu of tapping conventional electronics, Stocco creates otherwise listenable compositions that many "professional" musicians would perhaps dismiss as mere trifles. He invited us out to LA way back in 2010 because he'd decided to make a new kind of instrument. We tagged along as he gathered supplies, built the thing in his backyard , and finally (not before a pasta break), sound checked his Mad Max-looking bass-like invention.

Stay tuned for the premiere of Sound Builders season two right here on Motherboard.