Composing orchestral music takes a lot of skill. So does building and customizing instruments.
And of course, you'd have to be impressed by a single person who can play every instrument in an orchestra.
Well, in the video at the top of this post, one guy does all those things: musician and sound artist Diego Stocco's latest project is called 'Custom Built Orchestra.'
To create the video, he built or modified nearly a dozen custom instruments and then shot footage of himself playing all the parts of a composition he wrote.
As you might imagine, music is Stocco's life. On his website, he talks about how his parents bought him a keyboard when he was six "to calm him down," and how it had the opposite effect.
Since then, he's become a sought-after performer - he was a featured soloist on the score for 'Sherlock Holmes' and two 'Assassin's Creed' games, and he's worked as a music sound designer on lots of TV shows.
And this isn't the first experimental video he's made. Check out 'Music From A Tree' and 'Music From A Dry Cleaner' to see more of his creative work.
As for the 'Custom Built Orchestra,' he wants you to know that no usable instruments were harmed. On his website, he stresses that he only uses "parts that come from instruments with structural damages, making them unusable in a traditional sense."
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