The Car Music Project

The Car Music Project was first created after the car of Bill Milbrodt, the creator of the project, had reached 200,000 miles. His 1982 Honda Accord has reached the end of its life. The car had no value if traded in due to its faded paint, ripped upholstery, dripping oil, loud noises, blowing of smoke, and lack of knobs and handles. "It was time to turn the car into music," said Milbrodt.

Over the next 18 months metal sculptor Ray Faunce III turned the old car parts into interesting instruments. Milbrodt's team of musicians, an engineer, a glass cutter, a physicist, and a metal fabricator guided Faunce in the creation of the instruments. Instruments representing the four traditional families of the traditional orchestra: strings, brass, winds, and percussion. The next step was to learn about the instruments.


Here are pictures of some of the instruments

The Percarsion (the full thing is made up of about 55 instruments):



The Tank Bass:




The Exhaustaphone:


The Strutbone:


The Air Guitar:

(Milbrodt playing the Air Guitar)


Tube Flutes:


The Door Guitar:


The Fender Bass:


The SST:


The Group:



Milbrodt and his team were recently hired to make instruments out of a Ford for a 2008 Ford Focus commercial in Europe. Craig Richey composed the music for the commercial. The full performance for the song in the commercial is shown below:



For more information visit http://carmusicproject.com/


Later days,
A-fox