Diego Stocco has made music from sand, from a three, has recorded a burning piano, and made lots of custom and crazy instruments by himself. His work combines sound design and music scoring, along with experimentation with real world objects and environments.
A great example of that is his last video, where he shows the elements he recorded in order to get interesting sources for designing the sound signature of DTS Inc.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/22975181[/vimeo]
More of Diego’s work at Behance. I also recommend you this two-part episode of Sound Builders.
This. This is insane. Evil genius level insane.
Wow that’s pretty amazing.
Ahh, love it!