Linsey Pollack: you can expect the unexpected

By Luciano Mattos


Linsey Pollack is an Australian musician, but, principally, he is the inventor of uncommon wind instruments. He constructs instruments inspired mainly on bagpipes from Eastern Europe- called Gaidas in Macedonia, where he lived for eight months during the 1970s. But what is particularly novel is that the instruments are disposable, made of anything you might imagine: carrots, cans, boxes, chairs, from brooms to rubber gloves. His presentations overcome language and cultural barriers.

Linsey Pollack is a multifaceted artist, a musician, performer, musical director, composer and an inventor of instruments and, in the last 20 years, participated in the largest festivals in Australia, Europe, Korea, Hong Kong and the United States, and recorded 21 albums.

He plays several types of wind instruments including Macedonian bagpipes (“gaidas”) and others invented by him (“Sakfoonki”), some made of glass and wood (“Rosella” and “corvo”).