New York: Homemade Instrument Day
 | The mercury brushed 100 degrees on Sunday here in New York, but that didn’t seem to put much of a damper on Homemade Instrument Day at the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival. Abandoning air-conditioned comfort for an hour, camera in one hand and iced coffee in the other, I dashed over to the Plaza to see just what those crazy kids were up to. The photos tell it better than I could… |
 Joshua Fried gets the crowd going with a little toe-tapping groove (sorry, I couldn’t help myself). Despite the heat, Fried was looking pretty chill himself. |  The Gemueseorchester, the first (and only?) Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, makes new arguments for playing with your food. |
 Alyce Santoro shows off her “sonic fabric” woven from recycled audio tape. Make a suit out of the stuff and run a tape-head over it and you could play your own clothes. |  Plenty of opportunities for the kids to get in on the action, though they had to fight the adults who also wanted to play. |
 GuitarBot, just one of the creations to escape the studio of the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, fascinates the crowd. |  LEMUR founder and GuitarBot creator Eric Singer (in orange) explains how it all works. |
 Thomas Truax rocks the Plaza, performing with instruments built out of found objects and spare parts (such as his Sister Spinster, pictured behind him). |