People making music usually look to modern instruments and technology to produce their sounds.

After all, you wouldn't find a drum and bass artist recording a track by tapping his fingers really fast on a piece of wood, sampling the noise and then edit the end product into an audio program.

Musicians spend vast amounts of money on guitar pedals, pieces of software and other instruments. We haven't really covered many people who aim to create genuinely fresh sounds. A Cuckoo uses beaten-up instruments and objects of fascination as tools of inspiration to create his old-fashioned sound.