Voices of Clay
Instruments of the Ancient Americas
Saturday, September 26
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Towson Branch
Towson RoomTake an immersive, multisensory journey into the world of ancient sound through live demonstrations of instruments from the pre-Columbian Americas.
These performance-based demonstrations give an inspiring introduction to ancient instruments whose unique forms, scales and sounds provide a glimpse into the extraordinary cultures that created them. Learn about and experience the evocative sounds of little-known ceramic instruments like whistling bottles, polyphonic flutes, trumpets, whistles and rattles. Participants get to make music themselves with hand-built ceramic ocarinas.
Melissa Hyatt Foss is an instrument-maker, musician and composer-performer who co-creates with an ever-growing collection of instruments that she hand-crafts with clay. Her instruments reawaken ancient sound technologies through plant-, animal- and bird-inspired forms.
AGE GROUP: | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | History and Learning | Art, Music, Film and Culture |
TAGS: | Hispanic Heritage |
Towson Branch
Today's hours
We're open 9:00AM to 8:00PM
| Mon, Aug 17 | 9:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Tue, Aug 18 | 9:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Wed, Aug 19 | 9:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Thu, Aug 20 | 9:00AM to 8:00PM |
| Fri, Aug 21 | 9:00AM to 5:00PM |
| Sat, Aug 22 | 9:00AM to 5:00PM |
| Sun, Aug 23 | Closed |
| (CLOSED – No Sunday Hours) | |
- Appropriate accommodations for individuals with disabilities will be provided upon request. Notice of eight business days prior to the event is requested.
- For youth and family programs, children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.