Voices of Clay

Take 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.