Hidden Sounds at the Peabody

Join us to explore the Peabody's holdings of whistling bottles, enigmatic vessels capable of producing sound through water. Take a close look at their intricate acoustic systems as ISM fellow Felipe Ledesma Núñez discusses the discovery of the only known archival record of their ancient use. Visitors will have the opportunity to touch and sound modern replicas of these extraordinary sonorous ceramics.

Felipe Ledesma Núñez is an Ecuadorian sculptor and historian of sound whose work engages the Andean colonial archive and its sonic traces through the creation of ceramic sound artifacts. Ledesma earned a PhD in musicology from Harvard University and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Refreshments to follow.