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See the human body morph into musical instruments from around the world at a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A new exhibition that opened this week at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art puts 4,000 years of human music-making ...
Los Angeles Times

The concert was at a hospital. The instrument was the human body

Come out for an evening of refreshments and entertainment — at a hospital. The invitation came from the Pasadena organization Muse/ique, which organized a concert titled “Human Instrument” at the ...
The New York Times

Why People Sound Like Instruments, and Instruments Look Like People

“Musical Bodies,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, revels in the blurry boundaries between humans and instruments. By Joshua Barone Visuals by Ye Fan Clap your hands. Tap a foot.
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Strange instruments made from human bones found in prehistoric Texas

A mysterious group of prehistoric hunter-gatherers who once inhabited the southern Texas coast may have created music in a hauntingly unconventional way—by transforming human bones into instruments.