Okay, I'm going to play the gourd horn for you.

Ready?

Yes.

That's the sound. That's a sound. That is a great sound. That is a great sound.

That's Graham O'D-Oterson on the Gord Horn.

Yes, the gored horn.

And if you're thinking, that cannot possibly be the sound coming from someone blowing into a round fleshy fruit,

you are about to have your mind blown by the immense and unbelievable versatility of the humble

gourd.

Okay, this is a, it's called a shaker ray. I'm Delantheuris and this is Atlas Obscira, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today we hear from Graham Addison, She's a Gord Whisperer.

She's also an Atlas Obscare instructor

for an online course called Gourds Gone Wild.

We are going to take a visit to her brainchild, Gordlandia.

It is a workshop and studio in Ithaca, New York,

and a place devoted entirely to the Gord.

Here, with Graham's Handiwork, gourds grow to be just about anything she believes

they can be, from lamps to clocks to jewelry to nearly enough gourd-based instruments to form a small gourd

orchestra. This is the Angoni to West African Harp where we we made this, but you know that traditional West African Harp.

When we come back, the story of Gordlandia. I first visited Graham back in 2019 and I walked with her through the

workshop and studio full of Gord I have to say it, full of gorgeous art. But for me, the most magical space

was the Gord Garden, the place where all of these fruits are grown and harvested,

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