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The Potters Cast

She Makes Instruments Out Of Clay | Melissa Hyatt Foss | Episode 959

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Visual Arts, Arts, Careers, Business

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Hyatt Foss is an instrument-maker, musician, and educator. Melissa developed her career as a performer and teaching artist for 12 years in Argentina, and is now based in Baltimore where she continues to create projects exploring Pre-Colonial musical instruments of the Americas and their applications in contemporary art and music.

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0:00.0

This is the Potter's Cast.

0:02.0

A podcast home for Potters Everywhere.

0:05.4

It's a community of Potters dedicated to grow their business.

0:08.8

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

0:11.2

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

0:14.4

Hello and welcome to episode number 959 of The Potter's cast. I'm so stoked. We got a great show today. In fact,

0:24.8

we're going to do something that we've never done before in this episode, which I'm kind of

0:31.2

looking forward to doing, a little bit of shaking up going on here, a little bit of shaken up.

0:36.9

So I'm excited to be able to bring this

0:39.0

episode to you. This is Melissa Hyatt Foss. You'll hear me mess that up when I, you know,

0:46.7

I introduce her, but, you know, nonetheless, that's who we're talking to. And she lived for 12 years in Argentina, which is a huge chunk of her life,

1:02.3

huge chunk of a person's life.

1:03.9

You know, that's, you know, if you live to be 100, that's, that's 12% of your life.

1:10.8

So she was, she's been down there for a long time.

1:14.0

So she lived for 12 years down there in Argentina.

1:15.9

But she makes ceramic instruments, flutes, specifically kind of being patterned after ancient indigenous tribes to, you know, indigenous,

1:31.9

yeah, indigenous tribes. And she replicates them and has got a great story. So she's preserving

1:40.8

something that is quite amazing.

1:44.6

So this is what we've never done before.

1:47.6

When we get to the mud meets the bat round,

1:51.7

well, we do it a little bit before,

1:53.0

but really when we get to the mud meets the bat round,

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