What's New?

• Check out the photos of the remarkable ceramic instruments from the exhibition "Mud to Music" curated by Barry Hall and Brian Ransom at the Bascom Art Center.
• From Mud to Music is in its third printing. Thanks to everyone who has made this possible!
• Check out the reviews at Amazon.com
• The Bascom Art Center is hosting “Mud to Music, an exhibition of ceramic musical instruments” from May-July 2010, curated by Barry Hall and Brian Ransom. Public concert by the Burnt Earth Ensemble and special guests on June 5.
• A xun (globular flute) by Barry Hall is featured in the latest issue of Flutist Quarterly Magazine and also on their website (the web feature will probably change in the future)
• The Burnt Earth Ensemble was featured in two public performances at "All Fired Up!" - a city-wide arts festival in New Rochelle, NY on October 25, 2008. Stay tuned for videos...
• Barry Hall presented music appreciation seminars and handbuilding workshops on ceramic musical instruments for the students of Fox Chapel High School in Pittsburgh on February 7, 2008.
• Burnt Earth's music is featured on podcasts from the Gardiner Museum and a green video documentary of the Solar Decathlon.
• Barry Hall and the Burnt Earth Ensemble provided a talk on ceramic musical instruments and a concert for the Still Mountain Center in Washington, CT on Nov. 3, 2007.
• From Mud to Music was reviewed in Percussive Notes, the Journal of the Percussive Arts Society, August 2007.
• The May/June 2007 issue of Clay Times magazine has a review of "From Mud to Music" (see the article here) and also a review/report on the "Sound of Earth" show at the Brookfield Craft Center (read it here).
• The June 2007 issue of American Style Magazine has a spotlight article about Barry Hall and "From Mud to Music" See the article here.
• Photos and report from "The Sound of Earth" and curator's talk.
• Newspaper article about "From Mud to Music" and "The Sound of Earth" exhibit.
• The Sound of Earth: Ceramic Musical Instruments - curated by Barry Hall - an exhibition at the Brookfield Craft Center in Brookfield CT from February 4 - March 18, 2007. Press release here. Curator's talk on Feb. 4.
• Musical Mud - an exhibit of ceramic musical instruments inspired by Barry Hall's book, is being presented at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, CA from July 8- Sept 2, 2006.
• Book signing event – May 20, 2006, 1:00-2:00 pm at Tatnuck Booksellers in Westborough, MA – Barry will be signing books and demonstrating ceramic musical instruments with other members of the Burnt Earth Ensemble
• The Westborough News ran this article about From Mud to Music.
• Pottery Making Illustrated Magazine’s May/June 2006 issue has two articles excerpted from the book “From Mud to Music” and also this review of the book.
• The Burnt Earth Ensemble CD “Terra Cotta” is now available for download on iTunes - or on CD here.