Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies
Hidden Sounds of the Americas
Conductor Alejandro Iglesias Rossi
Hidden Sounds of the Americas
Performance
Saturday, April 25th, 2026
7 p.m.
Wise County Performing Arts Center
at J.W. Adams Combined School
10824 Orby Cantrell Hwy, Pound, VA 24279
Tickets: $15 at the door
Children and students admitted free
W. Campbell Edmonds Concert Series
Lecture
Monday, April 27th, 2026
1 p.m.
Rhododendron Room, C. Bascom Slemp Student Center
The University of Virginia's College at Wise
1 College Avenue, Wise, VA 24293
Free and open to all
Co-sponsored by Virginia Humanities
Hailed by the international press as “a shamanic orchestra for a technological age,” the Argentina-based Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies recovers and gives artistic life to hundreds of forgotten native musical instruments.
Hidden Sounds of the Americas is a journey through the sonic geography from Alaska to Patagonia, blending traditional music and contemporary compositions that, through an immersive audiovisual experience, unite ancestral sounds to cutting-edge technology alongside indigenous masks and dances.
The concert features replicas of unknown pre-Columbian instruments recovered from archaeological museums as well as from indigenous communities in the Amazonas, the Andes, and Mesoamerica.
The lecture is designed as a didactic presentation that combines live demonstrations and interactive moments to engage students in an accessible and dynamic way. The orchestra will introduce pre-Hispanic instruments through short performances and explanations, discuss their relationship to ancient cultures of the Americas, and present how they integrate them with contemporary technologies. The presentation will also offer a clear and engaging overview of their work at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, linking music, research, and creativity. They will also connect this experience to their performance work, Hidden Sounds of the Americas, and to their documentary OIANT – Music for an Ancestral Future, helping students understand the broader context of the project. The lecture is co-sponsored by Virginia Humanities at UVA Wise.
This engagement of Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies is made possible in part through the Mid Atlantic Tours program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with Ibermúsicas.
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Pro-Art is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the C. Bascom Slemp Foundation, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, and Mountain Empire Community College.
