CCHK Salon: Athanasius Kircher: Music, Machines, and the Marvelous

This program frames Kircher as a catalyst for larger questions: how sound produces knowledge, how technologies shape creativity, how music acts on the mind and body, and how ideas circulate across disciplines, institutions, and geographies. A collaboration with Laurence Ferri, Curator of the pre-1800 Collections in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, it will include performances and lectures around fantastic instruments, algorithmic music, healing with music and its broader implications for the relationship between mind and body, and the concept of a mission.
Portrait from Mundus Subterraneus (1664)