Rock music has gone to the birds in a new exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. The sonic installation is the work of French artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot and features 70 zebra finches playing about a dozen electric guitars in a walk-through

P.E.M. Takes A Flight Of Fancy

Birds called Zebra Finches fly to and from an electric guitar at an art installation in the Barbican's Curve Gallery, London, on February 26, 2010. The installation is a walk through aviary in gallery space inhabited by 40 Zebra Finches, created by French artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot. The birds fly freely from bass guitars, guitars and cymbals as they feed and perch creating sounds as they move along the instruments which amplify the sounds through loudspeakers. AFP PHOTO/Carl de Souza (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images)