Auscultation of a glacier, volcano, and human body, 2025

Interactive sensory installation

internal/external field recordings of glacier, volcano, & human body, silicone,

speakers, body pressed ceramic gravel, wood.

21” x 17”

What is a body? We may only explore the internal world of a body when it is in distress—when it is ill, when a glacier recedes, or when a volcano erupts. All bodies—whether land, water, human, or other beings—have their own unique internal sounds. I wonder: can we distinguish between bodies internal sounds? What about in disruption? Inside each fleshy sculpture, a sound composition plays field recordings I recorded of an erupting volcano in Iceland, the sounds of a glacier as it recedes into nothing, and the internal and external sounds of a human body being palpated in a doctor's chair. Each of these sounds are of a body; can you feel the inner/outer sonic worlds of a body? Can you sense the differences, or do we all vibrate the same?