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 Ear Canal

Ear Canal is a sound sculpture made from the scorched remnants of rocket debris—metal and foam fragments once airborne, found adrift in the vastness of the northwestern China desert. These corroded forms carry the acrid scent of rocket fuel, altered by the physics of re-entry and impact. Inspired by the hollowed-out shells of spent and abandoned rockets and the haunting gusts of desert wind that funnel through them, the piece captures the eerie acoustics of collision. A custom sound composition made specifically for surface transducers mounted on the burnt rocket foam padding—travels through the debris itself, causing the fragments to hum, crackle, and vibrate as if remembering their own fall. The desert, a silent sea. It amplifies the resonance of these ruptured vessels with echos of drift and descent.