Melon Sprout is a Chicago-based artist who uses ceramic instruments to extend their body physically and sonically. Material and body become a tangible space for the ephemeral. Sharing the extension of self in functionality, viewers are encouraged to activate, interact with, and extend themselves physically and sonically in the form of ceramic music-making. The objects themselves, retaining physical traces of their original soft clay state, go through many transitions when released into the world. They are performed, climbed, spun, recorded, edited, and altered. The ceramic instruments become a conduit of reciprocity, generating an animated environment where feelings and ideas are free to exchange.