The listening walk explores how sound shapes the identity of our surroundings. It asks how we, as humans—being part of sound ourselves—relate to the larger sonic world around us. Twenty walkers move through the city, each carrying a speaker in a backpack, together forming a moving sound composition.

Twenty walkers carry different sounds, weaving them into a collective composition in motion. aifoon’s artist silently guides the spectators through the city. Along the way, he triggers sound pieces that interfere with the neighborhood’s ambient noises. These audio fragments consist of diverse field recordings: from footsteps in the snow to cowbells in Northern Thailand, from the breathing of a sleeping woman to chestnut vendors in Istanbul loudly advertising their goods. An auditory fabric emerges in which sounds from other times and places merge with the spontaneous and everyday noises of the city. As the walk unfolds, new relations arise between sound, space, and presence—between what is heard and what goes unnoticed, between memory and immediate experience.

The walkers form a temporary collective through the sounds they carry. Each bears a fragment; together they carry a whole. Their passage leaves an invisible yet audible trace through the city, an intervention in the auditory ecology of the urban landscape. The vibrations spilling from the speakers onto their spines make this interplay of times and places tangible, while the friction between fiction and reality challenges our listening stance. Beyond the acoustic dimension, associative, relational, intercultural, and ecological layers unfold.

The carriers are not only discreet listeners and observers, but also representatives and performers for others in public space. By the freedom each person has within the group, they even become co-composers.