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Carry a sound is a listening exercise from aifoon that allows you to explore the different dimensions of listening.

Carry a sound

Choose a place with a special atmosphere.
A place with a meaningful quality.

Make a recording of that place.
Choose a certain duration.
Put the recording on repeat and play it back via a bluetooth speaker.

Listen to the place within the place…
Try different spots in the room to listen.
Try different spots in the room to put the speaker.
Take your time and keep on listening. Omni-directional.

Hide the speaker in a backpack and carry the sound with you.
Listen to how the sound changes other places.
Listen to how other places change the sound.
Listen to how the sound interacts with silence, with the wind, with a car passing by.

While carrying the sound,
Listen to how the sound modulates. How it reflects in different acoustics.
Listen to how your body (partially) absorbs the sound. Listen to how it feels.

Take the sound with you to the pub, to the mall, to a friends' garden.
Eat, sleep and shower with the sound.
Listen to how it becomes familiar.
Listen to how it alienates others.

Stop the recording.
Go back to the original place.
And listen to how your listening has changed.