Taito Fushimi

Displaced Listening

Displaced Listening YouTube

Caption

This project is set in Shibuya. Two strangers wear binaural microphones and earphones, exchange the sounds surrounding each other in real time, and move through the city by relying on those displaced sounds. As a center of consumer culture, the city is filled with advertisements from digital signage, street speeches, transit announcements, and many other sounds. These sounds are often treated as noise in everyday life, but here they become cues that allow the two participants to approach and encounter one another. Through this process, the city is experienced not as a space organized around fixed destinations, but as a field where events continually emerge. Distance is no longer grasped as a number on a map, but as overlaps and gaps between sounds. Through the constantly changing sounds of the city, this work attempts to re-perceive the fluid urban condition behind city images fixed by visual representation and maps.

Detail

  • Year: 2026
  • Media: Binaural microphones, earphones, real-time audio transmission
  • Credit: Taito Fushimi
  • Presentation: Shibuya, Tokyo