Listen to the space between sounds.
aifoon is an arts organisation dedicated to transforming how people listen. We challenge everyday listening habits through workshops, immersive installations, and performances. By bringing people together to actively listen, create and reflect, we unlock new listening attitudes and strategies.
What is listening? It seems simple, but it's far more complex than most definitions suggest. From the difference between ‘hearing’ and ‘listening’ to how our environment shapes what we perceive, this essay reveals listening as a rich, multifaceted skill that goes well beyond our ears.
The soundwalk A Chorus of Footsteps is moving sound art that transforms the city with De Zwerm travelling in your backpack. In this participatory performance, you become the carrier of a living soundscape, momentarily reshaping public space through sound.
Create your own physical and spatial sound environments. We experience sound from all directions, and with our entire body. To explore this artistically, aifoon has created a tool that enables this immersive experience in real time: De Zwerm.
With The City Rings, children explore their cities through sound, exchanging recordings across continents. From Ghent to Montreal to India. They listen to each other's surroundings to discover how we identify places, relate to sound, and imagine living together via sound.
The Wikifoon: a knowledge base for sound and listening. It's where we compile essays and tools about listening, sound, and the art of listening. You'll find in-depth texts on listening concepts and approaches, as well as practical DIYs and exercises to try out yourself. Delve in and see what sparks your curiosity.
