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three Minutes of silence

The screen is black, notifications silenced, vibration off: the phone appears dead, silent, weightless. Yet the machine hums in the background, calculating, tracking, and performing work for the platforms. “Three minutes of silence – are phone spying on us? are we spying on phones?” records this ghastly activity. Electromagnetic-reactive microphones attached to a smartphone capture all its hidden processes.

From 9 to 10, each morning for a week, everything is recorded. A ritual: isolate the phone, adjust the mics, press record, leave it untouched during one of the busiest hours of the day. A frenetic soundscape emerges: tones, blips, glitches, and noises, so hectic that half-speed playback is needed to capture all nuances.

The selection runs from 9:17 to 9:20, spanning three minutes across seven days, compressed into six. Listening to it means listening to the invisible, reconnecting with processes hidden from us, even when we consciously choose to hide them, and tuning to an invisible cyber landscape that never sleeps or stops.

The project is among the ten finalists (7th placement) for the Landscape2526 open call, aiming to explore the interactions between sound, territory, and contemporary languages.