Phones – The Hague 2026 is the premiere of a participatory sound walk composed for the audience’s mobile phones. Beginning in the basement of The Grey Space in the Middle, the work moves through locations around Grote Markt before returning to the basement. Participants transform their own devices into a distributed, multi-channel loudspeaker system. Guided by a simple text score and web interface, the group activates specially composed sound materials at specific moments.

As individual phones begin to sound together, a living collective soundscape emerges from material composed with sensitivity to the acoustic environments of the locations, the conditions of participatory listening, and the distance and movement of the mobile speakers. Phones, as a medium of composition and performance, proposes a temporary reprogramming of everyday technology, shifting mobile phones from tools of control into instruments for anonymous collective intervention and shared play with attention. The work concludes with a live feedback ecology generated collectively through an open group call.

Ege Şahin is an experimental composer and improviser based in The Hague, working across experimental music and sound studies with sensitivity to perception, participation, and metaphysics. His work draws on rational tunings, feedback, noise, and field recordings – using guitar, computer, found objects, and audience’s mobile phones in performances, recordings, and installations.