18/05/2026
Collective intervention
EGE ŞAHİN
a billion phones
Workshop/walk/performance
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12 July 2026
19:00 - 21:30
Chiesa del Suffragio
Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro (PU), Italy
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Register here, link in bio: https://forms.gle/MbCfZTudDn8KEEhi6
Cost: 25€
Free for UA members
No prior experience required
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“a billion phones” is a participatory piece in a workshop/walk/performance format, inviting the audience to use their mobile phones as a collective distributed speaker setup in dialogue with the environmental sound and public cityscape.
Through a custom web-based platform built by the artist, the piece turns a group of 10 to 100+ participants into a distributed sound system, using only the speakers and microphones already carried in their pockets. Guided by a simple open-text score, participants anonymously enact a sequence of actions by triggering designated audio materials at specific moments and locations.
Pre-politically, phones, as a medium of composition and performance, propose a temporary reprogramming of everyday technology, shifting mobile phones from tools of control into instruments for anonymous collective intervention and shared play with attention in private and public space.
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Ege Şahin (b.1996, Turkey) 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.