Sī′ləns

I invited a number of friends to make a one-minute audio recording of a personal experience of silence on 1 January 2026.
I combined all the recordings into a single audio file.

For best experience use headphones, keep volume low.

Participating in this project:

Petra Dubach, silently dancing, in a studio, Eindhoven, NL. Topp & Dubio, 7 medicines, studio Hekkenlaan, The Hague, NL. Nico Parlevliet, one minute of brain recording, in a studio, Dordrecht, NL. Geerten Ten Bosch, on the first floor of a house, Dordrecht, NL. Ruth Baettig, in a closed freezer in a studio, Basel, CH. Steef van Lent, on a second-floor balcony, Rotterdam, NL. Martine Viale, in a parked car in an underground car park, Perpignan, FR. Selu Herráiz, in a mouth, in memoriam, Crans-Montana, CH. Stefan Wouters, on the dining table, Alsemberg, BE. Annie Abrahams, on a desk, near a computer, Vollenhoven, NL, Topp & Dubio, assessing a newly painted panel, studio Nicolaas Tulpstraat, The Hague, NL. Deirdre Macleod, under birch trees, Pinkiehill, East Lothian, Scotland, UK. Elia Torrecilla, near a celtic altar, Castro de Punta, Vigo, ES. Mario van Horrik, in a silence compartment on the intercity train from Eindhoven to Den Bosch, NL. Paul Henning, close to a small heater, Guisy, FR. Renate Boere, in a garden house in Rijswijk, NL. Sarah Rose Guitian Nederlof, in a park, Sevilla, ES. Frans van Lent, in a dark street, without streetlights, Hautefort, FR.  Ienke Kastelein, in a living room, Utrecht, NL. Helinä Hukkataival, in a living room, Tampere, FI. Kees Koomen, reading together in a living room, The Hague, NL. Heinrich Obst, re-recording the silence from an old film track, in a studio, Antwerp, BE. Hiroomi Horiuchi, outside my parents’ house, Shimizu, Shizuoka, JP. Josué Amador, in a garden, Capelle a/d IJssel, NL. Kris Limbach, on a table, next to a bed, Berlin, DE. Ricardo Huisman, in a studio/kitchen, Amsterdam, NL. Manuela Macco, in a studio, Biella, IT. Greig Burgoyne, on top of a book on a bookshelf in a studio, Hastings, UK. Florian Cramer, a field-recording with tinnitus, in a studio, Rotterdam, NL. Lisa Skuret, a transmission of radio silence, file not played back and not sent, London, UK.