Earwitness
2025
Interactive Game
Creative Coding


Angela Ying Neubauer
Ronja-Elina Kappl
Keita Sugiyama

Design Investigations

How might the world change if we truly start to listen?
In a world that often feels rushed and detached, where global challenges demand our focus, Earwitness invites players to slow down and attune themselves to the unnoticed around them.

Guided by evocative prompts like “a sound that feels like a secret” or “something that seems to be sending a message,” players discover hidden rhythms, textures, and silences, reshaping their relationship with the environment. Through a web app, players record and transform these sounds into unique clouds of sound particles—fleeting moments made visible. As these sounds take form as abstract shapes, Earwitness invites players to project their own interpretations, creating a deeply personal and captivating visual experience in real time.

Like the observer effect in physics, Earwitness reveals how active listening shapes what is heard. With every captured sound, the environment responds, transformed by the presence of those who truly hear it.





Coding CollaboratorClaudio della Schiava

Printing by
Elisabeth Danzer / Vienna Printing Cooperation

PhotographyRonja-Elina Kappl

Sound DesignIoannis Nafpliotis

AdvisorFriedrich Schadow


Explore Earwitness via
eclect-lab.com/earwitness/

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