Shhh. —Spatial sound installation Moving parametric sound · multi-channel audio Artists: Petra Beaucamp, Stefan Ihmig, 2026 Can you hear us? Whispers inhabit the space. They laugh. They judge. They question. For a moment, sound belongs to no one else. It enters your private acoustic space, almost as thought. Then it moves on. Did you hear that? Or did I? Sound shifts between the room and the intimate space of your own perception — between what everyone can hear and what seems intended for you alone. Was that about me? Shhh. We live surrounded by voices: those speaking to us, those speaking about us, and those we have learned to produce entirely by ourselves. They repeat. Compare. Interrupt. Doubt. We try to silence them. Shhh. We like to imagine a border between the world outside and the world within. There isn't one. A look becomes a thought. A laugh becomes suspicion. A whisper becomes judgment. A voice heard often enough becomes our own. And somewhere along the way, we forget who spoke first. Shhh. uses moving directional sound and surrounding speakers to destabilize the boundary between inner and outer space. A whisper crosses the room, catches a body, slips away. What seemed private becomes public. What seemed external begins to feel internal. You don't know where the next voice will come from. You don't know if everyone heard it. You don't know if it was meant for you. Shhh. Now try not to listen.