Today’s cities are expansive machines. We move through them and between them by virtue of the technological innovations of the last centuries, all piled on top of one another. And these creations – electric lights and electric cars, trams and trains, the engines of planes, telephone wires and the fibre-optic cables of broadband internet – they all hum and hiss and clatter. They fill the spaces around us in ways we can hear if we listen. So we block them out, and we drown out the drone with the music on our phones. But as we plug ourselves in, the works here seek to ask, do we distance ourselves from the deluge of daily lives, or do we form another type of circuit, with the output of audio files filling our ears?