About
What to expect
You start at one of several collection points across the city and walk with a specially developed app.
The app plays fragments of a composition by Huang Ruo, and new musical layers appear when you approach other participants.
The routes come together at Bozar, where the music is performed live by eighty musicians of the Belgian National Orchestra under Jessica Cottis.
- Start at a collection point in Brussels
- Walk with the special app
- New layers appear near others
- Ends with live music at Bozar
- Brussels becomes the instrument
- Organizer: La Monnaie
Questions
When does City of Floating Sounds start and end?
City of Floating Sounds runs Sunday, 9 May 2027, 15:00.
Where is City of Floating Sounds?
City of Floating Sounds takes place at Bozar - Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Ravensteinstraat 23, Brussel.
How does the sound walk work?
You use a specially developed app while walking through the streets.
You listen to fragments of a composition by Huang Ruo.
When you approach other participants, new musical layers appear.
Your route and the people you meet make each experience different.
What is City of Floating Sounds?
It combines a sound walk, an urban discovery tour and a symphonic concert.
Brussels becomes the instrument, and the routes end in a collective concert moment at Bozar.
Is there an opera by Huang Ruo this season?
Huang Ruo's opera M. Butterfly can be discovered at La Monnaie this season.
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Getting there
Bozar - Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Ravensteinstraat 23, 1000 Brussel, Brussel, BE
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