In divided times, singing together becomes a radical act. Invisible Choir is an unseen choir weaving voices into connection.
Invisible Choir, created by Ari Benjamin Meyers and Halsey Burgund, is a sound-based augmented reality work that turns the city into a constantly evolving collective soundscape. Through a specially designed web application, visitors record their own voices: each contribution becomes a sonic “seed” that merges with others, creating an open, ever-changing invisible choir.
The project combines artificial intelligence, urban sound design, and sound ecology to create new possibilities for civic engagement. Here, words are not needed: the human voice itself becomes a universal language. At once intimate and communal, the piece transforms strangers into a network of “citizen-singers.”
With Invisible Choir, Meyers and Burgund reimagine the very concept of public art—offering an urgent sonic form for urban spaces, one that fosters listening, empathy, and new ways of being together.