The Ministry of Sounding Walks
We are celebrating Art’s Birthday on January 17th, 2026, with a live, networked radio broadcast presented in collaboration with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, SWR and Cashmere Radio.
Proposed by the French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou in 1963, Art’s Birthday is an annual event celebrating the birth of art 1,000,000 years ago.
For Art’s Birthday 2026, The Ministry of Sounding Walks invites participants worldwide to contribute to a performative, networked radio composition by Jasmine Guffond and Lukas Grundmann. Participants are invited to record the sound of their own footsteps as they move through their local environment—capturing traces of daily movement, routine rhythms, local textures, and favourite sounds.
These recordings will form a distributed sonic geography, broadcast live on January 17th, 2026.
Participation is possible from anywhere with a computer, dice, and internet access, or in person at our Berlin studio at Cashmere Radio.