A new collaborative project aims to sonically surprise strangers around the world with a disguised speaker system dressed up as ordinary-looking packages, that emit audio snippets at certain intervals over a period of two weeks.

The Silent Shout Project is the brainchild of multidisciplinary visual artists Bas Horsting and Luciano Foglia. Together they imagined a small chip and speaker combo, of the type typically found in novelty greetings cards, embedded into an unobtrusive box. The chip runs on batteries that can power it for roughly two weeks, during which time the parcel will play sounds produced by collaborating artists.

Each of the five collaborators picks the initial recipient in a process that "more or less" defines the final destination but leaves each work's path to the unknown, embarking on mysteriously noisy journeys around the world's postal networks.
The first sonic graffiti to take an expedition comes courtesy of The Netherlands' prolific multimedia artist, Dick Verdult. Every collaborator maintains autonomy over their own productions, with the only caveat being that they are playable by the decidedly lo-fi embedded chip.