CityWhispers – Discover Cities Through Story, Music, and Emotion
A new art of urban exploration
CityWhispers is more than an app — it’s a new way to experience cities.
It transforms urban exploration into an emotional and cinematic journey through sound, story, and movement.
Each walk is a carefully composed audio experience that unfolds around you as you move.
Voices, music, and ambient sounds blend seamlessly with the rhythm of the streets, creating a living dialogue between you and the city.
Through CityWhispers, you don’t just learn about places — you feel them.
The concept
Cities have memories, rhythms, and moods.
Behind every façade, every echo, every silence lies a story — a trace of human presence, creation, and change.
CityWhispers brings these invisible dimensions to life through immersive audio-guided walks that merge storytelling, original music, and spatial sound design.
Each journey is written and produced by artists, musicians, and storytellers who reimagine the city as a living stage — one that speaks to your senses and imagination.
Every sound is intentional, every pause meaningful.
Together, they form what we call an open-air sound film — a new kind of city tour where reality and art meet in motion.
How it works
- Choose your city and your walk
Select from a growing collection of immersive audio walks, each focused on a distinct theme, mood, or district. - Download and listen offline
Once downloaded, you can experience the walk without any internet connection — ideal for travelers. - Walk and let the story unfold
As you move, audio scenes are automatically triggered by your GPS position.
You don’t need to look at your screen — just walk, listen, and let yourself be guided by sound. - Pause or replay anytime
You can stop, return, or re-listen. Each experience adapts to your pace and your curiosity.
What makes CityWhispers different
Most city tours explain; CityWhispers invites you to feel.
We blend artistic storytelling with cultural insight, offering experiences that are neither factual documentaries nor pure fiction, but something in between — a poetic interpretation of place.
Each route is shaped by local history, personal reflection, and emotional depth.
Some explore resilience and rebirth; others explore connection, separation, memory, or the beauty of the ordinary.
It’s a way to experience the city as a living organism — full of contradictions, stories, and unseen meanings.
CityWhispers isn’t just about seeing new places; it’s about relearning how to see.
Who it’s for
For travelers
Discover cities through an experience that goes beyond tourism — where history becomes story, and movement becomes meaning.
For locals
Rediscover familiar streets through new sounds, voices, and emotions. See your neighborhood from another angle — slower, deeper, more alive.
For artists and institutions
CityWhispers opens a new medium for storytelling — one where sound, space, and narrative merge. In time, our creative tools will allow artists and cultural organizations to design and publish their own immersive walks.
Behind the experience
CityWhispers was founded by Human Space (dba CityWhispers) — a creative initiative at the intersection of psychology, art, and technology.
Our team brings together writers, musicians, developers, and sound designers who believe that technology should deepen, not distract, our connection to the world.
We design with emotion in mind — building experiences that awaken attention, empathy, and imagination.
Every soundscape, every line of text, and every silence is composed to guide you not only through space, but through feeling.
Features
- Immersive audio-guided city tours written and produced by artists
- Original music and cinematic sound design tailored to each location
- Offline mode – enjoy walks without an internet connection
- Accurate GPS triggering for seamless playback
- Bilingual content available in English and French
- Regular updates with new cities and new walks
- Coming soon: AR visual layers and creator tools for artists
Our philosophy
CityWhispers was born from a simple idea:
that walking is one of the most human ways of understanding the world — and that stories, sounds, and emotions can transform an ordinary walk into a work of art.
We believe that technology, when used with sensitivity, can reconnect us to our senses rather than distance us from them.
Our mission is to create experiences that restore presence, imagination, and wonder in urban life.
Each walk is both a cultural journey and a personal one — an exploration of the city and of yourself.
Download and begin your journey
CityWhispers is available on the App Store.
(Coming soon to Google Play.)
Begin with your first immersive walk — and discover how a city can become a story, a soundtrack, and a mirror of your own emotions.
📩 For support or partnership inquiries: support@citywhispers.me