This project examined the everyday ritual of wearing and removing ear phones as a form of micro-adjustment within city life. It treated the urban soundscape not as a subject to be aestheticized, but as a given system— structured, persistent, and unavoidable. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of deterritorialisation and reterritorialization, the work understood listening as lines of flight: a minor reconfiguration of rhythm and perception rather than an escape. Influenced by John Cage’s insistence on the inescap ability of sound and Max Richter’s use of repetition and restraint, the audio traced how curated listening quietly maintains, rather than disrupts, the conditions of city life.